Conference: Gallicant, vers un paisatge resilient
- 30 January 2025
- Hora: 18:00 h - 20:00 h
Pobles mudats is an artistic and cultural project that focuses on the theme of depopulation, a current problem, especially in the rural interior areas of the demarcation and the country as a whole. When designing the project's actions, each participating facility and service has previously asked itself what it is that identifies the territory and what happens when humans leave a place and no longer provide it with life.
The resulting program includes a total of 29 activities spread between November 7 and February 15, 2025 and has involved the participation of more than 120 people, including former inhabitants of the abandoned village of Marmellar, people related to Montmell, artists from different backgrounds, professionals in the field of culture and entrepreneurship and teachers and students from the Provincial Council's art and design schools, who, in this case, have joined the project.
Gallicant, towards a resilient landscape, a talk with Blai Rosés, Alba Sotorra and Sara Pérez
Gallicant is a 295.8 hectare estate located at the source of the Siurana River, which includes the Puig de Gallicant mountain (1,009 m), large areas of forest, farmland and an old rural village from the 12th century, depopulated in the 1940s. Included in the Natura 2000 and PEIN areas, abandonment, the high influx of mass tourism and climate change have degraded the area and caused loss of biodiversity, continuous soil erosion, loss of water reserves and a high risk of fire.
The Masos de Gallicant project aims to protect and recover the life of this privileged Mediterranean mountain environment: to regenerate biodiversity, restore agricultural activity and repopulate the old 12th century nucleus to transform Gallicant into a center of agricultural, economic, social and scientific research activity, based on the principles of sustainability, New Bauhaus, passive architecture, social innovation and circular economy.
Masos de Gallicant aims to restore the natural balance by recovering the traditional elements of the landscape, flora and fauna, which represent a distinguished value of our natural heritage and an opportunity for the improvement of our communities. The integration of agricultural and livestock uses combined with open research and education aims to expand our knowledge about sustainable models of development and leisure in the natural environment.