Talk: "Escena Germinal, de Projecte ingenu"

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. 

«Escena Germinal, de Projecte Ingenu», talk and action by Marc Chornet Artells, Júlia Simó Puyo, Neus Pàmies Juàrez, Toni Guillemat and Gerard Marsal 

Depopulation or uprooting is associated with a lack of love for one’s own place. Or, at best, it is a nostalgic love, not present, not real. One’s own place is devalued. Our experience is that art helps and collaborates in revaluing the territory and, therefore, becomes a key tool in the sustainability of the community. 

Throughout the talk we will explain examples and experiences in this direction and we will perform a small performance to exemplify it. 

[Marc Chornet]