“Children and young people imagine Diagonal Avenue”

The web participatory i.de.a. Diagonal that we commenting announces an exhibition that opened the last 21th in Sala Ciutat on the participatory process that has been done in 23 schools in the city, for your students think about how they would like to outside the avenue remodelled, under the name “Infants i joves imaginem la Diagonal” (Children and young people imagine the Diagonal).

The exhibition, limited, almost minimalist in my view, but whose visit recommend (a quarter of an hour is sufficient), because some curiosity can be found, shown in some murals the main ideas that children and young people transmitted on the new avenue, to pass, then to an area where they can be observed in more detail the proposals, composed, if I remember evil, by 96 cards where participants have pasted figures representing the uses that they would like to be given to the track on a plane for a couple of streets of the Diagonal Avenue. A video without sound of less than five minutes tries to explain how developed the meetings in schools.

Of course, with a proper use of the possibilities of the Internet, it would not be necessary to them outside explaining all this: it would be reproduced in the official web site of the participatory process. Furthermore from the brief that i have linked, in another, i.de.a. Diagonal summarizes the meeting that the Major of Barcelona City Council had with some of the participants in a municipal hall: nothing more. Even in the news section of the municipal general web site there are more information on the web participatory: a vídeo presents the act of students with the Major and a dossier of press provides the main ideas common exposed by the students. These documents might also be accessible from i.de.a. Diagonal, as it could be the 96 cardboards resulting from the debates and the murals of exposure. A tool very didactics, but more difficult to show by issues of right to self-image, and more in the case of minors, would be expose videos with the discussions that took place in the classroom where it is really all we could hear the views of those who, as the Major says in his meeting with the authors, will be the future users of the new Diagonal Avenue you want to press ahead.