Climate Change
In March 2025, DE/MO partnered with Espronceda to continue ECHO with the Campaign Design Sprint in Barcelona,
where 16 participants explored the implications of climate change for urban areas.
How can we scale local urban solutions to address global environmental crises? What role should cities play in combating climate change?
Following the success of the intensive campaign design week in March, and the subsequent weeks of collaborative production,
we presented the results of this creative and transformative process at the ECHO Events: a series of artistic
experiences that address the future of our cities, the climate, and ways of inhabiting the world.
where 16 participants explored the implications of climate change for urban areas.
How can we scale local urban solutions to address global environmental crises? What role should cities play in combating climate change?
Following the success of the intensive campaign design week in March, and the subsequent weeks of collaborative production,
we presented the results of this creative and transformative process at the ECHO Events: a series of artistic
experiences that address the future of our cities, the climate, and ways of inhabiting the world.
The Campaign Design Sprint
Over the course of one week, 11 participants discovered what climate change means to them and which seeds they will plant towards change.
We had the pleasure to receive and visit guest speakers from different fields and perspectives: Professor, writer and researcher Joan Buades introduced the theme and gave special insight on how Barcelona and climate change are connected. Chiara Sgaramella shared about her artistic research and the intersections between art, ecosocial issues and critical pedagogies. Àlex Ginés encouraged participants to rethink effective communication and learn from past successes and mistakes. Combining theory and real-life examples, Dario Cottafava brought more insights on what is already out there.
Between all of the inspiration and input from guest speakers, the participants were guided through a brainstorming and ideation process to arrive at their first campaign concepts. The week thus concluded with the teams testing their campaign concepts at a feedback session organized at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture on Friday - valuable insights which the teams used in further developing their campaigns after the Campaign Design Sprint Week.
Team: Dylan Ahern, Jade Wong, Maria Mantzakou, Malena Vinay Cano
We had the pleasure to receive and visit guest speakers from different fields and perspectives: Professor, writer and researcher Joan Buades introduced the theme and gave special insight on how Barcelona and climate change are connected. Chiara Sgaramella shared about her artistic research and the intersections between art, ecosocial issues and critical pedagogies. Àlex Ginés encouraged participants to rethink effective communication and learn from past successes and mistakes. Combining theory and real-life examples, Dario Cottafava brought more insights on what is already out there.
Between all of the inspiration and input from guest speakers, the participants were guided through a brainstorming and ideation process to arrive at their first campaign concepts. The week thus concluded with the teams testing their campaign concepts at a feedback session organized at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture on Friday - valuable insights which the teams used in further developing their campaigns after the Campaign Design Sprint Week.
Team: Dylan Ahern, Jade Wong, Maria Mantzakou, Malena Vinay Cano
The ECHO Events
21 May 2025, 17:00 @ Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, BarcelonaMara Adina, Puck Ast, Krista Stoynova, Denise Thiemke
Co-Arising is a story-exhibition, a space of radical reweaving and memory. Born amidst ecological, cultural, and systemic collapse, it refuses to look away. It listens, feels, composts, and dreams. Through sound, image, reclaimed materials, sculptural installation, and ritual, this exhibition challenges dominant narratives of separation and control, offering instead a space of reconnection, reverence, and co-emergence.
COMPOSTING EMPIRE, the first installation in this series, revolves around Both Are True, a four-walled audiovisual work wrapped in a reclaimed structure and a sea of debris. With visual poetry, salvaged materials, and a haunting sonic atmosphere, it asks: what can be made possible if we compost the myths about our place in the web of life?
2. Lower the heat, plant the change
23 May 2025, 18:00 @ Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, BarcelonaBertille Gamichon, Danna Montenegro, Belén Blasco, Césarine Lafontant
This campaign invites a sensorial experience that connects directly with the urgency of climate change. Through HOPE LAB, an experimental installation, participants will immersively explore the impact of heat and the need for transformation. Textures, temperatures, and natural elements combine to generate an emotional and physical response to the climate crisis. Beyond the installation, the campaign seeks to extend this connection through the Green Community, a platform that will maintain the connection with nature through information on urban gardens, nurseries, gardening workshops, and collaborations with local organizations.
3. Mares del Mañana
23 May 2025, 19:30 @ Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona
Alanna Wilson, David Feroce, Lucy Broomfield, Sandy Davis
Mares del Mañana explores seaweed as a symbol and material for imagining resilient futures. Through soundscapes, sculptures, speculative texts, and edible elements, this work invites us to touch, taste, and consider alternative ways of living.
Seaweed - adaptable, silent, powerful - offers us a new narrative for care and sustainability. This installation is a provocation, an offering, and a space to imagine possible food futures based on ecological resilience.
The Reverb Event
ECHOES of Change
30 May, 2025 @ Espronceda, BarcelonaAfter months of collaboration, creation, and climate reflection, we organized REVERB, the public closing of the Barcelona ECHO Academy.
An evening of experimental performance, artistic campaigns, and critical dialogue, REVERB explored how art and imagination can respond to the climate crisis.
A celebration of ideas, action, and artistic resistance. Let’s keep the echo going.