UPCYCLING DESIGN CONTEST DRAP-ART’22

Description

The Upcycling Design Contest is held with the Association of Friends and Traders of Plaça Reial and its aim is to involve the restaurant sector in an artistic, social and environmental sustainability project and an attempt to create a link between artists. , entities, neighborhood and trade of Ciutat Vella, perhaps the district that was previously most affected by mass tourism and now by the consequences of the Covid-19. The upcycling competition creates new relational links, and social, economic and environmental rethinking, for which the competition can serve as a starting point, a reflection, a meeting and a debate. The competition is held with an object chosen by each participating establishment from among the materials they throw away each day, but which they are sorry to throw away. These objects are proposed through a call for artists, designers and craftsmen.

How does it work?

Upcycling is the use of recycled materials to create products that are more valuable than the original material. What is the same: transforming waste into valuables.

The call for artist will be open from 16 to 27 February 2022. From 28 February to 7 March, you can pass by the Drap-Art space at Carrer Groc 1, 08002 Barcelona, from 11 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 8 pm to choose an object of rejection, chosen by one of the Gothic establishments, for you to give it a second life. A representative object of the place so that it impregnates it with its history and aesthetics. Items will be distributed in order of arrival. From March 8th to April 3rd you will have time to create. The reception of the works will take place from April 4 to April 10 in the Drap-Art space.

Who is it for?

We invite artists, both amateur and emerging and professional artists, to participate in the contest.

How to participate?

Enter the contest using this form:

https://forms.gle/MSwowA6z2QgHYPns7

The call will be open from 15 to 27 February 2022.

You will be assigned an object of waste, chosen by one of the establishments in the Plaça Reial in Barcelona, to give it a second life. A representative object of the place so that it impregnates it with its history and aesthetics.

Objectives

Promote a sustainable culture in all aspects, social, economic, and environmental in the commercial field of hospitality and catering.

Give an incentive to designers and artisans, greatly harmed by the current situation.

Create a link between design schools, cultural workers, neighbors and the restaurant and hospitality trade in the neighborhood.

Invigorate the square for the residents of the Gothic Quarter.

To make businesses and neighborhoods think about the need to change their habits and consume in a more responsible way, integrating the re-use of resources in their daily lives.

To make visible the circular economy of the materials “From Waste to Resource”

Catalog

Popular vote

Here you can vote for the work that you value as the winner of the second prize Upcycling. The winner will be announced on May 30 at the closing of the exhibition.

Vote!