Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities Barcelona: utopian ecology, education, and epic city views

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\u2018I hate it that people are so clean, we are exterminating the spiders! Where are the spiders?\u2019 It was an unexpected answer to a question asked to Tom\u00e1s Saraceno about whether his latest artwork is child-friendly. But Saraceno does not think \u2013 or make \u2013 the expected. This installation...

Exterior view of Mirador Torre Glòries.His other overarching interest is clouds, and the delicate, disappearing ecologies they represent. Since 2002, hisseries has explored porous modes of utopian, networked inhabitation as large-scale, interactive sculptures. Inspired by the post-war radicals like Buckminster Fuller, Yona Friedman, and Archigram , he seeks within these reflexive environments to consider ways of finding new relationships to each other, nature, and architecture.

After squeezing through a small opening, a tunnel formed of geometric panels is ahead, though the destination remains unknown. It is an unreliable passage, slippery underfoot, occasionally moving as an unknown stranger elsewhere struggles within, and at times claustrophobic – in a space barely larger than an adult body, the only way to progress is sometimes to clamber up or down.

Some of the 113 pods offer cushions as an invitation to pause from the struggle, to relocate oneself within structure and city, maybe flicking through one of the numerous books on form, politics, and nature that Saraceno has laid around what he considers a ‘reading space’. ‘When at university in Argentina, I was living in a very small apartment and it was impossible to study – me, my brother and sister in one room.

 

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