Bata, Architecture and Memory

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Plaça Nova, 5, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona

Schedule
Wed 25 Jun · 18:30 - 20:00
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Book Presentation

Bata, Architecture and Memory rediscovers the city of Bata as an urban space where architectural transformations and the stories of its inhabitants converge. Throughout its pages, the author invites us to wander with her through the links between architecture, identity, and collective memory, to recognize the dialogue that unfolds between the past and contemporary ways of inhabiting and building.

While the perspective of the Ndowé people is especially present as a deliberate gesture to make this culture visible and revalue it, the text also reflects the cultural diversity of a community shaped by coexistence, where the name of each place both conceals and preserves multiple values and meanings.

This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of an architectural and urban heritage imbued with the collective memory of an entire country. It presents itself as a singular sketch of a broader history of architecture in Equatorial Guinea and proposes itself as a first step toward a practice that bridges tradition and advanced technology, between local identity and globalization.

We will have contributions from the speakers: Makome-Beatriz Eñeso Kola, writer; Celia Marín, architect; Alba Valenciano Mañé, anthropologist; and Laida Memba Ikuga, architect.

In collaboration with the Ndowé Metamba Cultural Association, responsible for outreach within the Equatoguinean community in Catalonia.

Afternoon

Type of activity
Books and publications
Type of public
All publics
District
Ciutat Vella
Collaborators
Laida Memba Ikuga
Language
Catalan
Mode
In-person
Mode of access
Free entrance with prior registration

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