First-year students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Design have participated in the third edition of the project “Rereading art to humanise design”, an educational experience developed together with the Museu d’Art de Sabadell.
ESDI and the Museu d’Art de Sabadell (MAS) have collaborated again on a new edition of the project “Rereading art to humanise design. Visions on the collection”, an initiative that invites first-year students of the Degree in Design at ESDI-URL to approach artistic heritage from a contemporary, critical and personal perspective.
The project was developed within the framework of the course Theory and History of Design I, taught by Dr. Marcela Lucci, and proposes a learning approach that extends beyond the classroom. During the process, students were able to delve into the MAS collection, experience its works firsthand, and also access less visible areas of the museum, such as its storage facilities.
Based on this experience, each student has chosen a work from the collection to research, analyse, and reinterpret it using their own visual language. The result is a set of proposals that establishes a dialogue among past and present, art and design, and heritage and contemporary identity.
REINTERPRETATIONS
The reinterpretations address a wide range of themes, including the transformation of landscape and memory, social critique, sustainability, identity, the passage of time, and new forms of protest. Works such as “Lluita pels drets” (Struggle for Rights), inspired by Antoni Estruch Bros’s Manifestació per la República (Demonstration for the Republic), update the idea of demonstration from a pluralistic and inclusive perspective. Other proposals, such as “There is no Planet B” or “Marea Sintètica” (Synthetic Tide), use pieces linked to landscape and nature to reflect on pollution, climate change, and the human footprint.
Also noteworthy are projects that explore the formal and technical transformation of the original works, such as “Botanical Memory”, “Green Waves” or “Garden in Circles”, inspired by Jardí by Antoni Vila Arrufat; or proposals such as “Echoes in Repetition” and “Symmetry in Bloom”, which reinterpret ceramic pieces by Marian Burguès through pattern, repetition and digital language.
CLICK HERE to see the complete project and all the reinterpretations of the works.
Beyond the final result, the initiative allows students to understand that heritage is not static, but rather a living material that can be observed, questioned, and transformed through new perspectives. Art thus becomes a starting point for generating new interpretations, while design acts as a tool to activate memory, open conversations, and connect generations.
With this project, ESDI reinforces its commitment to education linked to the cultural, social, and institutional context, in which the museum becomes a space for learning, research, and creation. It’s a shared experience among students, faculty, and institutions that demonstrates that culture thrives when it is open, shared, and reinterpreted.