Exhibition
REHOGAR – Open Design and Reuse showcases a wide range of projects which differ hugely in their level of complexity and scale of application. All have been developed to awaken our consciousness and to instigate change in our ways of living and interacting. Each one, in its own way, opens up and consolidates paths towards greater social and environmental justice.
These are real projects which provide everyday solutions and are worth far more than physical objects and their applications. More than 40 projects from across the world take a step away from the commercial throwaway culture and bring us closer to a collective and global consciousness based on using, caring and transforming.
Exhibited projects
Of the 45 exhibited proposals, half of them have been selected through an open call for projects and workgroups that took place the months before to the opening.
The collection is completed with a selection of projects invited by the organization that want to amplify the dialogue that the exhibition proposes.
Activities
A series of activities will be run in parallel to the exhibition to disseminate and explore its theoretical framework, to enable participants to discover first-hand and implement some of the solutions and initiatives on show, and to create spaces for remix and fun which foster collaboration networks.
Workshop ‘Self-production of sunglasses’
Esfèrica (Barcelona. Spain)
October 4, 2018
Fabra i Coats. Barcelona
Workshop ‘Transformation of school spaces’
Tipi (Bilbao. Spain)
October 5-6, 2018
Fabra i Coats. Barcelona
Workshop ‘Subvert The City’
Brandalism — Bill Posters (United Kingdom)
October 19-21, 2018
Fabra i Coats. Barcelona
The reading club: Victor Papanek
Raquel Pelta (Barcelona. Spain)
October 23 – 24, 2018
Fabra i Coats. Barcelona
Workshop ‘Superlocal, designing a km 0 hairdryer’
Andrea de Chirico (Roma. It)
January 24, 25, 28-29, 2019
Hirikilabs — CICC TabaKalera. Donostia/San Sebastián
Workshop ‘Laboratorio de superuniones’
Makea Tu Vida (Barcelona. Spain)
February 1-2, 2019
Hirikilabs — CICC Tabakalera. Donostia/San Sebastián

Workshop ‘Electronics Unchained: Fairphone’s Urban Mining’
Miquel Ballester, Cofounder of Fairphone (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
June 8, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Talk ‘Fairphone’
Miquel Ballester, Cofounder of Fairphone (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
June 8, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
The reading club: Victor Papanek
Raquel Pelta (Barcelona, Spain)
June 12, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Workshop ‘Getting Real: Collaborative Design of Open Source Products’
Marcin Jakubowski / Founder of Open Source Ecology (Missouri, USA)
June 18-20, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Talk ‘Collaborative Design of a Transparent and Inclusive Economy of Abundance’
Marcin Jakubowski / Founder of Open Source Ecology (Missouri, USA)
June 18, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Talk ‘Autocoles’
Rubén Lorenzo, Basurama (Madrid, Spain)
June 25, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Workshop ‘Diseñar jugando. Jugar con la normativa’
ReLabs/ Basurama + Remoblar/ Makea (Madrid/Barcelona, Spain)
June 26-27, 2019
Medialab Prado. Madrid
Talk ‘A better future. Design and social utopia’
Raquel Pelta Resano (Barcelona. Spain)
January 14, 2020
La Nau Centre Cultural. Valencia
Xth edition: R&T programme
REHOGAR Open Design and Reuse celebrates its tenth edition with a R&T program (Research & Touring).
On the one hand, within the framework of REHOGAR X PLUS. Open Devices, we have started a collective research process that takes the projects from previous editions as their starting point and suggests reflecting on, putting into practice and jointly researching the thematic and methodological aspects encountered.
On the other hand, the Xth edition of REHOGAR exhibition has been touring in collaboration with some of the most relevant art and cultural production centers of Spain: Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Center of Barcelona and Art Factory, Medialab Prado and Central del Diseño (Dimad) of Madrid, Tabakalera International Center of Contemporary Culture of Donostia / San Sebastián and the La Nau Cultural Center of Valencia.
Research
REHOGAR X PLUS. Open Devices has been a collective research project which tackles the issue of design as an open form and as a resource. Based on these two perspectives, it functions as an experimental and open research unit that, through four devices, tracks historical models and examines real projects to situate the present, explore with our own hands their transforming possibilities and speculate on new contexts of living and future paths for design practice.
REHOGAR X PLUS. Open Devices takes place in the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona – Fabra i Coats in Spain from September 19 to October 27, 2019.
Touring
The tenth edition of REHOGAR X started in September 2018 at the Espai Zero of Fabra i Coats in Barcelona, city that hosts the exhibition for the last three years. After, until the begining of 2020, the exhibition has been touring in collaboration with some of the most important art and cultural production spaces of Spain.
Each stop is complemented by different activities with the aim of spreading and exploring the theoretical framework, knowing first-hand and putting into practice some of the solutions and proposals exhibited, and generating spaces of remix and fun that favour the generation and strengthening of collaboration networks.
La Nau Centre Cultural. Valencia
14.01.20 – 04.02.20
Publications
Catálog of the exhibition
Xth edition of REHOGAR
Manual of the Exhibition Furniture System
Following the philosophy of the exhibition, we open the documentation of the designs of the exhibition furniture of the Xth edition of REHOGAR.
Videos
Vídeo de la convocatoria a proyectos
Junio 2018
Edición: Natxo Medina, Makea Tu Vida
Reportaje de la itinerancia a Madrid
Junio-Julio 2019
Edición: Medialab Prado
Conferencia Marcin Jakubowski – Open Source Ecology
Junio 2019
Streaming: Medialab Prado
Conferencia Miquel Ballester – Fairphone
Junio 2019
Streaming: Medialab Prado
Conferencia Rubén Lorenzo – Basurama
Junio 2019
Streaming: Medialab Prado
Open process
Credits
Curation
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Ana Pérez
Technical coordination and production coordination
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Ana Pérez
Programme of activities
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan
Exhibition design and production
Makea Tu Vida
Graphic and web design
Flou Flou D.A.
Graphic production
Laboratoris Color EGM
Correction and translation
EMC Transcripcions
Euskagintza bulegoa itzulpenak
Barcelona
Organized by
Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació i Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Technical coordination and production coordination of Fabra i Coats
Clara Renau, Míriam Soms, Raúl M. Candela
Technical team
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Santiago Doljanin, Ana Pérez, Rebeca Ros, Ana Guerrero.
Lighting
Jordi Bosqued
Photographic report
Eva Carasol
Video of the call for projects
Natxo Medina
Donostia
Organized by
Hirikilabs, laboratorio de cultura digital y tecnología – CICC Tabakalera
Technical coordination and production coordination of CICC Tabakalera
Ibai Zabaleta Urrosolo
Programme of activities
Makea Tu Vida + Hirikilabs, laboratorio de cultura digital y tecnología – CICC Tabakalera
Comunication of CICC Tabakalera
Maider Urteaga, Katerin Blasco
Technical team
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Santiago Doljanin, Ana Pérez.
Lighting and installation of audiovisuals
Peio Panades, Gari Zabaleta
Photographic report
María Elorza
Madrid
Organized by
Medialab Prado
With the collaboration of
Dimad
Technical coordination and production coordination of Medialab Prado
Equipo Medialab
Comunication of Medialab Prado
Equipo Medialab
Technical team
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Ana Pérez, Siro Santos, Jesús Zapata, Ramón González, Santiago Doljanin.
Graphic design and video of Medialab Prado
Equipo Medialab
Photographic report
Álvaro Vázquez
Valencia
Organized by
Vicerectorat de Cultura i Esport de la Universitat de València, Centre Cultural La Nau de la Universitat de València
Technical coordination and production coordination of La Nau
Norberto Piqueras, Desirée Juliana
Comunication of La Nau
Magda Ruíz
Technical team
Alberto Flores, Mireia Juan, Ana Pérez, Juan Cervantes.
Lighting and installation of audiovisuals
Equip producció La Nau
Coordinación visitas guiadas y talleres
Álvaro Menéndez
Video
Ignacio Agote
Photographic report
Eduardo Alapont