Eme3 Collapse

Barcelona 2009: March 19,20,21

Eme3 collapse is a famous Barcelona festival that for three days will bring together artists , archistects, thinkers, students but everyone of us particularly interested in the “collapse” theme .

What are new scenarios that collapse or current crisis has generated?

Paul Virilio, is an urban planner and philosopher who has devoted a lot of time to reflecting on the imminence of collapse, on the panic that the postmodern era has generated in society, the progressive acceleration of time and the velocity and multiplicity of accidents.
He writes:
‘The accident is revealing. Revealing means Apocalypse.

The Apocalypse is not the end of the world.

It is an accident of history, since it puts an end to history,

but at the same time it is a revelation.

The accident forms part of the hidden side of all substances.

Each substance has its accident.

Accordingly, progress is also the progress of accident,the progress of catastrophe.’

The festival operates as an architectural market whose structures appear in several plots of m3 (cubic metres ,hence the name of the festival, since the projects are displayed in different plots of cubic meters), urban projects, workshops, conferences, debates, street events, music and film .
Since its first edition in 1999 the festival shows a particular virtue: its interdisciplinary vocation
It’s really the opportunity to discover emerging architecture as well as to engage in debate and reflection together with architects and creators of international renown.
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