Walk through Obrera neighbourhood
Guide: Obrera Centro Workshop (Marcos Castro, Mauro Giaconi, Alejandro de Villar and Arturo Dib)
May 4, 2017
Founded in an irregular way in the mid 1800’s, without having officially installed basic services until the beginning of the XIX century, the Obrera neighborhood has been distinguished for its irregular streets, with the existence of hundreds of workshops dedicated to manual trades and shops, from carpenters cabinet makers, cobblers, blacksmiths, engravers, mechanical technicians, lathe operators, to taxidermists and jewelers.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood. Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks. This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
