The Barcelona of the future

From some weeks ago Barcelona is decorated with advertisements of this initiative: How will be Barcelona in 2159?

Ildefonso Cerdà designed a structured city, embodied in the structure of the Eixample district in Barcelona, 150 years ago. Now we are intended to participate and be present through our personal messages at Barcelona from within 150 years, Barcelona 2159.

These weeks we are going to write or create (who wish it) a message and our messages will be encapsulated. Within 150 years, “someone” will open the capsule and will find our thoughts on a world that we can hardly imagine, but we try.

And we can leave our messages as we prefer: text, image or video. I’ve already done mine and you can see what I’ve left for the future following this link (spanish and catalan):

http://www.barcelona2159.org/index.php?id=2439

The translation would be something like:

What will the streets of Barcelona be in 150 years?
Streets clean and tidy, with no congestion or noise, with sufficient moral climate to avoid having to fill them with warnings: do not litter, do not block, do not park here, do not run and do not bother others …
Streets perfectly adapted to the needs of all, no bumps or obstacles, with toilet, seats and where prevails nature and citizens’ services.

The text is limited to 800 characters so the hardest exercise has been synthesis. There is a lot of matterns to create about, but the organization of this activity facilitated a little bit this task by proposing us to focus on any of the 45 tracks that define the city.

Want to be in the future? Wait no more and join this proposal, leave your message and the people on the future will know what you expected in Barcelona2159.org