On a wooden table are arranged various bunches of aromatic herbs: thyme, chicory, lemon, oregano, mint, and rosemary. In the center, hands delicately place a plant between the pages of a book, preparing it to be pressed.

Activity
Friday, 6 March 2026

The Kitchen School with Lucía Egaña and Daniel Granados

Making Museum Kitchens into Gardens: A Question of Rights

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La Cuina del MACBA

We open the first session of The Kitchen School with a meeting of two experiences that set out to change institutional structures from within. We invite Lucía Egaña and Daniel Granados to share knowledge, tools and questions about cultural output, decision-making and redistribution of resources.

Lucía Egaña will be presenting her research and the book La cultura no es una autopista, los museos podrían ser jardines [Culture Is Not a Highway, Museums Could Be Gardens] (self-published, 2024; co-edited with Giuliana Racco), critical research into the mechanisms that sustain cultural and artistic output. Her work analyses how the axes of discrimination – race, gender, sexual orientation and (dis)ability – work within cultural institutions, and proposes we think up other forms of organisation based on care, access – a concept the author questions in her book – and shared responsibility. From this standpoint, museums cease to be linear infrastructures to become living, porous, cultivatable spaces.

This narrative will be in dialogue with the experience of Daniel Granados, behind the Barcelona Declaration on Cultural Rights, which posits culture as a fundamental right and stresses its transversal dimension: health, education, ancestral knowledge, diversity and a fair environmental transition. The conceptual framework of cultural rights extends the reach of cultural policy beyond the arts, seeing them as key tools to build social equity and democracy.