Mobile Garden

A possible museum

An open space, a social space. How could the Museum be more open to the needs of the neighbourhood?

A place to meet

Is it possible to be radically public? How public are cultural institutions? The Mobile Garden is born from this dilemma. It is a garden because it is conceived as a space of urban calm, of shared dialogue, an oasis where the community – and the Museum too – can ‘be’. And it is mobile because there are no closed or fixed proposals. While initially based on conversations with residents, communities and agents of the neighbourhood to respond to the imaginaries of those around us, it is also a free-access space on the ground floor of the Convent dels Àngels that is open to everyone. A walk-in space in a corner of the square that will be transformed into whatever its users decide. What do you want to happen? What else should the Museum offer apart from its programming? Your actions and suggestions can help us decide how the Museum and its public spaces should be used.

Space for dialogue

The Mobile Garden was born out of conversations and dialogues with the neighbourhood and its agents. Conversations generated after years of public and educational programmes, working groups and workshops, and ongoing projects, which have led us to establish a permanent dialogue with the citizens at an institutional level. A space for dialogue that has already given rise to meetings with schools, with parents, with the associative fabric of the Raval and with members of the neighbourhood’s institutions, to discuss the need to reorganise spaces, to naturalise the different areas of the Museum and optimise their uses. What institutional structures can we offer the community? How can we join together to transform our environment into a place that is closer to our desires?

The Voices of the Mobile Garden

‘A construction where we can all have a voice’; ‘What do we enjoy doing and what does the square mean to us?’; ‘Spaces for active listening’. The Mobile Garden is explained in this podcast. We would like you to listen to it and share it. Different ages, different ways of looking and possible dialogues generate a space and a project that defines itself as it is being developed.

				
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The Mobile Garden

The Mobile Garden is a communal space, a neighbourhood space on the ground floor of the Convent dels Àngels that is free and where everyone is welcome. At street level, a place where you can just walk in and feel at home. A place to be, a space for meeting, leisure, conversation, collective learning, reading, with a suggestion box, in an atmosphere of community and urban calm, an oasis, a free place for the neighbourhood coordinated by the Museum. The initiative is based on the methodology of civilian participation of Recetas Urbanas, a studio of architecture directed for the last two decades by Santiago Cirugeda and Alice Attout.

LOCATION

Mobile Garden Convent dels Àngels Terrace. Access by Plaça de les Caremelles How do I get to the Mobile Garden?

Agenda

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Green Guerrilla: Moving Through Raval

Tour of the different community gardens in the Raval neighbourhood. Festival Raval(s)

Activity

Saturday, 8 November 2025

Images from the Second Spring/Summer Planting Session at The Mobile Garden

A Vegetable Garden as an Ecosystem of Affection in the Mobile Garden

Presentation of art and well-being projects by health professionals from Raval Nord Primary Healthcare Centre and the MACBA’s Sustainability and Education Departments.