Rice – Shared Landscape, Collaborative Tangram

Artistic and educational project by Rice connecting urban art, education, and territory through a collective process developed with schools in the North Zone of Nou Barris.

The artist: Rice

Rice is a visual artist and muralist from Olot, graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, with a consolidated trajectory in urban, social, and educational art projects. His work in public space, primarily based on stencil techniques, explores themes such as loneliness, distance, affection, and human relationships, always with a sensitive approach to the context and the people inhabiting it.
He has intervened in several European cities and regularly participates in projects that link art, education, and community, integrating participatory processes as a core part of his artistic practice.

The artwork: “Shared Landscape: Collaborative Tangram North Zone”

Location: 5 schools in the North Zone of Nou Barris (6 buildings).

The project Shared Landscape: Collaborative Tangram North Zone is an artistic and pedagogical intervention designed specifically for the educational context, deployed across six works installed in five different schools in the North Zone of Nou Barris. The proposal uses the tangram game as a symbolic, playful, and collaborative tool, capable of generating a work that is adaptable, reversible, and open to multiple interpretations.
Each school receives a large-format tangram (2 x 2 m), designed by Rice as both an artistic and didactic piece, made from high-strength cardboard that is lightweight and easy to handle. The pieces function as an exhibit but also as interactive elements that can be placed on the floor or a table, encouraging play, reinterpretation, and collective experimentation.
The piece has two complementary sides:
– Side A, illustrated by the artist, synthesizes the material generated during the participatory process —ideas, drawings, and students’ imaginaries— incorporating references to the neighborhood and scenes related to the territory.
– Side B, painted in bright colors, is designed for students to transform and re-signify, creating new figures and narratives of their own.

Creation and guidance process: art, school, and community

 This project is the result of a long, carefully guided process by Rebobinart, which coordinated all phases of work among the schools, the artist, and the institutional framework of the NOU Sentit Urbà project.
The process begins with a preliminary Urban Laboratory, based on the installation of six colored mailboxes —one per school— symbolizing a collective palette of perspectives. Each mailbox contained a specific question about the relationship between school, neighborhood, and community. Students deposited reflections, drawings, and ideas that formed the conceptual foundation of the project.
These contributions were later shared in an inter-school meeting, where students and teachers discussed the collected content and participated in a collective creation session guided by the artist. The outcome of this meeting —a large jointly painted canvas and a corpus of shared ideas— became the main working material for Rice to develop the final artworks.
This model turns the work into a pedagogical and symbolic device, reinforcing links between schools, encouraging active student participation, and integrating urban art into the school’s daily life as a tool for expression, reflection, and shared identity.

Participating schools

• Institut Escola Elisenda de Montcada – Carrer de Vallcivera, s/n
  
• Institut Escola Ferrer i Guàrdia
  
  • Primary Building – Carrer del Pedraforca, 3-5
    
  • Secondary Building – Avinguda Rasos de Peguera, 234
    
• Institut Escola Ciutat Comtal – Carrer Pujalt, 6-8
  
• Institut Escola Mestre Morera – Carrer de Perafita, 48
• FEP Mare Alfonsa Cavín – Avinguda dels Rasos de Peguera, 57

NOU Sentit Urbà: urban art in the Nou Barris distric

This intervention is part of the 18 artistic actions of the NOU Sentit Urbà project, promoted by Barcelona City Council and produced by Rebobinart, with the collaboration of the Nou Barris District and local neighborhood communities.
The project recovers collective memories and local identities through murals, installations, and participatory processes, addressing themes such as older age, sustainability, migration, neighborhood women, vernacular architecture, or sport as a force for cohesion. Each intervention adds a piece to Nou Barris’ shared story, reinforcing the value of memory and the role of urban art as a tool for social transformation.