From 10 January to 28 February 2025, the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication will host the exhibition The role of engineering in times of war. Air-raid shelters in Barcelona, curated by Ana Sanchez and Xavier Domenech.
This collection of photographs reveal, from an artistic perspective, the network of over 1,000 underground air-raid shelters intensively bombed during the Spanish Civil War drawing reflections on the societies that built them.
- The exhibition launch and roundtable event (pre-booking required) will take place on Thursday 9th January.
- A CLCC Research Seminar on the topic delivered by the curators Ana Sanchez and Xavier Domenech will take place on Thursday 30th January.
- The exhibition will be open for general viewing in the CLCC Gallery from 9am-5pm during university term-time. No pre-registration is required to view the exhibition.
This exhibition is run with the collaboration of Instituto Cervantes and Ajuntament de Barcelona.