01 / Territori BesòsTerritorial network · Gatherings · 2025 — 2026
Territori Besòs
Connect · Make visible · Inspire
What is Territori Besòs
Territori Besòs is an initiative led by ZEIT and La Clandestina de Poblenou to build a cultural, artistic and community network in the neighbourhoods around the Besòs.
The project was born from a desire to give visibility to the creative processes, independent initiatives, local voices and cultural expressions that inhabit and transform the area.
A meeting point to connect artists, professionals, collectives, cultural spaces and local agents, share knowledge and spark new collaborations.
02 / The territory
A territory in transformation
The Besòs is a historically working-class, industrial and migrant territory, shaped by urban transformation, deindustrialisation and neighbourhood resistance movements.
Today it is home to numerous cultural, social and community projects that help revitalise its neighbourhoods, keeping its popular memory and collective spirit alive.
Territori Besòs also comes from a need: for the people and projects that share this area to get to know each other, meet and weave new networks.
03 / What we want to achieve
Connecting to transform
Connect
Facilitate encounters between artists, collectives, professionals, cultural spaces and local networks.
Make visible
Raise awareness of the creative initiatives, cultural processes and social and urban transformations happening in the area.
Inspire
Create spaces for dialogue, exchange and collaboration that strengthen the local creative community.
04 / How we do it
Gatherings that build networks
Territori Besòs unfolds through itinerant gatherings held in different spaces across the area.
Each gathering gives a voice to different cultural and creative initiatives through presentations, open conversations and informal networking.
The aim is to share experiences, discover nearby projects and foster connections between people who, although they work in the same area, don't always get the chance to meet.
05 / The editions2025 — 2026
Three editions, one territory
Edition 01 — 29.10.20256 – 9 pm
Street art in the Besòs
The Social Hub Barcelona Poblenou · Carrer de Cristóbal de Moura, 49
The first edition focused on street art in the Besòs: how urban art transforms the landscape and strengthens the identity of the area.
The gathering combined presentations of cultural initiatives, an open dialogue and a networking space to share, get inspired and build community.
Participants
BESART — The River MuseumMediterranean street art that transforms the territory@besart_the_river_museum
Que Onda Kan (Q.O.K.)The world of the «Kanes», humanised dogs by Argentine muralist Reja@queondakan
Juandrés Vera3D street art@juandresvera_dmt
Revorn ArtStreet art turned into sustainable, functional design@revorn.art
On the flyer: Ensemble, La Clandestina de Poblenou, ZEIT and The Social Hub.
In pictures · Edition 01
From @territoribesos
Edition 02 — 18.02.20267 – 9:30 pm
Creative networking
The Social Hub Barcelona · Carrer de Cristóbal de Moura, 49
The second edition brought together projects from different disciplines that are born and grow in the Besòs area: sculpture, artist residencies and craft woodworking.
It also presented Proyecto Latente, a residency developed at La Clandestina de Poblenou that understands the Besòs not as a context but as active material. Around 80–90 people attended.
Participants
Gonzalo GuzmánSculptor. His practice is born from lucid dreaming and takes shape through hydroforming, an industrial technique in which water moulds metal@gzl.gzm
Proyecto LatenteResidency at La Clandestina de Poblenou mentored by Euge Sasia@eugesasia.art
Paulina BarónProyecto Latente. She works with pigments and natural materials in slow processes linked to the earth, the body and time@paubaron
Flavio MalagutiProyecto Latente. He explores the Besòs river through clay and photogrammetry, between craft and 3D printing@malaguts
SkullartEmiliano and Cinzia's solid wood workshop: one-of-a-kind pieces made to order@skullart.madera
Hosted by: Javier López (@winefestivals). Photographs: @lgilicamino.
In pictures · Edition 02
Edition 03 — 06.05.20266:30 – 9:30 pm
Productive Besòs
The Social Hub Barcelona · Carrer de Cristóbal de Moura, 49
Creative territory, industry and circular futures. A talk and panel discussion to rethink the Besòs axis as a productive territory, where culture, industry and community infrastructure create new connections — aligned with Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.
Different voices from the Besòs, specialists and local projects shared their views on its current state, how it got here and what futures we can imagine. Organised with Fab Lab Barcelona (IAAC) and the Ensemble Network.
Speakers
Salvador Clarós FerretEngineer and trade unionist: industry, territory and collective rights
Mariona GonzálezDirector of TeamLabs and Barcelona Circular (BAC)@teamlabs_
Jose Antonio GrasUrban planning architect: urban regeneration, spatial data and innovation districts
Aldo SollazzoAI, robotics and computational design applied to architecture
Franziska Bach and Lara RuizFounders of Territori Besòs
Guillem CamprodonModerator. Director of Fab Lab Barcelona
Video: @clioosfera.
In pictures · Edition 03
06 / Organisation and credits
A project by
La Clandestina de Poblenou × ZEIT
Instagram@territoribesos · @zeit.bcn · @clandestinapoblenou
Host venueThe Social Hub Barcelona Poblenou · @thesocialhub.barcelona
Productive BesòsIn collaboration with Fab Lab Barcelona (IAAC) and the Ensemble Network
HostJavier López · @winefestivals (2nd edition)
ImagePhotographs 2nd edition: @lgilicamino · Video 1st edition: @filmaiking, @lapalmer__ and @e.m.bravo · Video 3rd edition: @clioosfera
Contactbesosterritori@gmail.com
