Collective Stories in the Making

Collective Stories in the Making is a dynamic, participatory installation that explores how collective memory, imagination, and practice intersect in maker cultures. The work begins with a massive textile cloth containing core narratives and physical artefacts contributed by a community of makers, designers, and creatives from Barcelona and beyond. Throughout re:publica, participants are invited to intervene in the cloth—through drawing, embroidery, stamping, and sewing—to inscribe their own stories of engagement with making. Contributions can also include hopes and visions for the next twenty years of prototyping and co-creating futures. The installation emphasises process over product: no single author or owner emerges, but rather a temporally and socially situated record of communal imagination. Following the festival, the textile will be exhibited during Barcelona Design Week and other venues, foregrounding collaborative authorship, relational knowledge, and the materialisation of shared cultural practice.