REVERB: Echoes of Change Final Showcase of the Barcelona ECHO Academy — youth, art, and action for a Climate-responsive future
Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
Time: From 18:30
Location: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Address: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nave 4-5, Barcelona
Free Admission
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture is pleased to present REVERB, the final event of the Barcelona ECHO Academy and a public invitation to reflect, celebrate, and activate artistic and civic imagination in response to the climate crisis.
Following the ECHO design sprint week and Events, REVERB marks the culmination of the creative collaborative process developed during the Academy: an evening of dialogue, experimentation, and resonance between art, activism, and climate politics.
PROGRAM
18:30 – Atmospheric Drift(s)
The evening opens with Atmospheric Drift(s), a live experimental performance-lecture by artist and PhD researcher Rachel Heavey. Through sound, speech, and gesture, Heavey invites us into a sensory journey exploring listening as a climate-responsive and relational practice. Layering atmospheres and shifting modes of presence, she asks: What does it mean to create weather between us? and Can attention itself be a form of climate?
19:30 – Presentation of Artistic Campaigns
This is followed by a showcase of the artistic campaigns developed during the Academy’s intensive design sprint, celebrated during March 2025. Co-created by young artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, these works offer diverse perspectives on climate change:
- Co-Arising: A multisensory exhibition that composts dominant narratives and invites reconnection through sound, sculpture, ritual, and memory.
By: Mara Adina, Puck Ast, Krista Stoynova, Denise Thiemke - Lower the Temperature, Plant the Change: An immersive installation imagining Barcelona’s climate future. Visitors walk through heat, drought, and chaos into HOPE LAB, a living garden and the beginning of a citizen-led Green Network.
By: Bertille Gamichon, Danna Montenegro, Belén Blasco, Césarine Lafontant - Mares del Mañana: A sensory and edible installation that explores algae as a material and symbol of ecological resilience. With soundscapes, sculptures, and speculative storytelling, the project reimagines food systems through care and sustainability.
By: Alanna Wilson, David Feroce, Lucy Broomfield, Sandy Davis
20:15 – Guest Speaker: Giulia Sonetti – Re-Futuring the Mind
We are delighted to welcome Giulia Sonetti as guest speaker at REVERB.
Giulia is a transdisciplinary researcher and Beatriu de Pinós Fellow at the Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology (UPC Barcelona), with a background in architecture, environmental science, and renewable energy. Her work bridges academia, activism, and education, focusing on transformative learning, sustainability transitions, and climate-related emotions.
At REVERB, she will share insights from her current research on climate anxiety among youth, reflecting on how emotional responses to the climate crisis can inspire deeper civic and creative engagement. With her motto “Be the change you want to see in the world,” Giulia brings a powerful voice to the intersection of imagination, activism, and systemic change.
Closing the night, Amazoniya (Yelyzaveta Adamchuk) & Rachel Heavey present a hybrid DJ set that shifts from structured transitions into looser and more intuitive experimentation. Layers of ambient textures, field recordings, and environmental sounds blend with deep bass, breakbeats, and echoes of dubstep. Decks become instruments, sound shaped live in space, unfolding in the moment.
REVERB is more than a closing, it’s an invitation to keep listening, questioning, and co-creating. Join us and Echo forward!
This project is also part of ESPRONCEDA´s NEB (NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS) inititative.
About ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture, founded in Barcelona in 2013, is an innovative center for contemporary visual and digital art. Its mission is to promote critical and divergent thinking through contemporary arts, new media, science, and education. The organization supports artistic residencies and research programs, offering a multidisciplinary environment that fosters dialogue between the art world, public institutions, and private companies. ESPRONCEDA engages both local and international communities through exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and open calls focused on key issues of our time.
About ECHO – Empower Change-makers for a HarmOnious Europe
ECHO is a European project that uses art and culture to inspire young people to get involved in democracy and social change. Through creative academies in five cities — Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Athens, and Sofia — ECHO empowers emerging artists, researchers, and activists to co-create impactful campaigns on key issues such as climate change, migration, digitalization, and democracy.
www.echoeurope.eu
