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Bagnet

Bagnet, by Arturo Revilla and Monica Dominguez, is a cultural project to explore the relation between the life cycle of waste material and the constitution of the contemporary city.

For a period of 24 days, a group of architects, designers, artists, students, marketers and the general public collaborated on the construction of a collective object inside Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes, one of the main cultural spaces of the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico.

During this period, people from all backgrounds attached more than 40,000 recycled plastic bags to a steel structure wrapped on metal wire and with this expose how public space, the communal construct by excellence, still is the heart of urbanity and offers endless possibilities for architecture.

Arturo Revilla Pérez and Mónica Domínguez Ureta, Bagnet, Aguascalientes, Mexico. Photo Jorge Castaings

Based on horizontal communication systems, Bagnet revealed the importance of the networks around the vital material cycles of plastic and its relations to manufacturing, materiality, form, space and social fabric.

By connecting different social sectors this project seeks ways to generate urban events that reveal the city as a continuum of material and communication. A plastic wall transforms the space changing its temperature, luminosity, color, texture and dimension, inviting the visitor's senses to take active part not only in the metabolism of space, but the manufacturing and procurement of material, thus reaffirming the public space and the city as a process of perpetual generation.