Materials to work in the classroom
The CCCB organizes many different projects that generate a series of resources and materials, learning and working processes, interactions and knowledge in relation to the big debates that structure contemporary society, for reuse in class.
In this space, we aim to make available to everyone these materials on such topical themes as science and technology, experimentation and creation, mental health, and thinking and debate.
If you have any questions or if you need help to adapt them to your classroom, contact us at seducatiu@cccb.org.
Science and technology
Mission ALIA
Alongside the exhibition Mars. The Red Mirror and in collaboration with the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC). In response to scientific discoveries about the universe and the exploration of Mars, this project addresses the contradictions, crossroads and paradoxes raised by the way we inhabit the Earth. The project contains a first part of research and documentation about the red planet and a second part for creation. The ultimate goal is to create science-fiction stories involving a scientific, moral and ethical problem raised by space research and the challenge of making Mars—and Earth—a habitable place.
- Teaching dossier Mission ALIA (PDF)
- Talks by scientists at the IEEC
- A synthetic forest within a stone. Artist Serafín Álvarez shares the creative process of her artistic project Un bosc sintètic dins d’una pedra as inspiration for all participants in Mission ALIA.
- Copy of the final fanzine of Mission ALIA
Recommended age: 4th year of compulsory secondary education and 1st year of baccalaureate
Educational materials generated in 2020/2021
ALIA. Cities and Health
In collaboration with the Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona and Col·lectiu Mixité, this project sets out to imagine the future of our cities and rethink their link with human and planetary health. It contains a first part of research and documentation and a second part for creating speculative infographics that reconsider the link between city and health, imagining other possible cities.
- Teaching dossiers
- Talks by scientists at IS Global
- Example of speculative infographics from ALIA. Cities and Health
Recommended age: 4th year of compulsory secondary education and 1st year of baccalaureate
Educational materials generated in 2021/2022
ALIA. Consciousness in Cartoon Vignettes
Alongside the exhibitions Brains(s) and Graphic Constellation, and in collaboration with the Center for Brain and Cognition (UPF) and Escola JOSO. This project investigates the mysteries of human consciousness using the comic as a language of scientific dissemination. It contains a first part of research and documentation and a second part for creating an informative comic script about consciousness, based on one of its three dimensions: perception, memory and language.
- Teaching dossier (PDF)
- Talks
- Example of informative comic strip produced during ALIA. Consciousness in Cartoon Vignettes
Recommended age: 4th year of compulsory secondary education and 1st year of baccalaureate
Educational materials generated in 2022/2023
ALIA. Artificial Intelligence
Alongside the exhibition AI: Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS). We investigate the functioning and the possibilities that Artificial Intelligence can give us in a creative process. The aim of the project is to answer the question: how is a process of collective creation with a machine? With this research we collaborate with the AI to create the lyrics, the music, and the videoclip of an urban music song.
- ALIA Teaching Dossier (Català, PDF)
- Record of the lectures of the BSC scientists with students at the CCCB in November 2023.
Recommended age: 4th year of compulsory secondary education and 1st year of baccalaureate
Educational materials generated in 2023/2024
Experimentation and creation
Bioscope. Anti-Selfies
Two workshops to explore identity and self-representation through documentary animation and artistic expression. Creation of animated portraits about our changing identity and anti-selfies.
- Web with intructions of Bioscopi Anti-selfies
- Teaching dossier of Bioscopi Anti-selfies (PDF)
- Animations with Bioscopi Anti-selfies
Recommended age: Primary and compulsory secondary education
Educational materials generated in 2021/2022
Bioscope. Imaginary Creatures
Three workshops in the field of speculative zoology to explore documentary animation and artistic expression. Creation of microscopic beings, complementary beings using stop motion, and beings that evolve and co-evolve thanks to artificial intelligence.
- Web with instructions of Bioscopi Imaginary Creatures
- Dossier pedagógico de Bioscopi Imaginary Creatures (PDF)
- Animations with Bioscopi Imaginary Creatures
Recommended age: Primary and compulsory secondary education
Educational materials generated in 2021/2022
Bioscope. Life Stories
Three workshops about telling our stories based on documentary animation and artistic expression. Creation of small-scale short films in the form of a monologue, a dialogue or a talk to discover animation as a biographical tool.
- Web with instructions of Bioscopi Life Stories
- Dossier pedagógico de Bioscopi Life Stories (PDF)
- Animaciones realizadas de Bioscopi Life Stories
Recommended age: Primary and compulsory secondary education
Educational materials generated in 2021/2022
Llaminadures cinematogràfiques
Here you’ll find special teaching materials to work experimental cinema in the classroom, based on material from the CCCB's Xcentric Archive.
Recommended levels: compulsory secondary education and baccalaureate
Thinking and debate
Talks for secondary students
Talks for secondary students to bring the big debates of the moment closer to young people, with foremost speakers on the issues under discussion and a space for debate and conversation.
Here you’ll find a playlist of all the talks for secondary students
The following talks have special teaching materials to work on the contents in class:
- A morning with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (PDF)
- A morning with Cristina Rivera Garza: Intimate forms of violence (PDF)
- A morning with Miquel del Pozo: A journey through myth (PDF)
- A morning with Carolin Emcke: A right is never won forever (PDF)
- A morning with Marina Garcés: The time of promises (PDF)
Recommended age: compulsory secondary education and baccalaureate
Mental health
Vade mecum
A guide to reproducing a workshop on creativity and mental health for young people, This tarot is a safe place, as part of the *Locus project. The aim is to individually create a card using collage to form a collective tarot pack, calling for coexistence with madness based on mutual support and addressing mental health issues.
Recommended age: compulsory secondary education, baccalaureate and vocational training
Educational materials generated in 2022