Barcelona City Council is organizing a commemoration to help people rediscover 18th-century Barcelona, understand the events that took place, relate them to the present and explore prospects for the future. Event director Toni Soler gave a short summary of the history of that period and encouraged the Architecture students to participate in the activity. He said, "I really hope you all realize what it will mean to be at the forefront in the city of Barcelona in the next twelve months".

“BCN Re.Set: City of Ephemeral Architecture in the Street" is one of the different activities that will be organized by the Enric Miralles Foundation to encourage this dialogue between the past and the present. Benedetta Tagliabue is the president of the foundation. The aim is to focus on six locations in Barcelona that are particularly important in the history of Catalonia and change the way they look through a set of artistic and architectural installations to encourage reflection on concepts such as identity, freedom and democracy.

A unique, imaginative outdoor pavilion will be built at each location to create an architectural landscape where different events and performances will be held. Each installation will be designed by some of the best-known contemporary architects, who will also be the curators of each space and will direct the workshop and research activity of the local and international architecture schools invited for the occasion.

In the case of the ESARQ School of Architecture, the selected students will participate in the construction of a European food and cuisine booth in Plaça del Mar and will collaborate with architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner from Urban-Think Tank and ETH Zürich. Vicenç Sarrablo, the coordinator of the activity, along with participating tutors Eva Damiá, Jaime Batlle and Marta García-Orte, encouraged the students to participate in the Design-Build Workshop to have the chance to see what working in a real architecture studio is like.