This is probably the most proximity portrait of the whole book, because Eva is my neighbor. While she is heating water to make some tea, she explains to me that she is very happy because she has just been informed that Seguint el peix, the project presented by Leve, her production company, together with Top manta (Sindicato Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes), has been selected to represent Catalonia and the Balearic Islands at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. It is a project that touches on common themes that Leve Productora often works on: migratory traffic, the privatization of public space, feminism, the anti-racist struggle or food sustainability.
Afterwards we have a nice cup of tea and she tells me how the spaces have been organized at her house, a peculiar three-level dwelling that she designed together with her husband, Francesc Pla.
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Eva Serrats is an architect. She has worked in the fields of photography, film and architecture and cultural management among others. In 2007 she created Leve Productora located in La Floresta, from where projects are formulated and developed in a transdisciplinary way and in close collaboration with other people and technical and creative teams. This means that each project is developed as a unitary management and networking experience, dealing with the what and the how in an integrated way and exploring the borderline territories -the stitches- of what is considered architecture.
She is director of strategies at La Capell Cooperative, where she has been president (2019 and 2021). She currently teaches projects at the ETSAB (UPC).