99+Imaginaris invited renowned architects from around the world to speculate on the future of Barcelona. Within the context of the Model Festival, curators Eva Franch i Gilabert and Josep Maria Montaner, alongside the design, coordination, and exhibition design by the Enric Miralles Foundation, brought together a wide-ranging series of sketches, ideas, visions, and models—from an edible Barcelona by Areti Markopoulou to a Barcelona of inflection points by Zaida Muxí.
The resulting exhibition catalog is a diverse archive of drawn manifestos—a document that allows us to review and debate future ways of living in the city. The curatorial text for 99+Imaginaris, along with the individual visions of its contributors, is presented below.
Thinking about the city's future is part of modern Barcelona's DNA. Ildefons Cerdà's Eixample Plan (1859) is the first great proof and a still-living embodiment, remarkably forward-thinking and continuously transforming. To amend Cerdà's plain, Léon Jaussely was commissioned in 1905 to imagine a more monumental, hierarchical Barcelona, closer to the garden-city ideal.
