El Gran Aula is a set of modular, mobile, and dismantlable devices that enable a wide range of cultural activities in public spaces, fostering connections with local communities, social institutions, and educational environments. Originally conceived as an itinerant project to travel through the southern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, it soon found diverse opportunities for action across the entire city.

It also operated from a permanent base within cheLA (Centro Hipermediático Experimental Latinoamericano), contributing its infrastructure and programming to the needs of the institution.

El Gran Aula brings together multiple disciplines—design, art, construction, and technology—to explore how contemporary artistic practices can be connected to educational spaces through play and participation. One of its core concerns is to foster a relationship between new technological media and contemporary artistic expressions using an open, participatory, and playful approach.

The project aims to open a field of research and production supported by professionals and artists who treat art and technology as flexible materials to be transformed, rather than as static, predetermined objects. Workshops, gatherings, labs, exhibitions, and public showcases are the chosen formats to share and activate this knowledge.

All the project’s components are made from reused industrial materials, highlighting recycling and reuse as foundational concepts.

Each construction module functions as part of a larger educational unit, yet also independently, as each element is mobile and autonomous. These include:

1. Portable Pavilion / Nomadic Classroom

2. CIF / Center for Future Research

3. Mobile Workshop / Traveling Carpentry

4. BiPA / Traveling Public Library

5. ANDANTE.RaCMo / Mobile Community Radio

6. BACO / Optical Box Bar

7. The Factory / Toy Workshop

8. CCC / Frame-by-Frame Cart

9. MAN / Nomadic Pottery Module

10. Cadactropo / Film-Making Machine

11. Carrito Fiorito / Mobile Workshop & Children’s Theater

This compact universe offers numerous possibilities in just a few square meters: a library, a radio station, an archive, a cinema, and workshops in carpentry, electronics, robotics, pottery, animation, and toy-making—entirely built with recycled materials.

Its program of ongoing activities allows art, technology, and culture to unfold in public space as tools for social cohesion, civic engagement, and creativity, creating an open-air collective experience lab in the city of Buenos Aires.