Barcelona’s Superblocks, or “Superilles” in Catalan, represent a pioneering approach to urban planning that reimagines how city spaces are utilized. First introduced in 2016, this innovative concept seeks to address the challenges of congestion, pollution, and the lack of public space in urban environments.
The idea was born out of the city’s need to create more livable, sustainable neighbourhoods that prioritize people over cars. Super Blocks Parklets takes this design philosophy and embodies its ethos of multifunctionality, our Super Blocks parklets are designed as a modular platform for streets. They may be configured and reconfigured in many variations and formats which allow for various uses, seasonal and temporary installations or as spaces that serve a variety of purposes in the community and street they are installed in.
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Studio Meanwhile and City Blocks has the privilege of working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō (Sto:lo), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. While this is our local home, we recognize that our work extends into the global realm of public space and has an impact on contested, politicised lands that have been and continue to be stewarded by many different and distinct local groups. It is our intention to help elevate these spaces in respectful and honourable collaboration with those who inhabit them, to further our mission to make public space available and accessible, for all people.
