Change of course in the reconstruction of the School of the Sea, Josep Goday's legendary educational center on Pescadores beach in Barceloneta. After the political change at Barcelona City Council shelved the proposal, this Friday architect Marc Cuixart, the driving force behind the project and Goday's assistant, announced that the meeting he had a few days ago with Barcelona's chief architect, Maria Buhigas, and the Councilor for Education, Lluís Rabell, was "hopeful." "The municipal architect's tone surprised me," Cuixart said during one of the conference's presentations. The Museum of Education of Catalonia: a dream for the future at the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC), because the rebuilt Escola del Mar is planned to be a home for the future Museum of Education and Pedagogy of Catalonia.

The reconstruction of the legendary School of the Sea by Josep Goday has fallen into a black hole of municipal politics. After the Barcelona City Council promoted it during Ada Colau's termJaume Collboni ruled out moving it forward. As a result, in July of last year, ERC proposed reviving it in the Committee on Social Rights, Culture, and Sports with the support of all parties except Vox, but the project remains shelved. In this situation, the Association of Architects for the Defense and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) organized a debate this Tuesday at the COAC. Recover the Sea School?, with the participation of architects Mariona Genís and Marc Cuixart Goday (not Josep Goday), who has revealed that the Grífols family put the "4 million euros" on the table to carry out the work, but Jordi Martí, during his time as deputy mayor of Barcelona, ​​​​refused because he wanted to do it with public money.

Two years ago, when the newly appointed mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, visited the children of the Escola del Mar, now located in Guinardó, asked him why, despite what had been promised, the historic Barceloneta building, destroyed in 1938 by fascist bombs, had not been rebuilt. They caught the mayor off guard. He didn't know what they were talking about. And he told them he would get to work. Two years later, the children returned the visit to the city council this Friday and, smiling but determined, asked him the same question again: "Mayor, what about the reconstruction of the Escola del Mar?" The mayor told them it would be done, yes... But where and when is still unknown. The school would not be for them, but for the city. But they have become its own: they are its roots.