Nits d’Estiu (Summer Nights) is a cultural programme organised by CaixaForum across its museums in Spain, offering free, open-air evening activities throughout the summer. Designed to bring new audiences into cultural spaces, the programme combines art, music, performance, and participatory experiences, transforming museums into lively, accessible places for encounter, curiosity, and shared discovery.
Within this framework, La Città Infinita toured six CaixaForum museums — Zaragoza, Valencia, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, and Palma de Mallorca — turning museum spaces into settings for collective creation, play, and listening.
At each stop, participatory art came alive through its encounter with an open and sensitive audience. La Città Infinita unfolded as a living, ever-growing architecture, capable of generating emotion, dialogue, and unexpected connections.
From July 9 to 24, 2025, more than 1,500 participants including children, young people, and adults shaped an ephemeral city built from stories, possible and impossible architectures, and a great deal of shared imagination.
Throughout the tour, we collected memorable stories: from astronomical observatories designed to gaze at the stars and become infinite, to Factories of Joy.
- We designed a participatory art experience capable of transforming museum spaces into places for play, encounter, and collective creation.
- We empowered people through their creativity, inviting them to imagine, build, and share without hierarchies or predefined forms.
- We created an activity that is simple in its structure yet visually and aesthetically powerful, particularly effective in museum contexts.
- We engaged intergenerational audiences in the creation of shared narratives and architectures.
- We collected stories and visions that, when shared, generated meaning and unexpected connections.
- We developed a flexible logistical system, allowing fast setup and dismantling, smoothly adapting to the timeframes and spaces of each museum.
- This experience confirmed how naturally and effectively La Città Infinita functions within a museum context. The combination of play, participatory art, and strong visual impact allows it to integrate seamlessly into cultural institutions while transforming them from within.
- We learned that the project has all the elements needed to become a stable, recurring museum offering: it is adaptable, inclusive, aesthetically powerful, and capable of engaging diverse audiences without losing depth or meaning.
- One of the most striking insights was observing how many adults chose to participate actively — even without children. This revealed a clear and often unmet need for experiences that unlock creativity, imagination, and freedom of expression beyond childhood.
- Once again, we witnessed how play, construction, and shared storytelling create spaces where people of all ages feel empowered to imagine, connect, and build meaning together.
What they say
We wish La Città Infinita was real.