The exhibition, as detailed below, is held in the following spaces: Dadespai, Bòlit - La Rambla, Bòlit - Sant Nicolau and the municipal libraries, with integrated activities at El Niu.

It is possible to subvert certain situations if we painstakingly analyse the hidden energies and undeveloped potentialities. This is demonstrated in the sphere of industrial design by artist Emili Padrós with Harvestings, a fragile, intimate video piece which involves us in a highly poetic story revealing the mystery of anonymous objects, by penetrating their assumed functionality.

This experience can be attained with Flying Carpet, a seat designed by Emiliana to let the imagination fly and to see the world from the perspective of creativity, as if we were on a flying carpet but without losing sight of the domestic space.

Finally, highlighting autonomy and economy of resources, the same Barcelona artist presents his Non-Stop Shoes. This footwear stores the energy generated by walking, which is then used to power an electric light bulb. By the end of the walk, the shoe has metamorphosed into a lamp.

Is it possible to draw up a map of all the available resources to answer the great existential questions and reach the Absolute Truth? From an angle of fiction, humour and acceptance of failure, Ana Garcia-Pineda presents an art-of-the-absurd mural which impregnates lost causes. The merely impossible recommendations in her publication Machines and Machinations are now taken one step further in Formal Investigation and Observations (from the Find out the Truth series) to become a seemingly unattainable goal, a universe of connexions and derivations of meanings, forms and suggestions for representing the unrepresentable.

In a spirit of practical proposals, Platoniq Collective members Ignacio García, Susana García Noguero and Olivier Schulbaum have been developing their Common Bank of Knowledge project since 2006. This is a platform for collective copyleft production and pilot experiments concerning the free exchange of knowledge and mutual education.

Common Bank of Knowledge focuses on recreating the social bond based on reciprocal learning, shared skills and collective intelligence. Pursuing two lines of action, Common Bank of Knowledge generates, on the one hand, a research and cultural innovation laboratory, and on the other, a platform for organising knowledge exchange markets between users. Local experts of all types are invited to share their knowledge at exchange sessions during which anybody can express their needs and/or offer their experience to whoever requires it.

Girona artist Núria Güell presents Access to the Refused, the fruit of an experience carried out while she was living in Havana. The artist set up a company through the exchange of useful information for her own daily life in the city, and through Internet, to which to Cuban citizens are only allowed restricted access on account of the political censorship in their country. Thus, information and access to knowledge - two valuable survival resources - are exchanged, beyond the reach of the authorities, in order to endure the hardships imposed by the political regime.

In Covering Expectations, Cuban artist Luis Gárciga Romay points out, with an irony bordering on sarcasm, that lack of resources can be covered by expectations. At the same time, he poses the question in reverse, by asking whether expectations can be covered by nothingness. In a video-recorded action, the artist patiently awaits the viewer with a sustained gaze.

Escoitar.org is a collective of sound artists and activists, led by Galician artist and anthropologist Chiu Longina, which aims to encourage and promote the sound phenomenon as a new channel of knowledge in society (e.g. the Aural Study movement in Spain). Their activities focus on conserving the sound memory; reassessing our non-material cultural heritage; encouraging listeners to help compile a sound heritage and to take part in field work; recording and contextualizing the background sounds of the country from the perspectives of art, ethno-musicology, bio-acoustics and anthropology. The key concepts for their social activation are an ethical commitment to cultural action and the use of Open Source technology. Viewers can approach the Escoitar.org universe at their Macrophone installation, with various actions, interventions, conferences, workshops and sound samplings that will be happening in different places.

Vladimir Arkhipov started his ongoing Home Made project, which consists in collecting objects made out of recycled materials and existing objects, by ordinary people for their own use. Creation stemming from need throws up all sorts of artefacts which, when properly exhibited, take on the quality of art objects. When we listen to these objects, through the voices of their authors, we discover a whole learning process, which the artist has been following, through his research, in different contexts around the world, and now here in Girona.

Oh Eun Lee, a Korean artist residing in Switzerland, is the author of A Room, a digital film that shows a figure living in a closed room containing only essential elements: a bed, a table and a blank book. As he walks through the room, he holds a conversation with the artist, during which he questions his own identity. This is a story about reality and fiction, about belonging, and about the value of creativity.

The Book Space project by Icelandic artist Elín Hansdóttir consists of a series of blank books deposited in public libraries around the world, which she now presents in Girona. The books can be lent out to library users for the space of a week, to be filled with a content of their choice (text, images, drawings, collage, etc.).

The results will be brought before the public to coincide with the Sant Jordi (St George's Day) celebrations. There will be readings and the presentation of some of the books, which will then be sent to libraries in other countries, thus creating a live file, a sort of collective work in progress.

Girona-based Telenoika Collective, made up of artists Eloi Maduell and Santi Vilanova, will lead the Ragamuffin Luthier Orchestra workshop, in which a series of musical instruments will be constructed out of materials found on rubbish dumps. This is low-tech recycling combined with the use of free software to extract music out of rubbish, using genuine do-it-yourself teamwork.