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Let’s go out on the balcony or the roof terrace and … smell plants! Because #myhousesmells and my window does too
Our proposal this week is that you smell the plants you surely have at home, on your balcony or roof terrace, in your patio or garden. They may be similar to or even the same as the ones in our video. Take a good look: Now let’s get on with our creative project! We’re...
Let’s smell clean! Because #myhousesmells nice
It’s time for another of our fun olfactory projects for you to try at home! For this one we delve into the smells of the soaps that we have in the bathroom. Check out the video and find out more …Now let’s get on with our creative project! A smelling contest with...
The Easter project for #micasahuele
This activity in the #myhousesmells series is designed to bring out the relations between taste, smell, colour and paint, which our Foundation regards as so essential, by way of a family art experiment in which we will paint our own Easter eggs with natural pigments...
Make a cutout with faces and noses
Here’s our second suggestion for a family paper montage. This time, to make being kept at home more enjoyable we propose making a crazy cutout with a face with a number of noses. Because, as you know, #myhousesmells… Here are the instructions: just follow them step by...
Let’s smell citrus fruits! Because #micasahuele
This is our first olfactory project for you to discover that, just as #myhousesmells, yours does too! We start by smelling the citrus fruits we happen to have in the kitchen: oranges, perhaps, or tangerines, lemons, limes or grapefruits … take a good look at this...
The Foundation launches the #micasahuele project to help make the most of the current situation
We’ve all been at home for some time now, trying to make the best of being confined to base by COVID-19. That’s why, starting today, we are proposing a few things we can all do at home that will help us take our minds off our worries for a while. Of course, youngsters...
First schools workshops in 2020
Yes, it seems hard to believe, but our Foundation has already kicked off the year with a series of six great workshops for the Escola Decroly de Barcelona, welcoming into our magical space girls and boys from all of the school’s Primary classes, from P1 to P6. And...
‘A Romance of Noses’ in Gaudí’s first house
These Christmas holidays are more scented than ever in the garden of the Casa Vicens house. For the second consecutive year, Gaudí’s first house, the Casa Vicens in Barcelona, will host a series of artworks created by NASEVO, with a nod to the Catalan tradition of...
Shuriken. Scented origami stars against childhood cancer
Shuriken stars, also known as ninja stars, are origami shapes made by volunteers – many of them schoolchildren – using organic paper manufactured from cotton, wool, coconut and other natural fibres. Each star is unique and each one has a story and a name behind it....
NASEVO at the 19th Festa del Modernisme
This weekend we took part in the 19th annual Festa del Modernisme celebrating Catalan Art Nouveau at the Colònia Güell. On Saturday, 19 October and Sunday, 20 October, NASEVO and the Fundación Ernesto Ventós ran open-air workshops in which people could experience at...
The Foundation’s first workshops at SWAB Barcelona
This week the Fundación Ernesto Ventós had the pleasure of taking part in the SWAB Kids space at the popular SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, where we ran a series of olfactory workshops for girls and boys and their families. Over the previous weeks we devoted a great...