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The CCCB wants to teach children to look at screens differently
In a city where screens are part of daily life from ever younger ages, the CCCB wants to change how children and families engage with images. The centre is promoting new film and cultural mediation projects designed to ensure that children not only consume content, but also learn to interpret it and view it critically.
The initiative is led by Glòria Vilches, a film specialist and cultural programmer associated with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Her work aims to bring contemporary culture closer to children without simplifying or infantilising it, based on the idea that children are capable of developing a much more active and conscious relationship with audiovisual media.
The CCCB is committed to making cinema a shared experience, not just quick entertainment tied to mobiles or platforms. Workshops, screenings, and discussion spaces invite families and schools to experience cinema from a different perspective—slower, more collective, and connected to questions about emotions, creativity, or critical thinking.
The proposal comes at a time when many families are trying to find a balance between digital leisure, education, and overexposure to screens. Barcelona, like other major cities, is increasingly engaged in debates about the impact of audiovisual consumption on childhood and how to support children and teenagers in an environment saturated with constant images.
The CCCB specifically wants to occupy this space from the perspective of contemporary culture. Instead of demonising screens, the idea is to teach people to live with them in a more conscious and creative way, using cinema as a tool to interpret the world rather than just as passive consumption.
The programme also reinforces the role of the CCCB as one of Barcelona's major cultural spaces, able to connect art, education, and urban life. The centre has spent years exploring how contemporary culture affects the city's daily life and how it can reach audiences who have traditionally been excluded from certain cultural circuits.
In a Barcelona where new generations grow up surrounded by digital stimuli from childhood, projects like this reflect an increasingly visible concern: teaching people to look before simply consuming. Cinema thus appears not only as cultural leisure, but as a tool to better understand the visual environment that defines the everyday life of an entire generation.