The Aulabierta work model is composed as a resistance which emerges from inside the very university, in other words, from inside an institution and the limits of its discourses.

The Aulabierta Association - was formed through debate and working meetings amongst a shifting group of students of Fine Arts, Architecture and other disciplines that have taken place since November of 2004, in which students insisted on the need to acquire a physical and psychological space for work and urban reflection through the use of various tools. They need to construct a different space, or better said a heterotopia as defined by Foucault (1967).
This heterotopia is constructed in relation to a space crossed by networks, a space in transit, where the everyday is altered leading to a multiple juxtaposition of places which include external elements and relations. This is a differential space, an interstice, which acts in relation to unconventional norms and where relations of power start circulating in unusual ways. In other words, they subvert each other momentarily, and so lead to uncontrollable or invisible spaces in relation to dominant discourses.

So Aulabierta emerged from a contextual relation in a discursive system characterised generally by a traditional and technocratic pedagogy (in other words, the teaching practice found in Fine Art and Architecture departments which is mostly stuck in eighteenth century disciplinary discourses), to attempt to break with its routines and work forms. As a counter-reaction, the students, with the support of the faculty vice deacon of students, decided to set themselves in motion and announce an alternative way of working was possible.

In this Situation, an architect (Santiago Cirugeda) and the students collaborate to take apart a building owned by the Granada City Council before it can be demolished. They accomplish this after convincing the City Council to give up the real estate, the developer who was going to undertake work on the land to allow them to work there, an insurance agent to trust the students with insurance and control of the proposed work, and the University of Granada to enhance this cultural and social experience by allowing a creative and demanding group of young people to manage some unused and left over resources. This act of disassembly-assembly makes clear the tremendous social commitment that unites its participants and leads them to collectively figure out how to introduce and construct the new space, which was evaluated in the course "From the insurance of civil responsibility to the self-threading screw."