Conference Agenda

Guided tour of the Sagrada Familia Workshops, to get an explanation of how the work in the famous basilic is being done and how it has evolved over the years. The workshop spaces are very reduced, so the group will be divided in two and take turns visiting the workshops and museum.

Meeting point: at the Sagrada Familia Basilic, at the metro station exit at the corner of the streets Provença and de la Marina, at 11:50.

Visit sagradafamilia.org

After the workshops and before other networking and mingling activities, we will be delighted to show you around our facilities. We will do 3 or 4 groups starting every 20 minutes approx, depending on the number of participants that arrive.

Meeting point: By the reception desk at Elisava, La Rambla 30-32, access Joaquim Xirau square.

Temes de Disseny #39 – Emerging Habitats: Design as a Worldmaking Agent Elisava Research invites you to the presentation of the latest issue of Temes de Disseny, that explores emerging habitats and design as a worldmaking agent across a variety of scales, settings and disciplines. Can design leverage its worldmaking potential, using its symbolic and operative apparatuses to proliferate various versions of the world? Can design maintain and even multiply plural worlds in the face of global homogenisation? Contributing authors manifest these fundamental and intertwined questions through a rich and diverse set of contributions compiled from radical design practices, applied research, case studies, practice-based reflections, and pictorials that are far-reaching in their intersectionality and forward orientation.

The event will be presented by the Guest Editors of this issue, Roger Paez and Mariana Amatullo, together with the Editors-in-Chief and the Managing Editor of the journal.

There will also be a brief introduction of the Call for Authors for #40, about the ethical, theoretical and practical perspectives comprising the role of the designer in the 21st Century.

Meeting point: Alex Carrio Auditorium, Elisava, La Rambla 30-32, access Joaquim Xirau square.

For those of you that join us on the 6th we will have pre-conference drinks and mingle on the Elisava terrace.

Meeting point: Terrace on the 1st Floor, Elisava, La Rambla 30-32, access Joaquim Xirau square.

Clara works with strategic material and innovation development. Aiming for systemic change through circularity and for more sustainable options. Clara was part of the core group for the Better Cotton Initiative in its initial and consolidation stages. At IKEA she also led the agenda for material and innovation development for textiles. In Elisava she takes part in the DTNM (Design Through New Materials) Master. She has lectured at ETP Textiles in Brussels, at DAE in Eindhoven, at the Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden and at MA-DE in Barcelona.

She is a member of the council of the Urban Innovation Platform for Barcelona, BitHabitat, and of Hemp the Climate, an organization that supports the development of hemp as a climate positive industrial material re/source. As a consultant and advisor on strategic material and innovation development, Clara is helping companies shift towards more sustainable models. She wants to see positive change happen. To that end, she engages in different initiatives across various sectors. Whilst she keeps researching materials and innovations in connection to sustainability. 

The restaurant is called Peix Vela, and it is the "beach restaurant" under the Wela hotel. This is the exact location: https://goo.gl/maps/22UPDf3eNUPCUNP39

It is a 30 minute walk from Elisava, that we will make some groups to go directly from Elisava... but in case people go freshen up first and choose to take a cab, they would probably be taken to the reception of the Wela Hotel, but they have to go around and to the beach front to find the restaurant.

The restaurant is called Peix Vela, and it is the "beach restaurant" under the Wela hotel. This is the exact location: https://goo.gl/maps/22UPDf3eNUPCUNP39

It is a30 minute walk from Elisava, that we will make some groups to go directly from Elisava... but in case people go freshen up first and choose to take a cab, they would probably be taken to the reception of the Wela Hotel, but they have to go around and to the beach front to find the restaurant.

https://thackara.com/

John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. For more than thirty years he has travelled the world in search of stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realise a sustainable future. He writes about these stories online, and in books; he uses them in talks for cities, and business; he also organizes festivals and events that bring the subjects of these stories together.

John is the author of a widely-read blog and of How To Thrive In The Next Economy. His previous books (among twelve in total) were Wouldn’t It be Great If... and In the Bubble: Designing In A Complex World (MIT Press).

John curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years – first in Amsterdam, later across India – and was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott07 and the French design biennial City Eco Lab. Since then, with a focus on social, ecological and relational design, Thackara has curated place-based xskool workshops in 20 countries and has lectured in more than forty.

From 1989-1992 John was Director of Research at the Royal College of Art. He was the first director (1993—99) of the Netherlands Design Institute.

Currently, John Thackara is visiting professor at Tongji University with a focus on urban-rural reconnection; a senior fellow at the Royal College of Art; a Fellow of Musashino Art University in Japan; and visiting professor at Milan Polytechnic University.

Focused on the area of the Pompeu Fabra University Ciutadella Campus, this visit guided by the Elisava Design for City Making research group explores different forms of spatial transformations which involve architecture and design, based on concepts of permanent and temporary interventions where heritage, spatial values and users play important roles. The visit will focus on three projects in a single block: at the UPF library (Clotet-Paricio), an adaptive reuse of a heritage building; the UPF classrooms (F451 arquitectura), a long-lived temporary building; and the RAW project (Elisava DxCM), an ephemeral intervention in a school playground.

Meeting point: corner of the streets Ramón Turró and Ramón Trias Fargas at 10:00

Interpreting and adapting the ideas of the local Agency of Urban Ecology, in recent years Barcelona's municipal administration carried out several urban interventions like the Superblocks, the Green Axes, and the generation of new Urban Glorias Park, aimed at mitigating the effects of climatic change on urban environment, reducing traffic, and testing a post-oil urban model based on different uses of the public space not only connected to traditional mobility. The visit will focus on area around the Sant Antoni Market and Consell de Cent street, in the Barcelona's Eixample.

Meeting point: corner of the streets Ronda de Sant Antoni and Comte d'Urgell at 10:00