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Benjamin Barber // Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:19:14 +0000

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Benjamin Barber as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series 2014. Before starting the Lecture itself, Barber was given a tour of the IaaC facilities by MAA Director Areti Markopoulou, having the opportunity to see and discuss some of the works developed in the Master in Advanced Architecture and the Open Thesis Fabrication programs.

In the audience Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council, Manuel Sanroma, President of the City Protocol Society, Joan Subirats, Full Professor of Sociology, as well as Antoni Munne and Montae Ingla, Arcadia editors were all present for the discussion that Barber proposed.

Barber discussed themes of city governance, starting with some brief historical notes, to then elaborate the potentials city governance and the city itself has in future of democracy with respect to the older Nation state models. Cities and their leaders are now taking decisions that were once reserved to the nation states relative to climate change, immigration, and much more. Cities, with their multicultural connotation, are, in contraposition to the States an their monocultural connotation, in a position to face these imposing problems, together, in a sort of global democracy. The aggregate force of cities has the potential to have a powerful and direct effect on the market place, and not only. Cities, and their citizens, need to be heard, they need to have a larger voice.

Martes 22 de abril: Benjamin Barber – Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:30:18 +0000

IaaC Primavera Cátedra 2014 // Programa

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:29:29 +0000

IAAC is proud to announce the Spring Lecture Series 2014:

22nd April 2014

BENJAMIN BARBER

Political theorist

Author of “If Mayors Ruled the World” – New York

25th April 2014

EVA FRANCH

Architect

Director of Storefront for Art

and Architecture – New York

29th April 2014

PHILIPPE RAHM

Architect

Principal in Philippe Rahm architects – Paris

8th MAY 2014

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

Architect

Principal in Urban-Think Tank

Professor at ETH – Zürich

13th May 2014

MAURIZIO CARTA

Architect and Urbanist

Professor at the Università degli Studi – Palermo

15th May 2014

ECOSISTEMA URBANO

Group of Architects

and Urban Designers – Madrid

22nd May 2014

EUROPEAN ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Tangibility and Sense of Presence through Physical Interaction – Visual and Sound Performances

of Haptic Interfaces, Super Collider and Max MSP

29th May 2014

JOHN PALMESINO

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in Territorial Agency – London

26th June 2014

WINY MAAS

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in MVRDV – Rotterdam

Events supported by Moritz, Barcelona