responsivecities.iaac.netResponsive Cities 2021

SYMPOSIUM BACKGROUND ABOUT VIDEOS PICTURES INFO VENUE ORGANISATION PARTNERS EDITIONS 2019 EDITION 2017 EDITION 2016 EDITION SPEAKERS SPEAKERS DEBATE ON DESIGN AGENDA PROCEEDINGS PROGRAM SOON AVAILABLE PAPERS CONTEST EXHIBITION Go to Responsive Cities 2019 Go to Responsive Cities 2017 Go to Responsive Cities 2016 Background Responsive Cities is a bi-annual international symposium on the future of cities organized by the Advanced Architecture Group of IAAC . The 2021 edition focuses onDesign with Nature ” and takes place within the framework of the Building Urban Intelligent Living Design Solutions (BUILDs) project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - IAAC- (Spain), Université de Lorraine -UL- (France), Vienna University of Economics and Business -WU- (Austria), Ersilia Foundation (Spain), ECONICK (France), Plant-e (Netherlands), City Facilitators -CF- (Denmark), and GreenTech Challenge -GTC- (Denmark). The project aims to develop new transdisciplinary educational models in the fields of Biology, Design, and Business. For more information visit BUILDs Project About Despite cities having strengthened their economy, efficiency, and liveability over the last decades, they are still facing major issues such as pollution, rising inequities, and unemployment. These already harmful conditions are furthermore aggravated by catastrophic events such as the current pandemic. New planning paradigms that recognize the importance of ecology to respond to these challenges are being developed, by integrating living systems in urban environments aimed at improving cities’ socio-economic and environmental conditions. Living systems integrated in cities are also known as Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), defined as living solutions inspired by, continuously supported by, and using nature, which are designed to address various societal challenges in a resource efficient and adaptable manner and to provide simultaneously economic, social, and environmental benefits’’ (European Commission, 2015). NBS can help address several challenges through the provision of multiple ecosystem services such as life support (soil formation and oxygen production); procurement (production of food, drinking water, raw materials or fuel); regulation (climate control and tidal waves, water purification, pollination); and cultural values, including the aesthetic, educational, and recreational values. Design-optimized strategies can help reintegrate nature in cities by transforming urban spaces into liveable, productive, and biodiverse systems. Advances in digital technologies open new opportunities to facilitate the integration of NBS in the urban environment and to increase the number and the quality of the ecosystem services provided. For example, digital technologies, such as simulation tools, open the possibility to test in a virtual environment how the system performs, while digital fabrication allows for the production of non-standardized elements (like green facades, floor tiles, public space furnitures, etc) for a tailored integration of nature in cities. The convergence between biology and ecological sciences and information technology applied to landscape and urban design can create powerful synergies to address the current socio-economic-environmental challenges. The Responsive Cities Symposium_Design with Nature is organized around the following topics: DESIGN : bio-design | environmental feedback | collective intelligence BUILD : reintegrating nature | digital fabrication | new bio-inspired planning paradigms ADAPT : nature-based solutions | biotechnology | black ecologies PERFORM – living systems | increased liveability | ecosystem services SHARE: participatory design | novel virtual environments for co-design | symbiosis LEARN: new educational models | applied research | making Speakers Ramon Canal-Oliveras holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (U... More Ramon Canal-Oliveras Director of the Technical Cabinet for Programming the 2030 Agenda Elora Hardy is the Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU, where design begins with the principles o... More Elora Hardy Founder and Creative Director of IBUKU Daniel Christian Wahl works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative development... More Daniel Christian Wahl Author of Designing Regenerative Cultures // Founder & Director of Daniel Christian Wah - Sustainability Consultancy Innovation Education Ana Coello de Llobet studied architecture at the University of Navarra and at the ETSAB of the Polyt... More Ana Coello Founder of Ana Coello Paisaje y Arquitectura Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She was a guest researcher at Aarhus University ... More Feifei Zhou Artist and Architect // Co-editor of Feral Atlas: the More-Than-Human Anthropocene He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Mitchell upholds n... More Mitchell Joachim Associate Professor NYU // CoFounder Terreform ONE Belinda Tato is an architect, landscape and urban designer. She is the co-founder and co-director of... More Belinda Tato – Ecosistema Urbano Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University // Director - Ecosistema Urbano Chiara Farinea is currently Head of European Projects and Head of Building with Nature Based Solutio... More Chiara Farinea AAG Head of Building with Nature Based Solutions Research Skylar Tibbits is a designer and computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assemb... More Skylar Tibbits Founder and Co-director of Self Assembly Lab at MIT // Associate Professor of Design and Research at MIT Dr. Petra Gruber is an architect with a passion for biology and biomimetic design. She holds a PhD i... More Petra Gruber CEO transarch, office for transdisciplinary architecture // Senior Researcher, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria // Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Akron, USA Jonathan is a multidisciplinary architectural designer and maker, working between the built environm... More Jonathan Minchin Founder of E.I. Ecological Interaction and Green Fab Catalunya. Manager of ROMI : Robotics for Microfarms and OSBH Open Source Beehives Marcos Cruz is an Architect and Professor of Innovative Environments at the Bartlett, UCL. His main ... More Marcos Cruz Professor of Innovative Environments at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL // Co-Director Bio-ID Dr Brenda Parker is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the Department of Bio... More Brenda Parker Associate Professor in Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL // Co-Director Bio-ID DEBATE ON DESIGN WITH NATURE EDUCATION WITH Director of Fundació Mies van der Rohe. She studied architecture at ETSAB-UPC and TUDelft and holds... More Anna Ramos Director of Fundació Mies van der Rohe Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on t... More Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture // Head of CITA Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at th... More Claudia Pasquero Founder & Co-director of ecoLogicStudio // Professor of Landscape Architecture, Founder of Synthetic Landscape Lab & Head of Urban Design at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck // Director at the Urban Morphogensis Lab, BPRO, The Bartlett UCL Jose? Pedro Sousa is an Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Po... More José Pedro Sousa Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto // HLRT New European Bauhaus Martha Thorne is Dean of IE School of Architecture & Design in Spain and was the Executive Direc... More Martha Thorne Dean IE School of Architecture and Design, Spain Hon. FRIBA // Hon...