Yesterday, our MICSEA team arrived in Quito to develop their field trip in “La lucha de los pobres” neighborhood. They have been already working on the first Phase to bring…
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Farzana Gandhi is an Architect and Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology. Her architecture and planning practice, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio, focuses on sustainable and socially conscious…
This is an academic workshop organised as part of the Master’s Degree in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture at UIC Barcelona. The case studies include examples of the transformation of…
On August 4th, 2020, we witnessed the devastating blast in the port of Beirut. It was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history. Approximately 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate,…
As part of our Beirut Workshop, we were honoured to have Brett Moore join us online to explain the UNHCR’s formal humanitarian response to Beirut’s port explosion. Brett Moore is…
INITIAL PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT AT A NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE Following the Introductory Context Workshop held on February 18th and 19th, the UIC and project partners have now entered the design stage of…
During the next month, teachers and students from UIC, AUB, Chalmers and RMIT university will work together on the planning and design components of the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan in Bourj Hammoud after the August…
“Post-Covid Public Space Transformations” is the topic of our current socio-spatial workshop. Over the past years, our students worked with Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that handles the reception, accommodation…
On Friday March 6, our students presented their proposals for the Montjuïc area in Barcelona prepared during the two-week socio-spatial workshop Mapping Towards Connectivity. The jury included director Carmen Mendoza,…
Over the next two weeks, our students will participate in our local socio-spatial workshop. After working for the last two years with Barcelona’s Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that handles the reception,…