For two weeks in December, our students were immersed in our yearly workshop with a local partner on local issues, this time collaborating with Barcelona City Council’s Ciutat Refugi program…
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From its 19th century grid expansion devised by the Catalan engineer that coined the term ‘urbanization’, to the urban renewal projects led by Manuel de Solà-Morales and Oriol Bohigas during…
The Designing Resilience in Asia 2015 exhibition opens tonight in the Picasso Room of COAC in Barcelona to showcase the results of the DRIA International Design Competition, which highlights the…
Poverty is widely perceived as an ailment of the developing world, but its reach extends to rich countries where the recent recession has only exacerbated the problem. The need for…
This week marks the beginning of our annual socio-spatial workshop in which our students undertake a hands-on, real-world project with a local neighborhood in Barcelona in assessing its social and…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bellvitge, a working class peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona that became one of the largest residential complexes in Europe when it was constructed in…
An exhibition titled The Most Important Thing, Portraits of an Escape, at Caixa Forum in Barcelona, highlights the plight of refugees through a series of portraits by American photojournalist Brian…
TV Interview with Isabelle Anguelovski on environmental justice for the development of neighborhoods
Environmental justice, as studied in a variety of disciplines, is most often associated with addressing a certain population’s disproportionate exposure to pollution, contamination, and toxic sites. But environmental justice is…
From 4 July to 31 August, the Palau Robert (Barcelona) presents an exhibition of craft and design items from the region of Tohoku in the north-east of Japan, which was…
The photobook “Landscapes of pressure — Paisajes de presión” by Kathrin Golda-Pongratz opens up a new perspective onto the landscapes exposed to pressure by the Eurovegas project in Spain, showing…