Architecture is in continuous adaptation to adjust to the context in which it operates, to respond and face the challenges of the present and the future with a global perspective. In this line and based on the research of Architectural Logics for Emergent Contexts (ALEC), one of the research lines of La Salle Campus Barcelona, the campus has hosted Cultural Praxis for Transmedia Architecture, a seminar to give voice to cultural agents architecture, researchers, professors and curators of international impact.
Focusing on the cultural dimension of architecture, the conference has been an opportunity to open a dialogue on how architecture, understood in its broadest sense, can contribute to the configuration of spaces that reflect, question and communicate cultural, social and political values. of our time.
The conferences and round tables have revolved around topics such as climate change, the economy, politics, demography, culture or social drives, since they are issues that impact architecture, which becomes a means to read social, political and environmental dimensions of society. The conference featured prestigious speakers such as ETSALS teachers and researchers Josep Ferrando, Jordi Mansilla, Ricardo Devesa and Marta Bugés; the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Elvira Dyangani Ose; the coordinator of programs and awards of the Fundació mies van der Rohe, Ivan Blasi; or the architect and researcher Lydia Kallipoliti.
This seminar reinforces the idea that architecture is not an isolated area of knowledge, but rather something that mutates and evolves, that addresses changing and emerging contexts to seek a more just and sustainable society.
The campus participates in Architecture Weeks
The city of Barcelona celebrates, from May 14 to June 28, the Architecture Sets organized by Ajuntament de Barcelona and Fundació Mies van der Rohe, and La Salle Campus Barcelona, founding member of the Universitat Ramon Llull, participates through l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura i Edificació La Salle (ETSALS).
In addition to the Cultural Praxis for a Transmedia Architecture organized by ALEC, the campus has held RE-DWELL Conference: Sustainable living, affordable homes, a day of conferences with the objective of showing the work carried out by the community and relating both external participants of the academic, political and practical sphere. This conference, which included speakers such as Josep Ricart, from H Arquitectes, and José Toral, from Peris + Toral, has offered a debate space to discuss current questions and future visions on the social challenge of providing sustainable and affordable homes to Europe .
The activities of the La Salle School of Architecture are not limited and the campus is preparing lectures by Raj Isar, director of the educational program of the Aga Khan Foundation Trust for Culture, and Saif Ul Haque, award winner Aga Khan d'Architecture 2017-2019. The lectures are marked in the Cooperation Unit of the current semester.