Cultural Praxis for a Transmedia Architecture

Architecture serves as a means to read the social, political, and environmental dimensions of society. In the context of research by the Architectural Logics for Emergent Contexts (ALEC) research group, a seminar is being organized to give voice to agents of architectural culture, researchers, professors, and internationally recognized curators. The event aims to open a dialogue on how architecture, understood in its broadest sense, can contribute to shaping spaces that reflect, question, and communicate the cultural, social, and political values of our time.

Architecture is in continuous adaptation to fit the context in which it operates, to respond to and address the challenges of the present and the future with a global perspective. Climate change, the economy, politics, demography, culture, or social trends impact architecture, which becomes a means to read the social, political, and environmental dimensions of society.

This discipline is not an isolated area of knowledge, but something that mutates and evolves, addressing changing and emerging contexts to seek a fairer and more sustainable society.

In this line and in the context of the research of the Architectural Logics for Emergent Contexts (ALEC), the La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University campus hosts a seminar that will give voice to agents of architectural culture, researchers, professors, and internationally recognized curators. Focusing on the cultural dimension of architecture, the event aims to open a dialogue on how architecture, understood in its broadest sense, can contribute to shaping spaces that reflect, question, and communicate the cultural, social, and political values of our time.

The event is part of the Architecture Weeks of the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and can be followed online.

Program 09:00 – Welcome Rosa Mª Alsina, Director of Research and Innovation at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University Josep Ferrando, Director of the School of Architecture and Building La Salle (ETSALS)

09:30 | Context
Moderator: Marta Bugés, Professor and Researcher at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University.
A Committed Rewarding Culture Ivan Blasi, Programs and Awards Coordinator at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Notes for a Possible Museum Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

11:05 | Coffee Break

11:20 | Research at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University
Moderator: Marta Bugés, Professor and Researcher at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University Bachelor Fab Unit: Komorebi: Ephemeral Intervention at Llum BCN
Teachers: Manel Parés and Joan Vera
Students: Marc Alastrué, Pau Butiña, Josep Maria Font, Ona Niubó, and Albert Vicente
Master MIAD – Architecture agonism
Teacher: Cristina Goberna
Students: Enzo Bleandres, Jiro Coronado, Mariel Gamalinda, Mohammad Mohammadpour, and Alejandro Rico
PhD ALEC – Cultural and Human-Environment Research
Ricardo Devesa, Professor and Researcher at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University

12:40 – 13:15 | Debate and conclusions of the morning sessions
13:20 – 14:50 | Break

15:00 | Practice
Moderator: Ricardo Devesa, Professor and Researcher at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University 2026 UIA World Congress of Architects Barcelona – Becoming, Architectures for a Planet in Transition
Curators: Pau Bajet, Mariona Benedito, Maria Giramé, Tomeu Ramis, Pau Sarquella, Carmen Torres, and José Zabala
Lecture by Lyda Kallipoliti – Our Dirty Footprint Lyda Kallipoliti, Dipl. Architect-Engineer, SMArchS MIT, PhD Princeton University, Associate Professor at The Cooper Union New York. Principal of ANAcycle research thinktank. Head Co-Curator at Tallinn Architecture Biennale [TAB 2022].

15:40 – 17:25 | Debate and conclusions of the afternoon sessions

17:25 | Closing Jordi Mansilla, Professor and Researcher at La Salle Barcelona – Ramon Llull University