Lecture's IaaC

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 23rd of February

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 26th of January

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Wednesday the 7th of March

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Pierre Bélanger is Landscape Architect and Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His academic research and public work focus on the convergence of urbanism, landscape and ecology in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering. Bélanger is editor of the Landscape Infrastructures DVD (Canadian National Research Council, 2009) and his most recent publications include Regionalization (JOLA, 2010), Redefining Infrastructure (Ecological Urbanism, 2010), Landscape as Infrastructure (Landscape Journal, 2009). Bélanger is a government-appointed member of the Ontario Food Terminal Board and recipient of the Professional Prix de Rome awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 1st of March

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

ecoLogicStudio is an architectural and urban design studio co-founded in London by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. In the past few years the studio has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on ‘systemic’ design; ecoLogicStudio’s method is defined by the combination and integration of systemic thinking, bio and socio-logic research, parametric design and prototyping. Completed projects include a public library, private villas, large facades and eco-roofs; ecoLogic has developed prototypes and installations for the most important Architectural Biennales, including Venice in 2008 and 2010 [STEMv3.0 the lagoon experiment, The ecological Footprint grotto], Seville [STEMcloud], Istanbul [Fibrous room] and Milan Fuorisalone [Aqva Garden].

ecoLogic runs international Workshops and cultural activities like the Architectural Machines Symposium at the AA in 2009, the Fibrous Structures workshop, Prototyping the city in Turin, ICAMP in Messina, Tropic Playground in Linz, to name a few. The work of ecoLogicStudio has featured in many international architectural books and magazines; recently ecoLogic has started a publishing activity with booklets like the “Casa Lightwall”, the Cybergardens, and the AA INTER10 09/10 book titled “World Dubai Marine Life Incubators”.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Wednesday the 15th of February

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Usman Haque is the founder of Pachube.com, a real-time data infrastructure for the Internet of Things used by tens of thousands of people around the world (acquired by LogMeIn Inc in 2011). Trained as an architect, he has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and dozens of mass-participation initiatives. His skills include the design and engineering of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He received the 2008 Design of the Year Award

(interactive) from the Design Museum, UK, a 2009 World Technology Award (art), a Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Swiss Creation Prize, Belluard Bollwerk International, the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize and the Asia Digital Art Award Grand Prize.

Natalie Jeremijenko, named one of the most influential women in technology 2011 and one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review Natalie Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic (http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/), and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept and Environmental Studies program. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale University. Recently a visiting professor at Royal College of Art in London, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Public Understanding of Science at Michigan State University. Her degrees are in biochemistry, engineering, neuroscience and History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremijenko's work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2006,1997; the Cooper Hewit Design Triennial 2006-7; in 2010 solo

(touring) exhibition at the Neuberger Museum, Connected Environments, and X, 2010 at the UTS gallery, Australia. Other recent exhibitions:

Alter Nature: Z33; EXPOSED at TATE Modern; Certified Copy, Verbeke Foundation; (Re)designing Nature, Kuenstlerhaus, Mortality, ACCA..

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Wednesday the 18th of January

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 13th of February

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

John Palmesino / Territorial Agency

John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He is Research Advisor at the Design Department of the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He is researching for his PhD at the Research Architecture Centre at Goldsmiths, where he also teaches. He has previously been Head of Research at ETH Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute and has co-founded multiplicity, an international research network. Main works include MUTATIONS, USE uncertain States of Europe, Solid Sea. multiplicity’s works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the KW Berlin, at the Triennale di Milano and at documenta11. 

Territorial Agency, founded by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, is an independent organisation that combines architecture, analysis, advocacy and action for integrated spatial transformation of contemporary territories. Together they run Diploma Unit 4 at the Architectural Association in London investigating The Coast of Europe.

Territorial Agency investigates our urbanised world undergoing profound transformations in the organisation of our polities and their spaces of operation. Territorial Agency addresses these changes and the innovative modalities of organising and managing the relation between polity and space, and architecture and urbanism as the agencies of that relation. 

Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen the capacity of local and international communities in comprehensive spatial transformation management. Territorial Agency works for the establishment of instruments and methods for ensuring higher architectural and urban quality in the contemporary territories. Territorial Agency's projects channel available spatial resources towards the development of their full potential. Territorial Agency has designed the first integrated vision for the Markermeer, in the Netherlands. The project proposes innovative methods to reinvigorate the water, nature and urban dynamics of the Markermeer region. www.territorialagency.com

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 6th of February

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Title: "Pattern formation and emergence: from nature to society".

Philip Ball is a freelance writer. He previously worked for over 20 years as an editor for the international science journal Nature. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media, and has authored many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture, including The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature, H₂O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth, Universe of Stone, The Music Instinct, and his latest book Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 12th of january

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Pier Giorgio Oliveti is the director of the CITTASLOW INTERNATIONAL.