IAAC GLOBAL SCHOOL

Presentación del jury final de curso del IAAC (Instituto de arquitectura avanzada de Catalunya)  Global School.

The final presentation for the IAAC Global School was the closing event of a research project with a promising road map in the future. Smart Cities is a concept that has been developed during the last years, but still our cities are far away from smartness, in terms of how they exchange information beyond the social networks. The IGS points out the question how we can think about the cities of the future, not in terms on a new brutalism construction, but in how we optimized the constructed environment, how we can take advantage of that invisible layer of information, and how we generate a platform to understand the relations of energy, environment, production, economy and resources into the city.

 

 

The IAAC Global Summer School for the 2011 academic year will continue to investigate multiscalar strategies for the (re) construction of our inhabiting environments (home, city, planet). The last few years of technological, social, political, economic and cultural changes (at both the global and the local scale) demand that we rethink what kind of habitat humanity will live in in the coming decades, given that space in all its aspects (landscapes, cities, places, buildings and bodies) is undergoing dramatic transformations. The growing interest in managing climate change, in embracing of the green agenda in urban development, in the development of techniques for local energy generation, in the incorporation of information technology into the physical space and other relevant situations, call for a new vision of the evolution of the city and architecture. This opens up a wide range of possibilities for the development of projects and initiatives that will help transform habitable spaces in keeping with the new requirements of both global and local users.

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