Open Program 2024
Theme 2024 SHARING
Sharing is a concept of generosity, solidarity, empathy, and respect. It implies breaking with selfishness and recognising the value of others. It is a way of living and relating to others, based on giving and receiving, to enrich oneself and contribute to the common good.
This notion gives rise to shared creativity, which refers to relational processes in all senses. Integrating different fields of knowledge makes it possible to tackle complex problems from an interdisciplinary perspective with a holistic vision of the whole creative process. Projects result from a creative dialogue in the jazz style, in which “Me” is exchanged for “Us”.
Teamwork can generate innovative and valuable solutions involving participation, exchange of ideas, cooperation, and mutual learning among group members.
Sharing makes it possible to take advantage of the strengths, knowledge, and experiences of each team member; encourages critical thinking, flexibility, originality, and divergence; stimulates motivation, commitment, trust, and personal and group satisfaction; facilitates adaptation to change, conflict resolution and continuous improvement, and generates projects, products or services of higher quality, competitiveness, and social relevance.
Lecture Series RCR TALKS
The series of four lectures are given by Bleda and Rosa, who will discover the existing link between image, place and memory that they have explored together, and by Carles Oliver Barceló, LaCol arquitectura cooperativa and Lacaton Vassal, who will talk about collaborative architecture.
FOREST MATTER VI
Materia Bosc is a selection of video creations that celebrate the poetic power of trees. Its 6th edition presents four short video dances and video artworks that, as in previous editions, accompany the Open Program conferences. It is a LABEA – Laboratorio de arte, ciencia y naturaleza project, carried out in collaboration with the Bunka Foundation / RCR Arquitectes and curated by Isabel Ferreira.
Isabel Ferreira is a curator and cultural manager. She is currently the artistic director of LABEA and Arbola, the festival that celebrates the culture of trees. She has a degree in Art History and a master’s degree in Visual Culture and is a university expert in Culture and Territory—more information on their website.
Video-creation Series FOREST MATTER VI
In the 6th edition, Forest Matter presents four short video dances and video artworks that, as in previous editions, accompany the Open Program 2024 conferences.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 · Forest Matter VI · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024 · Lecture · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
PHOTOGRAPHY · Title · María Bleda i José María Rosa · Bleda y Rosa
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María Bleda (Castelló, Spain, 1969) and José María Rosa (Albacete, Spain, 1970) have been working together for three decades, exploring, through rigorous and deep research, the existing link between image, place and memory Soccer Fields, Battlefields, Origin or Promptuary are some of the most relevant photographic series in his career. With them, they have developed their language, between the visual and the textual, which allows them to return again and again to one of their most important focuses of interest: the representation of the territory. In 2008, they were awarded the National Photography Award.
Thursday, July 4, 2024 · Forest Matter VI · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
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Thursday, July 4, 2024 · Lecture · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
ARCHITECTURE · The Collective Search for a New Productive Model · Carles Oliver Barceló
The hna FOUNDATION supports this conference and is a beneficiary of the CONECTA by hna program.
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Carles Biel Oliver Barceló (Felanitx, Balearic Islands, Spain, 1979) is an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB – UPC) and a master of works by professional necessity. During his studies, he received scholarships to study at UC Los Angeles, TU Delft and the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM). From 2007 to 2009, he shared a studio with Francisco Cifuentes, from whom he learned to project from construction. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), where he directed the climate change adaptation project ‘Life Reusing Posidonia’ in Formentera, which received the LIFE 2021 award for the best project of the environment from the European Commission. From 2019 to 2023, he was responsible for the Technical Department of the IBAVI. He has been co-author of other pilot housing projects such as the 5, 8 and 19 public protection housing (HPP) in Palma, or 6 HPP in Santa Eugènia, of the UAC2 eco-neighbourhood, and rehabilitation works such as Sant Miquel 19, or Can Lliro. The projects developed both at a private level and as part of the IBAVI team have received some awards that facilitate raising credibility. This work has been widely published and exhibited.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 · Forest Matter VI · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024 · Lecture · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
ARCHITECTURE · Title · Lacol
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Lacol is a cooperative of architects established in 2009 in the Sants neighbourhood of Barcelona. We work to generate community infrastructures for the sustainability of life, as a critical tool for eco-social transition, through architecture, cooperativism and participation.
We believe that the way to transform the city is through the active participation of the people who inhabit it and through proactive action. We work on the interests related to the quality of life of everyone who shares the city. The architect’s contribution is made within the urban movement as one more piece of this gear, helping to translate citizens’ concerns and, on paper, providing criteria for the definition of objectives and strategies, as well as tools to define and communicate ideas through graphic drawing…
We encourage, among others, debate and discussion on the uses of spaces and the management of urban areas, city models, participation and the recovery of heritage.
Thursday, July 11, 2024 · Forest Matter VI · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
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Thursday, July 11, 2024 · Lecture · Pati de l'Hospici · Olot · 19h
ARCHITECTURE · Title · Anne Lacaton i Jean-Philippe Vassal · Lacaton & Vassal
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Anne Lacaton (Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, France, 1955) graduated from the Bordeaux School of Architecture in 1980. Graduated in Urban Planning from the University of Bordeaux in 1984. Professor at ETH Zurich since 2017 Guest professor at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM), Master in Housing since 2007; at EPFL Lausanne, in 2004, 2006, 2010-11 and 2017; at the University of Florida: Ivan Smith Studio in 2012; at the University of NY-Buffalo: Clarkson Chair in 2013; at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2013 and 2014; at Harvard GSD: Kenzo Tange 2011 & Design Critic 2015; at the University of Sassari in Alghero in 2014 and 2015; at TU Delft, semesters 2016-17.
Jean-Philippe Vassal (Casablanca, Morocco, 1954) graduated from the Bordeaux School of Architecture in 1980. He worked as an urban planner in Niger (West Africa) from 1980 to 1985. Professor at the UDK in Berlin since 2012. Visiting professor at TU Berlin from 2007 to 2011; at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf in 2005; at EPFL Lausanne from 2010 to 2011; at Pavillon Neuflize OBC-Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2013 and 2014; at the University of Sassari in Alghero in 2014 and 2015.
Their practice, Lacaton & Vassal, has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021, the Lifetime Achievement Award, Lisbon Triennial 2016; and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, European Union Contemporary Architecture Award (2019) together with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture for the transformation of 530 Housing in the Grand Parc, Bordeaux.
