Sessions 2 and 3 of the residency “Designing the city in an uncertain future”

Wednesday, 12 October 2022 , Palma

Sessions 2 and 3 of the residency “Designing the city in an uncertain future”

Sessions 2 and 3 of the residency “Designing the city in an uncertain future”

Making the most of the bank holiday, two sessions were organised on the same day, in order to keep the exchange of ideas between the Faberllull residents and the local collectives flowing. After breaking the ice in the first session, today was focused on drawing a timeline for the future, and posing questions such as how will the needs of Palma’s General Plan be updated while the future itself evolves, how to guarantee that the improvements put forward reach as much population as possible or how ideas which are not strong enough for the future will be dismissed.

The topics dealt with today have revolved around healthy habits, children and senior citizens, training, efficiency as a goal, the contrast and the cooperation options between public administration and citizens, and public spaces and dynamisation.

Each of the residents has presented one of their lines of work within the scope of city building, from several points of view:

  • Pia Fontana and Miguel Mayorga have spoken about a project they have developed in the Poblenou area in Barcelona, using school as a key element in the neighbourhood and the goal of making both local life and tourism compatible.
  • Arantxa Mendiharat has explained how city juries work and the role they have in promoting deliberative democracy; she has specifically discussed the assembly for climate in Mallorca.
  • Mireia Gascón has focused on environmental pollution and health, and has presented a set of indicators for healthy urban and transport planning, with sections such as street connectivity, housing density, motorized transport reduction and green and public open space, among others.
  • Pauline Fondevila has spoken about the need to have local references to approach a specific place; she has explained the concept “immobile journey” and has posed the question of how it would be to think a city which you don’t feel like going away from.
  • Jesús Alcaide has presented the work by the Plata collective, which starting from a project based on artistic residencies transformed the dynamics of a town in Córdoba; he has also presented the Agrícola project, in which eight artists worked together with experts from several fields in the science world.
  • Laia Sánchez has explained what laboratory cities and innovation ecosystems are; she has also stressed that both citizenship and territory can be agents in such innovation.
  • Javier Rodrigo has spoken about the Transductores collective and the work they do at the Arnau Theatre in Barcelona; he has also posed the question of whether we are capable of transitioning from the public/private pairing to a new one, public/community.

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