Collective residencies / Olot
URBAN PLANNING
From Wednesday, 10 January 2018 to Wednesday, 31 January 2018
![URBAN PLANNING URBAN PLANNING](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/img-urbanisme.jpg)
Less than 100k. Urbanism and the future of towns and medium-sized cities
The city, as a way to organize the complexity of humanity, will be one of the highlights of the 21st century. It will be like this, same as it was during the 20th century, because it is one of the centers where the story of the humankind and what affects it is created. The city will have an important role in politics, culture, family, work and every field which defines a human being.
The city is a hub of discourse and forms of power. Globalization, new information technologies, social networks, people’s mobility and many other concepts are changing the shape of the city and the perception we have. The results, however, are neither fixed photos nor universal categories. There are quite a few circumstances indicating that the definition of the city will also be a conceptual battlefield.
What is a city? Why do discourses always take into account global cities, megalopolis, but are not focused on towns and medium-sized cities? What should be the answer of these places to the challenges of the 21st century in a context of globalization? How can they make contributions to other cities and interact with cities in different and remote countries and cultures?
That is why we would like to talk about these challenges in Faber; we are aware that there is a need to reflect on them from the perspective of medium-sized cities and towns as well. The terms of the debate that has to be created will also affect cities and towns that have the responsibility to achieve a territorial balance with big capitals. The inclusive capacity of urbanism has to reach such cities and towns that urban planning itself, at times, does not place at the center of the discussion.
That is the reason why at Faber we want to organize a stay dedicated to urban planning of medium-sized cities and towns. We are looking for urban planners, architects, sociologists, artists, writers, economists, anthropologists, political scientists, artists and all kinds of professionals and we encourage them to present projects that follow the lines of work and thought described above.
Residents
![BRENDA PARKER BRENDA PARKER](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/brenda.jpg)
BRENDA PARKER
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy![MONICA DATTA MONICA DATTA](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/monica.jpg)
MONICA DATTA
Writer![MARIA SISTERNAS MARIA SISTERNAS](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/maria-sisternas.jpg)
MARIA SISTERNAS
Urban planner and writer![ALESSANDRA ROMEO ALESSANDRA ROMEO](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/alessandra-romeo.jpg)
ALESSANDRA ROMEO
Architect, Landscape Architect, Artist and Human Being![MO SIRRA MO SIRRA](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/mo-sirra.jpg)
MO SIRRA
Freelance practice-based researcher in art, design and curating![MAXWELL MUTANDA MAXWELL MUTANDA](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/maxwell-mutanda.jpg)
MAXWELL MUTANDA
Architect and Educator![ETIENNE ROUZIÈS ETIENNE ROUZIÈS](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/etienne.jpg)
ETIENNE ROUZIÈS
Writer, historian and librarian![CLARA NUBIOLA CLARA NUBIOLA](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/clara-nubiola-foto-31.jpg)
CLARA NUBIOLA
Artist and illustrator. Founding partner and project developer in Fundació el Milà![ARISTOFANIS SOULIKIAS ARISTOFANIS SOULIKIAS](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/aristofanis-soulikias.jpg)
ARISTOFANIS SOULIKIAS
Filmmaker-Architect![JESSICA WURWARG JESSICA WURWARG](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/jessica-wurwarg.jpg)
JESSICA WURWARG
Urban Planning and Policy Specialist![SOFIA ROYO SOFIA ROYO](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/sofia-royo.jpg)
SOFIA ROYO
Political scientist, PhD candidate and researcher![ANNE D. MCCULLOGH ANNE D. MCCULLOGH](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/anne-400x284.jpg)
ANNE D. MCCULLOGH
Urban Planner and Community Organizer![NEGIN ARMIOUN NEGIN ARMIOUN](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/negin.jpg)
NEGIN ARMIOUN
Architect and Researcher![ANGELINA DAVYDOVA ANGELINA DAVYDOVA](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/angelina.jpg)
ANGELINA DAVYDOVA
Environmental Journalist![GHADEER MANSOUR GHADEER MANSOUR](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/ghadeer.jpg)
GHADEER MANSOUR
Economist and Urbanist![Love Bank Park](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/img-3265.jpg)
Olot
Love Bank Park
Opinions
What residents are saying about us
![NEGIN ARMIOUN](https://docs.llull.cat/IMAGES_22/negin.jpg)
Architect and Researcher
NEGIN ARMIOUN
Beyond an experience Life is a unique opportunity, isn’t it? And I’m always seeking for new and different experiences to enrich my life! Specially those kinds of experiences which can widen my perspective. Faber seemed to be one of them ...
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Filmmaker-Architect
ARISTOFANIS SOULIKIAS
Impressions A residency on urbanism that encompasses its science but also its sociological dimension, as well as the arts, namely all the fields I am interested in, taking place in a beautiful region could not but be appealing to me. And, indeed, ...
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Urban Planning and Policy Specialist
JESSICA WURWARG
The Faber Residency on Urban Planning, a Delicious Adventure I arrived in Olot to be a Faber Urban Planning resident in an unusual arrangement, with a strong interest in food’s relationship to cities and my two and a half year old daughter in ...
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Economist and Urbanist
GHADEER MANSOUR
Tale of Olot If a city could tell its story, would it be of its people and culture, its industries and economy, its natural landscape and local resources, its buildings and infrastructure, or its history and politics? The urban planning Faber ...
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Environmental Journalist
ANGELINA DAVYDOVA
11 Days in January It took me four hours to come to Barcelona with a plane from St. Petersburg, another day to feel myself at home in Catalonia, 24 hours short of sleep and full of walks without looking at a map, sitting in street corner cafes observing ...
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Artist and illustrator. Founding partner and project developer in Fundació el Milà
CLARA NUBIOLA
Live all the streets of Olot From the Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya, to help form part of the group of people that last the month of generation, to be in the Faber Residence Hall. The theme was urbanism, I perceived the mental limit of ...
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