BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:807@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T173000 DTSTAMP:20260903T202850Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/colloquium-why-design-matters-in-favo r-of-urban-public-space/ SUMMARY:Colloquium: Why Design Matters DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP here.\nThis in-person colloquium is part of the exh ibition and event series celebrating 25 years of the CCCB (Centre de Cultu ra Contemporània de Barcelona) European Prize for Urban Public Space\, "D esign Matters: In Favor of Urban Public Space".\nHow can design respond to urgent challenges without reinforcing existing inequalities? What does it mean to design for resilience in a rapidly changing world? How can divers e voices shape the outcomes of design processes? What responsibilities do designers hold in shaping these futures? How might design move beyond prob lem-solving to become a tool for collective imagination and transformation ?\nIntroduction: Prof. Fabian Llonch\nModerator: Prof. Julio Salcedo-F ernandez\, Director\, Graduate Program in Urban Design\nPanelists (15-min ute presentations):\nMaria Buhigas\, Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council\nJosep Ricart\, Principal\, Harquitectes\nMimi Hoang\, Architect and Principal\, nARCHITECTS\, New York\n Panelists (left to right) Maria B uhigas\, Josep Ricart\, Mimi Hoang\n\nJulio Salcedo-Fernandez (he/him) is an architect\, urban designer\, and educator whose work bridges architectu re and urbanism across multiple scales. He is Director of the Master of Ur ban Planning and Urban Design (MUPUD) program at the City College of New Y ork's Spitzer School of Architecture\, where he teaches and leads interdis ciplinary design initiatives focused on the future of cities. Alongside hi s academic work\, he maintains an active design practice and has published and lectured on topics including urban resilience\, adaptive reuse\, and the relationship between infrastructure\, ecology\, and the built environm ent. He recently participated in New York City's Urban Resource Recovery W orking Group.\n\nSuggested Reading: Salcedo Fernandez\, Julio. 2026. "Hist oric Urban Manufacturing Territories as Metropolitan Metabolic Infrastruct ure: Balancing Circular Economy\, Environmental Justice\, and Healthy Citi es" Land 15\, no. 8: 1496.\n\nMaria Buhigas (she/her)\, Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council since 2023\, holds a degree in Architecture from ETSAB (UPC) and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia U niversity. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a member of the Board of Trust ees of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation (Fundació Catalunya Europa). Betwe en 1999 and 2013\, she was part of Barcelona Regional\, where she led the Urban Strategy Department from 2006 to 2013. She has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European agency ESPON (2017–2019) and served as a City Councillor at Barcelona City Council (2019–2020). F rom 2014 to 2023\, she ran her own practice\, working on both internationa l and local projects.\n\nJosep Ricart (he/him) is founding partner at Harq uitectes. HARQUITECTES is an architecture studio founded in 2000 by David Lorente\, Josep Ricart\, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó. They combine their pr ofessional activity with teaching\, in Polytechnic University of Catalonia Faculty of Architecture (ETSAV and ETSAB)\, Swiss Federal Institute of Te chnology Zurich\, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. They h ave been invited to Porto Academy\, Architectural Association School of ar chitecture\, Barlett school\, University of Texas at Austin\, Pontifical C atholic University of Chile\, École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin\, and Umeå School of Architecture\, among other institutions. They have receiv ed several national and international awards and their work has been widel y published and exhibited.\n\nSuggested Reading: Harquitectes. Textos y co nversaciones. Puente Editores.\n\nMimi Hoang\, FAIA\, NOMA (she/her)\, co- founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a belief in architecture as an ag ent of positive change that connects people and environments in unexpected ways. Her work across civic and private realms fosters engagement and is guided by an ambition to respond to changes in contemporary life – be it climate\, housing\, or affordability crises. Born in the tropics of Vietn am\, she brings a global outlook and an obsession with greening buildings to the firm’s ethos. Mimi received her M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her B.Sc. from M.I.T.  Architectural Record recently recognized her with a Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award. nARC HITECTS received a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonia n Design Museum and an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architectur e Award.\n\nSuggested Reading: Canales\, Fernanda. My House\, Your City: P rivacy in a Shared World. Barcelona: Puente Editores\, 2024.\n\nAll colloq uia are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitz er School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\, ASL int erpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cuny.edu. 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