Living Exhibition Barcelona 2024
Contribution by IAAC Team
On November 25th, 2025, the official opening of the Living Exhibition is taking place in Barcelona at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia within the framework of Responsive Cities. The Urban Shift Living Exhibition closed the first day of the symposium, bringing international guests, speakers and participants. Join us to see the prototypes developed by the students.
About Responsive Cities
The 2025 edition focuses on “Design Matter(s) for Decarbonization” and takes place within the framework of the Circular Design (CiD) project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC- (Spain), Leibniz University Hannover LUH (Germany), University of Genoa (Italy), Tallinn Business Incubators (Estonia), Association ARCES Palermo (Italy), Ersilia Foundation (Spain), Architekturos Fondas (Lithuania), Materiom Ltd. (UK), National Research Council CNR (Italy), Architects’ Council of Europe ACE (Belgium), Association for Local Democracy ALDA (France), Associated Partner: Ellen MacArthur Foundation (Global network).
A Reflection of the Exhibition
The official opening of the exhibition took place after the Responsive Cities Symposium, bringing together an international crowd of professionals and students. The opening including presentations by Fiona Demeur about Urban Shift, Chiara Farinea on Nature-based Solutions and Areti Markopoulou on Circular Matter(s). Live music was played and vistors enjoyed the possibilities to network with each other. The Living Wall was designed to collect inputs by the vistors. This will be incorporated into the Living Book that has been travelling across Europe.
The vistors were very impressed by the Urban Shift prototypes and there was a lot of curiosity about the Urban Shift programme and how this was implemented in IAAC.
The one day workshop and creative brainstorming where held in the framework of Semanas d’arquitectura, bring participants from across the city of Barcelona.
