Final preparations are underway for the celebration of a new edition of the Barcelona Housing and Rehabilitation Forum (FHAR), which will consist of several presentations throughout Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th November, with the Palo Alto Barcelona venue chosen for the occasion.
Two days in which housing and urban planning experts will analyze and discuss three topics of great relevance and with strong social repercussions, such as the construction of industrialized public housing, renovation and housing emergency.
Below, you can consult the sessions that make up this year’s program:
Monday, November 28th
9:30h – 10:00h | Stategies to fight gentrification
Presents: Núria Moliner.
Speaker: Lucía Martín.
10:00h – 11:30h | Wood industrialised public housing
Presents: Daniel López (Architect with the IMHAB).
Speakers: Josep M. Fabregat (Fabregat & Fabregat Arquitectes), Maria Assís (COMA Arquitectura), Daniel Ibáñez (Founding architect of Urbanitree and Director of the IAAC) and Isabel Pérez (Vivas Arquitectos).
12:00h – 13:00h | Modular industrialised public housing and APROP
Presents: Cecília Colomer (Architect with the IMHAB).
Speakers: Marc Obradó (Exe Arquitectura), Yaiza Terré (Yaiza Terré Arquitectura), Irene Subils (Architect, Area of Social Rights, Global Justice, Feminism and LGBTI) and Lluís Roig (Tribuna Arquitectura).
13:00h – 14:00h | Industrialisation for better refurbishment
Speakers: Anna Ramos (Director of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation) and Christophe Hutin (Architect for the project to refurbish Grand Parc Bordeaux with Lacaton & Vassal and Frédéric Druot).
16:30h – 17:00h | Rent in Europe, regulations to fight speculation
Speaker: Andrei Quintiá (Post-doc research in the Faculty of Law at the University of Groningen).
17:00h – 19:00h | Scotland, Berlín and Barcelona, strategies to fight gentrification
Presents: Carme Arcarazo (Barcelona Tenants’ Union).
Speakers: Megan Bishop (National Secretary, Living Rent (Scotland’s Tenants’ Union), Katalin Gennburg (Member of the Berlin State Parliament for Die Linke) and Lucía Martín (Barcelona City Councillor for Housing and Refurbishment).
Tuesday, November 29th
9:30h – 11:00h | Refurbishing according to social and environmental criteria
Presents: Núria Moliner.
Speakers: Anaïs Bas (Partner at Cíclica [space · community · ecology]), Albert Sagrera (President of Batec and environmental advisor architect partner at Societat Orgànica), Celia Galera (Founder and director of the Habitat Futura Group) and Isabella Longo (Project Director, BIT Habitat, Barcelona City Council Urban Innovation Centre).
11:30h – 13:00h | Next Generation funds: limits and possibilities
Presents: Irene Escorihuela (Director of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Observatory).
Speakers: Carme Trilla (President of the Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (O-HB) and President of Habitat3 Foundation), Javier Burón (Barcelona City Manager for Housing), Elsa Ibar (Director of the programme for Next Generation funds, Government of Catalonia) and David Guàrdia (Habicoop – Federation of Housing Co-operatives of Catalonia and Housing Department of the Solidarity Economy Network).
13:00h – 14:00h | Global perspective on housing policies
Presents: Vanesa Valiño (Chief of Staff, Barcelona City Councillor’s Office for Housing).
Speakers: Alejandro Aguilar (Secretary of Housing and Social Function, Valencian Community), Eva Tubío (Cadiz City Councillor for Housing) and Doris González (Executive Secretary for condominiums, Chilean Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning).
15:30h | Visits and workshops (prior registration required)
1. Inauguration of industrialized housing and cohousing exhibits
Meeting point: APROP Glòries (C. Irena Sendler, 22-24 with C. Badajoz).
2 Refurbishing public housing stock
Meeting point: C. Coll i Alertorn, 11, with C. Trueba, 27-29.
3 Housing discipline
Meeting point: Pilar Florensa events room (IMHAB), C. Aiguader, 24.
17:00h |Visits and workshops (prior registration required)
4 Young people and access to housing
Meeting point: Can Fabra, C. de Parellada, 9
5 Servic and guidance in evictions
Meeting point: Pilar Florensa events room (IMHAB), C. Aiguader, 24.
6 Refurbishing private housing stock
Meeting point: C. Pujades, 350 (Oficina de Rehabilitación Municipal).
The FHAR is organized by the Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation of Barcelona (IMHAB) and is part of the cycle of seminars and conferences promoted since 2016 to reflect on the future challenges of the sector.
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During the two days of the event, you can follow the event minute by minute through the official streaming, in the three available languages.