Responsive Cities Symposium 2025
- Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- 09:00 — 19:00
- Dhub, Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38
- $ free
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Responsive Cities is a biennial international symposium on the future of cities organized by the Advanced Architecture Group of IAAC and hosted by Disseny Hub Barcelona.
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.
In an era where anthropogenic materials surpass the weight of all life on Earth, and the construction sector stands as a major driver of ecological disruption, rethinking material practices, coupled with advancements in digital technologies, presents a paradigm-shifting opportunity to address the extractive, consumptive, and contaminating logic and processes of the built environment.
Responsive Cities 2025 aims to shift the conversation on resource depletion by focusing on abundance rather than scarcity, advocating for material-driven innovations in architecture and urban design that challenge traditional material practice and advance decarbonization goals. Adopting an abundance mindset is a new paradigm relevant to design and construction practices, expanding the definition of “resources” and exploring where both raw and non-raw materials can be sourced and “mined” to offset carbon emissions.