Designing Territorial Metabolism is now available at Jovis Verlag. The publication explores the notion of metabolism in relation to the discipline of urbanism. It synthesizes the result of the two years strategic partnership of LoUIsE Lab with the studio of Maria Chiara Tosi at IUAV Venice and the studio of Carles Crosas and Jorge Perea […]

Metropolitan e-studio on Vilvoorde will take place in Metrolab.brussels next 29th June. The projects focus on the transition of the former industrial areas of Vilvoorde, a medium-sized city located on the North of Brussels and along the canal. We have worked in collaboration with the Laboratorio d’Urbanism de Barcelona (LUB) of Escuela Tècnica Superior de […]

Final review of our Barcelona workshop in MUHBA museum. Students have achieve prepared great presentation in two days worksession. Very interesting dicussions on the relations between urbanism, circular economy and social innovation. Some specific conclusions came out of the presentation and discussions : To think of new socio-ecological relationship (common, cooperative, social business, etc. hink […]

On 4th april in the afternoon, the partners of the Metropolitan e-studio were organizing a seminar on Metropolis and Ports in collaboration with the School of architecture of Reus. Interesting perspectives were raised concerning the comparative case study of Tarragona, Porto Marghera and Barcelona.

Our 2017 workshop will take place in Barcelona from 3rd to 7th April. It will explore circular economy, energy efficiency, social innovation and sustainable mobility in the Poblenou district