Bienal Internacional del Paisaje de Barcelona.

WHO WE ARE The institutions that support us are the Official College of Catalonia (COAC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). The Landscape Biennial consists of an executive committee, a scientific committee and a technical team. The scientific committee is formed by different professionals who have contributed their work and personal experience to lunch the Biennial as a global reference at the landscape level. The people who are part of the committee rotate according to the edition, but the restless and self-critical spirit of the members is collective. One of its main tasks is to reinvent the contents and forms of each Biennial to offer debate topics of significant impact and inviting lecturers who are at the forefront of the professional, teaching and research world. The professional who promoted the whole world of the Biennial was Rosa Barba, architect doctor for ETSAB and director of the Landscape Master studies of ETSAB. At the same time, there is the technical team composed of members linked to schools of architecture and landscape (national and international) that are the team for the organization of the event, from the pop-up green to the Symposium. They also manage the organization and dissemination of all events, exhibitions and social media. The success and growth of the Landscape Biennial is due to the different institutions that have supported the project. They are assisting us in highlighting the international dimension of the initiative, generating relationships between professionals, schools and others. It is also relevant to acknowledge the help of our sponsors who year after year, with more or less return, have trusted our project by contributing their grain of sand. They are Ajuntament de Barcelona, Diputació de Barcelona (DIBA) and Àrea metropolitana Barcelona (AMB). We also have to name the collaboration with Fundació Banc Sabadell. An essential part of the Biennial organization is the group of volunteers who encourage us. Most are students or alumni of landscape masters, agricultural schools, architectural studies, etc. We highlight the efforts made by students of the master’s degree MAP and MBLandArch, and the students of the ETSAB, who collaborate with the preparation of pop-up green during the Symposium and round tables. WHAT WE DO From European to International Biennial of Landscape Architecture After having been recognized at European level and after the first seven editions:”“Refent paisatges” (1999), “Jardins insurgents” (2001), “Només amb natura” (2003), “Paisatge: un producte / una producció” (2006), “Tempesta i ímpetu” (2008), “Paisatges Líquids” (2010) and “Biennal versus Biennal” (2012); There was a turning point in the eigth edition which brought us closer to new landscape realities in the world through the internationalization of its Rosa Barba Landscape Prize. This announcement was consolidated with the following editions “A Landscape for you” (2014) , “Tomorrow Landscapes” (2016) and “Performative Natures” (2018). Now it becomes an excellent diffusion tool with relevance in landscape project interventions.

Symposium Each edition has its Symposium articulated under a motto. All kinds of theoretical and practical reflections enhance an interprofessional debate. The Symposium takes place for two days, and round tables, debates, presentations by the finalists of Rosa Barba, interventions by the invited lecturers… The Symposium is held at the Petit Palau de la Música de Catalana, but is also broadcast live in the event hall of the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC). Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, by Banco Sabadell Foundation The Rosa Barba International Landscape Award, with the collaboration of the Sabadell Foundation, is a chance for authors of landscape projects to present their works. They represent the best practices professionals internationally. The call for the presentation of landscape projects and landscape planning approved, created around the world between 2015 and 2020. There is a single prize, an economic grant of 15,000 euros delivered during the Symposium. The winner and the finalists present their projects during the conferences. The projects selected for the International Jury will be published in the catalogue of the 11th Biennial and also upload on a digital creation website of the Biennials (Paisateca). International Prize for Landscape Schools, by Banco Sabadell Foundation The International Landscape Schools Award is being called, in collaboration with the Banc Foundation of Sabadell and is part of the edition of the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona corresponding. The appeal for submission of the five best projects of each landscape school done for the students has a unique prize and an economic endowment of 1500 euros delivered during the celebration of the Symposium. The winner and finalists presented their projects during the Symposium and at UPC Barcelona TECH. On our web, we will publish the projects selected by the International Jury. Exhibitions and Publications The professional and academic reflection of the awards mentioned above will materialize in two thematic exhibitions and later in a publication in the form of a catalogue that will be the enduring witness of that edition. The leading exhibitions that each year we organize are two: Projects selected by the Rosa Barba Prize, located at COAC; and school projects, located at ETSAB. The aim of this is to disseminate and promote professional and academic practices. The exhibitions of the plans, both schools and Rosa Barba, are itinerant through several universities and cultural centres around the world. This past year, Oslo University (School of Architecture and Design) has hosted the exhibition of the works of the schools, as it was one of the finalists of the X International Biennial of the Landscape. On the other hand, the rosa Barba Awards exhibition travelled to Italy at the Paesaggio Museum in Verbania. Franco Zagari (landscape architect) was invited to exhibit his drawings made throughout his career in the last edition. Other parallel exhibitions have also been held, such as the retrospective 20 years of landscape sponsored by The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Merco Sala space). Pop up green POP UP GREEN is a guerrilla gardening project that aims to identify which spaces in the city that its users wish to improve, defend or exemplify. The pop-up green has become the inaugural activity of the Biennial. It is held in the Plaça de la Catedral, where every year a proposal of ephemeral landscape with a goal of social awareness and citizen participation. It seeks that each one can be part of the design of the everyday landscapes below the “fempaisatge” hashtag. For example, in one of the editions, we put seeds in balloons, and we also gave 2000 oaks … Ephemeral interventions to raise awareness on sustainability, inclusion and landscape, as done in the previous years and that could be co-design with NEB. The most important of the next edition will be the interaction of the citizens with a set of artistic elements that evoke the future of the landscape due to climate change. The proposal to be carried out jointly is an evolution of the existing pop-up green initiative, that could be already included in the eleventh edition of the Barcelona International Landscape Biennial (CLIMATE CHANGE AGAIN). The main objective of this guerrilla gardening action is to bring together several cities in Europe into a simultaneous and ephemeral action meant to raise awareness on landscape and its potential of change toward sustainability. The action entailed by the pop-up green can be interpreted from different angles: social awareness on the urban landscape, the potential of landscape planning and design for climate change and the display of powerful interaction between disciplines and citizens if coordinated under a common goal.