EDUCATOR
Barcelona, Spain
Resilience Thinking ‘Walkshop’
EDUCATOR
Barcelona, Spain
Resilience Thinking ‘Walkshop’
Project Team
Rafael de Balanzo Joue
Joan Vila-Puig
Elvira Pujol
Francesc Magrinya
Catie de Balmann
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The Resilience Thinking 'Walkshop', to be trialed in Barcelona during UIA26, is a transdisciplinary pedagogical tool combining outdoor walking with sustainability. The project proposes a new way of exploring the relationship between cities and nature through the central role of water.
Overview
The Resilience Thinking Walkshop is a transdisciplinary pedagogical tool combining outdoor walking with sustainability science to create embodied, place-based learning in higher education. Built on three principles — Transdisciplinary Epistemic Practices, Resilience Thinking Framework (adaptive cycles, panarchy, tipping points), and Collective Social Practice — it positions the landscape itself as classroom, laboratory, and community space simultaneously. Applied across Pratt Institute (New York), EINA/UAB (Barcelona), and community contexts including MAS NYC Janes Walk, the resilience thinking walkshop experiential Learning pedagogy will be developed as a pedagogical tool kit for the Barcelona 2026 World Architecture Capital by the UNESCO.
Institution
EINA, School of Art and Design, University Autonomous of Barcelona
Master Art and Design, Rafael de Balanzo Joue,EINA, School of Art and Design
Community Organization
Barcelona City Educational Department — Barcelona, Spain
https://www.barcelona.cat/barcelonasostenible/en/more-sustainable-schools
Additional Team Members
Francesc Magrinya, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Agrotech, Senior Researcher
Community Engagement
The Resilience Thinking Walkshop extends beyond an academic project by inviting community members, and local stakeholders. Walking together across the territory, they co-produce place-based knowledge, build cross-sector trust, transforming public space into a site of participatory resilience action.
Partners
EINA School of Design and Art, MURAD Master Students, Pratt Institute, SIT–PLU research Project Creative Europe, Fulbright Program, Barcelona World Architecture Capital 2026.
