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Architecture for Rewilding

Barcelona 2024

Free Idea Validation Workshop

1-Day: Fall 2024

YOUR APPLICATION

Please apply here and send us a brief description of your start-up and your solution. Include how your start-up addresses the challenges of rewilding and its potential impact on biodiversity metrics. Please submit your application to have your idea validated by completing this Workshop Application Form

FOR WHO?

Aspiring entrepreneurs and founders with an idea for a rewilding problem that you believe has commercial value. This workshop is aimed at founders of start-ups , who would like to gain a glimpse into the world of entrepreneurship and learn the strategies to validate their idea .

HOW?

The 1-day workshop will be hosted in Barcelona, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. You will work with your team, and will have the support of expert facilitators and guides. You will experience current start-up techniques and practice. Your team will also have networking opportunities with like minded innovators.

TAKE AWAY

The purpose of this initiative is to encourage and promote innovation within rewilding or biodiversity enhancement. ‘Architecture for Rewilding’ will allow you to:

  • Acquire new skills: lateral thinking, analytical ability, etc.
  • Learn entrepreneurial strategies
  • Validate your idea

THEMES

We are particularly interested in start-ups offering architectural solutions to transform redundant urban, agricultural, and industrial spaces into ecosystems that improve biodiversity metrics.

  • Start-ups with innovative responses to the challenges of rewilding.
  • Architectural solutions that transform non-wild spaces into rewilding ecosystems.
  • Solutions with immediate impacts on rewilding biodiversity metrics. To warm up try this Case Study that examines if biodiversity bonds can save natural habitats

WHAT?

Architecture for Rewilding is an activity in which students and professionals from various academic backgrounds and professions, come together for the early stage validation of their start-ups or solutions within the domain of rewilding in the natural and the built world.

Our Team:

Mira Housen

Mira holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan and a Postgraduate Master’s degree from the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). In recent years she has dedicated her efforts to projects at the intersection of architecture and biology. Her work spans from territory-focused research on ecological resilience and regeneration to hands-on implementations, such as NBS and material studies for architectural exteriors.

Yerwant Meguirditchian

Yerwant is a architect with a passion for multidisciplinary design, and a focus on sustainable environmental practices. He is part of a start-up team who won first prize in Urban Shift, an EU funded program that tackles tne Urban Heat Island challenge. Additionally, Yerwant holds a master’s degree from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), and a postgraduate master’s degree from the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).

Ed Gonsalves

Ed is Director of the Cooplexity Insitute (Barcelona) and specializes in designing, developing, and delivering senior executive programs for high-performance teams in entrepreneurial and multinational firms.  He holds directorships, advises, consults, and publishes in the areas of play, strategy, cultural change, and entrepreneurial learning. Ed is an associate professor at a number of European business schools, including on ESADE’s International EMBA programme. 

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