Mr Cruz was introduced by the head of the School of Architecture Pau de Sol\u00e0-Morales, <\/strong>who argued that urbanists need \u201cnew ideas to solve the current problems of cities\u201d. The event started with a speech by the president of the FPMC, Joan Josep Marca, who talked about the history of the Converses al Camp de Tarragona, which began last year to commemorate the Converses de Salou from 1964 to 1970 and to promote dialogue, debate and participation in issues facing the Camp de Tarragona region. The event also had contributions from the rector of the URV, Josep Anton Ferr\u00e9, the president of the Tarragona Branch of the Association of Architects of Catalonia, Joan Tous, the Catalan Government\u2019s representative in Tarragona, \u00d2scar Peris, and Reus City Councillor for Culture, Montserrat Caelles.<\/p>\n Fonna Forman visits the Faculty of Economics and Business <\/strong><\/p>\n Fonna Forman gave a talk on “The social side of Adam Smith” at the Faculty of Economics and Business as part of the Conversations. She is a Professor of Political Theory and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. A theorist of ethics and public culture, her work focuses on human rights at the urban scale, climate justice in cities and equitable urban development in the global south. She serves as Vice-Chair of the University of California Climate Solutions Group, and on the Global Citizenship Commission (advising UN policy on human rights).<\/p>\n The second day of the event, 23 May, featured five groups of young architects and urbanists from the region, namely Espais ocults, NUA Arquitectes, Sopes d\u2019all, Arquitectes Ear and the Centre de Recerca Urbana del Camp (CRUC), who gave their opinions regarding the present and future of urbanism in the Camp de Tarragona area.<\/p>\n The meeting began with Francesc Roig, patron of the FPMC, presenting the book containing all the presentations from the first edition of the Converses al Camp de Tarragona last year.<\/p>\n After that, the five local architectural groups showed a film describing their innovative work in the region and followed this with a debate which they opened up to the audience, among whom were some politicians. The CRUC showed a series of YouTube videos in which foreign tourists describe their perceptions of the Camp de Tarragona. Espais occults described their efforts to raise awareness of the Reus\u2019 contemporary heritage through free guided tours of buildings such as the Casa Gasull in Reus conducted by volunteers with the permission of the owners.<\/p>\n Arquitectes Ear showed a speeded-up tour by car of the lesser known and more hidden urban spaces of the Camp de Tarragona, such as the Petrochemical Complex, railway lines, quarries and agricultural land. They also called for urbanistic interventions in these areas to dignify them and bring them closer to the public. Sopes d\u2019all showed a series of images documenting one of their urban interventions where they introduced popular and leisure activities into a disused public space in Valls. Their aim is to rediscover these abandoned places and bring them back to the attention of the authorities so that they can be put at the service of the public again.<\/p>\n NUA Arquitectures explained its project to build a food bank for C\u00e0ritas in the Tarragona suburb of Campclar. Their work has been internationally recognised for the sustainability and innovation of its design, materials, construction and final social use.<\/p>\n After the debate, the mayor of Reus, Carles Pellicer, and the president of the FPMC, Joan Josep Marca, together brought the second edition of the Converses to a close, with a commitment to repeat the event in 2018, this time in Valls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The academic from the University of California speaks at the 2nd Converses al Camp de Tarragona (Camp de Tarragona Conversations)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":30264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,229,818,820,178,235],"tags":[3545,3546],"class_list":["post-31750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-business-economics","category-institution","category-press-releases","category-school-architecture","category-science-technology","category-society-culture","tag-architecture","tag-urbanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fonnaforman17.jpg\")
<\/a>Experiences and trends in the Camp de Tarragona<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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