Bit Lab, cultural activism, SP
Bit Lab Cultural is a non-profit workers’ cooperative based in Sant Andreu (Barcelona), founded in 2017. It brings together professionals with over 15 years of experience in the cultural, audiovisual, and experimental digital media sectors.
The cooperative focuses on research, experimentation, and production across internet-based formats, audiovisual, and sound practices. Their work explores the intersections of digital culture, social transformation, technological sovereignty, and open culture, with a strong emphasis on collaborative and participatory processes.
Bit Lab Cultural designs and develops research-driven projects that promote accessible, open-source digital tools and ethical cultural practices online. They also facilitate community-based cultural initiatives, ranging from music creation to participatory sound and audiovisual heritage.
In parallel, BitLab design and deploy services in audiovisual production, ethical streaming, corporate communication, and sound design, working across live productions, post-production, and immersive multichannel experiences.
From BitLab, Víctor Jiménez and Martí Sales will participate in the congress as keynote speakers. Víctor Jiménez is a cultural project engineer, cultural activist, musician, and audiovisual and sound producer, as well as a researcher in collaborative digital culture. Martí Sales is a writer, translator, and musician known for his genre-defying literary work. He debuted in 2005 with the poetry collection Huckleberry Finn, which won the Vila de Lloseta Poetry Prize, and has since developed an eclectic career spanning poetry, narrative, essay, and experimental formats.
Bit Lab Cultural is a non-profit workers’ cooperative based in Sant Andreu (Barcelona), founded in 2017. It brings together professionals with over 15 years of experience in the cultural, audiovisual, and experimental digital media sectors.
The cooperative focuses on research, experimentation, and production across internet-based formats, audiovisual, and sound practices. Their work explores the intersections of digital culture, social transformation, technological sovereignty, and open culture, with a strong emphasis on collaborative and participatory processes.
Bit Lab Cultural designs and develops research-driven projects that promote accessible, open-source digital tools and ethical cultural practices online. They also facilitate community-based cultural initiatives, ranging from music creation to participatory sound and audiovisual heritage.
In parallel, BitLab design and deploy services in audiovisual production, ethical streaming, corporate communication, and sound design, working across live productions, post-production, and immersive multichannel experiences.
From BitLab, Víctor Jiménez and Martí Sales will participate in the congress as keynote speakers. Víctor Jiménez is a cultural project engineer, cultural activist, musician, and audiovisual and sound producer, as well as a researcher in collaborative digital culture. Martí Sales is a writer, translator, and musician known for his genre-defying literary work. He debuted in 2005 with the poetry collection Huckleberry Finn, which won the Vila de Lloseta Poetry Prize, and has since developed an eclectic career spanning poetry, narrative, essay, and experimental formats.
Idoia Cuesta, artistic and conscious intervention in the territory, SP
She is a textile artist specialising in basketry techniques. She lives and works in rural Galicia, within the Terras do Miño Biosphere Reserve, in Outeiro de Rei. The environment that surrounds her in everyday life — the forests, the Miño River with its island at the centre, and the storks weaving their nests — not only inspires her work but also allows her to develop a sustainable production deeply rooted in the territory. Part of her workshop is dedicated to the cultivation and research of different willow species, and she actively collaborates with the Galician Association for Land Stewardship in a project focused on planting, training and disseminating knowledge about willow cultivation and its uses.
Her creative practice is based on the fusion of basketry and textile techniques, as well as on the versatility of the resulting pieces, achieved through the combination of organic materials and different craft techniques. Over the decades, she has learned from and collaborated with professionals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, expanding her perspective on contemporary art and design.
Professionally, she structures her activity around four complementary areas: her own collections, collaborations with brands and design professionals, specialised training, and applied research on plant fibres. These areas mutually reinforce each other and shape a working model that integrates creative production, knowledge and knowledge transfer.
Among these activities are workshops on landscape design and green architecture that she delivers in agricultural training centres, museums, educational institutions, and cultural and environmental associations. In these workshops, she teaches how willow and other species can be used to construct living structures that propose a conscious intervention in the territory, integrated into the landscape and adapted to the local context.
Her background in biology reinforces her commitment to exploring the potential of native vegetation. She is the author of Guía de las plantas cesteables de Galicia, a reference work on basketry plants and the traditional craft of basket-making in Galicia.
She is a textile artist specialising in basketry techniques. She lives and works in rural Galicia, within the Terras do Miño Biosphere Reserve, in Outeiro de Rei. The environment that surrounds her in everyday life — the forests, the Miño River with its island at the centre, and the storks weaving their nests — not only inspires her work but also allows her to develop a sustainable production deeply rooted in the territory. Part of her workshop is dedicated to the cultivation and research of different willow species, and she actively collaborates with the Galician Association for Land Stewardship in a project focused on planting, training and disseminating knowledge about willow cultivation and its uses.
Her creative practice is based on the fusion of basketry and textile techniques, as well as on the versatility of the resulting pieces, achieved through the combination of organic materials and different craft techniques. Over the decades, she has learned from and collaborated with professionals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, expanding her perspective on contemporary art and design.
Professionally, she structures her activity around four complementary areas: her own collections, collaborations with brands and design professionals, specialised training, and applied research on plant fibres. These areas mutually reinforce each other and shape a working model that integrates creative production, knowledge and knowledge transfer.
Among these activities are workshops on landscape design and green architecture that she delivers in agricultural training centres, museums, educational institutions, and cultural and environmental associations. In these workshops, she teaches how willow and other species can be used to construct living structures that propose a conscious intervention in the territory, integrated into the landscape and adapted to the local context.
Her background in biology reinforces her commitment to exploring the potential of native vegetation. She is the author of Guía de las plantas cesteables de Galicia, a reference work on basketry plants and the traditional craft of basket-making in Galicia.
Jamie Vanucchi, nature conservancy, EUA
Jamie Vanucchi investigates how design and design research can respond to major 21st-century challenges, particularly climate change, uncertainty, and disturbance-driven landscapes such as floodplains and forests.
Her work explores landscapes shaped by powerful constructive and destructive processes, developing design approaches that evolve over time and intentionally engage with environmental transformation.
She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, with research supported by institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Jamie Vanucchi has received several prestigious awards, including the Graham Foundation Individual Project Award and the CELA Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, recognising both her research and pedagogical contributions to landscape architecture.
Jamie Vanucchi investigates how design and design research can respond to major 21st-century challenges, particularly climate change, uncertainty, and disturbance-driven landscapes such as floodplains and forests.
Her work explores landscapes shaped by powerful constructive and destructive processes, developing design approaches that evolve over time and intentionally engage with environmental transformation.
She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, with research supported by institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Jamie Vanucchi has received several prestigious awards, including the Graham Foundation Individual Project Award and the CELA Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, recognising both her research and pedagogical contributions to landscape architecture.
Jamie Vanucchi investigates how design and design research can respond to major 21st-century challenges, particularly climate change, uncertainty, and disturbance-driven landscapes such as floodplains and forests.
Her work explores landscapes shaped by powerful constructive and destructive processes, developing design approaches that evolve over time and intentionally engage with environmental transformation.
She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, with research supported by institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Jamie Vanucchi has received several prestigious awards, including the Graham Foundation Individual Project Award and the CELA Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, recognising both her research and pedagogical contributions to landscape architecture.
Jamie Vanucchi investigates how design and design research can respond to major 21st-century challenges, particularly climate change, uncertainty, and disturbance-driven landscapes such as floodplains and forests.
Her work explores landscapes shaped by powerful constructive and destructive processes, developing design approaches that evolve over time and intentionally engage with environmental transformation.
She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Cornell University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, with research supported by institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
Jamie Vanucchi has received several prestigious awards, including the Graham Foundation Individual Project Award and the CELA Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, recognising both her research and pedagogical contributions to landscape architecture.
João Nunes, landscape architecture, PT
João Nunes is a landscape architect with a great passion for drawing and understanding the processes of the world. Founder of PROAP, whose philosophy is to interpretate the mechanisms of the Landscape, within which the Project is introduced as an integral part of the process of transformation of the world. His professional and teaching activities intertwine and contribute to the development of new lines of research and experimentation. He is a full professor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and a Visiting Professor at international universities.
João Nunes is a landscape architect with a great passion for drawing and understanding the processes of the world. Founder of PROAP, whose philosophy is to interpretate the mechanisms of the Landscape, within which the Project is introduced as an integral part of the process of transformation of the world. His professional and teaching activities intertwine and contribute to the development of new lines of research and experimentation. He is a full professor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and a Visiting Professor at international universities.
Lauro Olmo Enciso , landscape archaeology, SP
Lauro Olmo-Enciso is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alcalá, specialising in Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and Heritage studies. His work challenges Eurocentric and essentialist interpretations of the past, proposing alternative narratives that foreground diversity, otherness, silenced histories, and the perspectives often excluded from academic and political discourse. Lauro was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and is currently affiliated with the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. He has also been Visiting Professor and researcher in several countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. He has directed important archaeological projects, including research at the Visigothic and Islamic city of Recópolis and studies on the colonial impact on indigenous populations in Ecuador. He also led heritage intervention projects in UNESCO World Heritage sites such as Segovia and the University of Alcalá.
Lauro Olmo-Enciso is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alcalá, specialising in Landscape Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and Heritage studies. His work challenges Eurocentric and essentialist interpretations of the past, proposing alternative narratives that foreground diversity, otherness, silenced histories, and the perspectives often excluded from academic and political discourse. Lauro was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and is currently affiliated with the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. He has also been Visiting Professor and researcher in several countries across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. He has directed important archaeological projects, including research at the Visigothic and Islamic city of Recópolis and studies on the colonial impact on indigenous populations in Ecuador. He also led heritage intervention projects in UNESCO World Heritage sites such as Segovia and the University of Alcalá.
Marcelo Rosenbaum, design for a social transformation, BR.
Honorary Professor of Architecture at the University Centre for Fine Arts in São Paulo, he has headed the Rosenbaum Studio in São Paulo, Brazil, for 37 years. He received the RIBA International Prize 2018 for the Moradas Infantis de Canuanã, recognised as the best building in the world, and developed the architectural design for Farm's shops and pop-up stores in four countries (England, France, the United States and Brazil). In addition, he has carried out long-term projects with the Kayapó people (Pará), Tremembé (Ceará), the Indigenous Council of Roraima, the Sacred Village of Yawanawá (Acre) and the quilombola women of Jalapão (Tocantins).
Rosenbaum uses architecture and design as tools for social transformation in the context of the climate crisis, aiming for economically and ecologically sustainable projects that promote local development with social justice, standing forests, and the permanence of peoples in their territories.
In 2015, he founded the Instituto A Gente Transforma (IAGT), carrying out long-term work for Brazilian biomes. In 2023, he won the IAB Award with Casa da Carnaúba, focused on women artisans from Várzea Queimada, a community in the hinterland of Piauí.
Marcelo is also a designer, curator, communicator, and lecturer. His work, recognised by more than 20 awards, was featured in an
episode of the series Designers do Brasil (Canal Curta, 2023) and in Monolito (2024), an important monographic publication on architecture. He was also the curator of the first Indigenous Peoples' Art Fair, which brought together more than 60 ethnic groups at the National Museum in Brasília during the Brasil É Terra Indígena Festival, organised by Mídia Indígena and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
Honorary Professor of Architecture at the University Centre for Fine Arts in São Paulo, he has headed the Rosenbaum Studio in São Paulo, Brazil, for 37 years. He received the RIBA International Prize 2018 for the Moradas Infantis de Canuanã, recognised as the best building in the world, and developed the architectural design for Farm's shops and pop-up stores in four countries (England, France, the United States and Brazil). In addition, he has carried out long-term projects with the Kayapó people (Pará), Tremembé (Ceará), the Indigenous Council of Roraima, the Sacred Village of Yawanawá (Acre) and the quilombola women of Jalapão (Tocantins).
Rosenbaum uses architecture and design as tools for social transformation in the context of the climate crisis, aiming for economically and ecologically sustainable projects that promote local development with social justice, standing forests, and the permanence of peoples in their territories.
In 2015, he founded the Instituto A Gente Transforma (IAGT), carrying out long-term work for Brazilian biomes. In 2023, he won the IAB Award with Casa da Carnaúba, focused on women artisans from Várzea Queimada, a community in the hinterland of Piauí.
Marcelo is also a designer, curator, communicator, and lecturer. His work, recognised by more than 20 awards, was featured in an
episode of the series Designers do Brasil (Canal Curta, 2023) and in Monolito (2024), an important monographic publication on architecture. He was also the curator of the first Indigenous Peoples' Art Fair, which brought together more than 60 ethnic groups at the National Museum in Brasília during the Brasil É Terra Indígena Festival, organised by Mídia Indígena and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
Space Transcribers, transdisciplinarity research-by-design, PT
Space Transcribers is a research-by-design practice based in Braga, Portugal, co-founded and co-directed by the architect-researchers Fernando P. Ferreira and Daniel Duarte Pereira. Their practice-based research blurs the boundaries between art and architecture, exploring experimental ways of mediating and designing dialogues between the built environment and the communities and ecosystems that inhabit it. Immersive, collaborative and site-specific, Space Transcribers employ installations, workshops, curatorial projects, performances, publications and writing as critical spatial practices through which to offer new socio-political and ecological perspectives on urban and rural contexts, both in Portugal and internationally. Space Transcribers have taught and exhibited their research internationally and, in 2023, participated in the Portuguese representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia with the project Fertile Futures. In 2025 they curated three urban research projects for Braga 25 — Portuguese Capital of Culture: Counter-Kiosk, Shopyard, and the architecture and art festival Forma da Vizinhança. They currently teach at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho and coordinate the module Narrating Tools within the MA Spatial Design programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Space Transcribers is a research-by-design practice based in Braga, Portugal, co-founded and co-directed by the architect-researchers Fernando P. Ferreira and Daniel Duarte Pereira. Their practice-based research blurs the boundaries between art and architecture, exploring experimental ways of mediating and designing dialogues between the built environment and the communities and ecosystems that inhabit it. Immersive, collaborative and site-specific, Space Transcribers employ installations, workshops, curatorial projects, performances, publications and writing as critical spatial practices through which to offer new socio-political and ecological perspectives on urban and rural contexts, both in Portugal and internationally. Space Transcribers have taught and exhibited their research internationally and, in 2023, participated in the Portuguese representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia with the project Fertile Futures. In 2025 they curated three urban research projects for Braga 25 — Portuguese Capital of Culture: Counter-Kiosk, Shopyard, and the architecture and art festival Forma da Vizinhança. They currently teach at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho and coordinate the module Narrating Tools within the MA Spatial Design programme at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Tim Waterman, landscape theory, UK
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life, taste and manners, and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy of the Landscape and Spatial Planning Institute at NMBU in Norway, and was recently Chair of the Landscape Research Group and a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield. He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert. He is currently at work on a four-book series on visual culture and the imagination called Reworlding. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Architecture, Garden Design Journal, Utopian Studies, Landscape Research, and Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life, taste and manners, and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy of the Landscape and Spatial Planning Institute at NMBU in Norway, and was recently Chair of the Landscape Research Group and a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield. He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert. He is currently at work on a four-book series on visual culture and the imagination called Reworlding. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Architecture, Garden Design Journal, Utopian Studies, Landscape Research, and Landscape Architecture Magazine.
