The César Manrique Foundation will host the conference The Desire of the Shore or the Reinvention of the Coast on June 6 at 7:30 p.m. This event will be given by the architect, landscape architect and director of the Land Lab landscape laboratory. The event will take place in the José Saramago room (La Plazuela, Arrecife) and will be broadcast live through the FCM website and YouTube channel.
During her conference, the speaker will explain how the desire of the shore or the awakening of interest in the coast begins in the mid-18th century and is a long and slow process, which begins with the wealthy classes and is consolidated with the working classes. This phenomenon is consolidated in just under a century and is linked to the invention of the Mediterranean summer and the coast, as we know it today.
Currently, the coast is one of the landscapes where the effects of climate change are perceived with greater intensity. And it is in this context that Miriam García will propose strategies and designs for the reinvention of a resilient coast. In the opinion of the speaker, we are facing a moment of personal and global responsibility in which imagination and action are necessary. An imagination, she points out, fueled by the creativity inscribed in ecology, molded in strategic scenarios and tactical designs capable of catalyzing cultural and physical processes aimed at adapting to climate change.
Miriam García's intervention is included within the FCM's Frontiers and Directions of Progress reflection space. A forum aimed at reviewing the idea of progress contemplated from multidisciplinary perspectives, and in which the presence of Ramón Margalef, José Manuel Naredo, Federico Aguilera Klink, Fernando Savater, Jorge Riechmann, Rafael Argullol, Ulrich Beck, Marc Augé, Susan George, Daniel Innerarity, Joaquín Estefanía, Gloria Poyatos, Marta del Amo, Íñigo Losada or Remedios Zafra, recently, among others, has already been counted on.
Miriam García García (Asturias, 1971) is an architect and doctor from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). She is also a landscape architect, urban planner and director of LAND LAB, a landscape laboratory, an office based in Barcelona. From there she collaborates in different projects aimed at promoting and developing spatial planning, landscape, urban design and its adaptation to climate change. Many of these works have national and international recognition such as the XII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) Award or Good Practice 2012 of the UN-Habitat Committee, among others.
She combines professional practice with research and teaching on both sides of the Atlantic. She is currently a professor of the Master's Degree in Landscape Design at the Pontificia Bolivariana University (UPB), the University Master's Degree in Urban Planning and Territorial Studies at the National Institute of Public Administration of Madrid and the Department of Urban Planning, Territory and Landscape of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UTP, UPC). She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of Europan Europe and a senior attached researcher of the Climate, Energy and Marine Infrastructure Area of the Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the University of Cantabria (UC).
Her research and professional practice are linked to landscape and ecology as drivers of change in plans and projects at multiple scales. In this sense, many of these works focus on the resilience of coastal, urban or metropolitan environments to the effects of climate change.