SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 12. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro (COA) will host this Tuesday from 7:00 p.m. the documentary ‘Change everything without changing anything’ made by the OMINA Foundation, an audiovisual production that summarizes the experience of urban transformation that the ecologist and urban planning expert Salvador Rueda developed in Barcelona as director of the Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency (2000-2020).
Based on the screening of this documentary, Rueda will explain the model of ecosystemic cities that is being supported in the major European capitals; a reformulation of public spaces and their use, where culture, meeting, walking, leisure, or play areas become the backbone of the urban configuration; an open debate to analyze the development paths of this new model and its application in the large cities of the Canary Islands, particularly in Santa Cruz de Tenerife or La Laguna.
Salvador Rueda, urban ecologist and president of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, founder and director of the Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency during the years 2000/2020 and specialized in the analysis and planning of complex systems, has developed occupation and metabolism models urban with sustainability criteria. He has conceived a new urbanism: Ecosystemic Urbanism and a new urban cell: the superblock, the basis of the mobility and public space model and the basis of the urban planning model of any urban system. He has created a new dictionary to read the city and a measuring instrument to calculate urban complexity.
Currently, Salvador Rueda works together with the Urban Planning Management of the La Laguna City Council, offering technical assistance for the development of a new sustainable development model and a territorial action plan that serves as a strategic framework for the development of future General Plans of the city. city of Aguere. An approach that aims to structure the orderly development of the city having as its fundamental axes: sustainable mobility, energy efficiency or local consumption, among other aspects. In addition to promoting respect for the environment and the conservation of the territory.
The event is open to the public until capacity is reached and will take place in person in the assembly hall of the College of Architects.
