MBLandArch-2025 Ribas Piera Prize

The MBLandArch-UPC focuses on a projective exploration that merges both theory and practice; it considers inherent perspectives, such as landscape ecology, humanistic disciplines, and the construction of public space, among others. The selected projects address contemporary challenges, including climate change in the Mediterranean Region, the enhancement of socio-ecological values through landscape projects, and the recognition of emerging metropolitan spaces and bio-cities.

“Waving lines through the water edge” is selected due to its exploration of the relational realm in an edge-landscape in Scotland. The interactions and interrelations between inhabitants and their surrounding wetlands in the face of the climate emergency. “Adaptive Dynamics of Extreme Mediterranean Landscapes” is chosen for its multifaceted approach to disturbances (wildfires and flooding) and its operational dimension, integrating disturbance regimes. “Flowing together” focuses on decontamination and phytoremediation, highlighting socio-ecological strategies in Glasgow’s estuaries. This proposal reveals the social processes that are involved and synchronized by the proposal. “Other Barcelonas” proposes an innovative revision of Barcelona’s landscape traces, which respond to the demands imposed by climate change, such as tropical nights, torrential rains, and urban flooding, through a proposal for green infrastructure and public space metabolism.