Xavier Matilla
Lecturer 11
Architect-urban planner by the ETSAV-UPC, born in Terrassa in 1975. Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council. His professional and academic career has focused on urban planning and is characterized by his commitment to move towards healthier and fairer cities and territories. He has developed his professional career in different prestigious law firms. In 2013 he founded with the architect Mónica Beguer the office «Territorios XLM», dedicated to strategic territorial planning, urban projects and public space projects. He is an associate professor in the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC_BarcelonaTECH and professor of the “Metropolis Master in Metropolitan and Urban Studies of the IERMB and UAB. He is the author of various publications on urban planning and public space design. Between 2010 and 2015 he was secretary of the Association of Urban Architects of Catalonia and councillor of the Terrassa City Council from 2015 to 2019.
Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons
Lecturer 11
Head Landscape, Environment, Major Hazards Division, Executive Secretary Council of Europe Landscape Convention, Council of Europe. She has been a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Law (Montpellier) and at the Institute of Political Sciences (Strasbourg). Since 1987 she has worked at the Council of Europe as an administrator at the European Court of Human Rights; Administrator of the Environment and Local Authorities Department; Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats; Senior Administrator and Head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Division; Secretariat of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy; Responsible for the European Diploma of Protected Areas; Editor of Futuropa magazine: for a new vision of landscape and territory; Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional and Regional Planning; then Secretary of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape of the Council of Europe. She has published various articles and books on territorial development, the protection of coastal and marine areas.
TECHNICAL VISITS "PEDALADES"
As in other editions, the International Landscape Biennial team and BiciCulturaBCN have organized tours to visit the city landscape of Barcelona. These tours are guided excursions by bike or on foot, interesting to bring our city and surroundings closer to the attendees of the Biennial.
