Lecturer 3

Joan Forgas Coll is an architect (UPC) and professor of the ETSAV, since 1987, leading a professional office together with Dolors Ylla-CataIà. Its projects and works include the Vic COAC, the UV Engineering Schools, the headquarters of the City Council of Prat de Llobregat, the Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia, the Kursaal Theater in Manresa, the management of the new Marine Zoo in Barcelona , within the Forum 2004, and the international management contest for the high levels of the Montjuïc Park in Barcelona. These orders have been won through an architectural competition, having won several awards and distinctions.

Lecturer 3

José Antonio Marina is Head of the Philosophy Department for Baccalaureate students. He likes to consider himself a "cultural detective" and is proud of being a good gardener and having invented a new variety of cabbage, called The Empress of Spears. His intellectual project consists of developing a theory of intelligence that begins with neurology and ends with ethics. He is the author of Elogio y refutación del ingenio, Teoria de la inteligencia creadora, Etica para naufragos, El misterio de la voluntad perdida, La selva del lenguaje, El vuelo de la inteligencia, and among others. He is particularly proud of La lucha por la dignidad, written in collaboration with Maria de la Valgoma. He has received numerous prizes: the National Essay Prize, the Anagrama Essay Prize, the Don Juan de Borbón Prize for the Book of the Year, the Agustin Ferret Prize for Journalism, the DMR Economy Prize and the Gine de los Rios Prize for Educational Innovation.

Lecturer 3

Bertrand Le Boudec is an architect and currently lectures at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture. He has been awarded with L'Envers des Villes grant. ln 1995 he founded Atelier Traverses in association with Hélène Izembart, landscape architect. Their major works include the marine park on the island of Tatihou, in the English Channel, and the gardens of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris. Their published research works include Mémoires de paysages (2000), Le canal de la Somme (2003); and Waterscapes (2003); the latter deals with the treatment of wastewater by vegetal systems.

Lecturer 2 and 3

Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects, Michel Desvigne has been designing landscapes for 19 years. He graduated initially from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage at Versailles Throughout his career and in current projects, Michel Desvigne collaborates with the world's leading architects, including Paul Andreu, Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi... Michel Desvigne teaches an researches at ENSP in Versailles, the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale" in Lausanne, the "Institut d'Architecture" in Geneva, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. ln 2000, Michel Desvigne received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and in 2003, he was nominated for the "Grand prix de l'urbanisme".

Lecturer 2 and 3

João Gomes da Silva (Lisbon, 1962) studied landscape Architecture at the University of Evora (1979-1985). Since 1990, he has lectured at various universities and schools: Technical University of Berlin, National School of Landscape Architecture at Versailles, the University of Girona and the University of Brasilia, among Others. ln 2001, he was chosen as member of the jury for the Grand Prix du Paysage, of the French Ministry of the Environment. Since 2000, he has been Vice President of the APAP (Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects).