Barcelona: Art & Public Space

An architect and planner, Meg Walker served as Senior Vice President at Project for Public Spaces in New York City where she worked for twenty years with communities around the US to transform their public spaces and buildings, downtowns, waterfronts, and neighborhoods into vibrant, sociable, and sustainable places. Outstanding examples include a new public space plan for downtown Detroit, a street activation plan for downtown Seattle, and a public space design for the Pearl Brewery development in San Antonio, Texas.  Meg Walker is currently an Assistant Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where she has taught core courses in the graduate program in Urban Placemaking and Management and has advised thesis students since 2010. She was also a visiting professor at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Ms. Walker is the chair of the board of En Garde Arts in New York City, an innovative, site-specific theater company that uses the city as its stage to promote young artists in the performing arts. She also served on the Board of Trustees for the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY for eight years. She holds a B.A. in government from Wesleyan University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Ms. Walker has spent many months visiting family in Barcelona over the past five years and has enjoyed getting to know the city, its public spaces, museums, and delightful events. She is the lead curator of Art and Public Space.  

Jordi Honey-Rosés is the Founder of City Lab Discovery and Director of the research group City Lab Barcelona at ICTA-UAB. Working with partners and students, his research examines how and why urban projects transform cities. Special interest in urban experiments, school streets, active travel, citizen science, BiciZen, bike bus, bicycle parking and bicycle theft. Prior to joining ICTA-UAB, Dr. Honey-Rosés was a planning professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia (2013-2021). While at the University of British Columbia he received the prestigious Killam Teaching Award. A California native, with Catalan roots, Dr. Honey-Rosés has walked the streets of Barcelona since his childhood and is passionate about urban history.