Concentrico: Rethinking Our Built Environment Through Design

Anna & Eugeni Bach is a Barcelona-based architecture studio founded in 1999. With a broad vision of the field offered by architecture, their interests cover four main areas: Professional, through projects of different scales, both public and private, carried out in the Anna & Eugeni Bach / Bach Arquitectes studio; Teaching, as professors at the ETSAB UPC, the ETSALS URL, EINA UAB, and through conferences and workshops in several European universities; Research, as doctoral students and through projects and installations that work on the perception of space; and Cultural, by being active on the boards of different associations that promote the values of architecture towards society, curating exhibitions and conference cycles, as well as co-editing the magazine fanzine of the Aproximacions collective.

KOGAA is an architecture practice founded in 2015 by Tomas Kozelsky, Viktor Odstrčilík, and Alexandra Georgescu in Brno, Czech Republic. The studio engages with architectural and design projects of all scales and is dedicated to creating projects with a positive impact on users, the environment, and the surrounding community. Parallel to their architecture practice, the three partners have founded the slow development platform Social Reactor, tackling inactive structures and their adaptation to serve new functions. KOGAA has recently lectured at RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects, and their projects have been published in architecture publications all around the world.

Javier Peña Ibáñez is a Madrid-based architect, curator, researcher, teacher and consultant in architecture, design, and the city. He is the Director of Concéntrico, the Logroño International Festival of Design and Architecture, and focuses on the management, curation and dissemination of cultural projects.