Ángel Cárdenas and Ricard Frigola in conversation with Miquel Molina

The positive transformation of cities has developed over time thanks to culture and, more recently, to renaturalization projects. The aim is to improve the quality of life of citizens, but also to deal efficiently with the ever-increasing climatic emergencies. And in this transformation framework, water plays an essential role. As was the case with the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, which led to the development of its sewerage system and water network under the cover of a cultural event. Almost 100 years later, answers are still being sought to make cities environmentally sustainable spaces, to solve supply and sanitation deficiencies and to include a cultural story that explains the past and argues for the future.

Ángel Cárdenas, manager of Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies at the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), will speak at the event. In this unit, he leads a portfolio of more than $8 billion in urban operations focused on the sectors of mobility, water and sanitation, citizen security and creative economies. And Ricard Frigola, economist, associate professor of Economics and Regulation of Public Services at the University of Barcelona and between 2010-2019 was professor of Urban Management at the School of Architecture and Design at IE University. He was financial director of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Organizing Committee (COOB'92), and is currently director of Institutional Relations at Agbar.

The event will be moderated by Miquel Molina, deputy director of La Vanguardia and writer. He is the author of two novels and several essays; the last one, Cinco horas en Venecia. Award for non-sexist journalism.

Event in Spanish