Primavera R Festival 

Primavera R Barcelona Resilience Festival is an open-house event dedicated to highlighting the people and projects shaping Barcelona’s climate adaptation and urban transformation. From cooperative housing and nature-based solutions to research initiatives and public infrastructure, the festival offers a platform to share and open to public innovative approaches to building a more resilient future.

The Festival has 2 parts: Friday 11th April in the afternoon join the #OpenResilience, where you can visit different spaces and sign up for tours showing how adaptations happen in the city. When the site visits end, join us for the Primavera R Networking and Music event for short talks and have some fun together.

Dates

11 April 2025

Location

Various locations around Barcelona

Contact

info@urbanresiliencelab.barcelona

We already gathered interesting site visits thanks to the collaboration of different partners, during the festival you could visit: 

  • The Flood Resilience Research Initiative at UPC
  • The Underground Rainwater retention deposits of the Municipality
  • The Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) 
  • The cooperative housing to push a sustainable and just housing model in Catalunya
  • Nature-based solutions

Do you have a great initiative to showcase? Propose a guided tour and share it with us!

The full program will be available soon.

All site visits and the networking event is public and open to everyone.

Our goal is to enhance understanding of how to adapt and transform our cities; who needs to drive these changes, who needs support, and how it all connects. Networking, learning, and a systemic, critical vision of urban transformation – understanding how changes happen, what synergies exist, and what trade-offs must be considered – are crucial for successful adaptation.

We don’t want the conversations to stop when the festival ends. That’s why URLab Barcelona is launching an online platform to map and explain urban adaptations and transformations.

Open Call

Showcase your work and experience in adaptation and become an active player in Barcelona’s Festival of urban resilience. It is free and we advertise your initiative. 

Who can participate?

We welcome applications from:

  • Cooperatives, organizations, and institutions working on urban resilience
  • Community-led projects focused on sustainability and climate adaptation
  • Businesses, research hubs, and public institutions developing forward-thinking solutions

What does participation involve?

By opening your doors for a guided site visit, you can:

  • Showcase your work among fellow urban resilience leaders, inspire youths, and engage local communities in Barcelona!
  • Turn your research and advocacy into real-life impact: present your vision of future urban resilience/climate urbanism to global innovators and municipality 
  • Collaborate with other innovative urban resilience projects/ Bridge knowledge networks and build collaborative climate urbanism in Barcelona
  • Present your work to an audience of professionals, students and engaged citizens
  • Connect with others working in the field of urban resilience
  • Be featured in the official Primavera R program and communications

Apply here