The Sant Feliu City Council participated last Monday, November 9th, in the conference "The digital twin of the Barcelona metropolitan region. Urban resilience and climate adaptation: challenges and opportunities for the territory", held at the Auditori Cuatrecasas in Barcelona. Mario Alguacil, Director of Corporate Strategy and Digital Policies, intervened in the round table to explain how this tool, which analyzes areas such as housing, urban design, mobility, or economic development, can help Sant Feliu make data-driven decisions.
The conference, organized by Aretian Urban Analytics and Design and Exea Impact – Fundació de la Família Puig, with the collaboration of the Fundació Torras Lombana and Barcelona Global, served to present the new climate layer of the metropolitan digital twin, by Ramon Gras, CEO and co-founder of Aretian. This new layer adds more than a hundred climatic, urban, and sociodemographic indicators to locate neighborhoods and groups most exposed to heatwaves and floods, covering over 160 municipalities in the metropolitan region.
The round table featured contributions from Esteban León, Director of the Urban Resilience Hub at UN-Habitat's City Resilience Global Programme; Lorenzo Chelleri, Professor at UIC Barcelona and President of the Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet); and Ramon Canal, representative of the Barcelona City Council, who offered international, academic, and large metropolitan city perspectives.
Sant Feliu has previously collaborated with Aretian on the territorial diagnosis of over 75 hectares of industrial land, forming the basis for the future Business Innovation District. The new climate layer opens the door to expanding this collaboration into new areas, such as climate change adaptation.
