ROCA Barcelona Gallery, Barcelona
27 May 2026
On 27 May, ROCA Barcelona Gallery together with Fundació Enric Miralles presented the dialogue “Water as Invisible Matter” as part of the program “Architecture for Human, Urban and Planetary Wellbeing” of Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.
The discussion featured Benedetta Tagliabue; Jampel Dell’Angelo (Associate Professor of Water Governance & Politics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Editor-in-Chief of World Development; NEWAVE PI and SENSE Director); Eva Franch i Gilabert (Architect, curator and researcher; Co-founder of FAST; Professor at UMPRUM Prague and Columbia University New York; Co-author of the book 100 Words for Water, 2025) and Arturo García (Manager, ROCA Gallery Barcelona).
This dialogue invites us to rethink the relationship between architecture, water resources and production processes from an environmental, material and cultural perspective. In this context, the concept of Architecture of Virtual Water emerges as a critical tool for understanding the real impact of design on ecosystems and on the production models that support contemporary architecture.
Photo credit: Lluc Miralles
