Roca Gallery Virtual meeting about co-living spaces and communities Participants analysed the features of this type of accommodation and the role of facility manager in this kind of spaces Roca and the Association of Architects of CataloniaStreamed live on the Instagram account of Roca (COAC) organized the meeting “Architecture & FM: Barcelona Gallery, the meeting was attended by From Build to Rent to Coliving”, in collaboration withexperts from the architecture and facility manage the Catalan Association of Facility Management. ment sectors. Among them were Miquel Àngel During the session, related to the monthly topic ofJulià Hierro, concept architect for brands and coor rocagallery.com, “New concepts for housing”, the dinator of the Grup de Treball Retail of COAC, and participants analysed the features and benefits ofmoderator of the session; Emma Bellosta, director coliving, a cohabitation model accelerated by theof Asset Management Catalunya at Stoneweg; and different lockdowns in the last few months. The roleJavier Oloriz, COO at Starcity Spain. of the facility manager as responsible for the man agement and revitalization of communities in these new spaces was also addressed. Miquel Àngel Julià and Felip Neri during the session Experts examine the modern digital realities of design Roca supported the conference “Design Beyond Technology” organized by FAD Association of Industrial Design Roca Barcelona Gallery hosted the second edition of the conference “Design Beyond Technology”, focus ing on the topic of “Digital Realities”. The event, in which Roca was a venue parter, as streamed live on the website of Roca Barcelona Gallery and the YouTube channel of ADIFAD. The conference focused on four key concepts: indus trial design, technology, future and sustainability. This event originated from the need to examine the relationship between design and technology and its future evolution, in view of the current fusion of tech niques that blur the boundaries between the physical and the digital. The program included talks and case studies by in ternationally renowned speakers from the design and technology industries, such as Isabelle Olsson, design director of Google Nest and Wearables; Diego López Urruchi, architect and member of the team of the Norman Foster Foundation; Manuel Jiménez, cofounder and CEO of Nagami; or Bas Van De Poel, former creative director of IKEA and cofound er of the studio Modem, among others. Juan Umbert, Joan Recasens and Adrià Colominas, representatives of ADI-FAD and Makeat, participated in the discussion 14