On July 10, 2025, Mar Santamaría participated in the international conference "Cities in the City: Mobility, Proximity, and Quality of Life" at Forum Braga. This event organized by the Associação de Municípios Quadrilátero Urbano, focused on contemporary urban challenges and opportunities. It featured discussions on mobility, urban proximity, and enhancing quality of life in modern cities. The conference brought together European experts in mobility, urbanism, and quality of life, including: Pietro Elisei (URBASOFIA), Simone d’Antonio (URBACT), José Mendes (University of Minho) and Carlos Moreno (Sorbonne University)

Del 21 al 24 de noviembre, Bilbao será sede de unas jornadas dedicadas a explorar los nuevos espacios de actividades económicas en las ciudades. Este evento reunirá a urbanistas y profesionales del sector para analizar las transformaciones que están redefiniendo el entorno urbano en un contexto de rápida evolución social, económica y tecnológica. Además, acogerá las asambleas anuales de la European Council of Spatial Planners – Conseil Européen des Urbanistes (ECTP-CEU), de la Asociación Española de Técnicos Urbanistas (AETU) y de la Unión de Agrupaciones de Arquitectos Urbanistas (UAAU).El principal enfoque de estas jornadas es comprender cómo los espacios dedicados a actividades económicas están cambiando dentro de las ciudades, adaptándose a nuevas formas de habitar y de trabajo, comercio y producción. En un mundo donde la globalización y la digitalización están transformando las dinámicas urbanas, las ciudades deben adecuarse a los nuevos retos económicos.

Mar Santamaría took part in the “Embarriados: Mobility and Urban-Social Vulnerability in Catalonia” webinar (20 February 2025), organized by the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona (PEMB) and the Association of Municipalities for Mobility and Urban Transport (AMTU). The session examined how to promote mobility policies that reduce urban vulnerability, combining a presentation of the Embarriados study with a participatory workshop. Speakers discussed challenges and solutions for sustainable and inclusive mobility, highlighting the importance of coordination, integrated planning, and equitable access to transport as key elements for more resilient cities.

Pablo Martínez, co-founder of 300.000 Km/s, delivered the keynote address at the "Diálogos de Movilidad 2025" conference organized by in-MOVE by Railgrup on July 4, 2025. Held at the SB Glow Hotel in Barcelona, the event gathered over 80 professionals and organizations from the mobility sector. Martínez's presentation provided a critical and visionary perspective on the major challenges facing urban mobility today. The conference also featured a roundtable discussion on the impact of podcasting in mobility communication and concluded with the "Premios Diálogos de Movilidad 2025," recognizing innovation and collaboration in the sector.

Mar Santamaría took part in the webinar “Madrid 2050: Innovation, Territory, and Participation”, organized by the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), Fundación Juan XXIII, and the Center for Innovation and Circular Economy of Madrid (CIEC). The event served as a platform for reflection on the future of the city from an innovative, participatory, and sustainable perspective. It included discussions on participatory processes, territorial data analysis, and neighborhood-based urban planning. The webinar featured distinguished speakers including: Ángela Baldellou (General Director of COAM), Luis Martín de Ciria (Director of Communication, Institutional Relations, and Social Commitment at CreaMNN), José María Sánchez Laforet (Technical Deputy Director at Sueña Madrid).

On 21 October 2025, the Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) in Barcelona hosted the 4th edition of Descarbonising Architecture, organized by the Architectural Association of Sustainability (AUS). This full-day event explored strategies and tools for advancing decarbonised and resilient architectural practices in response to the climate emergency, with the aim of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Together with Albert Soret, Director of the Earth System Services Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), we delivered a keynote on the climate emergency in Europe. The session presented future climate scenarios derived from large-scale simulations from Impetus4Change Horizon project, illustrating how cities will need to adapt to increasingly extreme conditions in the coming decades.

On 25 January 2025, we took part in the opening of Near Future City (Landscape Architecture Core IV Studio) at Harvard GSD.

During the session On Data Action, we presented our approach to data as a point of view in urban planning, linking it to the idea of landscape as a cultural construction that shapes how we see and understand the world.

We shared a series of projects that explore ways of observing and representing intangible aspects of the environment (such as air, silence, and darkness) using data as a means to reveal hidden conditions and to expand our perception of contemporary urban landscapes.

Couple of intense days at the Smart City World Congress!

Honoured to have participated in the round-table organised by the Observatorio 2030 del CSCAE, which reflected on the impact of digitisation in mobility through our project Embarriados (conducted in collaboration with Fundación Cotec para la Innovación).

Thrilled to have moderated the panel “Reimagining Tomorrow: Cutting-Edge Tech in Urban Design” with Oana Taut (CPO of infrared.city), Steve Zoegall (Vice President and Global Market Director – Cities & Places of Jacobs), Ramon Gras Alomà (CEO & Founder of Aretian Urban Analytics and Design), and Abdulrahman Habib (Deputy Chief Strategy Officer of SDAIA).

Honoured to have joined the Seoul Digital Foundation conference once again as a keynote speaker, alongside Hun-jai Chung (Deputy Mayor of Gangnam-gu), Ane Miren Ibañez Zugazaga (Bilbao City Council), Agnès Charlotte Bickart (Metropolis), and Ahmed T. Abd Elmoeti (Digital Transformation Lead of Aramco).

The event organised by the Senior Group of the Board of Architects of Catalonia focuses on the future metropolitan model of Barcelona. It has explored the new metropolitan urban plan (PDUM) as a successor to the 50-year-old General Metropolitan Plan (PGM), addressing key aspects like governance, planning, financing, and management. The session was divided into two parts. Mar Santamaria together with Pere Montaña, moderated the first session discussing the morphological and physiological aspects of the PDUM. The second part addressed the governance and social dimensions of the plan. Various experts will participate, including geographers, architects, and economists.

The "IA Lab COAM" is an experimental space launched by the Board of Architects of Madrid to explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on architecture. It aims to lead discussions on how AI can transform creative processes and enhance the ethical, economic, social, and environmental aspects of the profession. Mar Santamaria has participated in a round table moderated by Inés Leal, together with other architects and industry experts.