>>These meetings will continue in order to also advance the academic frameworks for future degree programs such as Sociology, Data Engineering, Sports Business Management, and Political Science and Public Administration, among others.
>>Faculty members, architects, designers, and researchers are participating in working meetings to define the academic project for the Polytechnic Faculty of the Universitat de Mallorca.
The ADEMA Inca Campus hosted a working and training session involving educators, architects, designers, researchers, and professionals from the fields of design and architecture, as part of the launch and development plan for the new university programs in Design and Architecture at the Universitat de Mallorca and its Polytechnic Faculty.
The session has facilitated progress in defining research areas, curricula, teaching methodologies, knowledge transfer projects, and academic coordination strategies, with the aim of structuring a robust, contemporary educational proposal that is aligned with the region’s professional, cultural, and social needs.
During the meeting, the academic teams worked on the structure of the Architecture and Design degree programs, which ADEMA positions within its university growth strategy in the Balearic Islands—particularly in areas linked to design, architecture, sustainability, material culture, and the creative industries.
These working and training meetings will continue in order to advance the academic tracks for future degree programs such as Sociology, Data Engineering, Sports Business Management, and Political Science and Public Administration. Furthermore, the activities planned for the Inca building include the development of the Bachelor’s Degree in Video Game Design and the double degree in Sociology and Data Engineering.
The session served to advance the coordination of academic content, course planning, the design of cross-disciplinary projects, and the definition of applied research lines linked to the territory, materials, representation, sustainability, landscape, the built environment, and the Islands’ productive fabric.
In the field of Architecture, the project will be led academically by Guillem Aloy Bibiloni—an architect with a PhD, educator, and researcher—who serves as Director of the ADEMA School of Higher Artistic Studies and has a professional background at institutions such as the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Architectural Association Visiting School, the Aarhus School of Architecture, the Royal Danish Academy, UAL Chelsea College, and ENSA Paris-Malaquais.
Joining him will be a distinguished team of highly regarded professionals and academics, including Jonathan D. Foote, Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Aarhus School of Architecture; Leonid Slonimskiy, an architect trained in Moscow and at Columbia GSAPP, with experience at OMA/AMO and Herzog & de Meuron; Juan Palencia de Sarriá, co-founder of the studio isla; Christopher Dyvik, co-founder of Dyvik Kahlen; Francisco Cifuentes and Sebastián Martorell of Aulets Arquitectes; Alberto Sánchez and Aina Salvà of the architecture studio FEINA; Joan Cerdà, architect and president of the Mallorca Chapter of the COAIB; art historian Concepció Bauçà; and architects Laura Estruch and Itzíar Lafuente. The project’s initial steps are defined by this interdisciplinary nature and the diversity of teaching and research backgrounds among the participants.
In the field of design, the campus will feature Miguel Gallego, coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Design and a specialist in technological innovation, artificial intelligence, user experience, and strategic consulting; Miquel Àngel Raió, an interdisciplinary creator, educator, and cultural manager; Sílvia Jové, a graphic designer specializing in packaging, digital graphics, and visual communication; Alex Mestre, a product and lighting designer with experience in digital fabrication and sustainable materials; and Ione Beiztegui, an architect specializing in sustainability, material lifecycles, bioclimatic strategies, and energy efficiency, among other areas.
The team also incorporates professionals with backgrounds in interior design, visual culture, social research, and design thinking, such as Margalida Seguí, an architect focused on place, materiality, climate, and local materials; Inès Winckler and Carme de Cara, architects with international experience in renovation, heritage, interior design, and housing; Carles Baeza, a sociologist and PhD in Architecture specializing in the relationship between architecture, society, and community; and Tomás Pizá, an artist and architect whose practice connects drawing, landscape, territory, and visual research.
ADEMA has highlighted that incorporating these profiles makes it possible to shape a campus with an international dimension—connected to leading academic and professional networks in Europe—featuring a methodology focused on projects, workshops, material experimentation, applied research, and knowledge transfer.
As ADEMA President Diego González explained, “The Inca Campus aims to become an academic hub specializing in design and architecture—among other future degree programs to be introduced—that is connected to regional challenges and sectors strategic to the Balearic Islands’ economic diversification.” “We believe these disciplines can help generate new professional profiles in areas such as interior design, product design, visual communication, building renovation, sustainable architecture, manufacturing, material innovation, and applied creation,” he detailed.
ADEMA frames this initiative as a way to strengthen a decentralized, specialized university offering that is connected to the socioeconomic diversification of the Balearic Islands.
The institution maintains that the Inca Campus will make it possible to retain local talent, attract domestic and international students, and generate new professional opportunities in fields with a limited presence in the university offerings of the Islands.