On Wednesday, October 10 at 7 pm at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Home Renaissance Foundation launched its latest book ‘The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections’ edited by Professor Emeritus Antonio Argandoña, who opened the event with a presentation entitled: ‘Home is also a company.’

This was followed by a round table moderated by the Research Director of the International Centre for Work and Family, Professor Mireia Las Heras, which debated if the home can be managed as a company and if the work that the home requires can or must be considered a profession.

This round table was made up of:

– Remei Agulles, Professor at the International University of Catalonia

– Rosa Pich, influencer, Youtuber and mother

– Javier Vidal-Quadras, lawyer and member of the International Foundation for Family Development

Here you are some of the reflections that they made:

Remei Agulles: “Today’s postmodern society means that when we start making a home, there are no fixed patterns. Before, people learnt by being there, but these days that doesn’t happen so we need professionals to “train” us and not just tell us how it should be done.”

Rosa Pich: “Something that has to be clear from the start in any home is that there are rules and boundaries – just like at school, marriages or university. Loving people includes making demands on them, saying no, and each family member needs to learn that.”

Javier Vidal Quadras: “Nobody gets married in order to split up afterwards, and nobody has children in order to make them unhappy, but it happens. Why? Ask yourself that question. Training and education are two good allies.”

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.

IESE Business School. Arnús i Garí Street, 3. 08034 Barcelona

Press Contact: 
Ángela de Miguel
Email: angela@homerenaissancefoundation.org
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Are new technologies changing our homes, our lives, our relationships?

Homes are being invaded by new technologies, for good and for bad, technology is shaping various bodily dimensions and functional capacities of people and changing their expectations with respect to the domestic environment as well.

Over the coming years, we will continue to witness a technological “revolution”. We wish to determine how the increasing presence of new technologies in the home impacts its pivotal roles in human development and in the creation of a balanced and humane society.

We will get the response of all these questions in our third Experts Meeting which will be held on February 25 & 26, 2019 at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Among the participants, we would like to highlight the presence of Professor Margaret Archer from the University of Warwick, Professor Luisa Damiano from the University of Messina, Mei Ling-Fung, who is Vice Chair for Internet Inclusion at the IEEE, and Francisca Toni, Professor in Computational Logic at Imperial College.

In previous years, social sciences, neurosciences, economics and philosophy have been exploring the topics of individual constitution and development dynamics, focusing on organisms’ cognition, action, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity and their relationship with the environment. But these days engineering and bio-engineering also play an increasingly relevant role in such an evaluation.

A new epistemological approach must be developed that might include disciplines ranging from sociology, to economics and law, from philosophy and anthropology to engineering and architecture, which might be able to develop and account for new models of care.

On Wednesday, October 10 at 7 pm at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Home Renaissance Foundation will launch its latest book ‘The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections’ edited by Professor Emeritus Antonio Argandoña, who will open the event with a presentation entitled: ‘Home is also a company.’

This will be followed by a round table moderated by the Research Director of the International Centre for Work and Family, Professor Mireia Las Heras, which will debate if the home can be managed as a company and if the work that the home requires can or must be considered a profession.

This round table will be made up of:

– Remei Agulles, Professor at the International University of Catalonia

– Rosa Pich, influencer, Youtuber and mother

– Javier Vidal-Quadras, lawyer and member of the International Foundation for Family Development

The event will be in Spanish and confirmation of attendance is required. Please, register here.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.

IESE Business School. Arnús i Garí Street, 3. 08034 Barcelona

2018 is bringing new people to our board. We are very happy to have their support.

After the incorporation of Baroness Hollins, we have a new patron Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, who has been collaborating with us for a number of years and is currently editor of our forthcoming book.

Welcome, Prof. Abdelmonem to our team! Your input from the field of Architecture will give us a new dimension to the home. “HRF has rightly managed to place the role of the home at the forefront of intellectual debates and social dialogue. That’s why the Foundation’s work is critical to our sustainable future,” explains Prof. Abdelmonem on joining HRF.

To learn more about his wider career, click here.

The second newcomer comes from Spain. Monica Herrero has decided to become a director, having been the Dean of the School of Communication at the University of Navarra from 2008- 2017.

Her research focuses on television economics, audience engagement and business models in the media industry. We hope to advance our communication strategy to further the work and achievements of HRF.

She explains why she accepted being part of HRF:

“I am honoured to join the Board of Directors at HRF especially at a time when digital technology is playing such a crucial role in all areas of our lives. As a media scholar, I’m aware of the profound impact the changes in the entertainment and communications industry have on people’s behaviour.” Find out more about her here.