2025 SOLUTIONS LAB: INSTITUTIONALISING GENDER EQUALITY
Bogotá, Colombia
Designed and facilitated a Metropolis Solutions Lab that brought together 16 gender equality and diversity directors from 10 member cities to explore how to integrate equity throughout urban governance.
Through structured peer learning, we worked on practical approaches to mainstream an intersectional gender perspective across institutions, sustain it through political cycles, navigate resistance, and build trust through inclusive, community-led participation—grounded in Bogotá, showcasing how equity endures when embedded in daily systems and co-created with communities.
With Julia Munroe, for Metropolis.
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, Alcaldía de Cali, City of Toronto, Berlin, Prefeitura de São Paulo, Córdoba, Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, Gobierno de Guadalajara, Municipalidad de Rosario and Madrid.
More info here
Bogotá, Colombia
Designed and facilitated a Metropolis Solutions Lab that brought together 16 gender equality and diversity directors from 10 member cities to explore how to integrate equity throughout urban governance.
Through structured peer learning, we worked on practical approaches to mainstream an intersectional gender perspective across institutions, sustain it through political cycles, navigate resistance, and build trust through inclusive, community-led participation—grounded in Bogotá, showcasing how equity endures when embedded in daily systems and co-created with communities.
With Julia Munroe, for Metropolis.
Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, Alcaldía de Cali, City of Toronto, Berlin, Prefeitura de São Paulo, Córdoba, Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, Gobierno de Guadalajara, Municipalidad de Rosario and Madrid.
More info here
Policy
Gender equality
Solutions Lab
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Gender equality
Solutions Lab
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2023 SOLUTIONS LAB: INCLUSIVE CITIES
Barcelona, Spain
Designed and facilitated the Metropolis Solutions Lab Inclusive Cities through Place-Based Innovation, convening 6 cities across two online sessions and an in-person gathering in Barcelona. Through peer exchange and co-design, participants unpacked the drivers of territorial inequality and shared place-based approaches to challenges such as youth disengagement, housing affordability, unequal access to services, and urban segregation.
With Amber de la Haye, for Metropolis.
ACI Medellín, Barcelona City Council, Comune di Torino, Senatskanzlei Berlin, Imeplan AMG and the City of Toronto.
︎︎︎ Europa Press - Press release
︎︎︎ Ajuntament de Barcelona - Press release
Barcelona, Spain
Designed and facilitated the Metropolis Solutions Lab Inclusive Cities through Place-Based Innovation, convening 6 cities across two online sessions and an in-person gathering in Barcelona. Through peer exchange and co-design, participants unpacked the drivers of territorial inequality and shared place-based approaches to challenges such as youth disengagement, housing affordability, unequal access to services, and urban segregation.
With Amber de la Haye, for Metropolis.
ACI Medellín, Barcelona City Council, Comune di Torino, Senatskanzlei Berlin, Imeplan AMG and the City of Toronto.
︎︎︎ Europa Press - Press release
︎︎︎ Ajuntament de Barcelona - Press release
Policy
Public space
Co-creation
Public space
Co-creation
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2025 GLOBAL CITIES FORESIGHT WORKSHOP
Seoul, Korea
Facilitated the Global Cities Foresight Workshop at the Metropolis 40th Anniversary Congress in Seoul.
Through immersive role-play and scenario games, participants stepped into parallel urban futures as delegates meeting at a Cities Summit in 2040—co-creating stories, examining “artifacts from the future,” and backcasting the strategic steps that could take cities from 2024 to those possible futures. The workshop closed with a time capsule of participants’ hopes, fears, and recommendations for 2040, reinforcing how foresight can help city leaders navigate perma-crisis by steering intentionally toward the futures they want.
With Amber de la Haye, JT Mudge, Julia Munroe and Oscar Chamat-Nuñez, for Metropolis.
Seoul, Korea
Facilitated the Global Cities Foresight Workshop at the Metropolis 40th Anniversary Congress in Seoul.
Through immersive role-play and scenario games, participants stepped into parallel urban futures as delegates meeting at a Cities Summit in 2040—co-creating stories, examining “artifacts from the future,” and backcasting the strategic steps that could take cities from 2024 to those possible futures. The workshop closed with a time capsule of participants’ hopes, fears, and recommendations for 2040, reinforcing how foresight can help city leaders navigate perma-crisis by steering intentionally toward the futures they want.
With Amber de la Haye, JT Mudge, Julia Munroe and Oscar Chamat-Nuñez, for Metropolis.
Policy
Foresight
Urban innovation
Foresight
Urban innovation
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2025 URBAN MAPPING FOR URBAN JUSTICE
Designed and led a data analysis workshop on Urban Justice with IAAC’s X-Urban Studio students, using the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro as a case study a decade after its PDUI. Through hands-on analysis, we unpacked the layered dynamics of metropolitan systems, linking climate resilience, social inequality, and informal settlements—and debated forward-looking governance strategies that prioritize sustainability, equity, and social inclusion.
Designed and led a data analysis workshop on Urban Justice with IAAC’s X-Urban Studio students, using the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro as a case study a decade after its PDUI. Through hands-on analysis, we unpacked the layered dynamics of metropolitan systems, linking climate resilience, social inequality, and informal settlements—and debated forward-looking governance strategies that prioritize sustainability, equity, and social inclusion.
Data analysis
Critical mapping
Urban justice
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Critical mapping
Urban justice
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2025 DESIGNING FOR MORE THAN HUMAN
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology at IAAC – “Designing for More than Humans” (2024–2025), a course that equips students to move beyond human-centered urbanism and prototype multispecies, climate-aware futures through a combination of critical readings and design-led experimentation, translating more-than-human ethics of care into tangible urban proposals and project work.
*Images from A more than human Care Hub, a project of IAAC, (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) developed in the Master in City & Technology 01 - 2024-2025 by the student(s) Luis Ángel Martínez Reyes, Thipnatcha Trivatevorakul, Maja Mawusi, Luisa Torres, Sutirtha Das Gupta and Joshua Niyogakiza during the course MaCT01 24/25 Designing for More than Humans.
With Mathilde Marengo.
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology at IAAC – “Designing for More than Humans” (2024–2025), a course that equips students to move beyond human-centered urbanism and prototype multispecies, climate-aware futures through a combination of critical readings and design-led experimentation, translating more-than-human ethics of care into tangible urban proposals and project work.
*Images from A more than human Care Hub, a project of IAAC, (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) developed in the Master in City & Technology 01 - 2024-2025 by the student(s) Luis Ángel Martínez Reyes, Thipnatcha Trivatevorakul, Maja Mawusi, Luisa Torres, Sutirtha Das Gupta and Joshua Niyogakiza during the course MaCT01 24/25 Designing for More than Humans.
With Mathilde Marengo.
Data-driven design
Multispecies urbanism
Design ethics
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Multispecies urbanism
Design ethics
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2025 CO-CREATING PUBLIC SPACES
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology (MaCT01) at IAAC – “CoCreating Public Space” (2024–2025), a seminar focused on urban governance and participatory urbanism, equipping students to combine neighbourhood-scale spatial data, qualitative insights, and data storytelling to reframe citizens as active agents in urban adaptation, and to develop public-space transformation proposals that respond to vulnerability, segregation risks, and climate challenges.
*Images from Flows 4 Santa Coloma, a project of IAAC, (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) developed in the Master in City & Technology - 2024-2025 by the student(s) Nupur Sircar, María José Schmidt, sanjay kumar, Paul Strobel, ARIADNI CHARONI and Valeria Villanueva during the course MaCT01 24/25 CoCreating Public Spac.
With Pablo Muñoz Unceta.
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology (MaCT01) at IAAC – “CoCreating Public Space” (2024–2025), a seminar focused on urban governance and participatory urbanism, equipping students to combine neighbourhood-scale spatial data, qualitative insights, and data storytelling to reframe citizens as active agents in urban adaptation, and to develop public-space transformation proposals that respond to vulnerability, segregation risks, and climate challenges.
*Images from Flows 4 Santa Coloma, a project of IAAC, (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) developed in the Master in City & Technology - 2024-2025 by the student(s) Nupur Sircar, María José Schmidt, sanjay kumar, Paul Strobel, ARIADNI CHARONI and Valeria Villanueva during the course MaCT01 24/25 CoCreating Public Spac.
With Pablo Muñoz Unceta.
New governance models
Co-creation processes
Data storytelling
Co-creation processes
Data storytelling
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2025 CARTOGRAFIAS DINÁMICAS
Faculty for Dynamic Cartographies in the Master’s program Urbanismos Próximos at IAAC, where I led a practice-based studio on translating complex urban research into clear, public-facing narratives. Working with dynamic, interactive visualizations, students tackled disinformation and the effective communication of research, using AI both as a creative tool and a framework for critical reflection. The course culminated in each student publishing a public website to disseminate their findings beyond academia.
Faculty for Dynamic Cartographies in the Master’s program Urbanismos Próximos at IAAC, where I led a practice-based studio on translating complex urban research into clear, public-facing narratives. Working with dynamic, interactive visualizations, students tackled disinformation and the effective communication of research, using AI both as a creative tool and a framework for critical reflection. The course culminated in each student publishing a public website to disseminate their findings beyond academia.
Data visualizations
Interactive dataviz
Storytelling
Interactive dataviz
Storytelling
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2025 ReCITYing WORKSHOP
Faculty and workshop lead for ReCITYing, a Creative Europe co-funded project focused on regenerating unused or closed urban spaces into open artistic labs and cultural incubators.
With IAAC students (MaCT 02, MAA02, MRAC02), I designed and facilitated a hands-on sequence in Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat that combined land art, field-based prototyping, and biomaterials research: students planted a crop-based intervention, then developed circular design strategies to transform agricultural “waste” into biomaterials for a rural installation, completing the life cycle of the plants through new objects and artifacts. The work culminated in the project Unveiling Stories, including a set of biomaterial objects (e.g., kites, lamps, fans, pots) and a short zine documenting the production process, delivered through a collective effort with the Urban Sciences Lab and local partners.
With Laura Guimaraes.
Faculty and workshop lead for ReCITYing, a Creative Europe co-funded project focused on regenerating unused or closed urban spaces into open artistic labs and cultural incubators.
With IAAC students (MaCT 02, MAA02, MRAC02), I designed and facilitated a hands-on sequence in Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat that combined land art, field-based prototyping, and biomaterials research: students planted a crop-based intervention, then developed circular design strategies to transform agricultural “waste” into biomaterials for a rural installation, completing the life cycle of the plants through new objects and artifacts. The work culminated in the project Unveiling Stories, including a set of biomaterial objects (e.g., kites, lamps, fans, pots) and a short zine documenting the production process, delivered through a collective effort with the Urban Sciences Lab and local partners.
With Laura Guimaraes.
Public space
Urban renovation
Biomaterials
Urban renovation
Biomaterials
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2024 PARTICIPATORY URBAN DESIGN COURSE AT SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN (SISD)
Faculty in the SISD course, where I led students through a practice-based exploration of how digital tools can strengthen urban governance. Through case studies and hands-on prototyping, we tested data-informed methods—digital mapping, community sensing, participatory platforms, and rapid feedback loops—to translate lived experience into design decisions, and to critically assess questions of inclusion, representation, and trust. The course emphasized designing participation as an end-to-end system: from outreach and accessibility, to deliberation and co-creation.
With Laura Guimaraes and Jiangyue Wu
Faculty in the SISD course, where I led students through a practice-based exploration of how digital tools can strengthen urban governance. Through case studies and hands-on prototyping, we tested data-informed methods—digital mapping, community sensing, participatory platforms, and rapid feedback loops—to translate lived experience into design decisions, and to critically assess questions of inclusion, representation, and trust. The course emphasized designing participation as an end-to-end system: from outreach and accessibility, to deliberation and co-creation.
With Laura Guimaraes and Jiangyue Wu
Data analysis
Participatory design
QGIS
Participatory design
QGIS
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2024 THEORIES OF THE URBAN
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology at IAAC - Theories of the Urban, where the critical capacity for using new large language models such as ChatGPT or Midjourney is developed through various academic readings on climate crisis, technology, and urbanism.
With Mariano Gómez–Luque.
Faculty in the Master in City & Technology at IAAC - Theories of the Urban, where the critical capacity for using new large language models such as ChatGPT or Midjourney is developed through various academic readings on climate crisis, technology, and urbanism.
With Mariano Gómez–Luque.
Artificial Intelligence
Midjourney
ChatGPT
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Midjourney
ChatGPT
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2023 IAAC QGIS WORKSHOP
IAAC Faculty taching how to use data analysis tools oriented towards urbanism applications.
IAAC Faculty taching how to use data analysis tools oriented towards urbanism applications.
Urban data
Data analysis
GIS
Data analysis
GIS
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2023 TOOLBOX FOR HEALTHY PUBLIC SPACES
How do we imagine the future of our cities? In this workshop, we explore different scenarios by rethinking the materials, spaces, and programs for the city of Prishtina.
How do we imagine the future of our cities? In this workshop, we explore different scenarios by rethinking the materials, spaces, and programs for the city of Prishtina.
Workshop
Healthy cities
AI
Publication
Healthy cities
AI
Publication
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2023 UNDERSTANDING THE CITY THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS
Conference on my work about public spaces as generators of social well-being at BETA, Timišoara Architecture Biennial.
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Conference on my work about public spaces as generators of social well-being at BETA, Timišoara Architecture Biennial.
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Online workshop
Urban data
Data analysis
GIS
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Urban data
Data analysis
GIS