Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink
A theory for characterising social media migration
Professional Summary
I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose research articulates around how physical and digital infrastructures, especially those that are commonly produced, respond to and are shaped by societal challenges. I’ve worked as an architect, drupal developer, project manager, lecturer, data scientist, and currently as Principal Research Software Engineer.
My research interests revolve around the social aspect of technology and methods to surface the world-views that are invariably embedded in technical artefacts such as cities, software or platforms. To do so, I use mixed methods with a preference for digital methods, participatory methods and data visualisation and a keen interest in EDI and open research best practices to make research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Education
PhD Information and Knowledge Society
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
MS Information and Knowledge Society
2011-09-01
2012-07-16
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
M Architecture
1998-09-01
2004-07-01
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Interests
Cities
Tecnology
Society
Commons
Maps
Data Science
Data Viz
Internet
Forms of resistance
Featured Publications
Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations
Case study of codesigning data visualisations for an effective decision support about food provision in kindergartens.
Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona
Urban commons is still an ambiguous concept from a theoretical standpoint and diverse in empirical terms, despite its popularity among urban social movements and academic studies. …
Urban Commons and the Production of Alternatives to the Neoliberal City
Within a context of austerity, city governance policies have been devoted to attracting capital either from external sources or by a series of privatisation policies, submitting …
Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the Beginning of 21st Century. A characterization proposal from the praxis
The concept of the commons is as strongly suggestive as ambiguous. This is evidenced by the growing interest in recent years which encompasses areas and aspirations so diverse that …
Transparency project: The observer, observed... or the gestation of the documentation, dissemination and transparency programme
The following text is an excerpt from the material we produced for the book accompanying the 11th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAUXI)—a collaborative effort by …
Recent Publications
This list is not complete. Refer to my ORCID profile for an up-to-date listing of academic outputs.
(2025).
Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink.
New Media & Society.
(2024).
Digital tools for knowledge exchange and sustainable public food procurement in community kindergartens: A case study in Słupsk, Poland.
Gateways.
(2024).
Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations.
Environmental Science & Policy.
(2022).
Visualisation tool for a grounded FEW Nexus.
Github.
Recent & Upcoming Events
Whose Knowledge Counts? Analysing Diversity and Exclusion in OpenStreetMap's Tagging Proposals Process
A systematic analysis of OSM's tagging proposals from an inclusion standpoint
Mapping and evaluating dRTP’s contributions to computing skills’pedagogies
Preliminary results of the DisCouRSE funded project on computing skills pedagogies
No Vibes, Just Struggle: Notes From a Research Software Engineer
I’m going to share a couple of struggles that I’m experiencing in my everyday work as a Senior Research Software Engineer at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. But …
Academic as Activist: The role of academics in facilitating social change
Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate OpenStreetMap’s equity: The Good, The Neutral and The Ugly
This talk will present the implementation of a participatory codesign process to surface how neutrality is operationalised in OpenStreetMap [OSM] as well as some preliminary …
Maps, world-views and neutrality: squaring the circle?
Map-making is a serious business. There’s a science devoted to that, and only highly specialised companies and organisations can endeavour to translate every feature on Earth into …
Recent Blog Posts
Responsible AI in RSE - a living register to support practitioners, leaders and policymakers
Note This collaborative post was originally published at the Software Sustainability Blog and was authored by some of the Responsible AI Study Group members: Joseph Shingleton, …
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The UK must use the Break Clause and Terminate its Contract with Palantir
Post published on Global Policy
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No Vibes, Just Struggle: Notes From a Research Software Engineer on Vive Coding
On AI-assisted coding, a personal reflection for Convivial Code workshop
Digital Sovereignty - Lexicon Entry
A firt version for a Governance Lexicon for Digital Public Infrastructures
Some R Packages I would love to explore (October 2020)
A useful note for my future self (and probably to others)
Considerations on the importance of data and science in data science
Learning data science while creating a COVID-19 dashboard
Manipulating dataframes in R and Python
While I have been using R for many years now (mainly for data manipulation and visualization), and I am extremely happy with some of its features (like how easy is to deal with …
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Looking for the 'perfect' presentations' solution (for me)
During the last 10 years I have given a number of talks in various contexts due to my job as a lecturer: either lectures for my students, conferences, workshops or even much more …
Digital Privacy Workshop: a chronicle
In this post I will share my experience as attendee to Reconfigure Workshop. Reconfigure is a group of feminist cybersecurity advocates & researchers seeking to engage with groups …
A brief note on maps and feminism
As those who know me well know, I love maps: I like to see them, I like to make them and I like to use them to give answers to complex questions. I like the fact that you can …