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Whose Knowledge Counts? Analysing Diversity and Exclusion in OpenStreetMap's Tagging Proposals Process

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:37:59 +0000

Mapping and evaluating dRTP’s contributions to computing skills’pedagogies

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:39:53 +0000

On the 29th of June, we will be giving a lightning talk and a poster presentation at STEP-UP London Conference 2026, the 7th regional community conference for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) in London and the South East, supported by STEP-UP, a UK-based research project funded under the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)’s 2023 Strategic Technical Platforms call.

Abstract:

Our research – funded by the UKRI’s DisCouRSE+ network - seeks to map and analyse the provision of digital research competencies (DRC) which are led by or involve dRTP’s across Higher Education institutions in the UK. The teaching of computational methods has spread across disciplines, spawning numerous pedagogical approaches and a wide variety of methods, software, products, and environments. However, the role of dRTP’s in the proliferation teaching DRC remains unclear. dRTP’s responsibilities are primarily focused on research and infrastructure and expectations around involvement in training and teaching vary widely across the sector. Furthermore, choices as to which approaches and delivery modes to adopt in teaching and training are often driven by trends, licensing constraints or trainer’s familiarity rather than pedagogical criteria or context suitability.

Our research, therefore, seeks to investigate what training and teaching is being delivered by dRTP’s? What skills and competencies are being taught? What pedagogical approaches are being taken? How does thisdiffer across audiences, infrastructures, and institutions? We will use this lightning talk (and the poster we are also proposing) to report on our preliminary findings from a survey we have been running and audit of curricula and training involving dRTP’s listed on university websites and to further develop conversations with the dRTP community over their involvement in education and training.

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No Vibes, Just Struggle: Notes From a Research Software Engineer

Thu, 14 May 2026 17:11:53 +0000

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 before doing so, I need to disclose my positionality in relation to AI and vive coding, particularly about its meaning and how I use it.

Coding is a very polisemic word, and people may assign different meanings depending on their background or context. As a Research Software Engineer, when I think about coding I am mainly referring to the action of creating scripts or software that can be used in an academic setting. This setting is very important to me because it comes with a series of values and requirements that are different from other settings (e.g. hobbysts or industry), such as reproducibility, provenance, or correctly citing sources as an integral part of academic integrity.

I have never vive coded. I’ve seldom used vector-mediated coding: when I use it, I do it reluctantly or triggered by curiosity. Either case, I always feel it as a defeat. This is not because I’m so proud that I feel my ego threatened, or because I’m a good or fast coder that doesn’t need such aids. I’m actually neither. Probably because of that, through commons-based peer production, I’ve learnt a series of techniques, good practices and cultural norms that helped me to overcome my individual limitations. Two paradigmatic examples are to use and adapt code and frameworks that other, smarter people, have created and decided to share it with others through open licenses; and to rely on processes and automations¹ to reduce errors, to understand when something doesn’t work and to seek help when I can’t find the answer, and to do so, to be able to explain to others what I want to do and what I’ve done.

Now, that my stance is clear, I’m in a better condition to share my struggles with AI in general and AI-assisted coding.

The first has to do with the fact that technology is never neutral, and AI has been built through extractive and exploitive practices that are assumed, validated and reproduced when using them. Examples of this can be seen in how LLMs have been trained by systematically stealing IP, or by employing humans to manually tag content in terrible working conditions and at the expense of their mental health.

And not to mention the large amount of resources this technology and the required infrastructure (i.e., datacentres) require for functioning, such as energy, water, oil but also hardware such as RAM or SSDs and Hard drives. Even though the tech and the companies behind ofuscate date to make it really difficult to quantify the environmental costs (and therefore, making it easier to be disregarded), we are already seeing their effects. This week alone news echoed how Maryland taxpayers would need to pay $2 billion dollars to upgrade the power grid to host data centers, or that important SSD and HDD manufacturers have sold all their production until 2029 exclusively to serve Data center needs, creating new forms of scarcity.

But probably, the clearer example about the worldviews and political agenda that are encapsulated in this technology is how AI companies are directly or indirectly promoting surveillance, and even genocides, and how their CEOs feel empowered enough to publish supremacist manifestos in the name of their companies ².

The combination of these factors makes me feel that every time I use AI-tools I’m forced to disregard my values and the political and moral beliefs that I stand for, and makes me feel closer to a world and a society I wouldn’t wannt anyone to live in. And this is not an easy pill to swallow.

The second one has to do with AI assisted coding, or vector coding. It is easy to be flashed by the ability to produce something that works in a reduced amount of time and with few or little knowledge on coding. It is really impressing to see that what would take a lot of time is accomplished (at least in appearance) in a matter of minutes, and with little effort. I can see how many people (particularly those who do not know how to code or are in early stages) may see it as a way to overcome their limitations and how this seems like it’s democratising coding. I really do, I would believe it myself it wasn’t because it is the opposite.

Vive coding produces code, but it does not make programmers, it makes prompters. This is not just a semantic difference. I contend that the former is empowering, whereas the latter is disempowering. Vive coding epitomises neoliberal worldviews by stating that only the outputs matter³, disregarding decades of disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge built over decades. Coding is not about just producing code, it is also a cultural and social practice, a method. Equally as important than the output are issues related to:

Correctly attributing everybody’s work, and complying with licences. Using AI can easily lead to copyright infringements and flags questions about Intellecutal Property and accountability: Who is the author of the code? Can we make sure that we are complying with the licence terms of the code that the AI is reproducing?Can we be sure that we are not leaking any personal or sensitive information (either in the code or the prompts)?.
Writing understandable and explainable code, not just to make it easier for us to maintain and improve it over time and for others to contribute to or scrutinise (again, this is important in an academic setting). If we cannot explain what the code does, how can our research rely on it? Can we use it in research if we cannot write a basic methods section?
Considering and addressing failure. Any relatively complex piece of code will, inevitabily, fail. Far from approaching failuire from a nihilistic standpoint, software engineer need to actively address them by putting measures to minimise the errors (e.g. automated testing), or to be able to debug them when they ocurr so they are easily fixable. Or, as Cory Doctorov : “Writing code” is about making code that runs well. “Software engineering” is about making code that fails well". How are we going to maintain the software in the medium and long term? What will we do when it fails? (because inevitabily, all code fails) Shall we start over again? Is then efficient?
Saving resources, both material and human. Is it fair to ask others to read, understand, test, and improve code that can be generated at faster pace than any human can review? Many projects⁴, such as drupal⁵ or some GNU/Linux distributions, are not accepting contributions if the authors cannot explain them, as it suposes a liability but also a waste of resources and time from a team that has already a lot on their plate.

But probably the most important flaw in this framing is how it shifts the paradigm away from processes. Because programing is a never-ending task, it requires constant iteration, improvement, learning… it is, above all, a process. And so it is the learning process that makes you be a (good) programmer. Admittedly, coding is challenging, it requires a series of skills that take time to learn, and even more to master. But once learnt, they are ours, nobody can take that from us. This is what is really empowering. On the other hand, being a promter means relying on something external (AI) to generate code. What will a prompter do if they lose access to those tools? Considering the track history of enshitification and lack of human consideration of these companies, this is not a hypothetical question.

Code linters, Continuous Integration, Automated testing… are examples of such automations that are not AI-powered and have been commonplace in software development. ↩︎
See excerpts from Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska’s The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West at Palantir’s X account: ↩︎
Open-AI cofounder Andrej Karpathy coined the concept of vive coding as this ( ):

There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

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Refer to the for a complete list of software that are not accepting any form of AI, and an exhaustive rationale for not doing that. ↩︎
Drupal’s founder’s blog: “ ” ↩︎

Academic as Activist: The role of academics in facilitating social change

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate OpenStreetMap’s equity: The Good, The Neutral and The Ugly

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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 results about how it is succeeding or failing to foster equity and inclusion.

OSM is the largest and more successful collaborative map of the world. Like Wikipedia, it is based on principles of participation, openness, and neutrality to “map the world as it exists” . To that end, more than 10 million volunteers from different geographies and backgrounds contribute with their local knowledge to add new map features or improve existing ones. Its data, covering the entire globe, is so exhaustive and precise that it complements official data sources and populates thousands of tools and popular services. Moreover, the UN-backed Digital Public Good Alliance recognised in February 2024 OSM as a global Digital Public Good. Enquiring about the world-views embedded in such a crucial project and their mechanisms to avoid inequities against vulnerable communities is critical to understand the values that it produces and reproduces. This is especially relevant in the case of OSM for two reasons. First, because maps shape reality as much as they are shaped by it, for example by influencing the perception of the world, exerting political power and control or affecting mobility, accessibility and consumption patterns, among others. Second, because OSM’s community is estimated to be highly biased towards specific and hegemonic demographics, where white men from Europe and the US are overrepresented.

Our interdisciplinary research draws from critical geography and feminism to investigate how neutrality can be applied to either support or hinder equity. To achieve this, we are teaming up with Geochicas, a community-led organization from Latin America whose mission is to close the gender gap in the OSM community. Together, we are implementing a transformative participatory process aimed at co-designing data visualizations.

For us, data visualizations are not just an output to communicate findings, but a research method used to mediate and provoke ideas, discussions, and reactions that arise from thinking with and about data and its representation, while producing and exploring the data and designing a visualization. Conversely, we understand participation and co-design as a way to consider the particularities of data, tasks, users, context of use and world-views of the participants, which is a condition for creating visualizations which are actually capable of being transformative. The resulting visualizations will be different insofar they will be based on lived experiences and will be informed by feminist principles. As a result, they will be better suited to assess how minoritized demographics—such as gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation—are involved, recognized, or excluded in data production and decision-making within OSM, while also empowering our participants.

We expect our findings to be returned to OSM and inform potential transformation in OSM’s governance, database, and representation that are guided by equity principles. More broadly, we expect the findings to be adapted to other cases of digital goods and initiate similar transformations.

Maps, world-views and neutrality: squaring the circle?

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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 a feature on a map with the right size and location. But that’s what make maps reliable, too. So much so that, besides being part of our everyday lives, scientists use them to assess the effects of drought and deforestation, identify migration patterns or making predictions, amongst others. And yet, all maps are wrong. All of them make assumptions on how the world is or should be, and in so doing, maps have particular built-in world views and become political. They define what is included and what is not, what can and can’t be done with them, and the stories that they convey. In other words: maps shape the world as much as they are shaped by them. In this talk, we will explain how maps are made to understand how they have been used to exert power and how they are still doing so. We will then focus on OpenStreetMap, a collective effort to “map the world as it is”, and how are they succeeding or failing in doing so in an equitable way.

Quarto: a library to run them all? A collaborative exercise to use, learn and assess quarto for authoring reproducible documents in different scenarios

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Using literate programming is a widespread practice amongst data scientists. This practice not only encourages data scientists to produce transparent, rich and reflective accounts of their analysis without the extra overhead of switching between tools, but also leads to artefacts (i.e., notebooks) that are increasingly becoming a medium for dissemination, reproducibility and education. Rmarkdown or Jupyter notebooks, are two of the most well known and used options. While both solutions can be used with multiple programming languages, the decision of whether to use one or the other is almost certain to be exclusively based on that. At least until now, with Quarto being mature enough to become a game-changer.

Quarto is a language-agnostic software based on Pandoc to render files combining markdown and code into multiple ranges of formats and outputs. As a result, it can be used with either R, Python or Julia without any other dependencies.

This collaborative workshop will be structured as follows:

a brief theoretical introduction and instructions;
a task that participants may choose from the different use cases provided (i.e. generating a single document, migrating from Rmarkdown or Jupyter, creating a book or generating interactive content); and
a group discussion and conclusions.

Participants in this workshop have fun while gaining enough depth of breath and practice to evaluate how feasible it is to use Quarto in different scenarios and, ultimately, if it can become the one tool for authoring reproducible scientific or technical documents, regardless of your language of choice.

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Practitioner
Expert

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This workshop is targeted to anyone interested in reproducible publishing, especially if they are looking for a single solution to use regardless of their programming language and are willing to explore with others quarto’s pros and cons, contributing to a group discussion.

Managing R script dependencies: automagic and renv

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:00:06 +0000

At the end of the we had an interesting discussion on the need for reproducibility. This talk introduces the concept of reproducibility and focuses on one of it’s many facets: that of managing R script’s dependencies.

In order to do so, two different methods will be presented, compared and discussed: the simple yet works-out-of-the-box {automagic} and the more complex, yet backed up by RStudio, {renv}

At the end of the session, points in common as well as limitations will be highlighted, hopefully leading to a discussion and opening the door for the second talk of the reproducibility series.

Streetscape Perception Modelling – Theoretical Considerations and Methodological Possibilities

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:00:06 +0000

The influence of features and properties of the urban built-up environment on people’s sense of safety and perception of beauty, social vibrancy, and walkability is a topic of interest of urban geographers, designers, planners, and environmental psychologists alike. Along with emerging forms of data and the computational paradigm of Artificial Intelligence, current GIS, citizen science, and sensor technologies offer exciting technical and methodological possibilities for extracting, representing, and modelling aspects of people’s perception of streetscapes. This workshop aims to explore these possibilities, exchange research experiences, and discuss the theoretical grounds based on which we can operationalise, i.e., model, streetscape perception, particularly based on geospatial technologies.

The workshop will offer an open and interactive environment for researchers of all levels to discuss questions including, but not limited to:

What theoretical frameworks can guide us in extracting, representing, and modelling different streetscape perception aspects of people from different social groups and cultural backgrounds?
Which variables, parameters, and indicators these theoretical frameworks suggest and how can they be reliably extracted based on different digital technologies and participation methods?
Which GIS interfaces, data structures, and visualisations are effective in representing people’s perception of streetscapes as to foster theory development and inform planning and policy design towards more sustainable and inclusive urban spaces?

An outcome of the workshop will be a written summary of the discussed ideas authored by all participants and published in the PLATIAL’21 proceedings. The indicative programme is as follows:

Introduction by the organisers (20 min)
Crash presentations by participants (optional) (20 min)
Break-out group discussions (30 min) + World Café (30 min)
Paper writing outlook (20 min)

Co-creating visualisations about the urban nexus. Some results

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:00:06 +0000

In this talk we present how we have implemented a co-design process with our partners and stakeholders for the creation of “grounded” FEW nexus’ visualisations that enforce decision making on FEW nexus.

Creating Interfaces tools & maps; visualization process

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:00:06 +0000

What is the food-water-energy nexus? How could we make linkages understandable to the stakeholders including city government, academia, business community and civil society when it comes to the food-energy-water nexus?

How do we facilitate cooperation and knowledge exchange among the stakeholders? Is there any tools and methods that can complement each other for a more sustainable and resilient community and governance models?

In this workshop, the project team will present approaches, tools and visualizations developed in the project and discuss with you the replicability and usability for your local context. These are namely ‘Story Maps’ which are forms of visualization for the food-water-energy nexus in cities and our citizen science tool for data collection.

We will provide insights into experiences and lessons learned and support the exchange and networking regarding initiatives for local resilience and sustainability governance. Representatives of municipalities, private sector, academia, and local citizens are welcome to participate and share your feedback and experiences or approaches as well. We will also discuss how different tools and methods can complement each other for a more sustainable and resilient community.

Crowdsourcing research: Accessible Zaragoza and PEST Project

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:00:06 +0000

In this seminar I will present two research projects that share a crowdsourced approach: and . Accessible Zaragoza is an action-research project of collaborative mapping about urban accessibility in the city of Zaragoza (Spain) I led while I was lecturing at the School of Architecture and Technology at San Jorge University. Accessible Zaragoza was aimed to create a collaborative online map that contributes to increase the autonomy of people with functional diversity and hence, their social integration and living standards. PEST Project is the project led by Tim Jones and Ben Spencer at which aims to coproduce an indicators matrix to increase understanding of place-based policy and activity in relation to active travel in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

QGIS.es Website. A (brief) technical overview

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:00:06 +0000

In this QGIS OpenDay I shared an overview about the technical implementation I developed for the QGIS Spanish Association’s website using the Static Site Generator

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Participation and COVID

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:00:06 +0000

Open debate in which we will talk about citizen participation in the times of Covid-19, how the health alarm affects the capacity for participation, how you can see participatory processes and actions transformed, what new tools we should start to introduce, who risks being left behind, and much more.

Collaborative Mapping: Maps for and by citizens

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:00:06 +0000

Last October 19th, I was representing , along with 4 other experiences, in the II Jornadas de Cartografías Colaborativas, organized by , where each one of us explained what we do to drive urban transformation processes through collaborative cartographies. In the session I explained what Collaborative Mapping is and what projects we do (with special emphasis on the Accessible Zaragoza project).

From the ’ blog (automated translation):

Next October 19 in the Albareda Cultural Center of Poble Sec, we will organize the II Conference of Collaborative Cartographies. In this second day we want to create a meeting space between different specialists, collectives and neighbors of the city to reflect on collaborative cartographies used in processes of urban transformation. In this case, unlike last year where there were experiences more focused on digital tools, we have invited examples with face-to-face methodologies that try to generate change or in communities.

This year we have invited five experiences:

Col-lectiu Punt 6 is a cooperative specialised in urbanism and architecture from a feminist perspective that uses collaborative mapping as a tool in various processes linked to the transformation of the city from a gender perspective. We have invited them to explain some mapping tools in terms of gender diagnosis.

Teixidora is a participative project to gather knowledge generated in talks and events, share documentation, explore connections, relate debates and activity to each other and map actors (in general in the techno-social field and the themes they intersect), emphasizing ethical and emancipatory perspectives, giving visibility to critical contributions. We have tested various tools and methodologies to document what is done and contextualize it.

Collaborative Mapping is defined as a space for the creation of collaborative maps at the service of citizens and as tools for decision making, sharing experiences and shaping the way in which we observe reality. For example, they have carried out a project to improve accessibility in the city of Zaragoza, combining face-to-face observations with online mapping tools.

Mapa Taula Urbanisme Veïnal de Barcelona. The TUVB will take advantage of this conference to present the online mapping tool for neighbourhood claims, which aims to serve as a platform for compiling all those urban conflicts and claims made in the city of Barcelona related to processes of urban transformation.

Living maps is a network of researchers, community activists, artists based in London that aims to promote the use of collaborative maps as tools for social change, encourage reflection and debate, public participation and creative forms of community action. In particular, they will present the Citizen Atlas of London, in which various collaborative mapping techniques were implemented with the aim of gathering the citizen’s vision to complement the drafting of the London 2050 Plan.

The day will be between 16.30 and 20.30 hours. We appreciate that if you are interested in participating in the day please register through the [following form] ( .

We wait for you!

Using OpenStreetMap with inclusive purposes: Accessible Zaragoza study case

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:00:06 +0000

SummerLab is a summer camp, a temporary cooperative meeting around topics related to various fields of technology, digital culture, open design and common learning, which brings together benchmark initiatives in these fields.

In its fourth edition, SummerLab proposes a programme that will tackle thematic meetings on data and citizen science during three moments of the summer with the participation of citizens, curious people, technological activists and people from the field of research. SummerLab is mainly a meeting space and its spirit is to share experiences and knowledge around diverse knowledge communities, which is why its operation as an intensive camp allows participants to cooperate, share and work together around the issues raised by the meeting or others linked to their interests or experiences.

In its first summer meeting SummerLab will work around data, citizen participation, privacy and transparency, analysing some of the perspectives that information and the massive treatment of data acquire in the present and doing so from different perspectives and spheres, such as academic, institutional or public-community. The meeting will combine two dynamics, an informative one that will translate into a public lecture with guests of reference projects in these fields and the other, practical or productive that will aim to produce some results through an intensive production workshop.

In its second meeting, in August, SummerLab will focus on astronomy, hosting the traditional annual meeting of citizen astronomy that will offer a series of workshops and observations of the firmament with the aim of bringing this science closer to citizens.

Finally, in September Summerlab 2019 will conclude with a meeting that will try to be a meeting point for citizen science in a broader sense with experiences that work in fields such as bio-hack labs, the environment, food or bioscience.

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On sidewalks, crossings, kerbs, wheelchairs and cranes. #Zaccesibilidad: mapping for disabled people in Zaragoza

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:00:06 +0000

Within the Pint of Science 2019 event in Zaragoza, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo and myself explained what we are doing in Accessible Zaragoza, and action-research project by Universidad San Jorge and Collaborative Mapping, on urban mobility and disabilities.

Past, present and future of 'Zaragoza Accesible' study case

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:00:06 +0000

Today, cities face the greatest challenges in history due to their exponential growth, the concentration of more than half of the world’s population or the increase in wealth and social inequality, among other factors. Fortunately, it is becoming increasingly common to design, plan and manage cities taking into account aspects such as urban mobility, pollution reduction, energy efficiency, access to housing and social equality. This social awareness translates into more liveable, more efficient, fairer cities. However, this planning is usually designed on the basis of the anthropometric subject considered “normal”, paying little attention to functional diversity. Even though the number of people with some type of disability is increasing, their needs are often not taken into account, which makes it difficult or impossible for them to live autonomously and develop a full life.

Aware of this exclusion suffered by people with functional diversity, the research group OpenSource Architectures of the Universidad San Jorge organizes the first International Workshop on urban accessibility: “Inclusive Cities for All” that will take place on June 13 at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Aragón. During that day, representatives of 10 universities from 5 different countries will present their research related to the same topic: the pursue of more inclusive cities that favour the integration of people with functional diversity. Convinced that research must have some return to society if it aims to improve people’s lives, the talks will be open and free for all who want to attend.

The commodifications between ICTs and public space

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:00:06 +0000

The Spatial Apropriation of the Urban Commons

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:00:06 +0000

Commoning the City and the Grassroots

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:00:06 +0000

Sobre sillas, sillitas, bordillos y semáforos sonoros. #zaccesibilidad para la mejora de la movilidad de las personas con diversidad funcional

Sun, 20 May 2018 12:12:06 +0000

Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the beginning of 21st century

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Ponencia de introducción al concepto de los comunes urbanos dentro del marco de la jornada de trabajo Stadt-Teilen – Neue öffentliche Räume und nachbarschaftliche Gemeingüter, liderada por la

PhD Viva: 'Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the Beginning of 21st Century. A characterization proposal from the praxis'

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:00:06 +0000

Aula Abierta: Aprender a construir su futuro

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:44:27 +0000

Presentación realizada junto a Fco. Javier Álvarez en el marco de las “ ” organizadas por la Universidad San Jorge sobre nuestro trabajo realizado en la asignatura de 5º curso “Aula Abierta” y los aspectos innovadores de la misma, que pasan por incorporar el mundo laboral en el currículo educativo desde el principio de la asignatura, la enseñanza por proyectos y centrada en el alumno, la incorporación de juegos como recurso educativo para formentar la creatividad, la síntesis y la reflexión o mecanismos de auto-evaluación que hemos llamado “Business Angels”.

Urbanismo y participación ciudadana: una introducción al derecho a la ciudad

Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:38:53 +0000

Hacking Urban Space: Intervenciones y posibilidades paradigmáticas de reapropiación del espacio urbano: Catálogo de buenas prácticas

Wed, 27 May 2015 22:21:49 +0000

Apuntes sobre ciudades postburbuja: los comunes urbanos en barcelona

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:26:18 +0000

Producción colaborativa entre iguales y ciudad. Una aproximación

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:33:00 +0000

Scrum: una retrospectiva

Tue, 20 May 2014 23:39:05 +0000

Mapas y drupal, o cómo no perderse en el intento

Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:17:26 +0000

“Pensamiento global, actuación local”: Una forma de afrontar los retos de futuro en la educación universitaria de la arquitectura: el caso de Herramientas Digitales

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:09:27 +0000

Sesión "Pensamiento global, actuación local, una forma de afrontar los retos de futuro en la enseñanza universitaria de arquitectura: el caso de Herramientas Digitales" en las Jornadas Científicas Internacionales COAC 2012 sobre arquitectura, educación y sociedad organizado conjuntamente por el el Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña y la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona.

La ponencia se enmarca en el bloque relacionado con la enseñanza universitaria de arquitectura, y reivindica el poder que tenemos los profesores de incidir de forma humilde pero efectiva en tratar de dar respuesta a algunos de los problemas de los que adolece la educación universitaria en general y de la arquitectura en particular mediante pequeños ajustes en nuestras respectivas asignaturas, siguiendo la máxima de pensar globalmente y actuar localmente. Y para demostrarlo muestra la experiencia personal en la confección del plan de estudios de la asignatura que imparto en la ETSA de la Universidad San Jorge, Herramientas Digitales, que si bien dista mucho de ser perfecta y tiene, por supuesto, algunos aspectos mejorables, ofrece una visión de la arquitectura actualizada y acorde con el contexto presente.

Debate: Arquitectos para la participación ciudadana

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:10:52 +0000

+arquitectura en el foro Arquia/Proxima

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:38:50 +0000

El foro arquia/Próxima es un programa de la Fundación Caja de Arquitectos que tiene como objetivo documentar y mostrar lo que hacen los jóvenes arquitectos españoles. De entre todos los participantes se seleccionaron 128 realizaciones para formar parte de la publicación, 28 de las cuales tenían, además, la oportunidad de presentarlas en el auditorio de la ETSA de Valencia. Cada uno de los seleccionados teníamos exactamente 7 minutos para contar las claves necesarias para entender nuestra realización.