University Courses and Seminars

Conferencies

We offer a wide range of courses and seminars at universities, aimed at fostering knowledge and skills in various areas of cooperative urbanism, sustainable mobility, gender perspective, child perspective, accessibility, and interculturality. Our programs are designed to provide solid theoretical training and enriching practical experience.

One-Week Seminar:
"EVERYDAY URBANISM: COOPERATIVE URBAN TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES"

The seminar “Everyday Urbanism: Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes” creates a space for reflection and a practice lab to ensure community well-being in urban transformation processes. This course aims, on the one hand, to enhance cooperation among students, recognize each other’s “superpowers,” and federate the group’s abilities. On the other hand, it helps them create a toolkit and methodology for cooperative urban transformation that can be adapted to different locations and contexts.

Through this seminar, students will learn to approach a project with quantitative and qualitative criteria, using the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology. During the seminar, students will cooperate to make in-situ observations of a public space, interview experts from various disciplines, and develop methodologies to incorporate the citizen perspective and unrepresented groups. The result of this one-week seminar will be the co-design of their own urban transformation process.



Hourly Presentations at Universities

We offer hourly presentations at universities on topics related to cooperative urbanism, gender perspective, child perspective, sustainable mobility, accessibility, and interculturality. These presentations provide a general and in-depth view of these crucial topics, fostering debate and learning among students.

We are open to new collaborations and exploring new ways to train the new generations of policy-makers. For more information, contact us at info@plaestel.org.



Some of the seminars and presentations at universities in which we have participated:

  • Seminar “Everyday Urbanism: Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes” in the Master’s Degree in Urban Design for Healthy Cities, UIC, Barcelona, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Presentation “Collaborative Urbanism” at the Master of Landscape Architecture (MBLandArch) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 2020, 2022, 2023,2024
  • Course: “Participatory Urbanism: Community Design for City Transformation”, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Ciudad de México, Mexico, 2024
  • Teaching in the course: “Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes”, University of Colorado Denver, 2022, 2024
  • Teaching in the course: Sustainable Mobility and Territory “Urbanism with a Gender Perspective”, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 2022
  • Teaching in the course: “Coeducation: Social Changes and Gender Identity in the Classroom”, University of Alicante, Benissa 2019
  • Teaching in the course: “Citizen Participation”, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 2019
  • Progress Workshop/ ECO-UNION: “Socio-Spatial Skill-Building”, Barcelona 2017
  • Lecture “Children, architecture and the city” at the Vallès School of Architecture and Engineering (ETSAV), Sant Cugat 2014.
  • Lecture at Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2013.