Urban Pedagogy

Urban pedagogy addresses various entities and institutions such as educational centers, universities, administrations, and associations. Through this service, it promotes awareness and citizen participation in the management of public space and cooperative urbanism. Through workshops, lectures, and practical activities, the cooperative provides knowledge and tools to encourage learning about the importance of public space and its influence on people’s quality of life. This service aims to involve and empower participants, inspiring them to become active agents in the transformation of towns and cities towards more inclusive, sustainable, and participatory models.

 

Throughout this professional and emotional journey, which we have woven with different individuals, teams, administrations, and institutions we have collaborated with, we have gained learnings and experiences that we do not hesitate to share whenever we can.

This collective knowledge is a living, growing, and changing archive that we spread in the places and ways listed below.

  • Educational units at educational centers
  • Training and seminars at universities
  • Open talks for the public
  • Training for public administrations
  • Workshops and educational activities in public spaces
  • Articles and publications
  • European projects focused on empowering and including young people in decision-making processes for the city and public spaces.

Conferences

  • Conference at the Association of Architects of Ontinyent, Valencia 2012.
  • Conference at the Town Hall of Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia 2012.
  • Lecture at Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2013.
  • Conference “Children, architecture and the city” at the Vallès School of Architecture and Engineering (ETSAV), Sant Cugat 2014.
  • Presentation at the Conference “Interaction 15: Joan Miró Square Project” organized by Barcelona Provincial Council and the Mancomunitat de Catalunya, Barcelona 2015. (more information)
  • Presentation at the meeting “Local Culture and Construction of Citizenship”, Madrid 2015. (more information)
  • Presentation at the Habitat III Congress “Public Spaces”, “Participatory Culture: Public Space and Decision-Making Processes“, Barcelona 2016. (more information)
  • Presentation “Techniques for studying everyday life” organized by the Master’s Degree in Design and Production of Spaces at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona 2016.
  • Presentation at the “Thinking Through the Future of Memory” conference entitled “Negotiating Cultural Identities and memory in post-conflict space. The memorial landscapes of Nicosia ”, Amsterdam 2016.
  • Presentation at the Conference “Temporary use of empty spaces” organized by the Barcelona Provincial Council, ​​Montbui 2017 (more information)
  • Presentation “Transforming the collective spaces through a collaborative urban diagnosis involving citizens, technician and administration“, University of Nicosia, Cyprus 2017. (more information)
  • Presentation at the conference “Spaces for the collective construction of the city” organized by Civic Factory Fest, Valencia 2017.
  • Jury at the AJAC XI Awards, Barcelona 2018. (more information)
  • Jury of the Urban Design Program at the University of Oregon, Barcelona 2018.
  • Presentation at the Action Research Conference on Urban Hypnopedia, Valencia 2018.
  • Participation in the round table “The city from a gender perspective“, Valencia 2018. (more information)
  • Paper at the Urban Engendering Conference October, Madrid 2018. (more information)
  • Presentation “Designing processes and spaces” at the Technical School of Architecture of Valencia (ETSAV), Valencia 2018. (more information)
  • Presentation “Rambles Cooperative Process” in the Master of Urban and Territorial Development of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona 2018.
  • Presentation of the Rambles Cooperative Process at the Vallès School of Architecture and Engineering (ETSAV), Sant Cugat 2018
  • Presentation “Strategies for the rescue of Ramblas of Barcelona” at Fundación Arquia for the Chalmers tekniska högskola (Gothenburg), Barcelona 2018.
  • Round table: Participatescapes “Las Ramblas: the collective story“, Barcelona 2019.
  • Presentation “Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Making cities with people for people” at the Cyprus University of Technology, organised by Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber, Lemesos 2020 (more information)
  • Presentation “Collaborative Urbanism” at the Master of Landscape Architecture (MBLandArch) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 2020.
  • Presentation at  “EERA Network 14 / Online Symposium on “Democratising the Urban City through Education Theory, Policy and Practice“, 2021 (more information)
  • Presentation of the participatory process  “FEM PARC!” awarded in the AJAC XII AWARDS at the round table “in-experiencies” organized by AJAC and COAC, Sabadell 2022
  • Presentation “Importance of the urban environment in the development of children and young people in our municipality“, Sant Feliu de Codines, 2022
  • Presentation “Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes”, Lefkosia, 2022
  • Moderation of the round table “Sabadell, a city with universal accessibility?“, Sabadell, 2022
  • Organization of the cycle of talks “People’s urbanism” framed in the “En Òrbita by *estel” project, a singular project promoted by the Economia Social, the Generalitat de Catalunya (Department of Enterprise and Work) and financed by the Ministerio de Trabajo y Social Economy and the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal, Sabadell, 2022

Publications

  • Paper presentation at the BIA Urban Regeneration Forum, Bilbao 2014. (more information)
  • Paper presentation at the Sensitive City Congress, Valencia 2015. (more information)
  • Article in Paisea 031: “The square we want”, Valencia 2015 (more information)
  • Exhibition of Catalan Architecture: Pla Estel * Joan Miró organized by COAC, Terrassa 2016. (more information)
  • Bank of Good Practices: Pla estel * Montornès, Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia, Montornès 2017 (more information)
  • Publication of Barcelona Provincial Council “New parameters for the design of public space”, Barcelona 2018.
  • Handbook for the everyday urban planning: Urbanism with a gender perspective, Barcelona 2019. (more information)
  • Study for the Incorporation of the gender perspective in the implementation and design of municipal facilities in Barcelona, ​​Barcelona, ​​2019 (more information)
  • Participation in the article “Tι σήμανε η καραντίνα για την Αθήνα και τους Αθηναίους; (“What did the lockdown mean for Athens and its people?)” for the Greek digital newspaper monopoli.gr 2020.
  • Tactical guide for School Pathways in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Sant Boi de Llobregat, 2020.
  • “Citizen participation: where is Sabadell going?”, Interview in the Sabadell newspaper, 2021(more information)
  • “Les inspectores de l’Eixample”, Interview in the ARA newspaper, 2021 (more information)
  • “Els carrers de l’Eixample si manessin els nens: tirolines als xamfrans”, Interview in the ARA newspaper, 2021 (more information)
  • “Redibuixar les ciutats canviant la perspectiva”, Interview in the Directa newspaper, 2021 (more information)

Teaching activity

  • Progress Workshop / ECO-UNION: “Socio-Spatial Skill-Building”, Barcelona 2017.(more information)
  • Workshop “Contested city and urban activism”, organized for Polis ll Platform for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, TU Delft, Barcelona 2019.
  • Teaching in the course: “Citizen participation“, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña 2019.
  • Teaching in the course: “The community use of public space“, Barcelona 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
  • Teaching in the course: “Coeducation: Social changes and gender identity in the classroom“, University of Alicante, Benissa, 2019.
  • Workshop “Making City“, Col·lectiu Ludantia i Proxecto Terra, Santiago de Compostela, 2019.
  • Workshop on “Transformation of Bruges Square” organized by Ca Revolta, Valencia 2020.
  • Training talk on inclusive public spaces: “Thinking about Vacarisses common nightlife spaces” at Vacarisses City Council, 2020.
  • Thematic walk: “The Street: A Meeting place. Rethink how to make the streets a safer place for everyone.” Framed in the “Fem Pinya” program promoted by Espai Coneix, Montmeló 2021.
  • Teaching in the course Sustainable Mobility and Territory “Urbanism with gender perspective”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2022
  • Seminar “Everyday Urbanism: Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes” at the Master’s Degree in Urban Design for Healthy Cities, UIC, Barcelona, 2022
  • Course teaching: “Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes“, University of Colorado Denver, 2022

Awards

  • AJAC Award in the category of Participatory Processes, for the work presented under the motto “FEM PARC!” in the AJAC XII AWARDS  for projects carried out during the biennium 2018-2020 (more information)
  • Finalists in the New European Bauhaus Awards for the “MySquare” project, 2023 (more information)