Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Augsburg, 1971) is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. She has carried out research into urbanisation processes linked to migration, informal…
Last week we welcomed again our guest professor Torange Khonsari from London Metropolitan University, where she leads the MA for Cultural Commons, to host our workshop on Participatory Planning and…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bellvitge, a working class peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona that became one of the largest residential complexes in Europe when it was constructed in…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Community participation is at the core of sustainable development. But what happens when participation is mandatory? Our student Kimberly Pelkofsky, currently interning with ASA studio in Kigali, contemplates the case…
If you have followed our updates over the last few months, you already know about one of this year’s main focal points, the Ciutat Meridiana workshop, an academic exercise and…
A student listens to a local resident to map her daily routes and accessibility issues through the steep topography of the neighborhood As we announced on Friday, our students set…
In an urban action organized by our masters group together with the local municipality, students will be hosting a community participation session in Ciutat Meridiana, tomorrow December 1st as part…
In the 2010-2011 edition of our masters program, we partnered up with the architectural non-profit Architecture for Humanity, a San Francisco-based but internationally-operating organization that brings architectural services to communities…
The Missing Links: Establishing Evidence-based Design in Maternity Health Care by Victoria Swan | Supervisor: Raquel Colacios This thesis is intended as an articulation of distinctions between personal relationships in…