Democratic Society

City Learning Manager

VOLUMES

VOLUMES is a global innovation laboratory committed to supporting the emergence of local ecosystems for positive impact through research, consulting and training in the field of social innovation, circular economy, sustainable food and digital fabrication.

Started in 2015 as the first prototype of Creative and Productive Hub in Paris, Volumes has hosted some of the most vibrant communities of the Parisian social innovation scene and powered a number of initiatives that grew out into independent organizations, including one of the first Foodlab in Europe, a Makerspace, the Fab City Grand Paris initiative and the cooperative Oasis 21.

Volumes is involved in several research projects and runs a number of educational programs, while supporting and consulting different public and private organizations through Europe.

Associate Managing Director

CivicWise

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

I co-founded CivicWise during a London residency to promote collaborative urbanism and civic
engagement with simultaneous international and local dimensions. The organisation's objective is to
facilitate knowledge exchange at a global level that promotes activities in local contexts, and it is
based on a model of distributed governance, where projects are developed locally by independent
local nodes.

Instigator and Co-founder

Fairbnb.coop

A non extractive alternative to the current vacation rental platforms, that works to connect conscious travelers with fair hosts to promote stronger, more sustainable and equitable communities around the world.

I was in charge of coordinating the actions that will allow the fairbnb.coop alternative platform to operate in direct connection with the local communities, while respecting the right to housing and generating circular economy processes.

My work was focused on generating an innovative connection between the digital platform and the local communities including citizens, hosts and local administrations. One of my main responsibilities was the management of the team in charge of the relationship with the ambassadors and the local administrations.

Community Lead

Buenos Aires City Government

Consulting and training on Civic Design and Innovation for the Urban Anthropology area of the Ministry of Urban Development of the City of Buenos Aires.

Independent Consultant

Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional

Tequendama International Center (CIT) Redevelopment Plan. Integral activation strategy with a Smart City approach.

Labora. Servicio Valenciano de Empleo y Formación

Consultant in Civic Innovation and Design Thinking for the Valencian Employment and Training Service. 
In this project I have been invited to collaborate by the Valencian agency CARPE (https://carpe.studio/)

The process has focused on experimenting spaces, tools and participatory methodologies that accommodate new dynamics within the entity. This approach has allowed to generate horizontal communication spaces where to find specific improvement fields, work on them and implement them through the collaboration of all the people close to the entity: internal staff, citizens, companies and collaborating entities.

UNDP

Coordination of a master plan for the City of Guatemala's smart city strategy as the United Nations
Development Programme's (UNDP) international expert. To deliver this project I worked directly
with a range of actors from the municipal authority, technical experts, and politicians, to a series of
private and public entities.

International Consultant

Partido Alianza Verde (Colombia)

Consultant for the expanded education course on "Political Innovation".

Cercamia

Cercamia, a complementary and glocal currency platform for the promotion of collaborative processes for local communities connected at a global level.
My role in this startup was to foster the development of the community around the platform by promoting synergies and collaborations both locally and globally.

Synergy Officer

Civic Designer, Researcher, Consultant, Entrepreneur and Activist. I design and develop processes and tools to help local authorities, organizations, companies and universities to collaborate with citizens for the common good.

I am an international consultant on urban and regional policies with special focus on Citizen Urbanism and Civic Design processes.

I am a promoter of several spaces, networks, platforms and communities known for their capacity for innovation, civic transformation and development of alternative economic models. Among them are Volumes Lab in Paris, Factoría Cívica in Valencia, the platform Ciudades Comunes, the international network CivicWise, and the Escuela de Innovación Cívica.

I am driven by professional and entrepreneurial action with purpose, which is why I have also collaborated with projects such as Fairbnb.coop and Cercamia to move from theory to action and to transform consolidated social and economic practices towards fairer and more respectful models of local communities. 

I am the biggest global promoter of the practice of Civic Design, for this I often hold conferences, coordinate workshops and specialized courses, as well as edit publications and research among which the Whitepaper of the Civic Design Method stands out.

I teach in different universities in Europe and Latin America.

Domenico Di Siena

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)

Visiting Researcher

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Transdisciplinary researcher, Beatriu de Pinos Fellow

CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research

Researcher

 Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership

Alumni

IED Barcelona

Interdisciplinary projects (designing for the many, united in yachting, Master in Design for Urban Environment, Module on Tech Transitions)

Lecturer

TrUST - Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability Transitions

2019 | 
Principal Investigator at TrUST - Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability Transition. It is a research project that aims at a better understanding of how to achieve more efficient and effective inter/trans-disciplinary research and education for urban sustainability transitions.

Principal Investigator

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Master's Degree in City Resilience Design and Management - Module of News And career path aiming at building a community of practice.

Politecnico di Torino

To support decision-making for sustainability transformations requires more than what a classic approach to appraisal and valuation can do. That is why I am now interested in social practices of SSH-STEM Collaboration, Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Co-creative/Participatory Engagements, Integration Science, Team Science, Organizational Change, International Liaisons Management, System Dynamic, Transformative Sustainability Education and Innovative Learning Tools for Sustainability. I acquired those competencies in my working life not only as a practitioner but also as a researcher – sometimes as an academic, sometimes as a consultant with public and private stakeholders. Over the past ten years, I have accumulated expertise in the design, management, monitoring and impact assessment of research programmes and projects, especially those relating to the built environment and energy transitions. I love to be involved in these projects, both in the carving of the proposal and its actual implementation, especially as an event and workshop organiser and facilitator. The transdisciplinary literacy learned by doing and envisioning stakeholder dialogue exercises has taken me all over European and overseas Universities, learning from the best how to cope with uncertainties and how to share a meaningful, new, regenerative sustainability paradigm.

Assistant Professor in Decision Making for SDGs

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Polytechnic of Turin in the following projects (Marie-Curie, FP7, H2020 funded) | 2013– on going

o	Shape-Energy: Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy, a €2m investment through the EU Horizon 2020 programme - www.shapeenergy.eu
o	COST action Restore: REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy - https://eurestore.wordpress.com/
o	“URBE – Understanding the Relationship Between Urban Form and Energy Consumption Through Behavioral Patterns”, Siebel Grant 2016
o	“HOME – Human Observation Meta Environment, in collaboration with HER- Human Ecosystem Relazioni, UniTO GreenTO, DIST department.
o	Italian Network of Sustainable Campuses (RUS), Energy and Education working gropus
o	UNI-Metrics: Value Metrics and Policies for a Sustainable University Campus
o	DIMMER: District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction
o	S3+Lab: Urban Sustainability & security laboratory for social challenges
o	MILESECURE-2050: Multidimensional impact of the low carbon European strategy on energy security, and socio-economic dimension up to 2050 perspective
o	EIT ICT LAB: action line "SES Smart Energy Systems”, in collaboration with INRIA (FR) and the Department of politics, cultures and society of the University of Turin 
o	Territories in Crisis: the retooling of architecture and urban planning facing of changing economic and institutional logics / with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
o	POLITOWARD: Toward a tangibly sustainable university campus. Project Manager, Communication Manager, Web Manager. Info: www.politoward.org
o	POCACITO: Post-Carbon City of Tomorrow 
o	ICT2B - Bridging the Entrepreneurial Gap, Transforming European ICT research into Investment Opportunities. Fraunhofer - Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertun http://www.ict2b.org/

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I am co-managing the new-born Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO) “Green Team”, an internal group of professors, students, administrative staff and researchers that encourages PoliTO to address environmental and social challenges. This team is intended to lead the PoliTO towards the university sustainability mission, as stated in the Horizon 2020 strategic plan: a comprehensive integration of sustainability into the university research, teaching, outreach and operations that prepares students, faculty and staff to be sustainability leaders in their professional, personal and civic lives. My task so far included:
- the support for the creation of a Green Team student, with the organisation of a Green Storming event and call for bottom-up ideas for co-creating the University' sustainability policies and actions of 2018
- coordinating, organising and promoting Green Team activities during the Night of Researchers (September 29, 2017), with a stand on projects in various areas (waste, food, mobility, energy, education, urban outreach)
- listening and reporting in the decision-making meetings initiatives and ideas by students and teachers gathered via mail, facebook, or during public events
- creating and updating the Sustainable Path website, coordinating the part time resources that helps the Green Team office on communication issues (www.campus-sostenibile.polito.it)
To this I added another web site, designed and managed entirely by me, created for the sustainability week and other urban outreach events: www.politoward.org 
- Advising PoliTo's government bodies on issues related to environmental sustainability at the University
- writing and publishing the Politecnico's sustainability report (November 2016)
- Organising the first "sustainability week", a week of events, exhibitions, debates and many initiatives dedicated to sustainability, with 50 events, more than 200 contributions (events, exhibitions, graduate theses, posters) and more than 1,500 people involved

Sustainability Manager

Pontificia Universidad Cat��lica de Chile

Humboldt University of Berlin

Titles | 
PhD in Environment and Territory, MSc in Renewable Energy and Architecture, MArch in Architecture and Building Engineering, Chartered Architect

Current roles | 
Transdisciplinary Researcher, Beatriu de Pinos fellow at ISST - institute for sustainability science and technology, universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - perspective MCSA individual fellow at the institute of global health - ISGlobal, Spain. Former post doc at CENSE (Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Lisbon); Alumni at the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership (Berlin & Multiple Locations); Lecturer at the MSc in Urban Resilience, UIC, Barcelona); Professor at the MSc in Urban Tech Transition, IED, Barcelona), habilitated as associate professor in a Italy and Spain. 

Skills | 
Interaction and Implementation Expert, Advocate of subversiveness, Problem Framer, Interdisciplinary Executive Scientist, Sustainability Transition Manager, Transformative Learning Designer and Facilitator 

Research topics | 

SSH-STEM Collaboration, Transdisciplinary Research Methods, University Campus Sustainability Management, Sustainability Education, Transformative Learning.

My motto |
Be the change you want to see in the world!

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