Qualifications and academic training

• Social Sciences – University of Barcelona
• Master in Information and Knowledge Society – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Activity and/or professional career

He shares learning spaces at Elisava, UOC, IED and ESCAC, among others, where he weaves relationships between Media studies, critical thinking, social sciences, speculative practices and research through art and design. He is co-founder of Becoming, a futures design and research studio, and a member of the Holon Transitional Design Cooperative. His work has been presented at MACBA, The Influencers, Hangar, Sónar + D (Barcelona), Medialab Prado (Madrid), Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam) and The New School (New York), among others. He writes in different media and his work has been published in books such as Crossmedia Innovations (Peter Lang, 2012) and Design Does (Elisava, 2018). He is part of the IN3 / UOC Technopolitics research group, oriented towards thinking about the key challenges of contemporary digital cultures, societies and policies from a critical and purposeful approach. Through Engineering Fiction he observes and experiments with the fictional and mythological components of technological and scientific systems.

Investigation

He investigates how the technology industry, politics, finance and infrastructure are entangled with narratives, expectations and imaginaries to produce certain forms of knowledge and collective visions of the future.

• Prefiguration and fiction in the technopolitical transition, Grupo Tecnopolítica, Communication Networks & Social Change, Barcelona (2023)
• Coordinator of Port 0 - Research group in critical and speculative design funded by the European project H2020 Helios for the development of a decentralized social network, Barcelona (2018-2021)
• IN3-UOC - Technopolitical Group, Communication Networks & Social Change, researcher, (2018-2019)
• DECODE, European project, developing the Digital Democracy and Data Commons (DDDC) tool, Barcelona (2018-2019)
• Portugal Control Wars, an itinerant space for collaborative research-fiction; Barcelona, Madrid, Eindhoven, New York, Porto. As part of Becoming (2018-2023)
• Person-Centered Research Phase Coordination, European Institute of Design; coordination of the person-centered research phase in the design of assistive technologies for people with functional diversity, Barcelona (2017-2018)
• Research and curating advice - Elisava, Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Domestic Data Streamers; development of contextual content for the Domestic Data Streamers exhibition, Barcelona (2018)
• CoBoi, Civic Laboratory of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; research in collaborative practices and social innovation, collaborator; Sant Boi, Barcelona (2015-2017)
• Coordination of Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things, collaborative research. Self-managed project with the collaboration of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Technological and narrative experimentation, Barcelona (2015-2016)

Publications

• Consensual (Design) Fictions: co-creating iterative use cases to define technology conceptualization, in collaboration. Design Culture(s), Cumulus Rome. Proceedings (2021)
• Data Control Wars: Collaborative Fiction, Transition Design and Technological Sovereignty, in collaboration. Temes de Disseny, (36), 208-239 (2020)
• Diffractive Interfaces: diffraction with artistic research methodology, in collaboration. Artnodes, 20 (2017)
• FIXTIONS. Collaborative fictions to intervene from speculation in emerging realities. Temes de Disseny, (33), 42-53 (2017)
• Collaborative storytelling as soft technology: functions, applications and challenges. AusArt, 4, 2 (2016)
• Each mode of transparency implies a certain amount of opacity: an interview with Matthew Fuller. Interface Politics International Conference. GREDITS. Bau, Barcelona University Design Center (2016)
• Manifest Interface. Interface Politics International Conference, in collaboration.. GREDITS. Bau, Barcelona University Design Center (2016)

Work

• Control Wars - Traveling collaborative research-fiction space, Becoming (2018-2023)
• Las Erres / The future of degrowth - Installation for the exhibition The Great Imagination, - Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Becoming (2020 – 2021)
• Sprae Vita - Installation for the exhibition Mars the Red Mirror, CCCB, Barcelona (2020-2021)
• The condenser of tomorrow. Installation in public space, Science Festival, Becoming (2017)
• Conversational Implant. Interactive installation, Becoming, Robots: humans and machines, Cosmocaixa (2018) and El futuro quotidiano, Disseny Hub (2017)

Awards

• Scholarship "Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2020" - line "hybrid projects (2021)
• Office of Support for the Cultural Initiative (OSIC) Grant for research and innovation in the fields of visual arts, new creative sectors, performing arts, music and thought. Mention: theoretical research (2020)

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