Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Architect. PhD. Lecturer. Life-long Learner. Transdisciplinary.

Universidad San Jorge

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

I am a versatile, transdisciplinary and passionate person with a mixed technical and sociological background: I’ve worked as an architect, drupal developer, project manager, lecturer, researcher and as a data scientist, doing data munging and visualization using R and dealing with geospatial data using QGIS.

My multiple research interests are framed within the Urban Studies, and more specifically around the commodifications between cities, technology and society. So far, I have focused on the topic of social and spatial inequities to find ways in which cities can be more sustainable and egalitarian, hence improving people’s well-being. +info about me.

Interests

Cities
Tecnology
Society
Commons
Maps
Data Science
Data Viz

Education

PhD on Information and Knowledge Society, 2018
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Msc on Information and Knowledge Society, 2012
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
MSC Architecture, 2004
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Selected publications

Urban Commons and the Production of Alternatives to the Neoliberal City

Within a context of austerity, city governance policies have been devoted to attracting capital either from external sources or by a …

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Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the Beginning of 21st Century. A characterization proposal from the praxis

The concept of the commons is as strongly suggestive as ambiguous. This is evidenced by the growing interest in recent years which …

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Recent publications

Ivan serrano Balaguer, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Hug March Corbella, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Mar Satorras Grau (2020). What's urgent vs what's important: a reflection from the urban geographies of the pandemic. Asociación Española de Geografía.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo (2019). Urban Commons and the Production of Alternatives to the Neoliberal City. Disciplines of the City: New Forms of Governance in Today’s Postmetropolises.

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Ana Ruiz, Jorge León Casero (2018). Accessible Zaragoza: A Practical Case Of Integration Of GIS With Social Purposes In The Educational Curriculum Of Architecture’s Degree. JIDA 5. Textos de Arquitectura, Docencia e Innovación.

Project

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo (2018). Urban Commons: Lessons from Barcelona at the Beginning of 21st Century. A characterization proposal from the praxis. PhD. Theses.

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Ana Ruiz, Rafael Temes Córdovez, Carlos Cámara-Menoyo (2018). Accessibility and collaborative information technologies. Cartographies for an inclusive city. Bitácora Urbano Territorial.

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Talks

Collaborative Mapping: Maps for and by citizens

Last October 19th, I was representing Collaborative Mapping, along with 4 other experiences, in the II Jornadas de Cartografías Colaborativas, organized by Raons Públiques, where each one of us explained what we do to drive urban transformation processes through collaborative cartographies. In the session I explained what Collaborative Mapping is and what projects we do (with special emphasis on the Accessible Zaragoza project). From the Raons Públiques’ blog (automated translation):

Oct 19, 2019 16:30 — 20:30 Centre Cultural Albareda. Barcelona

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Using OpenStreetMap with inclusive purposes: Accessible Zaragoza study case

Zaragoza Accesible is an action-research project that collectively maps aspects related to urban accessibility and disability. In this …

Jun 26, 2019 10:30 — 11:10 Tabakalera. Donostia/San Sebastian

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Past, present and future of 'Zaragoza Accesible' study case

Improving handicapped people’s autonomy through collaborative mapping

Jun 13, 2019 16:30 Zaragoza

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On sidewalks, crossings, kerbs, wheelchairs and cranes. #Zaccesibilidad: mapping for disabled people in Zaragoza

Within the Pint of Science 2019 event in Zaragoza, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo and myself explained what we are doing in Accessible Zaragoza, and action-research project by Universidad San Jorge and Collaborative Mapping, on urban mobility and disabilities.

May 22, 2019 18:30 Zaragoza

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The commodifications between ICTs and public space

Can Information and Communication Technologies be tools for observing and acting on heritage and public space from a contemporary …

Dec 13, 2018 16:00 Diputación de Córdoba. Córdoba.

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Blog

Most recent blog posts (in English)

Learning data science with COVID19

I confess: during these days of lock down, I have toying with dashboards and infographics about COVID19 outbreak, just like everyone else. And I am not ashamed to admit that I am proud of the results I have achieved: I have made an interactive dashboards with nice plots, some formatted tables and even some (basic) maps. Everything with a few lines of code1. And yet, it is flawed. And yet, I will keep improving it.

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Last updated on Jun 27, 2020 2 min read Data Science

Reeling in the Years. 12 Years are Nothing (or Perhaps they Are)

It’s nothing new to say that buildings age over time. Or that, like people, they can age well or not so well. José María Echarte wrote an article in this blog about how to age well (and how to appreciate age). Today I want to talk about just the opposite. A few days ago, I wanted to show some friends a building. We’d had a reunion and were in the neighbourhood, so I wanted to grab the opportunity to go with them to take a look at a building they hadn’t yet been able to see.

Last updated on Apr 14, 2020 3 min read Architecture

Looking for the 'perfect' presentations' solution (for me)

During the last 10 years I have given a number of talks in various contexts due to my job as a lecturer: either lectures for my students, conferences, workshops or even much more informal events, usually speaking about cities, commons, maps or accessibility. I enjoy it because I love sharing knowledge with others but also because it is when I am preparing presentations (by summarising and highlighting the main topics or thinking of the storytelling) where I reflect and learn the most.

Last updated on Apr 26, 2020 10 min read Data Viz

Digital Privacy Workshop: a chronicle

In this post I will share my experience as attendee to Reconfigure Workshop. Reconfigure is a group of feminist cybersecurity advocates & researchers seeking to engage with groups excluded from tech and improve industry and academia

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Last updated on Apr 25, 2020 6 min read Technopolitics, Digital Humanities

'The Three Little Pigs' is a Fairy Tale

«Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived in a wood. The big bad wolf was always chasing them and trying to eat them, so one day the eldest said, “We have to build a house to protect ourselves from the wolf. Then we could hide inside it every time he comes round.”» We all know how the story of those three little builder pigs continues.

Last updated on Mar 29, 2020 3 min read Architecture