The Universal Declaration of Urban Rights

Urban beings

Urban Beings are the people, collectives, organisations and institutions that make up the UR_NET and contribute, through different forms of participation and from different territories, to the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights.

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Espacio Bellas Vistas cultural association

Espacio Bellas Vistas is a neighbourhood cultural association rooted in Bellas Vistas and other parts of Tetuán, Madrid. It builds community through everyday activities and acts as a meeting point for neighbourhood groups and local initiatives.

Colectivo Warehouse

Lisboa / Portugal

Organization

Warehouse is an architecture and art collective founded in 2013. Partners: Meds Reaction Lx, Collaborators: Rúben Teodoro, Ricardo Morais, João Peixe, Diogo Anjos, Anna Buono, Aída Asecas, Nuno Silva and Tiago. http://warehouse.pt/projects/parlamento-urbano-lisboa/

GEA 21

Madrid / Spain

Organization

Grupo de Estudios y Alternativas 21, S.L.

Democratic Society

Bruxelles / Distributed / Belgique / Europe

Organization

Democratic Society is a network of people working to create a democracy that works for the 21st century. We undertake practical projects, conduct research and build new democratic infrastructure that lets people involve themselves in the decisions that shape their lives. Based in Brussels but with offices across Europe, we work to build a democracy […]

Lucía Pérez

Madrid / Spain

Individual

4ºESO student in IES Ramiro de Maeztu and Urban Rights observer for a week.

Constanze Flamme

Berlin / Germany

Individual

Constanze Flamme is an independent documentary photographer based in Berlin and feels home on the road and in motion.

Paula Erstmann

Berlin

Individual

Tasty visuals, edible arrangements & art cuisine

Alfonso Sánchez Uzábal

Ariège / Couserans / Oust / France / Spain

Individual

#freesoftware #datacommons #digitalcommons. Involved in @montera34 @civicwise @lab_place.
Mastodon: @skotperez@social.coop. PGP: http://voragine.net/skotperez.asc

PanDam Magazine

Netherlands

Organization

PanDam is an Amsterdam-based online magazine that aims to capture the urban dynamics and cultural developments of the city.

P2P Foundation

Thesprotia

Organization

Since 2005, the P2P Foundation has been researching, cataloging and advocating for the potential of P2P and Commons-based approaches to societal and consciousness change.

FAHRE associati

Bologna / Modena / Italy

Organization

Ci sono luoghi dove la bellezza è tanto magnetica quanto nascosta, impervia, di non facile accesso. È qui che l’architettura ha il compito di rendere i tesori paesaggistici aperti a tutti senza intaccarne l’identità, rispettandone l’anima. È da questa idea che nasce Fahre, lo studio di architettura dedicato ad una mobilità a due ruote ed […]

Intermediae

Madrid

Organization

@intermediaeEspacio de creación de proyectos artísticos y experimentales de perspectiva comunitaria y social de
@mataderomadrid.

Eme3

Barcelona / Spain

Organization

Mariana Pestana

Portugal

Individual

@marianapestana_ is architect & Curator/ Co-founder @the_decorators

José Luis de Vicente

Manchester / United Kingdom

Individual

@Macroscopist New Media propagandist. head curator at @sonarplusd, faculty at @iaac, exhibitions at plenty of places Recently: #tentacularfestival #llumbcn20

UIMP

Santander / Spain

Organization

Natalie Bayer

Berlin / Deutschland

Individual

Cultural anthropologist specialising in urban development, border regimes, historical policies and the history of migration.

Elke Krasny

Berlin / Wien / Austria / Deutschland / Germany

Individual

Independent Curator at Architekturzentrum Wien, Architecture Centre Vienna

Beatrice Davis

Berlin / Germany

Individual

Born in 1990 in Italy, Bea Davies is an illustrator and Comic artist based in Berlin, Germany. After obtaining a Scholarship from the School of Visual Arts of New York in 2010, begins her studies in illustration. In 2015 starts studying Visual Communication at Weißensee School of Art Berlin. In 2016 wins the Comic Invasion Berlin […]

Lourdes Cabrera

Emilia-Romagna / Madrid / Italy / Spain

Individual

Lourdes Cabrera is a photographer based in Madrid.
info@lourdescabrera.es
@_lourdescabrera_

Carine Obin

Oust / France

Individual

@ObinCarine
Créatrice de contenus de communication | sons | écrits

Mimi Hapig

Thesprotia / Greece

Individual

@HabibiWorks – Intercultural FabLab in #Greece / place to learn, teach and progress for refugees and locals/winner of @Microsoft #TechStories

Lena

Greece

Individual

Mina Kouvara

Thesprotia / Greece

Individual

Mina Kouvara is an artist/maker, architect and independent researcher, holding a MSc in Environment and Development of Mountain Regions (NTUA) and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering (TUC).

Maak De Stad

Antwerpen / Belgique

Organization

Antwerpen Makingcity burgerparticipatie digitale cocreatie democratie2.0 Zie Initiatief van
@Aaantwoord

Steven Gibens

Antwerpen / Belgique

Individual

@Gibensje, lector Sociaal-juridische dienstverlening KdG en navorser Universiteit Antwerpen, advocaat

Esther van Zimmeren

Antwerpen / Belgique

Individual

Research Professor IP Law & Governance
@UA_IPLawGov
Interests: IP law, IP Strategy, IP Governance, Patent Law, Open Innovation, EU Internal Market Law, Trust

Lucas Devolder

Deutschland

Individual

@lucas_devolder, researcher & designer

Jan Denoo

Bruxelles / Belgique

Individual

@Jandenoo is Partner @endeavour_eu & Curator @stadsform

Maarten Desmet

Antwerpen / Belgique

Individual

@mrtndsmt
Start living CO2 free with #forgood

Christina Serifi

Athens / Berlin / Thesprotia / Germany / Greece

Individual

@Serifaki.
Architect | Urbanist | Researcher
TiriLab

Mascha Fehse

Berlin / Germany

Individual

Mascha Fehse is confronting questions of the public and the common, focussing on micro-collisions, applied experimental approaches and a design discourse that triggers curiosity and leaves space for an attitude. She is intrigued by moments that allow a multiplicity of motivation and coexistence of contradictions. Social constellation, infrastructural relations, structural connections and imaginative associations are […]

Licia Soldavini

Berlin / Deutschland / France / Germany / Italy / Portugal

Individual

licia@constructlab.net

Giulia Mazzali

Bologna / Italy

Individual

@giuliamazzali is a freelance landscape designer

Cecilia Carattoni

Bologna / Italy

Individual

Architetto associato presso Tipi Studio (@tipi.studio)

Irene Esposito

Bologna / Italy

Individual

member of Fahre Associati (@fahreassociati)

Carlota Neris

Madrid / Santa Cruz de La Palma / Spain

Individual

Arts management, Cultural projects, Consultant, Project Manager

Alberto Rey

Berlin / Madrid / Germany / Spain

Individual

ZULOARK Studio Partner & Researcher / Illustrator, designer, Architect.

Natasa Lekkou

Athens / Greece / Spain

Individual

Architect and Communicator | Head of Communications at Zuloark Collective | Teaching Assistant at MACA Master in Architectural Communication ETSAM

Jacobo Cayetano

Santa Cruz de La Palma / Spain

Individual

Jacobo Cayetano is a stage designer with a degree from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (RESAD). His work after graduating from RESAD has varied so much that he ended up decajanegrizing scenography and now revolves around research and artistic/urban practice, designing and devising spaces of possibility.

Juan Chacón Gragera

Berlin / Thesprotia / Deutschland / Germany / Greece / Spain

Individual

Founder Member of the architecture group zuloark, a distributed architecture and urbanism office founded in 2001. Also currently teaching at the University of Arts in Berlin in the department of Architecture: Building Planning and Design and Head of Space in Making Futures (making-futures.com)

Manuel Domínguez

La Coruña / Lisboa / Portugal / Spain

Individual

ZULOARK Studio Partner & Researcher / Co-founder of ZOOHAUS [Inteligencias Colectivas]

Aurora Adalid Núñez

Barcelona / Lisboa / Llanes / Madrid / Manchester / Santander / Spain

Individual

Learning and sharing about #UrbanInnovation for #UrbanTransitions and #urbanresilience #SDG11 #SDG5 #SDG13 in zuloark.com, @_CITY_FOLLOWERS.

TW: @auroravolant

David Berkvens

Antwerpen / Bruxelles / Madrid / Manchester / Belgique / Spain / United Kingdom

Individual

Belgian architect who frequents the Peyma and the Pavón although he is temporarily in Antwerp for family reasons. Specialist in processes of citizen engagement and self-building with communities.
Contact him here davidoff99@yahoo.es

Pascual Pérez Gallego

Spain

Individual

With a background in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, I have always been interested in the possibilities offered by the limits of my discipline. Co-founder and cooperative partner since 2018 of the Office of Civic Innovation S. Coop.

Patricia Horrillo Guerra

Madrid / Spain

Individual

An expert in communication and social networks, Patricia Horrillo Guerra uses a multidisciplinary background to carry out collaborative projects in multiple fields. After finishing her degree in Applied Linguistics, which combined studies in English Philology with Marketing and Communication, and Journalism, she worked in media such as Público in Barcelona and Cuarto Poder and La Marea in Madrid. She has also collaborated with digital media such as VICE, eldiario.es, 20 minutos, Tribuna Feminista, Somos Malasaña or Zona Retiro.

Domenido Di Siena

Individual

Designer, Researcher & Consultant focused on Commons, Civic Innovation and Collective Intelligence. I design, promote and develop processes and tools that help local authorities, organizations, and universities to collaborate with citizens for the common good.

Pablo Rey Mazón

Bilbao / Spain

Individual

Pablo (numeroteca.org, @numeroteca). He works and collaborates in several research and experimentation collectives such as Basurama, Wikitoki or Publiclab. His main concern is how to structure and make information more accessible. To do so, he develops research processes and data visualizations where researchers, clients or users can deepen and understand complex data.

María Tomé

San Cristóbal de La Laguna / Spain

Individual

@_MariaTome, Socia cooperativista y cofundadora en Oficina de Innovación Cívica S. Coop, Civicwise
How to open an organisation to a wider circle of collaborators

ARCIPELAGO

Bologna / Italy

Organization

Arcipielago Parco Colli, from Bologna, is a collective of people who have an interest to develop urban regeneration projects, sustainable mobility and territorial enhancement. They met at the Ferrara University of Architecture each developing their career path while maintaining contacts and collaborations with others. They are Irene Esposito, a member of Fahre Associati (@fahreassociati), Cecilia Carattoni member of Tipi Studio (@tipi.studio), Giulia Mazzali (@giuliamazzali) freelance landscape designer and Alfredo Borghi (@alfredoborghi). The term that most of all summarize the types of projects they want to activate is Tactical Urbanism.

Adolfo Estalella

Lisboa / Madrid / Manchester / Santander / Spain / United Kingdom

Individual

Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology(Profesor Ayudante Doctor), Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology, Faculty of Sociology and Political Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Antropólogo interesado por la ciudad, las culturas digitales y la inventiva etnográfica. T: @adolfoestalella I: @adolfoestalella

Lab Place

Couserans / Oust / France

Organization

Laboratoire de fabrication – Laboratoire d’apprentissage – Espace de coopération

Tirilab

Thesprotia / Greece

Organization

We are an initiative and an open platform which explores multi-cultural heritage related to local technologies, gastronomy and culture specifics from rural communities in northwestern Greece. Mail: encounter@tirilab.org Web: www.tirilab.org @Tiri_Lab TiriLab – Introduce Yourself Template

Endeavours

Antwerpen / Belgique

Organization

Endeavours is a people-centred urban planning agency based in Antwerpen.

https://endeavours.eu
info@endeavours.eu
IG: @endeavoursss
FB: @EndeavourEurope

ConstructLab

Berlin / Belgique / Deutschland / France / Germany / Switzerland

Organization

Constructlab (www.constructlab.net / I: @hello_constructlab) is the description of a collaborative spatial and artistic practice, working on ephemeral and permanent place-making from different local organisations: Berlin (DE), Fribourg (CH), Gent (BE), Valence (FR). The collaborators to projects share an approach to, rather than a method of making.

European Cultural Foundation

Organization

The European Cultural Foundation supports the current edition, The European Parliament of Urban Rights, which takes the form of an online platform and a series of virtual encounters to compile, exchange, and learn from local innovations from throughout Europe.

Montera34 Collective

Bilbao / Oust / France / Spain

Organization

In Montera34 we analyze and visualize data to try to understand urban, social and cultural transformations; we develop software and we build digital infrastructures to enhance collaboration; we create production and meeting spaces, both temporary and permanent, to share technological learning, needs, doubts, data and analysis. We try to do all this using free data and tools, and we like to talk about why this is not always possible.

Zuloark

Berlin / Madrid

Organization

Zuloark is a distributed architecture and urbanism open office, developing collaborative models and building co-responsibility environments through shared authorship since 2011. Zuloark is materialized in every achieved project, and it is redefined while it grows. It’s a living structure thought and constructed as a “critical object”.

https://Zuloark.com
zuloark@zuloark.com
TW: @zuloark
IG: @zuloark