The Master in City & Technology’s academic structure is based on IAAC’s innovative, learn-by-doing and design-through-research methodology which focuses on the development of interdisciplinary skills. During the Master in City & Technology students will have the opportunity to be part of a highly international group, including faculty members, researchers, and lecturers, in which they are encouraged to develop collective decision-making processes and materialize their project ideas.
Data, Design & Spatial Justice in Action
Data Driven Urban Design equips students with data-driven methodologies to address the complex challenges of contemporary urbanisation, including socio-economic inequality, climate change, and uncertainty in rapidly evolving cities. This research studio critically examines who urban design serves, emphasizing inclusivity, representation, and the ethical limitations of biased urban data while expanding design beyond human-centered perspectives to planetary boundaries. Through the integration of local and remote data collection methods and analytical tools, students learn to translate diverse urban data into spatial strategies that promote urban resilience, accessibility, and spatial justice.
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You are looking at Mukuru, a place that nearly 400,000 people call home. It is usually described through its challenges — flooding, informality, vulnerability. But behind those labels is a community that has built its own networks, livelihoods, and ways of getting by, year after year, despite a constant state of change. So we began … Read more
Mukuru, one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, is home to 400,000 residents drawn by industrial employment rather than choice of place. This transience produces a paradox: extraordinary urban density alongside persistent spatial neglect and displacement risk. The Right to Belong constructs a six-layer vulnerability framework — combining satellite data, street-level computer vision, mobility mapping, and … Read more
Children’s journey to school, in Bosa Apogeo, Colombia INTRO Bogotá’s growth over the last two decades has been dramatic. The metropolitan area now holds close to 11.8 million inhabitants — a 51% increase in just 15 years. That growth has not been evenly distributed across the city. The city currently ranks 7th in the world … Read more
Trinitat Nova, Trinitat Vella and La Trinitat are three neighbourhoods in Barcelona separated by 600 metres and divided by decades of infrastructure built for the city rather than for the people who live in it.** Ronda de Dalt — a six-lane open-cut highway — severs ecological continuity, buries the 10th-century Rec Comtal waterway beneath concrete, … Read more
