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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.

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Theories of the Urban : Planetary Urbanization

December 14, 2023
MaCT-01 2023-2024 by Siddharth Nambiar
MaCT-01 2023-2024

‘ The blurring and rearticulation of urban territories. Urbanisation processes are being regionalised and reterritorialised. Increasingly, former “central functions,” such as shopping facilities, company headquarters, research institutions, prestigious cultural venues, as well as spectacular architectural forms, dense settlement patterns, and infrastructural arrangements, are being dispersed outwards from historic central city cores, into erstwhile suburbanised spaces, … Read more

Decoding Critical Urban Theory

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023
MaCT-01 2023-2024 by Nupur Sircar
MaCT-01 2023-2024

Harnessing AI to deconstruct text to visuals Introduction Welcome to our exploration of urban theory, where we decipher the complexity of urban theory through the lens of imagery and aphorisms. We—three students with diverse perspectives—have delved into the intricate narratives and critical readings to let us translate them to critical urban thinking. This blog post … Read more

Note Palette

December 6, 2023December 4, 2023
MaCT-01 2023-2024 by Alexandra Poses
MaCT-01 2023-2024

Music is visualized everyday – but is there any accuracy to its representation? Can sound be accurately represented? If so, what does it look like? How is accuracy measured? While not fully satisfied with the answers found to these questions, Python’s mido package shed light on the how sound and color may be linked through … Read more

Exploring the Impact of Technological Innovations on Spatial Inequality in Montjuïc

December 2, 2023
MaCT-01 2023-2024 by Avi Sharma
MaCT-01 2023-2024

The city of Barcelona has a history of change through impulses. No part of the city is more representative of this trend than Montjuïc. Throughout the 20th century, the area has undergone a number of spatial and social transformations which have typically occurred in short spaces of time. In this short study, we argue that … Read more

Promised Land

January 10, 2024November 28, 2023
MaCT-01 2023-2024 by Alexandra Poses
MaCT-01 2023-2024

Mapping America’s Genrescape Promised Land, Chuck Berry’s early representation of modern rock and roll, blurs racialized difference in genre origin, fueling the hybridization of genre categorizes, resulting in America’s current rich music tapestry. MIDI data correlated to synaesthetic representations of color is crystalized and in a dense three-dimensional mesh and place qualities are correlated to … Read more

Spatial dynamics of ethnic minorities

July 6, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Ruobing Chen
MaCT-01 2022-2023

Senseable Walks for Melbourne

July 7, 2023June 26, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by David Ruess
MaCT-01 2022-2023

OPTIMIZING THE EXISTING WALKABILITY INDEX Urban design plays a pivotal role in shaping the livability of a city, and walkability is a crucial aspect that directly impacts its residents’ quality of life. The City of Melbourne has developed a Walkability Index. This project aims at optimizing the existing framework by integrating key parameters related to … Read more

Relationship Street and Crime in Tokyo.

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Naohiro Miyaguchi
MaCT-01 2022-2023

A Study on the Back of the Road, Factors Forming Streets, and Crime Relationships in the 23 Wards of Tokyo, Japan. 2023, Tokyo is the one of megalopolis. Tokyo has built a megalopolis unlike any other in the world. The megalopolis of Tokyo is depicted in Japan’s representative culture, anime, and manga, and the city … Read more

The City of Marvelous Disorder

April 9, 2023April 5, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Vasiliki Bakomichali
MaCT-01 2022-2023

The City of Marvelous Disorder is a study was conducted during the ‘CaaS studio (City as a Service): The future of cities’ services in the AI times’, that aims to built a methodology on mapping the creative sector and high education ecosystem of Barcelona, with a particular focus on social creative industry that works within … Read more

London’s Urban Micro-Facilities

March 10, 2023March 8, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Alejandro Guerrero Neira
MaCT-01 2022-2023

A Story of a Beloved Design This is a story of a one-of-a-kind creation in history, the British Red Telephone Box, which soon after its implementation in 1921 became a symbol of british culture and identity, an inseparable part of the nation’s and, more specifically of London’s urban landscape. Successful designs can be timeless, resonating … Read more

A Policy for Digital Carbon Footprint, Barcelona

March 23, 2023February 24, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by David Ruess
MaCT-01 2022-2023

Every single search query, every streamed song or video and every email sent, billions of times over all around the world – it all adds up to an ever-increasing global demand for electricity, and to rising CO2 emissions too. Our increasing reliance on digital tools has an environmental impact that’s becoming increasingly harder to ignore. … Read more

Housing for All

March 11, 2023February 4, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Julia Thomas
MaCT-01 2022-2023

India is one of the fastest developing countries with many metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Migration from villages and small towns to metropolitan areas has increased tremendously in India and led to the degradation of urban environmental quality and sustainable development especially in the metropolitan cities. The problems faced by the people living … Read more

Localized food systems

February 2, 2023
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Reda Petravi?i?t?
MaCT-01 2022-2023

The task required to pick up an urban challenge and develop a City Science Problem Framing Proposal in a few days workshop. The topic of localized food systems was chosen PROBLEM FRAMING “In order to feed a population expected to grow to 9 billion people by 2050, the world will have to double its current … Read more

Benidorm 360

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Hiranya Ganatra
MaCT-01 2022-2023

A new ecosystem for a global tourism destination Benidorm, Alicante The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass-tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking … Read more

3 CITIES

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Mariia Ivanova
MaCT-01 2022-2023

Cities face complex challenges, amplified by the unparalleled urban growth testing traditional municipal and regional boundaries. Cities have evolved into metropolitan regions, complicating the optimization of city services, e.g. transportation, infrastructure, and public service. The evolution of cities and their urban forms are ever-evolving in a direction that induces higher car dependency and longer commuting … Read more

(is)landicity

October 24, 2022October 21, 2022
MaCT-01 2022-2023 by Vasiliki Bakomichali
MaCT-01 2022-2023

Athens, Greece “Archipelago is a group of islands set in a sea that simultaneously divides and unites them” The case of the Aegean Archipelago in Greece, which consists of 1.145 islands and islets, for reasons associated with historical and geographical circumstances, represents the promise of a different urbanism. Even in the absolute separation of the … Read more