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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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Designing the Future: How Emerging Economies and Innovative Models Can Shape Resilient Labor Markets

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

The Future of Work and Emerging Economies: How Design Can Shape Resilient Labor MarketsIn a world where emerging economies are increasingly intertwined with technological advancements, the future of work is rapidly evolving. The intersection of automation, digital platforms, and shifting economic paradigms presents both immense challenges and exciting opportunities. As an architect and student at … Read more

How to park in Barcelona?

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

Parking is an important element of urban infrastructure, influencing the functionality, accessibility, and sustainability of cities. In Barcelona, where neighborhoods vary widely in character, density, and urban design, parking serves as a lens through which we can better understand the city’s transportation dynamics and spatial planning. This research began with an exploration of key questions … Read more

THE CITI BIKE NETWORK IN NEW JERSEY ANALYSIS

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

The exploratory analysis performed by Josefina Ovalle, Maja Mawusi and Michał Modelski We present you an exploratory analysis on the New York City’s Citi Bike network in New Jersey. We chose the latest dataset, from October 2024, that gives us data on bike stations, bike types, bike users, and bike usage over time. The choice … Read more

US time use change during and after COVID

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

ABSTRACT Derived from the 2020 pandemic sanitary measures for Covid-19, Google created the Community Mobility Reports, which provide valuable insights of how people’s mobility changed as a result of the established health policies. The objective of this analysis was to understand how United States residents’ mobility behavior changed over time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. … Read more

The Global Story of Cement and Its Environmental Impact

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

The Backbone of Modernity – Since its invention in 1842, Portland cement has become a cornerstone of modern construction. Its role in shaping cities, infrastructure, and economies is unparalleled, but this comes at a cost. Cement production is energy-intensive, emits significant carbon dioxide, and has become a key driver of global greenhouse gas emissions Cement … Read more

UNMASKING U.S. VOTES

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

As an introduction to Python, this course explored the foundations of data analysis and visualization using a variety of powerful libraries, including pandas, geopandas, contextily, matplotlib, numpy, seaborn, and plotly. The project below demonstrates the practical application of these tools. Inspired by the recent U.S. election, we focused on analyzing voter behavior and the factors … Read more

ILLA DE RAVAL

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

This project focuses on establishing a community-centered public space in Santa Coloma. Situated at Block Illa de Raval, a designated “green finger” of the Pinta Verde initiative, the project seeks to improve accessibility, enhance social engagement, and address infrastructural needs based on local context and community input. HUMAN Research and analysis The research highlighted several … Read more

FLUTTERING CONNECTIONS

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

This project is an experiment of connecting Plaça d’Albert Francàs with flora and fauna, giving a prospective of designing for more than humans. This design exercise was built upon the previous workshop “Co-creating Public Spaces”. For more information about the previous proposal, please visit the blog post. In our co-creation project, Spaces of Negotiation, we … Read more

A more than human Care Hub

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

Following up on the project from the seminar “Co-creating Public Space”, where we explored the human layer through participatory processes in urban design, we have now ventured into adding a more-than-human layer. This approach challenges us to step out of conventional design thinking and consider perspectives invisible to anthropocentric eyes, enabling us to create a … Read more

Digital Culture(s): A cultural blindspot of solutionism

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MaCT-01 2024-2025
photo credits: ‘Imagining Intercitizenships’ 3D artwork by Lorna Pittaway for IAM

In an era of accelerating change, digital cultures weave together a mosaic of materiality, temporality, and social impact, redefining the very essence of culture itself. The interplay between these dimensions raises compelling questions about the way we live, create, and envision futures. From solutionism in the face of a polycrisis to the extractivist underpinnings of … Read more

Digital Cultures: Interconnected Futures

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MaCT-01 2024-2025
Kaleidoscope for plural perspectives, 2024 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024 Studio Olafur Eliasson

Kaleidoscope for plural perspectives, 2024The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles – 2024Studio Olafur Eliasson The Digital Cultures course offered a transformative exploration of the intricate relationships between society, culture, and digital technologies, especially within the pressing context of the climate emergency. The course challenged conventional thinking and emphasized the principle of relationality—underscoring that nothing … Read more

Collective imagination in a crisis scenario

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

In order to overcome the current climate emergency and polycrisis a critical approach needs to be explored. This implies analyzing the impacts and trends of the contemporary (inter)relationships between society, culture and digital technologies.     However, the nature of those phenomena is multiclausal. There is not a single factor who produces it. Although capitalism and its … Read more

Exploring Digital Futures: Embracing Complexity and Imagination

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

In a world marked by interconnected crises and technological change, understanding Digital Cultures helps us navigate how we engage with technology and address pressing global challenges. This exploration underscores the critical role of narratives, metaphors, and values in shaping our responses to an uncertain future. The Context of Polycrisis Our journey began by examining the … Read more

Data Conscious Environment

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

This blog post is a reflection of the course and lectures given by Andres Colmenares. The course is an intersection of data/digital driven world and realization of the impacts due to it. It gives you an environment, social and cultural consciousness of using the data which emphasizes on knowing the power and importance of the … Read more

Poly-Exploration with Digital Cultures

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MaCT-01 2024-2025

The course of Digital Cultures, tutored by Andres Colmenares, took an investigative approach on the relations between the present and the future through the lens of art, journalism, urbanism, technology, human networks and global market. Course was structured in a “non-linear” way, what makes our tutor’s pride, yet consistent in terms of narrating through scale … Read more