TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Professor of the Postgraduate Degree in Design for All Accessibility in International University of Catalonia-UIC, School of Architecture.  2011 – 2023   |  Barcelona, Spain.

“Accessible tourism”. Conference at the Official Master of Tourism Management. Specialization: Sustainability and Quality Management. CETT (School of Tourism, Hospitality & Gastronomy).  2019  |  Barcelona, Spain.

“Accessible tourism”. Conference at the Official Master of Tourism Management. Specialization: Sustainability and Quality Management. CETT (School of Tourism, Hospitality & Gastronomy).  2017  |  Barcelona, Spain.

Professor from the Professional Specialization Course in Accessible Space Design of the European Institute of Design in Barcelona. 2010 – 2019  |  Barcelona, Spain.

Directorate and member of the professors team of the specialization course “Barcelona’92: Olympic Experience”, at the center Study Abroad from de Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona – UAB. 2012  |  Barcelona, Spain.

 

ATTENDANCE AT MEETINGS – LECTURES DELIVERED

2017      International conference Arquitectonics Network: mind, land & society. Building the Social Life: the Embodied, Configurative and Dialogic Knowledge Embedded in Architecture and Urban Planning. June 2017, Barcelona, Spain.

2016      Cornell Symposium “In Search of a Healthy Future”.  Symposium organized by the Institute for Healthy Futures from the Cornell University. October 2016, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Presented paper:  “Health & Environment: Functional diversity as a determining factor in the design process”.

2016      Demand Solutions: ideas for improving lives – IADB. October 2016, Washington D.C., USA.

2015       Technical Conference “Accesibilidad en edificaciones existentes. Evaluación de barreras arquitectónicas y ajustes razonables”.   Organized by the Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación. September 2015, Valencia, Spain.

Opening speech: “Current situation of accessibility in Spain”

2013      Envejecimiento, salud y sociedad en el 2030. Symposium organized by Fundación Pere Tarrés. March 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

2012      Towards an active ageing at home. Organized by Acceplan. October 2012. Barcelona, Spain.

2010      Workshop on Accessibility in Urbanized Spaces: The Ministerial Order 561/2010. Acceplan and the Spanish Ministry of Housing. October 2010. Madrid, Spain.

2010      3erd International Conference Universal Design: For the People and the Earth of Tomorrow: Towards a Sustainable Co-existence. October 2010, Hamamatsu, Japan.

Accepted paper: Towards a configuration of sustainable accessibility in the cities of the XXI Century . Coauthors: Ana Maria Vieitez; Rafael Reyes Torres

2010      Regional Conference Sustainable Community – building SMART. September, 2010. Espoo, Finland.

Accepted paper: Accessibility and Development: New Paradigms in accessibility in European cities. Coauthors: Ana Maria Vieitez; Rafael Reyes Torres

2010       Third International Seminar Arquitectonics Network: Architecture and Research: The Beginning of a Transarchitectural World: Exploring New Ways Towards Specific Modernity and Architectural Dialogics. June, 2010. Barcelona, Spain.

Presented paper: La espera en movimiento: el mensaje de transitoriedad configurado en los hospitales de João Filgueiras Lima

2010      Guest speaker in the Faculty of Architecture, National University Francisco Villarreal. April, 2010. Lima, Perú.

Presented paper:  Building Universal Accessibility and Urban Development for Social and Economic Development.

2009      Guest speaker at First International Conference on Universal Design. September 30 to October 2, 2009. Málaga, Spain.

Presented paper:  Ergonomics and Accessibility in the Socio-Physical Area. Coauthors: Ana Maria Vieitez; Rafael Reyes Torres

2009      Guest speaker at Seventh Forum of Architecture and Urbanism of Franciscan University Center-UNIFRA. October, 2009. Santa Maria, Brazil.

Presented paper:  Accessibility on physical space: the construction of a human environment.

2009      II National Meeting of the Ergonomics Built Environment – III Brazilian Integral Accessibility Seminar. October, 2009. Recife, Brazil.

2006      6th BAS – POLIS Conference: Congress in Bruges-Gits, Belgium. Brugge, Belgium.

Presented paper:  Construction, standardization and accessibility.

2004      3º International Congress of Architecture: Arquitectura 3000, l’arquitectura de la in-diferència – ETSAB-UPC. June 30 to July 13, 2004. Barcelona, Spain.