Research is practiced as a fieldwork of thought, inseparable from the urgencies of urban life, ecology, and cultural transformation. It is not a distant academic exercise but a situated method, moving through plazas, neighbourhoods, forests, and biennials with the same intensity as installations or performances. To research here means to inhabit complexity, to trace atmospheres, to collect data and stories, and to translate them into forms that are both poetic and practical. The project Postory, developed at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, explored gentrification and urban memory by combining ethnographic interviews, mapping, and artistic intervention. It showed how narratives of displacement could become not only research material but a collective tool for reclaiming the city. Similarly, the CASOENAC UNESCO project in Colima, Mexico, addressed accessibility and ageing in public space. By involving local communities, institutions, and psychologists, the project transformed environmental psychology into an instrument for designing inclusive, emotionally resonant urban spaces. Research often blurs with pedagogy and exhibition. The Small Urban Spaces Study in Madrid engaged over 500 participants to measure environmental quality, vegetation, and psychological restoration across pocket parks. Its findings—on safety, vegetation, and affect—were both scientific and cultural, proposing plazas as emotional lungs of the city. In Norway, collaborations with NTNU linked architectural prototyping to ecological and ethnographic studies, producing hybrid outputs: diagrams, videos, and built fragments that were at once research and artwork. This approach insists on interdisciplinarity as necessity: anthropology meets architecture, psychology meets performance, ecology meets installation. Research is carried out with the same fragility as art—embracing incompleteness, open formats, and the refusal of closure. Rather than producing final conclusions, it generates tools for imagination, devices that communities and institutions can adapt, dispute, or extend. In this sense, research becomes part of the socioplastic ecology: a choreography of knowledge where data, narrative, and performance circulate. Its purpose is not to stabilise but to enable transformation—of places, of policies, and of collective perception.
Postory (UAM) · CASOENAC UNESCO (Colima, Mexico) · Small Urban Spaces Study (Madrid, 2015) · Ecological Humanities Congress (UAM, 2012) · Strategic Seminar CREP (Madrid, 2011).
