democracy – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

18 Jan, 202126 Feb, 2021 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, news, organizations, programmes, projects, publications

New Publication: Exploring the Emergence of Innovative Multi-Actor Collaborations toward a Progressive Urban Regime in Madrid (2015–2019)

Introducing the new article written by Clara Medina García with her promotors Rosa de la Fuente and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Sustainability.

21 Jul, 202021 Jul, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, organizations, projects, publications

New Publication: Limits of municipalism. What can we learn from Operación Chamartín?

Introducing the new article written by Pieter Rondelez and Clara Medina García published in MINIM Municipalism.

28 Dec, 201922 Mar, 2020 si4sdmadrid events, inspirations

“Labour and Democracy” workshops at UGent

Chronicle of the workshops "Labour and Democracy" organised in December 2019 to develop policy proposals for the City of Gent.

20 Dec, 201922 Mar, 2020 si4sdmadrid events

“Labour and Democracy” symposium at UGent

Chronicle of the symposium "Labour and Democracy" organised in December 2019 debating on contemporary urban challenges.

3 Feb, 20193 Feb, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, organizations, programmes, projects

Living Street Gent

A collective hands-on experiment on alternative uses of the street and sustainable mobility.

11 Jan, 201911 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid inspirations, publications

Commons Transition: Policy Proposals for an Open Knowledge Society

Free e-book by Commons Transition.

4 Jan, 20197 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, organizations, projects

EVA Espacio Vecinal Arganzuela

A civic movement reclaiming public space for civil associations to meet, collaborate and cater for the needs of the Arganzuela district in Madrid.

SI4SD | The Role and performance of socially innovative multi-actor collaborations is the research project started by Clara Medina G in September 2018, aimed at understanding and promoting Social Innovation to achieve Sustainable Development, focusing on the role that different urban actors, including local administrations, can play in this process and how they collaborate to achieve it.

In November 2019 the project officially evolved into a joint PhD hosted at KU Leuven and UCM Universities, funded as an FWO Fellowship awarded to Clara.

Clara Medina G is a Madrilian researcher and urban facilitator with a transdisciplinary background in architecture, urbanism, planning and innovation passionate about sustainable development, participatory design and the social dimension of the built environment. She is convinced that only by innovating in relations and synergies among urban actors will societies be able to tackle present and future challenges.

Learn more about her professional profile and projects here.