methodology – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

17 Mar, 2022 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, news, organizations, projects, publications

New Publication: The Leuven Gymkhana: Transdisciplinary Action Research Questioning Socially Innovative Multi-Actor Collaborations in COVID Times

Presenting a new article written by Clara Medina García with Master Students Sharmada Najarayan and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

17 Mar, 202117 Mar, 2021 si4sdmadrid inspirations, tools

A Seminar on how I am applying Visual Thinking in my PhD research

The chronicle and content of the seminar I prepared to share with my research group in Madrid (LabIPPU) how I apply visual thinking in my PhD research.

30 Aug, 202030 Aug, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, other, projects

Research in Times of Corona (part 2): intensive online action research

A retrospective of the activity in Supercoop and reflections about the process and what it has meant both for the initiative and the research project.

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.