Co-creative and transdisciplinar educational proposal to design & enjoy XXI st cent. cities.

Author: Raúl Alonso Estébanez

ciBility Project connects concepts and processes such us Architecture, City, ecology, environment, sustainability, resources, efficiency, energy, development, well-being, citizen, participation, empathy, democracy, safety, justice, education, society, psychology, economy, network, technology, communication, entertainment, transversality… within the education frame, using urban knowledge and design as a guide, as a thread. These concepts are usually used without content, without a deep understanding of their complexity and interconnections, without understanding that their relations shape cities and citizens -and vice versa- through social rules defined by education.

Education is, therefore, at the beginning of the thread, but our education systems still seem to be stuck in the industrialized vision of specialized and separated subjects, although the best educational researchers –Ken Robinson, Richard Gerber or Robert Roeser…- maintain that we must connect them.

This bottom-up initiative is born as external support for education institutions that want to implement these changes but don’t have internal resources to do it (they tend to be bureaucratic, politic and, therefore, slow). The external collaborations are defined with the shape of transversal courses/workshops to show urban processes connections and their influences in our way of living, using urban design as tool and guide.

Collaborators: Daniel Pérez Grande, Aerospatiale engineer – Technology, Virtual Reality and 4.0 Democracy – / Alejandro Pérez Grande, journalist –Communication- / Patricia Munn, degree in political science and professor of History, Theory and Practice of Theatre -Educación- / Nicolás Gomez, environmental educator -environmental education- / M. Á. G., social Psychologist –participation and urban safety- / Francisco José Pozo Estévez, journalist –network-. / Paloma Padilha Siqueira, architect –urban ecology and citizen participation- / SLLA –funding research-