MÓNICA MARTÍN GRAU
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Monica studied Architecture (BArch and MArch) as well as a Masters in Development Cooperation at Valencia’s Technic University (Spain). Her experience to date is multicultural and crosscutting, focussing at the meeting point of pioneering urban practice and social science research, with experience in different countries (Spain, Mexico, Bolivia or Kenya); within Universities (UCB, UNAM and the ETSAV); and national and international institutions (Spanish Cooperation Agency and United Nations).
In 2014, she was awarded a Santander Bank Scholarship to develop her Final Masters Project, at Mexico’s National University (UNAM), within the research group Architecture-Design-Complexity-Participation. She combined her architecture degree with part-time internships at the Urban Studies Institute (UNAM, Mexico) and the Urban Planning Department of Valencia’s regional Administration. She also co-founded a College Group (Arquitectura Se Mueve) and volunteered at Architects Without Borders - Spain. In 2015, Monica was selected by the Spanish Cooperation Agency to work at La Paz Spanish Cultural Centre where she carried out cultural projects with other international associations such as ICOMOS. During 2016 and 2017, she stayed in La Paz developing urban heritage capacity building sessions at the Workshop School Programme, teaching urban planning at the Catholic University, and designing urban Teleferico (cable car) interchanges for Doppelmayr. In addition, she collaborated with David Estal (currently the Mayor’s Urban Planning Advisor), Paisaje Transversal (a Spanish award-winning enterprise) and Valencia Municipality carrying out socially-engaged and sustainable urban planning projects. Subsequently she joined the UN-Habitat Urban LAB in Nairobi, where she took part in a series of UN paper publications in collaboration with UK-FCO Global Future Cities Programme, around Public Space and Urban Regeneration in emerging economies. In addition, she also worked on Sustainable Development Goal Tools, Participative Methodologies and Child-friendly City Guidelines. Currently, Monica is pursuing a PhD alongside her project work, investigating Urban Experiments and System Change through city infrastructure, which has been accepted at the UCL-DPU | ||
