Juan López-Aranguren

Why  Democratic Society? 

I am an enthusiast of citizen participation and I believe it is the engine to create a sustainable way of living that works for all of us.

Where I'm based:

Madrid, Spain.

Languages I speak: 

Spanish, English and French.

Profile

Juan López-Aranguren graduated in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid, although he took 14 years to finish the degree.

Those 14 years, he says he has invested them well. He has traveled the world with friends carrying out projects that are difficult to catalog and that have been the object of study from areas as diverse as architecture or anthropology and that include, among their partners, institutions such as the German Ministry of Culture, the neighborhood association ZOFIO, La Caixa Foundation, the CSIC, the World Design Capital or the Guggenheim of New York, among others. He has led programs such as Autobarrios, Trashlation, Solid Urban Waste or In love We Trash, awarded and published both nationally and internationally.

Juan has developed community architecture works in favelas and peripheral neighborhoods, in Sao Paulo, Lima, Madrid or Niamey, putting into practice methodologies of social action and innovative qualitative intervention.

For two and a half years, he has been coordinating the Imagina Madrid program for the Madrid City Council: a program of public and community art, which explores new forms of intervention in the urban space through processes of collective creation between citizens and the artistic network of the city.

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