Faculty

Architect, producer, and scholar holding a Ph.D. and a postdoctoral degree in Architecture from ETSAB, the School of Architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). At the University of Barcelona, key leadership roles are held as Asia Executive Dean of ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia) and Co-Director of the Master’s in Art and Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts. In addition, academic impact is extended through the position of Head of GICITED (Interdisciplinary Group on Building…

Industrial and interior designer, and PhD in Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions and Design from the University of Barcelona. He is currently the Associate Dean for Mobility, Research and Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. His research and professional practice focus on the role of design in the fields of health and well‑being, spanning sectors such as workplace environments, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, and fashion. He approaches design from a critical perspective, applying a wide range of techniques…

Graphic designer and PhD in Visual Arts and Education (University of Barcelona). She is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the transformative potential of design, particularly through transdisciplinary dialogue. From this perspective, she works within the framework of design otherwise, exploring the connections between design and other fields such as pedagogy, anthropology, philosophy, art, nursing, and politics. She is also interested in data visualization as a research tool and…

Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, born in Barcelona in 1960, he is an architect from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1988) and holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2001), with the dissertation The House as an Industrial Object. He has developed an extensive teaching career, with a notable contribution at the University of Barcelona, and has been Head of the Design Laboratory since 2016. As an architect, he has worked in both public…

Sheila González Mardones is a designer, holds a PhD in Design Research from the University of Barcelona, and is a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the same university, where she teaches in both undergraduate and master’s programmes. She also coordinates the interuniversity master’s degree Advanced Studies in Design, jointly offered by the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She holds degrees in Fine Arts (specialising in design) and Audiovisual Communication, and a master’s degree in…

Architect (ETSAB‑UPC, 2011) and PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2016), with a doctoral thesis on urban space and parish architecture in Barcelona, published in 2018 by the Barcelona City Council. She is currently a Serra Húnter lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Barcelona, where she coordinates undergraduate final projects and teaches in both bachelor’s and master’s programmes. She is an active member of the Design Research Group (UB) and…