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Architecture | Art | City | Academic Research

Dr. María F. Carrascal
Ph. D. Arch. MSc. Arch. Cultural and Social Sustainability

ORCID: 0000-0001-8194-9995
ResearcherID: Y-6276-2018
Scopus: 57203913530
Dialnet: 3219776

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Current Academic Activity
Workshop Design Studios 4.
Course, History, Theory and Architectural Composition 4. 

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla.
Obsolescence and City (1): Creative strategies for the regeneration of contemporary cities.
Module 1. City and Architecture in Ecologic Era.
Master Oficial en Ciudad y Arquitectura Sostenibles.
Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónica.
Universidad de Sevilla.

ARCH 3308 Pioneering an Open Access to the City. From the New York of the 1970s
Seminar – Fall Semester. Architecture, Art and Planning NYC, Cornell University. 26 Broadway, 20th Floor. NYC. 2018

Visiting Fellowships
Municipal Art Society of New York, New York – 2018.
Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza – 2016-17.
GSAPP. Columbia University, New York – 2014.
Department of Art and Design. St. John´s University, New York – 2014.
DUOT – ETSA. Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona – 2013.
Spanish Cultural Center of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo – 2012.
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands – 2008.

Fellow Researcher
Research Group PAI HUM-666: Ciudad, Arquitectura y Patrimonio Contemporáneos. investigacioncontemporanea.com/

María F. Carrascal is an international Ph. D architect, whose studies and teaching explore the field of creative regeneration in contemporary cities, focusing particularly on the role of art in the advancement of urban contexts. Her line of research has been distinguished nationally and internationally, being recently the base for the seminar “Pioneering an Open Access to the The City” held at Cornell University (2018) or the practical seminar «Tactical Piacenza, on Creative Urban Practices» at Politecnico di Milano (2017). Carrascal has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University (AAP New York ), Columbia University (GSAPP), the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Politecnico di Milano – Campus di Milano (Ph. D. Program) and Piacenza (Master of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design), St John ‘s University New York (Department of Art and Design), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Universidad de Barcelona (ETSAB). She also has accomplished visiting fellowships in the Spanish Cultural Center of Equatorial Guinea and the University of Delft.

Since 2011, she is a research fellow of the Research Group PAI HUM666: Contemporary City, Architecture and Heritage, in the research branches on Urban Obsolescence: Dwellings, Urban Creativity and Transferences Spain-America-Africa. She has coordinated and organized a number of research events regarding such lines (forums, exhibitions, workshops and publications). She is coauthor of the book: Handbook of Good Practices. For the Intervention on Obsolete Residencial Estates (Abada Editores, 2016), based on an I+D+i Project funded by FEDER funds and the Government of Andalusia and aimed to guide the rehabilitation of 1950s-1970s social housing from an innovative and creative approach. She is a founder member of the CityLab Laboratorio Q aimed to study Places of Urban Creativity and create an international network of creative spaces, low-cost actions, and bottom-up processes  (US-Sevilla; UCL- London; Universidad de los Andes -Bogotá; Politecnico di Milano-Milan).

Her doctoral thesis, entitled City and Art. Cross-dialogues on Space. New York in the 1970s, received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, the highest distinction that the Spanish public university grants in the branch of Architecture and Engineering in Sevilla, and distinguished in the last Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning – X BIAU Sao Paulo 2016 –among more than a 150 thesis in the iberoamerican context. This work was supported by the Universidad de Sevilla through a four-year predoctoral fellowship and mobility grants. The research, which was also conducted at Columbia University, St. John’s University and Universidad de Barcelona (visiting scholar fellowships), including the Documentation Center of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA, and the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art of New York, MoMA PS1 Archives, obtained the highest distinction (Sobresaliente, Cum Laude) and the International Mention.

Since 2008, she regularly teaches at the Universidad de Sevilla –Departamento de Proyectos (2008-2009) and Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónica (2011-)– in the Bachelor of Architecture and the MSc on City and Sustainable Architecture (2014-). She has also been adjunct lecturer at the Department of Art and Design of St John’s University New York in its international program in Europe (2015-2017), and collaborated with the International School of Events, Management and Communication, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, from the area of Design and Cultural Industry (2016-2018). Her office, ARTIPICA Creative Spaces, focused on temporary architecture, has been acknowledged by national and international institutions including COAM awards-Official Professional Association of Architects-Madrid, FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design-Barcelona, ICO Foundation-Spanish Government, or the Architectural League of New York.

Carrascal accomplished a precollege year at Cary Academy, North Carolina, USA (2000), and a year of college education specialized in Allestimento, Interior Design and Scenography at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Erasmus Program Grant 2005). She graduated in architecture at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in 2007 (Professional degree – 6 years) and acquired her Master’s degree in Sustainable City and Architecture in the branch of Cultural and Social Sustainability at the Universidad de Sevilla, 2010.

Latest publications:

“Laboratorio Q’, Seville: creative production of collective spaces before and after austerity” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. Taylor & Francis. Published online: 19 Sep, 2018. p.1-23. Print ISSN: 1754-9175 Online ISSN: 1754-9183Coauthor.

“Around 10th Street Scene: a pioneer creative cluster in New York City”. REIA, Revista Europera de Investigación en Arquitectura, n.11-12. 2018. p.55-67. ISSN:2340-9851. Author

“Cuando el discurso crítico se extiende del arte a lo urbano: crisis y reclamo en las décadas de 1970 y 2000”, CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL CRÍTICA DE ARTE: CRISIS Y RENOVACIÓN, Museo Nacional y Centro de Arte reina Sofica y AECA, 2018. In process of imminent publication. Author

“The Share Use of the Cityscape. The extraordinary case of SoHo.” Revista Telón de Fondo. Nº 24. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA) Argentina. Monagraphic for the Research Project of the National Plan of I+D, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, “Las prácticas escénicas como forma social del conocimiento: Una revisión crítica de la idea de participación en el contexto de las democracias”(HAR 2014-57383). Director: Óscar Cornago (CSIC). ISSN N° 1669-6301, p. 227-255. Author

“Otras arquitecturas anticipadas. Un recorrido por el subsulo, suelo y cielo de Nueva York.” Zarch Jorunal. Volume: 1, Number: 1. Universidad de Zaragoza, 2013. Autora. ISSN: 2341- 0531, p. 270- 284

“Buscar,” Acciones Comunes. Miradas e Intervenciones Urbanas desde el Arte y la Arquitectura. Ed. M. González, J. López de la Cruz, A. Martínez García-Posada. Recolectores Urbanos. 2014. Autora. ISBN: 978-84-941684-8-2. p. 76-78. Publicación premiada en la XIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, y en los Premios FAD-2015.

“Un mapa de relatos urbanos. Laboratorio Q de lugares de creatividad urbana”. Revista Dearq. 16. Julio de 2015. CIRC 2012: Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas C Grupo C. Departamento de Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes. Coautora. ISSN 2011-3188. Bogotá, p. 38-53.

Esceno & grafías. Exposición Vaujaus Teatro. 50o Aniversario ETSAS. Ed. Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla. 2011. Editora y Coautora. ISBN: 978-84-472-1395-5.

“Crossed Colonization. Housing Development in Urban Peripheries. The Hispanic-African Colonial Territories, 1912 – 1976 – 2013.” Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: colonial and postcolonial planning cultures (the ‘Work’). Ed. Carlos Nunes Silva. Taylor & Francis/Routledge. 2015. Coautora. ISBN-13: 978-0415632294.

“II Jornadas de Creatividad Urbana. Sevilla. Escuela Tecnica Superior Arquitectura Sevilla”. Universidad de Sevilla, 2012. Editora y Coautora. ISBN 978-84-695-3772-5

Research projects:

“Investigación histórica y Obsolescencia Urbana. El caso de la Barriada del Carmen (Sevilla): Criterios de Intervención a partir del Manual de Buenas Prácticas para el Proyecto PI 12/3004 Rehabilitar Patrimonio Contemporáneo y Tecnología.” Entidad financiadora. Proyecto I+D+i incentivado al Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico por la Secretaría General de Universidades, Investigación y Tecnología de la Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento de la Junta de Andalucía. Entidad contratante: Fundación de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla. Responsible: Carlos García Vázquez. Reference: PI 12/3004 Rehabilitar Patrimonio Contemporáneo y Tecnología. Researcher.

“Intervención en barriadas residenciales obsoletas: Manual de Buenas Prácticas”. Agencia Obra Pública Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Fomento y Vivienda, 2013-2015. FEDER Funds. Responsible: Carlos García Vázquez. Reference: PRJ20330697. Researcher.

«Estrategias urbanas de intervención de la contracultura artística en el espacio público de la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de los setenta«. Plan Propio US, 2013-2014. Reference: PP2013-977. Main Researcher.

“Acciones Culturales en el Laboratorio de Creatividad Urbana”, laboratorioq.com. Plan Propio US, 2011. Presupuesto: 3000 €. Referencia: 2011/457. Plan Propio US + Extensión Universitaria, 2015.  Responsible: Carlos García Vázquez. Reference: 2011/457. Researcher.

“Arquitectura y Urbanismo en las Colonias Españolas en África. Construcción del Hábitat de la Modernidad: Definición Postcolonial”. I+D «excelencia» Subprograma de Generación de Conocimiento 2013. Universidad de Córdoba. Budget: Pablo Rabasco Pozuelo. Reference: HAR2013-42857-P. Researcher.

Related projects:

Laboratorio Q: laboratorioq.com
Urban Obsolescence: mbpbarriadasobsoletas.com
Spanish Colonialism: gamuc.org
Esceno y Grafías: escenoygrafías.com