Ciudad Emergente is an interdisciplinary team hailing from fields such as architecture, urbanism, sociology, design, engineering and economics. This team works in strategic alliance with institutions, organizations and local communities, managing collaboration projects and, in so doing, transforms itself into a catalyst for ideas.
DIRECTORS
Javier Vergara Petrescu
MSc City Design & Social Sciences, London School of Economics
Architect Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Javier is a Co-founder and the CEO of Ciudad Emergente a Lab of Tactics and Tools for Citizen Urbanism. He specializes in combining social innovation projects, entrepreneurship, citizen participation and technologies to improve the quality of life in cities. He has worked on several urban development projects in Chile, Europe and the United States. Javier is also a co-founder of Plataforma Urbana, Plataforma Arquitectura, and CitiSent. In 2006 he was voted one of the 100 Young Leaders of Chile by the publication El Sabado and the Center for Strategic Leadership of Universidad de Adolfo Ibañez. He is currently a professor of Tactical Urbanism at the Universidad Diego Portales (UDP), a professor of Urban Start-Ups at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), and a professor of the Masters in Urban Design (MPUR) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has presented papers on Tactical Urbanism at the Universidad Autónoma de México, Columbia University, and the Latin GSD of Harvard University. To learn more about Javier see his TEDxUDD talk with Marisol García: “Collaborate, Try and Share: There are no secrets in urban innovation”.
javier@ciudademergente.org @vergarapetrescu
Marisol García
MSc Urban Design in Development, University College London
Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Marisol is a co-founder and director of Ciudad Emergente. She is also a co-founder of UrbanKIT, a crowd-funding platform incubated in StartUp Chile, and a co-founder of the Foundation for Housing Management (Fundación Gestión Vivienda) known today as “Social Urbanism”, a foundation that develops housing, neighborhood and city projects through its own model of people-centric social urbanism. She worked for the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) in England, on building international networks and disseminating knowledge about innovative and good practices relating to community, housing and urban development worldwide. She is currently a professor of the Masters in Urban Design at the Pontíficia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she teaches the classes “Emerging Urbanism” and “Laboratory on Urban Design”.
marisol@ciudademergente.org @mgarciago
Bárbara Barreda
Master in Architecture, Emergent Technologies and Design, Architectural Association, London
Architect, Universidad del Desarrollo
Barbara is a director of Ciudad Emergente. She specializes in design based on innovative and complex geometries, using unconventional and sustainable construction materials. She has collaborated with architecture offices in Santiago and London on the design and construction of projects in Chile, Europe, and Asia. She currently works independently on various design projects and is a professor at the Universidad del Desarollo, teaching classes on materiality, composition, and technologies applied to architectural design.
barbara@ciudademergente.org @barbarabarreda
Tomás Cortese
MSc City Design & Social Sciences, London School of Economics
Master in Architecture, Architect Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Tomas is a co-founder and director of Ciudad Emergente. He is specialized in methodologies of design, prototyping and management of social innovation initiatives, with special emphasis on urban projects. Thomas is also the leader of the Social Innovation Challenge, part of Arauco’s innovation program. In addition Thomas is a founding partner of Green Footprints SpA, a social company dedicated to the management of sustainable agricultural-product consumption within communities, and of Crafts House (Casa de Oficios), a space for workshops and courses on handicraft and manual traditions. Within his architectural experience his work with the ELEMENTAL Do Tank, ARUP Urban Design, and Gustafson Porter Landscape Architects in London particularly stand out. In 2004 he also participated in Chile’s exhibit at the Venice Biennale.
tomas@ciudademergente.org
Alejandra Wood
Historian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Alejandra is a director of Ciudad Emergente. She works in cultural administration and, since 2010, has been executive director of the Centro Gabriela Mistral, GAM. Before heading the GAM, she managed Scotiabank’s Corporate Affairs Division and CSR. Prior to this she managed BHP Billiton’s external affairs for over a decade. She has been included on El Mercurio’s list of 100 Women Leaders in Chile twice. As director of GAM she was praised for her management of the 2010 annual accounts by the journal Qué Pasa, La Segunda newspaper, and the Paula journal. In 2012 she received the Energía Mujer prize for GAM’s work with the community. She is advisor to Comunidad Mujer and member of the Network for the Center for Public Space Studies (Red del Centro de Estudios Espacio Público).
alejandra@ciudademergente.org
Esteban Calvo
PhD de Boston College
MsPH de Harvard University
Sociologist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Esteban is a director of Ciudad Emergente. He works as a professor at the Public Policies Institute of the Universidad Diego Portales and a research associate at Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center of Columbia University. He has also worked as a professor of Sociology at the Universidad Católica de Chile and a consultant for the United Nations, Harvard University, the Center for Retirement Research and the Government of Chile. His research aims at identifying and understanding the social factors experienced during a lifetime that influence the health and happiness of seniors, as well as evaluating public policies and interventions that contribute to improving their wellbeing and society’s as a whole. He has authored more that 30 articles, policy papers, books, and chapters of books for which he has received prizes from the American Sociological Association, the American Public Health Association, the Gerontological Society of America and the Retirement Research Foundation.
esteban@ciudademergente.org
Sebastián Bowen
Sociologist, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
Master in International Development Policy, Duke University
Sebastian is a Director of Ciudad Emergente. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked as Social Director of TECHO (A Roof for Chile). He was the general coordinator for Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle’s presidential campaign. Subsequently he worked in Haiti, strengthening the management of primary schools for the educational foundation Foi et Joie Haití, in association with the and the foundation América Solidaria and the Compañia de Jesús.
sebastián@ciudademergente.org
Juan Pedro Pinochet
Public Administrator, Universidad de Chile
Juan Pedro is a director of Ciudad Emergente. He’s the founding partner and general manager of Gestión Social, a consulting firm in social responsibility that advises businesses in every pertaining to sustainable development. He was the executive director of TECHO – A Roof for Chile a TECHO – A Roof for my Country for twelve years. Under his management, the initiative became the leading foundation for young people, bringing together more than 400,000 volunteers from 19 Latin-American countries. He also has vast experience in the corporate world from his time as general manager of Parmalat Chile and his work in the banking sector.
juanpedro@ciudademergente.org
Rodrigo Araya
Doctor in Anthropology, Autónoma University of Barcelona
Anthropologist and Master in Political Science, Chile University
He was a researcher at the Networks and Communities Laboratory at the Autónoma University of Barcelona and a visiting researcher at the University of Belgrade. He was a researcher at Flacso and co-director of Ekhos.
He teaches at the Pontificia Católica University of Chile and the Adolfo Ibáñez University. He also directs the Controversies Management group. He is a member of Tironi Asociados.
Giovana Franceschetto Fernandes
Architect and Urbanist, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil.
Giovana is the Director of Emerging City. She works as a professor at the Desarrollo University, for the Architecture and Art faculty and as an independent architect and curator. She was executive director and co-curator of the XV Biennale di Architettura di Venezia with Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTARY. She was curator and director of the South Front seminar – held by the Universidad del Desarrollo – where exponents of contemporary national architecture, such as Alejandro Aravena, participated. ELEMENTAL, Cecilia Puga, David Basulto, Elton_Léniz, Felipe Vera, Talca Group, José Uribe, Juan Román, Pezo Von Ellirchausen, Teresa Moller.
She was in charge of the development and implementation of the website ArchDailyBrasil, later becoming its chief editor.
She has collaborated in architectural projects and competitions in association with architects Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL, Blanco & Andrade architects, Charles Murray, Elton_Leniz, millimeterMETRO, Victor Oddo.Asociados.
ASSOCIATED TEAM
Davor Posavac
Architect, Mayor University
Coordinator of Urban Innovation in Emerging City
Davor is Coordinator of Urban Innovation in Emerging City, where he has led pilot initiatives of social cohesion, urban resilience and smart cities, along with coordinating processes of knowledge transfer in urban innovation between Europe and Latin America. Davor coordinated the pilot of Shared Streets corresponding to a pioneering initiative in Chile that seeks to experience a change of habit in the use of the street to combat climate change. He has coordinated the implementation of the Alameda Caminable Experiment of the Resilience Strategy of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, and in 2017 he led the national initiative the Great Malon, an urban tactic that brought together 12 thousand Chileans in 9 regions of the country. around a large table to build trust and community. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Director of Habitability and Project Manager in Fundación Junto al Barrio, where he led important urban interventions in Santiago, Valparaíso and Coquimbo, exhibited in the symposium “Latin American Incrementalism: from PREVI to Present”, in the Museum of New York Modern Art -MoMA, has also worked as an Urban Planning Advisor for the Municipality of Huara, promoting heritage conservation processes and the Country Service Program of the Poverty Overcoming Foundation leading urban initiatives in rural towns and technically supporting the rehabilitation of villages of indigenous communities in the altiplanic zone of the Tarapacá region in contexts of social vulnerability.
davor@ciudademergente.org
Kurt Steffens
Architect, Central University of Chile
MSc in Urban Management, Technical University of Berlin.
Diploma in Geographic Information Systems, Pontificia Universidad Católica
Kurt is the Coordinator of the Urban Tactics Laboratory in Emerging City, leading urban innovation projects on issues of sustainable mobility, citizen participation and generation of indicators to evaluate impacts on the planning of cities centered on people. He has developed and managed different urban tactics such as the Urban Malones, the Okuplazas, the Shared Streets project and the Alameda Caminable experiment, as well as the consultancy for the Concón Innovation Park. In 2017 he coordinated the metropolitan area of the initiative the Great Malon, an urban tactic that brought together in one day 12 thousand Chileans in 9 regions of the country around a large table to build trust and community. He has more than 10 years of experience in city planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, community activation and technologies, both from the Urban Development Division of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning of Chile, and in his role as a teacher in the Faculty of Urbanism and Landscape of the Central University of Chile. He has made several presentations of Emerging City, highlighting the Habita III World Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development in Quito, Ecuador, participating with Greenpeace Mexico and Engajamundo of Brazil in the talk “People power in cities: Finding ways to strengthen urban movements “. Kurt is also a consultant and urban manager in the WEG consultancy and is incubating the project Beyond your Plate, a foundation to connect Chileans and migrants through food.
kurt@ciudademergente.org
Pablo Soriano
Doctor in Territorial Planning, University of Barcelona
Master’s Degree in Territorial Development, Higher Technical School of Architecture of the U. Politècnica de Catalunya (ETSA)
Pablo is in charge of research and development (R & D) of Emerging City. his line of work has been heritage neighborhoods, tourism and the urban landscape. He has an important career in the public and private sector as a Country Service or other programs of the Foundation for Overcoming Poverty, various studies in Development Plans Territorial linked to tourism in Yerba Loca, the Ruta de los Volcanes, Patagonia de Chile, Barrio Yungay, La Chimba and in Europe in the Landscape Letters of Catalonia. In the academic area, he is a professor of landscape architecture, has received a scholarship of academic excellence in undergraduate, master’s and doctorate, has publications and books related to heritage tourism and landscape from a social perspective. He likes gazpacho and has a good heart.
pablo@ciudademergente.org
Sofía Ruz
Designer, Pontificia Universidad Católica
Sofia is an Emerging City Designer. She has worked as a designer for the Office for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents (OPD Mulchén), the Petra College and the audiovisual series “Los Zapatos de Alicia”. He completed his professional practice at the Office of Color Studies of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and in Animal Care ACWS. He likes to eat chocolate and swim.
sofia.ruz@ciudademergente.org
Gonzalo Caldera
Gonzalo is a Publicist, with a mention in Strategic Communication + MINOR in Management and Marketing from the Universidad Diego Portales. He also developed a New Formats Program in Complot, Barcelona, Spain. Before collaborating in the Communication and Coordination of Media and Incidents for Emerging City, he worked in agencies for different brands in Chile and abroad, initially occupying the position of Editor and later finishing as Digital Creative Director. He currently directs wavesdigital.com, a Digital Management company of which he is a partner and founder.
gonzalo@wavesdigital.com
Sarah Derroisné
Publicista, Edith Cowan University.
Sarah is a Publicist, with a double mention in Advertising and Creative Services in Visual Communications from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. I also study Creative Processes at the AdSchool school in Brisbane, Australia. She has worked as a designer in several projects in Australia, France and Chile. Since July 2017, she joined the team of Waves as Community Manager and Designer where she also supports the communication strategies of Emerging City. Sarah always looks for new challenges where she can use her skills and develop new ones. He likes to travel, cook and learn new languages.
sarah@wavesdigital.com
José Manuel Guzmán
Urban planner, Simón Bolívar University
José Manuel is an Urbanist from Caracas, Venezuela. He has participated in local urban planning projects, research related to issues of green areas and urban environmental management, and has given lectures on tactical urbanism and public space. Prior to joining Emerging City, I work in the research area of Fundación Mi Parque.
josemanuel@ciudademergente.org
Paloma Bugedo
Architect (Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2012) with studies in Printmaking and Printed Art (UNA, BuenosAires – Argentina)
Paloma is part of the Urban Innovation team of Emerging City. She has worked as an Urban Planning Architect in both the public sector (Metropolitan Public Transport Board) and the NGO (Fundación Junto al Barrio) in themes related to mobility + urban development + design and management of public space projects. Through the academy and from his role in the DTPM he has focused his research on issues of intermodality and sustainable transport.
Since 2017 it is part of AV (Arte Volante). From there, she works as a Recorder and Watercolorist. www.palomabugedo.com
paloma@ciudademergente.org
Verónica Irarrázabal G.
MSc Environmental Governance, University of Manchester.
Political Scientist and Social Worker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Verónica is the Citizen Culture Coordinator of Ciudad Emergente. She is also Coordinator of the studies and projects area of Fundación para la Confianza. He has held functions in the Fauna Australis Laboratory, in the Public Policy Center and in the GAMA UC Environment Advisory Group. With experience in legislative analysis and follow-up to parliamentary work in matters of environmental relevance, and in the development of initiatives for the promotion of citizen involvement in environmental initiatives. He has participated in applied research projects in conservation matters, strengthening social capital, and protecting the rights of children. His areas of study are human rights, sustainable development, environmental governance, environmental justice and citizen participation.
Ismail Salomon
Politologist Rafael Landivar University of Guatemala
Ismail is in charge of the social area in Guatemala of the Ciudad Compartidas project implemented by Ciudad Emergente. He is co-founder and currently vice president of the direct board of the International Center for Development Management (NGO), CIDES is a transformation network for social change that focuses on social research to influence the implementation of new forms of governance. He is the coordinator of the governance and governance area in Advocacy for Business and Human Rights (ABHR). He is also an official UN trainer on the 2030 agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals.
ismail@ciudademergente.org
CONSULTANTS
Patricio Fernández
Founder and Director of The Clinic
Patricio is a consultant to Ciudad Emergente. The greater part of his carrier has been dedicated to communication media. He is the founder and director of The Clinic and leader of the radio program Desde Zero of Radio Zero. He is the author of the novels “Ferrantes”, “Los nenes”, and “La calle me distrajo.” He is also a columnist for Gatopardo (Mexico), Soho (Columbia), Piauí (Brasil) and El País (España).
patricio@ciudademergente.org
Nepal Asatthawasi
MSc City Design & Social Sciences, London School of Economics
MA Housing and Urbanism, Architectural Association London
BA Anthropology, Columbia University.
Nepal is a member of the Advisory Council and Ciudad Emergente’s representative in New York City. Professionally, she is dedicated to economic development issues. She is currently an Assistant Director in NYDesigns, an economic development agency specializing in creative and design industries in New York. She also independently manages aspects of research and development programs for clients in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
nepal@ciudademergente.org
Aurash Khawarzad
Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Tech University
Aurash is a consultant to Ciudad Emergente. As a New York City resident since 2009, he has supported regional planning processes in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Westchester County, Rockland County, and Long Island, as well as in other American cities including Pittsburg, Denver, New Orleans, and Austin. He has taught classes in the New School, Queens College, and in the Strelka Institute for Architecture, Media, and Design in Moscow, Russia. He co-founded DoTank.org – an interdisciplinary action group whose work was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, the XVIII Architecture Biennale, Chile, and other exhibits.
aurash@ciudademergente.org
Krista Canellakis
Krista is a co-founder and consultant to Ciudad Emergente. She has five years of experience developing renewable energy strategies for 3Degrees in San Francisco. She has lead large-scale strategies on marketing, the web, and project management and has worked with clients who possess the wealth to communicate their commitment to sustainability.
Krista has extensive experience and networks in businesses relating to the environment, community and urban development. She is a co-founder of the crowd funding venture UrbanKIT and has lead various projects on web-development, coordinating teams of designers and developers.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Javier Vergara, Davor Posavac, Kurt Steffens, Pablo Soriano, Sofía Ruz, Paloma Bugedo, Veronica Irarrázabal, José Manuel Guzmán, Ismail Salomon, Julián Castillo, Lorena Cornejo, Sarah Derroisne, Gonzalo Caldera, Víctor Vidal.
INTERNS
COLLABORATORS
We thank those who have supported Ciudad Emergente day to day, especially those who have collaborated with us.
Nimsi Castillo, Josefina Fortunatti, Magdalena Bravo, Nicolás Quezada, Javiera Parra, Valentina Terra, Anja Graner, Ryan Szyfer, Naschla Aburman, Maria Jesus Altamirano, Javiera Alvarado, Francisca Alvarez, Pilar Álvarez, Felipe Aránguiz, Maria Jose Araya, Pia Arraza, Constanza Barreneachea, Camila Bastidas, Henry Bauer, Alejandra Beher, Sofia Benavides, Cecilia Borghini, Rosario Bravo, Karen Bruning, Alonso Bustamante, Romina Capponi, Giancarlo Carlevarino, Belen Carracedo, Ignacio Castillo, Daniela Castro, Iván Cerda, Carolina Choza, Luis Contzen, Manfredo Corado, Catalina Cortese, Victoria Cross, Carlos Cuevas, Carla Davico, Felipe Diaz , Javiera Diaz, Sebastian Diaz, Vicente Diaz, Manon Depuy, Camila Dobbs, Sebastian Espejo, Erick Espinoza, Alba Eyzaguirre, Fernando Fernandez, Valentina Fernandez, Ricardo Follert, Josefina Fortunatti, Aline Fuentes, Maria Ignacia Fuentes, Nicolas Fuentes, Andrea Garcia, Anibal García, Clemente Gaete, Antonia Garretón, Andrea Gavilan, Sebastián Genta, Daniel Goddemeyer, Francisca Godoy, Nicolás Gómez, Pilar Grant, Macarena Guajardo, C onsuelo Guinez, Anella Guzmán, Julio Guzmán, Manuela Harrington, Constanza Henríquez, Eduardo Herrera, Valentina Hill, Tamara Infante, Francisca Iturra, Antonio Izquierdo, Ian Jakab, Catalina Lagos, Arturo Larraín, Javier Leal, Antonia Lobos, Alex Manquilepe, Ronnie Mantellini , Gonzalo Manzur, Andrea Marambio, Diego Martinez Dobb, Nicolás Martinez, Daniela Maturana, Claudia Mazuela, Dani Merlo, Mairi Miranda, Paulina Montero, Diego Molina, Francisca Morales, Diego Moya, Maria Eugenia Muñoz Moller, Daniela Muñoz, Sebastian Muñoz, Ana Paola Núñez, Sofia Ocampo, Carolina Ojeda, Claudia Olavarría, Constanza Orellana, Jeanette Orozco, Javiera Osorio, Catalina Pantoja, Xania Pantoja, Daniela Parrague, Javier Perez, Jose Luis Pierotic, Fernanda Pino, Carla Pizarro, Ciro Pizzutilo, Felipe Poblete, Macarena Puelma, Matías Puelma, Bettina Riarte, Martina Richie, Isidora Rivas, Nastassja Rojas, Pamela Salas, Katerin Schmidt, Tarut Segovia, Ilan Shats, Hector Soto, Katherine Tapia, M Acarena Tapia, Benjamin Telias, Magdalena Torrico, Alana Tucker, Constanza Urbina, Montserrat Urbina, Paula Urrutia, Maria Isabel Varela, Valentina Vega, Cristian Wrbka, Javier Zuñiga.
PAST DIRECTORS
Francisca Bogolasky, Krista Canellakis, Kurt Steffens, Pedro Pablo del Campo Klerman, Manuela Garretón.
CO-FOUNDERS
Javier Vergara, Marisol García, Tomás Cortese, Francisca Bogolasky, Pedro Pablo del Campo, Krista Canellakis, Roberto Burgos y Herbert Spencer.
