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TURBA Lab

Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) - Social sciences

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Ribera Fumaz, Ramon

TURBA aims to explore the complex and multi-scalar geographies of socio-environmental and technological urban transformations from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating approaches from the fields of geography, urban studies, environmental studies/sciences, political science and science and technology studies (STS).

The group is organized into three research lines:

  1. Political Ecology of Socio-environmental Change explores processes of reconfiguration of environmental governance and social-ecological resilience against the backdrop of economic, technological and social change;
  2. The Geographies of Urbanization contributes to the understanding of the political, economic, cultural and socio-environmental implications of contemporary processes of urban restructuring from a multi-scalar perspective;
  3. Digital Co-creation and Citizen Science examines processes of collaborative creation of knowledge in digital and non-digital environments.

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Projects the group is involved in

Scientific production

Scientific production the group is involved in

R+D+I Activity

Urban studies

60%
The geographies of urbanization

It explores the various urbanisms for the digital economy (smart city, technological sovereignty, innovation districts, p2p urbanism, etc.) and their relationship with the insertion of territories in the new international division of labor and regional development as well as circuits global generation and transfer of these urban planning models.

20%
Grassroots co-creation of sustainable solutions

It explores the new processes of collaborative knowledge creation and the co-production of public policies in digital and offline environments. In this context, it is studied how innovative ways of involving citizenship such as those based on the arts can support inclusion in formal and informal learning contexts and how these processes help to sustainably transform our cities in the face of climate change.

20%
The political ecology of socioenvironmental change

It investigates how governance and socio-ecological resilience are being reconfigured in the backdrop of technological, social and environmental change. In particular, it focuses on the drivers, impacts and barriers as well as the winners and losers of the socio-environmental transformation led or by the state, the market or civil society.