Design Workshop II ETSIDI UPM Lavapiés
Continuing with the activities scheduled in the Design Workshop 2 course, “Childhood, design and the city”, this Wednesday March 22 we are lucky to have Clara Eslava Cabanellas visit us. Her research is today an essential reference in relation to childhood and the experience of space. Her work has been widely published in various specialized media, obtaining numerous awards.
We invite you to attend her conference “Childhood and the city, urban grade zero”, in classrooms A11 + A12, at 5:30 p.m. We wait for you!
Clara Eslava Cabanellas (Pamplona, 1972) is an architect from the University of Navarra UNAV (1998), and obtained a doctorate in project theory from the School of Architecture of Madrid UPM (2015), with the thesis “Footprints of childhood in the creative impulse. Primitive areas”. In her thesis, directed by Juan Navarro Baldeweg, experiences and memories from childhood are connected with the search and motivations that appear in the creative processes of some key artists, designers and architects of modernity.
In 1998 she began her interest in the dialogue between pedagogy, design and architecture, through various paths: space as an educational fact, spaces for free play, the dialogue between the child and the city. These are issues that appear in his book “Territories of childhood” (Grao, 2005), which received a special mention from the Spanish Ministry of Education as Best Educational Book 2005. His articles are included in educational magazines such as in-fan-cia, Aula, Cuadernos de Pedagogía or Arquitectura Viva, among others.
Since 2010, she has been teaching Aesthetics and Design History in the Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering Degree at the Antonio de Nebrija University.
In parallel to research and teaching, she develops her professional career in the “Eslava y Tejada architects” studio, specialized in areas such as urban space design, school architecture, design aimed at children, and innovative play spaces.
