The members of the IND+I Science panel – Mariana Mazzucato, Xavier Ferràs, María José Aranguren and Rainer Kattel – will come together to hand out the awards at its annual conference on 8 February.
Carlos Cámara Menoyo is a researcher in the Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) research group, doctoral student at the UOC and author of the research paper "Urban commons: lessons from Barcelona at the beginning of 21st century". He is to receive the IND+I Science award in the Metropolitan Innovation Policies category, which is sponsored by Barcelona's Strategic Metropolitan Plan and worth €1,500. The panel singled out this work which focuses on the urban commons movement, a movement with important urban, physical and social components that calls not only to fight against the effects of the financial crisis, but also to promote an alternative system.
The work is based on a recent ethnographic study of 29 cases (7 of which were in-depth studies) in Barcelona. Five threads of argument were detected in their demands: self-management and institutionalization, relational capacity, the material and spatial, open culture, and technology.
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