Refarm the City is a collective of people from different disciplines but with the same objective: to ensure that ecological agriculture is gradually introduced in cities.

Rubén Suárez has collaborated with LABoral with the project Huerta Guerrilla, urban activism, ecological agriculture and didactic urban vegetable gardens, and in September 2009 he presented the project ‘ekolab’, a laboratory on art and ecology.

He participated in the creation of the ‘Colectivo Divagares’, of which he is currently a member, and which brings together different artistic profiles under the premise of shared learning and action.

In the world of design, he focuses his efforts on specialising in eco-design and sustainable design. In 2007, as part of the association Jóvenes por la Ecología, he organised the ‘Ecodiseña 07’ conference on ecological design and innovation, held at the Asturias School of Art, where innovative experiences in the field of sustainable design and production are shown and debated.

Its work revolves around sustainable design, urban transformation through participation and ecological activism, and the relationship between art and nature.

Lorena Lozano is an artist and researcher. Her work connects art and science knowledge and methodologies. She is graduated in Biology (Oviedo’s University 1998) and Environmental Art (Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2007). Recently she has finished her Ph.D about the relationship between art, science and society (University of Oviedo, Art History and Sociology). She was one of the foundational members and coordinator ofecoLAB, an experimental laboratory on Art, Ecology and Open electronics (Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón 2011-2012). Since 2012 she runs the Econodos platform. Ecology & ella communication and develops the Herbarium project in the rural context of Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León, Spain.

http://lorenalozano.net/

http://econodos.net/

Cristina Ferrández, licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, comienza su implicación en cuestiones relacionadas con la regeneración del territorio y la conciencia natural a través de la cultura y el arte, durante el periodo de Doctorado en la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Alicante. Ha desarrollado proyectos artísticos inscritos en el marco del paisaje y la naturaleza en diferentes continentes: Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Minessota, USA; East Jerusalem-09 Arab Capital of Culture, Palestina; Territorios de Encuentro, Patagonia Argentina; Simposio Threshold of Time, Pórtland, Inglaterra; Instantes de Paisaje’09 CDAN, Huesca, España. Ha sido becada por diversas instituciones, entre las que destacan: Fondation IMéRA, Institut d’études avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université en Francia,  programa Arte, Ciencia y Sociedad 2019; la Beca  de Europa Creativa THE SPUR / ETACEC 16-18 PROJECT, para proyectos en residencia en el Centre d´Art Le LAIT de Albi, Francia; beca Cajastur 2011, la Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa 2006, el Centro de Escultura Museo Antón de Candás 2010, Becas Al-Norte 2007 y la Universidad de Castilla la Mancha en la Hochschule Für Grafik Und Buchkunst von Leipzig, Alemania. Sus últimos  proyectos expositivos se han dado cita en el CMAE de Avilés 2019 con   » Terra Incógnita», en Puxagallery Madrid con el proyecto de Apertura 2018 » Campos de Utopía» y con » «The Non Visible» en el Centro de Arte de Alcobendas.

www.cristinaferrandez.art

Javi Palacios was born in Santander, 1977.

Marked by multifaceted tastes and interests that make him participate in everything from classic social activism, to the world of free software, graphic design, agriculture, permaculture… and even robotics.

He currently develops most of his activities within ‘Promathea, nave nodiza copyleft’, actively collaborating in projects related to free culture and knowledge in different areas.

Some of his most constant collaborations are with the ‘Centro Social Autogestionado a Cova dos Ratos’ or the artistic experimentation laboratory Alga-lab.

http://jvr.arkipelagos.net/

http://cova.arkipelagos.net

http://promathea.arkipelagos.net

http://www.alg-a.org/

Susanna Tesconi’s work is inspired by the interaction between learning processes and technology.

After graduating in Philosophy of Language, she became a primary school teacher. During her years of teaching she began to observe the interaction between children and technological devices and decided to improve her knowledge of technology with the aim of accompanying her students in the development of their own devices. He studied a postgraduate course in Interaction Design and came into contact with the world of open hardware, programming and digital fabrication. He completed his training with the Fab Academy, a diploma in Digital Fabrication, at fabLAB Barcelona where he started an after-school programme in digital fabrication, fabLAB KIds.

In 2012, within the framework of a residency at LABoral, he started working with a group of teachers on the development of educational kits and learning environments for primary and secondary school students in the context of fabLAB Asturias. This will be the starting point for collaboration in the Programme for the Prevention of School Dropout (organised at LABoral in collaboration with the Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Asturias) which uses, among other things, design and digital fabrication to improve motivation in students and promote methodological changes in teachers. Her educational practice is accompanied by a research process.

She is currently completing a Master of Research in Education at the UAB-Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, a step prior to PhD studies. He is also part of the Fablearn Fellowship, promoted by the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford University, a group working on building an online repository of activities for educators of fab labs and makerspaces.