Paco González-Gil

Paco González-Gil (he/him) is an Arquitecto (EHEA EQF Level 7) from Universidad de Sevilla, a Pre-Bologna Degree in the Spanish education system (MECES Level 3 ES R.D. 967/2014) which gives access to registered professional practice. In practical terms, he received a training which combines an architect and building engineering background with urban planning and urban design instruction in a program of 6 academic years plus a Final Master Project (1 to 2 years). He completed his professional training with the following professional degrees: City Management (2008, 32 ECTS) and Urbanism for Collaborative Cities (2017, 30 ECTS) from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

His professional career has focused on the study and development of new practices in the field of architecture and urbanism. He is currently working on civic innovation urban projects combined with the development (part time) of hist doctoral dissertation Civic labs. Urban experimentation and participatory design of cities. (provisional title) in the Society, Technology and Culture doctoral as a member of the Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA lab) research group from Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC) of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

In the 2022/23 academic course he has been an Assistant Lecturer (Profesor Asociado) in the City and Urbanism programme of the Faculty of Law and Politics, at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Previously, he was for almost a decade an Instructor (Profesor Docente Colaborador) and head of dissemination and communication, author of several learning materials and co-authored the syllabus of the Urban Transformation and the Public Space and Citizenship courses. He also has taught as guest instructor in different master programs and facilitated workshops for various institutions and organisations.