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María F. Carrascal Pérez is PhD Architect and Lecturer in Architectural History, Theory and Composition, teaching at the University of Seville (USE) since 2008. Her academic work focuses on the regeneration of contemporary cities and their artistic, architectural, and urban heritage in North American and European contexts, exploring sustainable strategies for its management and intervention from the sector of creativity and culture. Her recent studies address the intersection of creative industries with the rehabilitation of historic centers, the inclusion of local communities, tactical urbanism and placemaking, distinguished with Magallanes-Elcano Social Innovation Award. She is the responsible for the first strategic program on Creative Industries in the Management Plan for Heritage Municipal Buildings of Seville (2022) and the current research project CREAfab on Creative Reindustrialization of Historic Centers, funded by Andalusian Government. She has been the co-founder of the international research and teaching platform Laboratorio Q, on Places of Urban Creativity (2012-) in collaboration with UCL, Universidad de los Andes and Politecnico di Milano, and promoter of the four editions of the International Conference on Urban Creativity organized at USE (2012-2016).
She is the coordinator of USE-EMVISESA Chair on Social Housing (PI. Prof. Filomena Gálvez) and a research member of UNESCO's Chair CREhAR and the Erasmus + project HERSUS (PI. Prof. Mar Loren). Since 2011, she is fellow of the USE Research Group PAI HUM666: Contemporary City, Architecture and Heritage. She held a postdoctoral reseacher position in the USE Department of Urban Planning (2019-2021). Carrascal has developed R+D+i research projects funded by local, regional and state excellence programs. She was responsible for the research projects WeCity I and II: Creative and Sustainable Intergenerational Neighborhood Model for Cordoba. She is co-author of the research and publication Handbook of Good Practices. For the Intervention on Obsolete Residencial Estates - Barriadas Creativas e Inclusivas (Abada Editores, 2016; PI: Prof. Carlos García Vázquez), subsequently participating in the project re-Habitar (IAPH, 2017).
In the field of design culture and gender studies, she has conducted the seminar Pioneering an Open Acess to the City. From the 1970s New York and the exhibition Other Urban Landscapes at Cornell University (2018) and, together with Prof. María Aguilar Alejandre, she coordinates the research and project-network @DmujerAnd: Design and Women in Andalusia (2019-), encouraged by USE Equality Unit with the institutional collaboration of AAD, COAS and AEDI. She is a researcher in the project R+D+i PAIDI 2020 Artisans and Designers in Andalusia: From The Bauhaus to the XXI Century (IP: Prof. Marisa Vadillo).
Since 2008, she lectures at the Highest Technical School of Architecture (Departments of HTCA, DUOT and PA) and the Master of Sustainable City and Architecture (2013-) and curates special international seminars and exhibitions. Carrascal has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University (AAP New York ), Columbia University (GSAPP), the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Politecnico di Milano - Campus di Milano (Ph. D. Program) and Piacenza (Master of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design), St John ‘s University New York (Department of Art and Design), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona (ETSAB). She also has accomplished visiting fellowships in the Spanish Cultural Center of Equatorial Guinea and the University of Delft.
Her doctoral thesis, entitled City and Art. Cross-dialogues on Space. New York in the 1970s, received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, the highest distinction that the Spanish public university grants in the branch of Architecture and Engineering in Sevilla, and distinguished in the last Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning – X BIAU Sao Paulo 2016 –among more than a 150 thesis in the iberoamerican context. This work was supported by the Universidad de Sevilla through a four-year predoctoral fellowship and mobility grants. The research, which was also conducted at Columbia University, St. John’s University and Universidad de Barcelona (visiting scholar fellowships), including the Documentation Center of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA, and the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art of New York, MoMA PS1 Archives, obtained the highest distinction (Sobresaliente, Cum Laude) and the International Mention.
Her office, ARTIPICA Creative Spaces, focused on temporary architecture, has been acknowledged by national and international institutions including COAM awards-Official Professional Association of Architects-Madrid, FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design-Barcelona, ICO Foundation-Spanish Government, or the Architectural League of New York.
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