Sandra Pintos Pérez - Sergio Cañas Vadillo. Graduate architects from the University of Alcalá de Henares, they have focused their attention on social innovation, participatory processes and design as a tool for change.
Sandra Pintos Pérez has recently worked on "Cosiendo Teután" (Stitching Teutan), a project developed along with anthropologist Elisabeth Lorenzi in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) which used participative processes to create networks, rethinking the public space and making the ongoings in the city visible through textile works. During her training as an architect she has always sought out social integration, both in her degree dissertation ("Espacios multisensoriales para la estimulación temprana en niños" - Multisensory spaces for early childhood stimulation) as well as her Master's dissertation ("Cosiendo Vacíos: Proyecto para la integración de la mujer refugiada" - Stitching empty spaces: a project for the integration of the woman refugee).
Sergio Cañas Vadillo has worked in different studios within the architecture, interior design and graphic design sectors. In 2014, he participated in a research project called "Arquitectura Autre en España 1963-73" (Architecture Autre in Spain 1963-73) with Fernando Quesada López. His interest in sustainable architecture led him to write his degree dissertation entitled "Hacia el 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings" (Towards 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings). One year later he actively collaborated in a participative process, the "Conectando Historias" (Linking Histories) project, undertaken by the City Council of Madrid to restore the Legazpi market.
Sandra Pintos Pérez has recently worked on "Cosiendo Teután" (Stitching Teutan), a project developed along with anthropologist Elisabeth Lorenzi in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) which used participative processes to create networks, rethinking the public space and making the ongoings in the city visible through textile works. During her training as an architect she has always sought out social integration, both in her degree dissertation ("Espacios multisensoriales para la estimulación temprana en niños" - Multisensory spaces for early childhood stimulation) as well as her Master's dissertation ("Cosiendo Vacíos: Proyecto para la integración de la mujer refugiada" - Stitching empty spaces: a project for the integration of the woman refugee).
Sergio Cañas Vadillo has worked in different studios within the architecture, interior design and graphic design sectors. In 2014, he participated in a research project called "Arquitectura Autre en España 1963-73" (Architecture Autre in Spain 1963-73) with Fernando Quesada López. His interest in sustainable architecture led him to write his degree dissertation entitled "Hacia el 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings" (Towards 2020, Nearly Zero Energy Buildings). One year later he actively collaborated in a participative process, the "Conectando Historias" (Linking Histories) project, undertaken by the City Council of Madrid to restore the Legazpi market.
