Helena Cruz
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain

Helena Cruz holds a PhD in Geography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Master's Degree in Urban Management from the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. She is a research fellow at the IGOP and a lecturer at the Escola Universitària de Turisme Mediterrani (affiliated to the University of Girona). Previously, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a visiting researcher at the University of California Los Angeles, the Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, the National University of Ireland Maynooth and the Università Ca ' Foscari. Specialized in spatial planning, her current research focuses on governance and citizen participation in urban policies, territorial conflicts in urban planning, and citizen empowerment in the management of public space. She is a member of the research group URGOCIS (IGOP-UAB) and of Espais Crítics (UB).

Moreno Rubén Martínez
IGOP. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain

Rubén Martínez Moreno holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (Universitat de Barcelona) and a Master's Degree in Political Science and Social Transformation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently a PhD researcher linked to the Research Group on Urban Governance, Commons, Internet and Social Innovation(URGOCIS). He holds a FPI Fellowship grant from the Government of Spain. His research focuses on the analysis of public policies that foster social innovation, their articulation with community based processes and changes in social power relations.

Ismael Blanco
IGOP. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain

Ismael Blanco is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Law, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has been a Ramon y Cajal research fellow at the UAB and at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Departament of Public Policy, De Montfort University (UK). His current research focuses on the impact of the economic crisis in the sociospatial configuration of cities and on the emerging forms of governance and participation in the context of the urban crisis. He is a member of the research consortium Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparison, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom), led by Prof. Jonathan Davies (DMU)