Despite the broadness and heterogeneity of the Latin-American region, its cities and institutions have been widely known to be capable of launching some of the most promising urban policy experiments in the last decades: from participatory budgeting to BRT and ciclovías. In this session, we are exploring how Latin American citizens and institutions are leveraging creativity to face the pandemic while opening the possibility for a broader systemic transformation.
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Learning from… Latin America
Leonardo Maldonado, Carolina Huffmann, Ramon Marrades
Leonardo Maldonado is co-founder of the global sustainable cities movement, Cities CAN B. From new laws to poems on buses, the Cities CAN B movement is bringing together government, businesses and citizens to make the UN Sustainable Development Goals meaningful.
Leonardo is the CEO of Gulliver, a private innovation agency. Until April 2018, he was Executive Director of Sistema B Chile. He is a serial and social entrepreneur and dedicates his professional life to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.
If there is one thing Leonardo knows best, it is how to build communities. He is guided by the conviction that we are all dependent upon each other and thus responsible for ourselves, each other, and future generations. He participated in building five companies, a foundation, and a social movement – Sistema B.
Member of the Responsible Leader Network of BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Carolina is an argentine architect dedicated to urban planning, specialized in walkability. Master’s Degree in Master Laboratorio de la Vivienda del siglo XXI (U. Politécnica de Catalunya). In 2012 he founded Urbanismo Vivo, a dynamic and multidisciplinary urban consulting team that seeks to strengthen the link between people and the city from a local and human perspective. Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She has been a representative of Jane’s Walks Buenos Aires since 2012, is a regional leader of the Placemaking X network and member of Placemaking Latin America. She is co-founder of Ciudades Comunes. She worked in the Ministry of Transportation in Buenos Aires in Pedestrian Interventions.
Ramon Marrades is an urban economist, writer, and activist with a passion for people and places. He is currently Director at Placemaking Europe, founder at Vigla – an applied research start-up focused on designing urban futures–, and strategy advisor to a number of cities and large-scale development projects. Before, he has served as the Chief Strategy and Finance Officer at La Marina de València, Valencia’s waterfront redevelopment agency, and a board member of the Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP).
He holds an Executive MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Economics and Geography from Utrecht University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Valencia. He has been a researcher at the University of Valencia (Spain), Western Sydney University (Australia), and FLACSO (Ecuador). He received the Spanish Social Entrepreneur Award in 2012. Ramon is co-editor of the book “Our City? Countering Exclusion in Public Space” (2019) and the host and co-curator of Placemaking Week Europe 2019 and 2022.