Who we are

We are Ana Méndez de Andés Aldama, David Hamou, Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi and Edurne Bagué
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We are Ana Méndez de Andés Aldama, David Hamou, Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi and Edurne Bagué

Ana Méndez de Andés Aldama

Architect and urban planner who graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSA) in Madrid, Spain, where she also holds a MA in Urban Studies

Ana has worked as an urban and landscape designer in Amsterdam, Madrid and London. She has been teaching at the Universidad Europea in Madrid and visiting faculty at Tongji (Shanghai). Since 2005 she has been engaged in social movements and collective projects related to the social production of territories, the nature of public space, and urban commons’ institutional development, such as urbanacción and Observatorio Metropolitano. In 2014, Ana joined the municipalist platform Ahora Madrid and was appointed Strategic Planning Advisor to Madrid City Council between 2015 and 2017. Presently, she holds a 1+3 White Rose DTP ESRC studentship to do her PhD with professors Doina Petrescu and Beth Perry as supervisors.

David Hamou

École Normale Supérieure de Cachan graduate and a PhD student in sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, in the SOPHIAPOL - Sociologie, Anthropologie et Philosophie Politiques laboratory.

His research focuses on the commons, urban social movements and non-state institutions. As part of his PhD, he is studying how the PAH – Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca promotes the self-institution of social rights and urban commoning processes. In Barcelona, he has collaborated with the Observatori DESC, where he has published reports on the right to the city and the right to housing.

Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi​

Holds a PhD in Public Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He teaches Constitutional Law at the University of Girona, and coordinates the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in Law, Economics and Business and holds the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Human Development

Since February 2017, Marco has been president of the DESC Observatory, a leading organization fighting for economic, social, and cultural rights. He is responsible for numerous publications on the collective rights of indigenous peoples, new Latin American constitutionalism, the right to human mobility, austerity policies and social rights.

Edurne Bagué

Holds a PhD in Social Anthropology specialising in water, society and culture from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico, where she studied as a CONACYT scholarship holder

Her lines of work are public services and new governance models, design and creation of public policies for socio-ecological transition and public-community systems and analysis and study of institutions from a commons and gender perspective. She is the promoter of the Working Group for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (DHAS) of Girona-Salt and a member of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Human Development at the University of Girona. She is currently the coordinator of the Comunalitat del Güell.