Mesa del Castillo Clavel, Miguel

Associate Professor. Architectural Projects. Department of Graphic Expression, Composition and Projects. Higher Polytechnic School. University of Alicante. Director of the Master's Degree in Architecture (2015-2019). Member of the editorial committee of the journal [i2].

Architect by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, he holds a PhD by the University of Alicante with the Doctoral Thesis Víctimas de un mapa. Architecture and resistance in the time of flexible culture. He has collaborated with Francisco Alonso de Santos, Clavel Arquitectos, Víctor López Cotelo, José María Torres Nadal and Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome. Between 2002 and 2007 he was an associate architect at the AdHoc studio in Murcia.

From 1996 to 2005 he lived in Rome (Italy) where he was a research assistant for a year at the Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" in Rome. He has published articles on city, architecture and society in specialised magazines such as C3 Korea, A 10 New European Architecture or Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica. He has lectured at the University of Seville, the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (Rome), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen), Tabakalera (Donostia), and the Centro Universitario de Diseño de Barcelona, among other institutions.

Since 2010 he has been conducting research on the relevance of the ordinary in architecture from a socio-technical perspective. He has given lectures on the subject at MediaLab (Madrid), SOS 4.8 (Murcia), and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).

He has been a guest lecturer at the Institut D'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, at the European University of Valencia, at the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (InArch, Rome), at LaBoral in Gijón and at Tabakalera, Donostia. He has been a full time lecturer in the Architectural Projects Area of the Architecture degree at the University of Alicante since 2007 (he is currently an Associate Professor).

His work currently focuses on the cross-cutting relationships between nature, politics, ecology, design, society and technology within the framework of Environmental Humanities and specifically on the involvement of architecture in active processes of ecological and landscape restoration. He is a member of the COST Action TRACS (Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice) working group. He is a member of the research team in the project Climate Crisis, Mental Health and Well-being in the Anthropocene, and a member of the research collective ehCOLAB (https://www.um.es/ehcolab/) interested in the development of blue humanities.