Keynote and guest lectures
2024/11-12 - [Keynote speaker] International guest at ArqFilmFest 2024, Architecture and Film Festival at Santiago, Chile.
2024/10/07 - [Guest Speaker] Ley, ciudad y paisaje en el imperio español, in I Encuentro sobre el Patrimonio Hispano. España y México, Naciones Barrocas. Organized by Cátedra del Español y la Hispanidad and Fundación para el Conocimiento Madri+d. Madrid, Spain.
2024/07/02 - [Guest discussant] Participant of the discussion panel Inteligencia Emocional en Arquitectura, hosted by Madrid’s Architect Association (COAM) as part of its mentoring program MentorCOAM. Madrid, Spain.
2024/06/05 - [Guest speaker] Gaming Architectural History. Por una resignificación del paradigma a través del videojuego. Hosted by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia de A Coruña [Architects Association of Galicia at A Coruña], Spain.
2024/09/10 - [Guest respondent] Miracles in Europe’s Orchard by Dámaso Randulfe, Royal College of Arts (London). DoctalksxMoMA Program, September 10, 2024.
2024/03/22 - [Guest speaker] Paisaje, Ley, Colonia. Streamed interview, part of the seminar program Indiferente Virreinal, hosted by FASTOS project at CSIC Institute of Language, Literature and Antropology, Madrid, Spain. Recording available at: https://youtu.be/Lxn4FI3VqEg?si=FhlByuU_SCnbat4H
2024/03/02 - [International guest speaker] Charles V and the Alhambra kiosk. Short intervention during the 2024 Business Meeting of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). Conference hall at Charles V palace crypt in Granada, Spain.
2023/09/21 - [International guest speaker] 2023 SAH Digital Conference Roundtable Expanding the Reach of Architectural Journals: Rethinking Scope, Format, and Editorial Policies, moderated by Kıvanç Kılınç, Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA), Izmir Institute of Technology.
2024/06/05 - [Guest speaker] Gaming Architectural History. Por una resignificación del paradigma a través del videojuego. Hosted by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia de A Coruña [Architects Association of Galicia at A Coruña], Spain.
2024/09/10 - [Guest respondent] Miracles in Europe’s Orchard by Dámaso Randulfe, Royal College of Arts (London). DoctalksxMoMA Program, September 10, 2024.
2024/03/22 - [Guest speaker] Paisaje, Ley, Colonia. Streamed interview, part of the seminar program Indiferente Virreinal, hosted by FASTOS project at CSIC Institute of Language, Literature and Antropology, Madrid, Spain. Recording available at: https://youtu.be/Lxn4FI3VqEg?si=FhlByuU_SCnbat4H
2024/03/02 - [International guest speaker] Charles V and the Alhambra kiosk. Short intervention during the 2024 Business Meeting of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). Conference hall at Charles V palace crypt in Granada, Spain.
2023/09/21 - [International guest speaker] 2023 SAH Digital Conference Roundtable Expanding the Reach of Architectural Journals: Rethinking Scope, Format, and Editorial Policies, moderated by Kıvanç Kılınç, Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA), Izmir Institute of Technology.
2022 - International guest speaker: La Hispanidad en el videojuego, in the international seminar “Los nombres de Madrid,” organized by Cátedra del español y la hispanidad de las universidades de la Comunidad de Madrid. UPM Architecture School, Madrid, Spain. December 16, 2022.
2022 - International guest speaker: Arquitectura, videojuegos y paisajes digitales, in Arquia Próxima VIII Festival 2022: Resiliencia. Un equilibrio dinámico, Valencia, Spain.
2022 - Keynote lecturer: Architectural History through the game studies field, in Pavia DigiWeek 2022, Università di Pavia, Italy, September 23, 2022.
2021 - Keynote lecturer: Metaverse cartographies: The power of mapping in videogames, in GeoForum Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, November 24 - 26, 2021.
2021 - International guest lecturer ‘La colonización de la Sierra Sur 1508-1539: una historia en sincronía con América Latina,’ hosted in the frame of the European Heritage days hosted by the Andalusian Government at Jaen’s Provintial Museum, Consejería de Cultura y Patrimonio Histórico, Junta de Andalucía.
2021 - International guest lecturer for the digital seminar 'Los videojuegos. Bien cultural y objeto de estudio', organized by Madrid’s Bar Association - Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid, along with representatives of the gaming industry specialized in retail, intellectual property, and e-sports.
2020 - International guest speaker: De la Santa Fe fortificada en Granada a la Santa Fe abierta en Nueva Granada. 1er Seminario Internacional de paisaje cultural ‘Paisajes que construyen paisajes.’ Heritage Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of Colombia. November 2020.
2019 - International guest speaker: ¿A qué necesita jugar Colombia? Los Game Studies como espacio de desarrollo académico entre las humanidades y el diseño digital. 2º Congreso Internacional de Diseño, Tecnología y Entretenimiento D+T+E, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Bogotá, Colombia, November 2019.
Speaker at conferences and seminars
2025 - [Speaker] Nasrid exiled architecture and urbanism in early modern Morocco in the SAH 2025 Annual International Conference in Atlanta. Session ‘Movement and Migration in Early Modern Mediterranean Architecture’, chaired by Ann C. Huppert (University of Washington) and Michele Lamprakos (University of Maryland). April 30 – May 5, 2025.
2024/11/14 - [Speaker] Cinco años de Trabajos Fin de Grado en Arquitectura y Estudios del Videojuego en la Universidad de Granada. Retos y oportunidades in 3rd International Conference of DIGRA España 2024 (Digital Games Research Association). Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, November 11-14, 2024.
2024/10/25 - [Speaker] Ingeniería y medioambiente en la obra de José Coquette. Puente flotante sobre el río Santa, Perú (1799-1811), in IV International Conference of AhAU - Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo. El Escorial, Spain, October 24-25, 2024.
2023/11/29 - [Speaker] El Taller Zona Norte Escenarios Futuros, in International Seminar ZN Territorio Colectivo: ciudades, arquitecturas y praxis en torno a la vivienda social. Hosted by Granada Architecture School, Universidad de Granada.
2022 - Speaker: Can we speak of Andalusian coloniality? Spatial measures for social control, land distribution, and cultural extraction after the conquest of Nasrid Granada (1492-1609), in ‘DocTalks x MoMA’ Program 2022, online.
2024/11/14 - [Speaker] Cinco años de Trabajos Fin de Grado en Arquitectura y Estudios del Videojuego en la Universidad de Granada. Retos y oportunidades in 3rd International Conference of DIGRA España 2024 (Digital Games Research Association). Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, November 11-14, 2024.
2024/10/25 - [Speaker] Ingeniería y medioambiente en la obra de José Coquette. Puente flotante sobre el río Santa, Perú (1799-1811), in IV International Conference of AhAU - Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo. El Escorial, Spain, October 24-25, 2024.
2023/11/29 - [Speaker] El Taller Zona Norte Escenarios Futuros, in International Seminar ZN Territorio Colectivo: ciudades, arquitecturas y praxis en torno a la vivienda social. Hosted by Granada Architecture School, Universidad de Granada.
2022 - Speaker: Can we speak of Andalusian coloniality? Spatial measures for social control, land distribution, and cultural extraction after the conquest of Nasrid Granada (1492-1609), in ‘DocTalks x MoMA’ Program 2022, online.
2022 - Speaker: ‘Que el poblador principal tome asiento’. Acts and actions for the recording of new towns plantation in Jaen, Capitanía de Chile, and Nueva Granada. 1508-1582. in European Architectural History Network 2022 Conference, Madrid, June 15-19, 2022.
2022 - Speaker: Historias de la arquitectura a través de los estudios del videojuego, in 3er Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo, Madrid, Spain, June 1-3, 2022.
2022 - Speaker: Contesting the grid: Second wave Spanish colonial towns in Chile and Colombia, 1562-1582, in 75th SAH Annual International Conference, Pittsburgh, US April 27th - May 2th, 2022.
2022 - Speaker: The Canary Archipelago through Leonardo Torriani: Urban Politics, Military Fortifications, and Indigenous Depictions, Fifteenth – Sixteenth Centuries, in the Renaissance Society of America 68th Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. March 30 – April 2, 2022.
2022 - Speaker: Paisajes fortificados en clave contemporánea: una puesta en valor patrimonial de la Sierra Sur de Jaén a través del proyecto de arquitectura, in III Congreso Internacional Cultura y Ciudad, Universidad de Granada, Spain. January 26-28, 2022.
2020 - Speaker: Siblings Overseas: Comparing Two Spanish Grid Cities of 1539. SAH Virtual Conference, Session Cosmopolitan and Local in the Colonial Americas. April 2020.
2019 - Speaker: Granada, Des-Granada y Nueva Granada. Genealogía de formas y significados en la ciudad hispanoamericana de frontera. 2º Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia Urbana, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, November 2019.
2019 - Speaker: Occupying a (re)conquered territory. Four grid-iron cities in the kingdom of Jaen founded during the XVI century. Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU) Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, September 2019.
2019 - International guest: GAHTC annual meeting, founded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in collaboration with MIT, Miami, April 2019.
2019 - Speaker: Early career of an architect/researcher/divulgator, in II Seminar ‘Arquitectos en ejercicio’, Universidad de Granada, Spain, March 20, 2019
2019 - Speaker: Granada, Des-Granada, Re-Granada, in XIX Inner Seminar ‘Research lines for Modern History in Competitive Projects’, Universidad de Jaen, Spain, 2019.
2018 - Speaker: Digitalscapes: innovation seed for Landscape, Architecture and Videogames in Universidad de los Andes. Experiences 2015-2018 in Intersecciones 2018: III Interdisciplinary Research Congress in Architecture, Design, City and Territory, Santiago de Chile, Nov. 2018.
2018 - Speaker: Advertisement in Proa Magazine: ideas of modernism in Colombia 1946-1962 in Intersecciones 2018: III Interdisciplinary Research Congress in Architecture, Design, City and Territory, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 2018.
2018 - Speaker: La ciudad digital como propuesta urbana contemporánea. El caso de Columbia. II Congreso Internacional ISUF-H. Ciudad y formas urbanas. Perspectivas transversales. Universidad de Zaragoza, España, 2018
2017 - Speaker: Granada Des-Granada: hispano-arabic, aragonese and castillian foundations as models of law-city in conflict (cc. XI-XV), in IX Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, 2017.
2016 - Speaker: Because I am Batman an urban historian. RedCHU First international meeting. Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, 2016.
2014 - Speaker: Tetouan’s Mujahidin cemetery: study and proposal on a patrimonial landscape, in IV Seminario Internacional en Patrimonio. Universidad de Boyacá, Colombia, 2014.
2013 - Panel Discussant: Urban Studies Research Divulgation, Conference La Ciudad Viva: del urbanismo a la ciudadanía. Housing and Culture Secretary, Andalucía Government, Seville, Spain, 2013.
2013 - Speaker: Workshop Eurmaroc 2012: situationist derive as a strategy for territorial inmersión, research and teaching, in 5ª Jornadas de Investigación en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2013.
2013 - Poster presenter: Landscape and Heritage re-signification proposal over Tetouan’s Mujahidin cemetery, in XII Congreso Internacional de Psicología Ambiental, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
2013 - Speaker: Workshop Eurmaroc 2012, in III Jornadas LOW TECH, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, 2012.
2012 - Speaker: The eight gate of Tetouan’s medina: architecture project over the Luqash Wall and the Mujahidin cemetery, in XI Congresso Internacional CICOP de Reabilitaçao do Patrimonio Arquitectónico e Edificado, Cascais, Portugal, 2012.
2011 - Speaker: Divulgation tools and ludic-creative processes, in IV Jornadas Internacionales de Investigación en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011.
2011 - Speaker: El poema del ángulo recto: reflexiones desde la inexperiencia. Un experimento de arte y paisaje en la ciudad de Granada, in PSICAMB 2011 Espacios urbanos y sostenibilidad. Universidad de Almería, 2011.
2010 - Speaker: Ecologías urbanas, memorias y fisuras, in Ambientalia 2010 I Congreso Estatal de Sostenibilidad. Madrid, Spain.
2009 - Poster presenter: Visiones sobre la estructura del Argel actual, Seminario Hibridación y Transculturalidad en los Modos de Habitación Contemporánea: Territorios de aproximación, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 2009.