Rafael De Balanzo Joue

Rafael de Balanzo Joue, with nearly three decades of international work on transdisciplinary approaches, [their] research and work has intentionally focus in Sustainability science using the resilience thinking design approach to understand the social-technological-ecological systems dynamics and cycles of change in linked complex adaptive systems such as cities, communities, and habitats.  He is an artist/scientist, EU registered architect, MLA, and Ph.D. in Sustainability Science, and the Urban Resilience Thinking Design Studio founder principal and a faculty of the Math & Science Department (SLAS), and the Graduate Center of Planning and Environment (GCPE), Pratt School of Architecture (SoA), Pratt NSF-funded project fellow, Exploring Transdisciplinary Approaches to STEM Teaching and Learning, Director of the Pratt Barcelona Program and co-leader of the Pratt Public Sphere.

He is also currently CUNY adjunct assistant professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Science and the School of Business at Queens College, and QC NSF Fellow for the NSF-funded grant MakeSTEAM-Q Project fellowship: “An Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education,  Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, EINA Art & Design School and Erasmus + research project Fellow for ARDES online Sustainability Course and guest professor at ENSAP School of Architecture in France and Politecnico di Milano University in Italy. His research in Sustainability science used the resilience thinking design approach by understanding the social-technological-ecological systems dynamics and cycles of change in linked complex adaptive systems such as cities, communities, and buildings. He is a member of the Habitat Action Without Borders Work Program of the Architects Without Borders International (ASF-int), he received the 2021-2023 Russell Sage Research Project Grant Award and the 2022-23 CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant. He previously received architecture awards from the Belgium Government and the Associations of Spanish and Catalan Architects and he was the recipient of the 2019 Colombia Fulbright Chair for Urban Resilience at Del Tolima University, Ibague, Colombia. He is also a Social Practice CUNY Graduate Center fellowship 2022/23. He is a former lecturer at the University Pompeu Fabra, ELISAVA School of Engineering and Design, Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, UK.

* Ph.D. Sustainability Science

* MS. Arch, European Union Registered Architect

* MLA, Landscape Architecture & Design

His last peer-review publications are the following:

* Diego Saez Ujaque, Pere Fuertes Perez, Maria Pilar Garcia Almirall & Rafael de Balanzó Joue. (2022)

Embedded resilience in the built stock. Lessons from socio-spatial interpretation. The case of CanFugarolas (Barcelona) . Building Research & Information
Volume 50, 2022 – Issue 3 .

* Saez Ujaque, D.; Roca, E.; de Balanzó Joue, R.; Fuertes, P.; Garcia-Almirall, P. (2021)
Resilience and Urban Regeneration Policies. Lessons from Community-Led Initiatives . Sustainability, 13, 12855.

* Balanzó, R. & Rodrí­guez-Planas, N. (2018)

Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study . Ecology & Society, 23(4):6.

Current Projects:

https://socialpracticecuny.org/portfolio-item/nomad-resilience-thinking-social-ecological-practice/

https://www.visionsandrevisions.net/pps