City and Philosophy Association
GOALS
Our work
The City and Philosophy Association was born in 2021, with the aim of contributing to the promotion of the production and dissemination of knowledge and culture related to the political, legal, socioeconomic, technical and ecological dimensions of cities and their inhabitants. This work is directed towards the empowerment of citizenship, openness to otherness, visualization of excluded people and the ethical conception of public policies under democratic, pluralistic, heterarchical, multicultural and interdisciplinary principles.
WHO WE ARE
Organizing Committee
Julia Urabayen
President
PhD in Philosophy. She is professor at the University of Navarra. In recent years, she has mainly dealt with systems of inclusion/exclusion, segregation, public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance. She has published more than 100 works between books, book chapters (mostly in high-impact publishers) and articles in high-impact Journals. She has edited 6 books. Her most recent publications include: Differences in the city. Postmetropolitan heterotopias as liberal utopian dreams (with Jorge León Casero eds.), Nova Science Publishers (2020), New Political Subjects in the postmetrópolis (with Paula Pereira eds.) in Arborand Margins of philosophy. Crossed dialogs on otherness in Levinas and Derrida in Anuario Filosófico (2022) (ed.).
Jorge León Casero
Vicepresident
Architect, Degree in Philosophy, Degree in Law and PhD in History. He currently works as Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and as Architect. His research focuses on Urban Studies, Marxism and French Post-structuralist Philosophy. He has published more than 60 works between books, book chapters (mostly in high-impact publishers) and articles in high-impact Journals. He has edited 3 books. His most recent publications include: Differences in the city. Postmetropolitan heterotopias as liberal utopian dreams, (with Julia Urabayen eds.), Nova Science Publishers (2020) and Gender Utopias for a post-apocalyptic world (ed.), Nova Science Publishers (2022).
Felipe Schwember
Secretary
Professor and researcher at the School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Philosophy (Universidad Católica de Chile). PhD in Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra, Spain. His areas of specialization are the philosophy of law and political philosophy, both modern (Locke, Kant and Fichte, mainly) and contemporary (Nozick). He has been in charge of several State-funded (Fondecyt) research projects. The last one dealt with the criticism and reception of utopias and utopianism in contemporary liberalism. Author of the book Libertad, derecho y propiedad. El fundamento de la propiedad en la filosofía del derecho de Kant y Fichte (Georg Olms, 2013). He has also published several articles in different specialized journals and has won the XIV Essay Contest “Caminos de la libertad” (Mexico).
Enrique Cano Suñén
Treasurer
Industrial Engineer from the University of Zaragoza, Diploma of Advanced Studies in Advanced Thermal Engineering and Energy Optimization, and Graduated in Architecture from the ETSAZ of the University of San Jorge. Collaborating Professor in the Industrial Construction Area (2007-2021) and, since September 2021, Professor in the Architectural Constructions Area. In both of the previously stated faculties, he has focused on teaching and researching energy in construction and its transversal nature, with subjects such as “Challenges and consequences of technical development” and “Sustainable development and international cooperation”. Vice Principal of Infrastructures at EINA since 2015.