Esperanza Marrodán (Pamplona, 1972) is an architect from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra (1998) and holds a PhD in Architecture from the same university (2005). She is a professor in the Department of Theory, Projects and Urbanism at ETSAUN, where she teaches various subjects focused on landscape and urban regeneration from an interdisciplinary perspective, aiming to connect students with local communities.
Among her academic projects in this field are Dar vida a Descalzos (2018), Melodías de balcón: cuidándonos unos a otros (2023), both in collaboration with Catalina Pollak, and The Hospitality Map of Pamplona, in collaboration with Francesco Careri (2022).
On this subject, she has published:
“From Project to Process: Possible Paths for an Urban Project Based on Listening,” ZARCH, no. 20 (2023): 72–85;
“Designing Situations / Activating Networks: The Challenge of the Urban Project in the Transformation of Society,” in Raquel Cascales Tornel and Ricardo Piñero Moral, eds., Art and Social Transformation. Encounters and Avant-Gardes. Madrid: Dykinson and Sindéresis, 2023, pp. 183–206;
and, together with Conrado Capilla and Javier Ortiz-Echagüe, Cities with Soul: Art and Utopia in the City of Tomorrow. Pamplona: Eunsa, 2024