The Team

Human relations are a cornerstone for the project and for the well-being of its members. We share work spaces, organizational and governance assemblies, recreational and social spaces, and spaces for the promotion of relational health and conflict management.

 

 

DEVELOPERS

 

Passion and purpose at the service of the community.

Andrés Labella Iglesias

Lawyer at @TheHound_Bcn and at www.europeanlawyers.cat​Specialist in property and mortgage law, he works for families and entrepreneurs, reinforcing the tasks of information and prevention in order to avoid judicial conflicts and disputes that imply losses for all parties involved. Special dedication and services to families with members with specific needs or situations of dependency as well as to entities working in this area to promote the defence of the rights of the 2006 United Nations Convention. In 2014, with the architect Isabel Torres, she founded ‘The Hound’, which is a team that rescues disused properties, in order to seek a second useful life by promoting rehabilitation, making use of new forms of ownership, Catalan shared ownership and collective ownership, through cooperatives. Socially involved, he is a member of the Permanent Commission of the Arco Iris Foundation in Martorell and in the educational field he is a member of the Board of the El Puig Cooperative School in Esparreguera.

 

 

Isabel Torres Ullés

Architect and renovation consultant. Specialist in heritage rehabilitation and reuse of old structures. Founder and director of REHABINOVA​, where she leads a team of architects and engineers with a common goal: architecture must save energy, be healthy, have social effects and also be beautiful. Member of AVES (Architecture and Sustainability, association for the diffusion of sustainable architecture in Barcelona). Responsible for the design and technical aspects of the housing rehabilitation project and recovery of disused buildings, and director of the works.

 

Xavi Llopart

Real estate advisor and head of HOGAVA ConsultingLaw graduate at the UB. Master’s Degree in Real Estate Consultancy and Advice at the UB. He is a real estate friend, he informs about how processes work and how the market works, allowing people to make decisions with all the information. He is passionate about visiting and photographing abandoned SITES, imagining what they were like and reviving them. He has also spent more than half his life enjoying volleyball.

Daniel J. Hayes

Doctor of Public Health, Social Entrepreneur and Mediator at the Conflict Mediation Unit of the University of Barcelona. Member of the Can Masdeu Valley for 10 years. Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and Contact Improvization. Founder of Touch & Play. In charge of managing the processes and content of the Vidalia project. Dutchman and father of 2 children born in Catalonia.

Queralt Jorba

General Sanitary Psychologist, Systemic Coach and Dancer. She manages projects for the promotion of relational health and artistic mediation with public and private organizations. InCorpora is the platform that brings together their projects. Born in Manresa. Mother of 2 children.

Monique van Steen

Anuar El Ouahabi El Ghazi

Born in Barcelona in 1984, father of one son. Doctor in Environmental Chemistry and Pollution from the University of Barcelona. Specialist in water analysis. Currently working for the Catalan Water Agency. Member of the Esbladenca housing cooperative.

Christopher Fraser

Australian. Engineer and businessman. Founder and director of Invisibility Ltd, developing educational mobile applications. 25 years professional experience in engineering, such as R & D for Canon and Samsung and integration of renewable energy systems. His interests include sustainable architecture and water resources management.

Natalia Jojart

She was born in Argentina, and currently lives in Catalonia. Degree in Environmental Sciences in Costa Rica, and Master in International Cooperation from the University of Barcelona. Mother and worker in an old neighbourhood Granería. Committed to the environment and to a more responsible and ethical model of consumption. Member of the Esbladenca Housing Cooperative.

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Coordinació d’Horts Sívlia, Rubèn, Vicente, Raquel, Sara.

Comunicació Monique i Maru Di Pace

Administració Blai Garcia i Gemma Masip

Manteniment Bliss, Joan Cant i Jonàs

Arquitectura Daniel Moreno

Gran part del material fotogràfic és de Nils Janssen.

El disseny gràfic és de Tila Gràfic de Sergi Jiménez.

Neighbourhood

One of Vidal’s treasures is the coexistence with the historical neighbors of the Colony, those who had worked in the factory and know the history and secrets of colony life.

Som part dels Projectes Singulars 2019 i el Programa Treball i Formació

PROMOTED

DRIVEN BY

APMU - Associació per la Promoció de la Masoveria Urbana

ESPAI DE VIDA, SCCL

LA VIDALENCA, SCCL

 

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