Selected Publications
Valtchanova, Manuela. 2026. “Anarchaeological practices for radical imagination” Selected critical essay for presentation in World Congress of Architects. Barcelona. UIA 2026: Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition, publication pending.
Valtchanova, Manuela. 2026 (publication pending). “Monsters, Natures and Delights. Or Questioning Paradigms in Knowledge Production through Practices of Otherness and Creative Accidentality”. In Interplay and Contradictions of Education, Research, and Production. Edited by: Aleksa Bijelovic.
Larroya, F., Paez, R., Valtchanova, M. et al. Explorative pedestrian mobility geolocated data from a citizen science experiment in a neighbourhood. Sci Data 12, 1036 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05307-y
Valtchanova, Manuela, Roger Paez y Toni Montes. 2025. Portable Public Space: Atlas of the Mediterranean as a Contested Territory of Survival. Barcelona: ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46467/Elisava_Portable-Public-Space-3
Valtchanova, Manuela, and Roger Paez. 2024. “Intervening in Regimes of Truth: Mapping and Collaborative Actions as Design Tools ”. Journal of Architecure Re-purposing Place for Social Resilience: in press.
Goñi, Raúl, and Manuela Valtchanova. 2023. “El diseño activista y los entornos transpedagógicos para la defensa de los derechos humanos”. Diseña 23 Repairing Design: Damage, Care, and Fragility: in review.
Paez, Roger, and Manuela Valtchanova. 2022. ‘Affective Bodies: Intimate Design Practices to Reinvent the Everyday’. Temes de Disseny, 38 Caring Through Design: From Personal to Planetary Wellbeing (2022): pp. 92-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD38.2022.92-115
Paez, Roger, and Manuela Valtchanova. 2021a. ‘Harnessing Conflict: Antagonistic Spatiotemporal Design Practices’. Temes de Disseny, 37 Invisible Conflicts: The New Terrain of Bodies, Infrastructures and Communication (2021): pp. 182-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD37.2021.182-213.
Valtchanova, Manuela. 2019a. ‘The Aesthetics of Accident. Architecture of the Action for an Entropic City.’ In Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium 2019: Urban Aesthetics. Helsinki, Lahti: University of Helsinki.
Valtchanova, Manuela. 2019b. ‘The City of the Other. Aesthetics of the Accident and Architecture of Action.’ In ON ARCHITECTURE- Challenges in Architecture, Urban Design and Art, edited by Ružica Bogdanović, 121–39. Belgrade: Strand Sustainable Urban Society Association. Print.
Selected Exhibitions
“Hi Ha Altres Mons pper Venir?/ Are There Other Worlds to Come?”, cicle of six direct collaborative actions in different post-natural terrains, curated by Manuela Valtchanova & Roger Paez, part of the cultural programme of Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026, Barcelona, January-November 2026.
“A Dream House”, exhibition by Saúl Baeza & Manuela Valtchanova, We Will Design 2026, edution “Darkness”, Base Milano, 20-27th of April.
“We Stay With the Trouble: Nine assemblages with invisible natures”, exhibitation curated by Manuela Valtchanova and Yelyzaveta Adamchuk, part of E-ART’s ART LABS residency at ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art and Culture. Erasmus+ E-ART (Artists Influence – Support the Co-Creation, Circulation, and Promotion of Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe). 25- 29th of September, 2025.
“Anarquelogia d’un camp”, solo exhibition, winning proposal at the open call City and Art, funded by ArtxSantCugat, 2024-2025
“Moonscape”, art installation for the Nueve Soles festival, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, 16.07–28.08.2025
“Génesi”, art installation for the Nueve Soles festival, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, 17.07–28.08.2024
Mycelial Meshworks: Towards a More-Than-(Just)-Human Approach to Mapping. Melbourne Design Week & Barcelona Design Week. & 10th STS Italia Conference: Technoscience for Good
“IF – Sustainable Settlement / Design / Social Future”: exhibition as part of the Polish-Japanese Academy of IT 2020, IF – Social Design for Sustainable Cities, Warsaw, 19–23 October 2020. Exhibited works: “Subjective Cartographies: a Mirror of Diversity. Collaborative Workshops in the Raval District, Barcelona”; “En Mitjons a la Plaça: Collaborative Action for Urban Regeneration”; “Slow Down, Stop and Stay. Public Space Appropriation. Temporary Intervention in Plaça dels Àngels, Barcelona”
2020: “Collaborative City”: exhibition part of Lille World Design Capital 2020, Maison POC, Lille, 12.09–08.11.2020. Exhibited works: “Infrastructures for Public Space Interactions”; “Speculations on a Pandemic”
2019: “Design for City Making in Barcelona”: exhibition of design projects contributing to the social construction of the city. Sala Àgora, ELISAVA, 16 January – 22 February 201. Curated by: Ezio Manzini, Albert Fuster and Roger Paez. Exhibition design: Roger Paez and Manuela Valtchanova. Exhibited works: “Slow Down, Stop and Stay”, “A la Plaça: Modes of Public Space Appropriation in Barcelona”
2019: “Buits Hermètics” within the research residency and incubator “ASIMETRIES | Espai E”, organized by IDENSITAT and the creation factory Fabra i Coats.