https://julianueno.xyz julianueno Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:44:01 +0000 https://julianueno.xyz en https://julianueno.xyz/Index Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:08:24 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Index Júlia Nueno Guitart is a researcher and engineer. Her work explores the computational systems that organize life and the spaces we inhabit, with the goal of developing new ways of understanding and acting with and through them. She is currently a member of the Forensic&nbsp; Architecture team and is pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths (University of London) ︎︎︎About #investigation #data commons #infrastructure #platform economy #speculative &nbsp; PROJECTS &amp; RESEARCH&nbsp; The Architecture of Genocial Starvation&nbsp;︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2025 Documentation and analysis of Israel’s military destruction of humanitarian aid in Gaza&nbsp;A Cartography of Genocide ︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024 Documentation and analysis of Israel’s military conduct in Gaza.&nbsp; Attacks on Aid in Gaza. ︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024 Documentation and analysis of attacks on aid documented up to May 2024.&nbsp; Humanitarian Violence in Gaza︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024 Documentation and analysis of Israel's military campaign turning principles of humanitarianism into weapons deployed against a civilian population in Gaza. Destruction of medical infrastructure in Gaza︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2023 Analysis of the IOF pattern of attacks on Gaza's medical infrastructure: intimidation, direct targeting, siege and occupation, rendering Gaza's hospitals out of service.&nbsp; Open Source Munitons Portal︎︎︎Airwars &amp; ARES. 2023 A visual tool for journalists and researchers to classify munition remnants as found on the battle-field (and) with more than 500 verified images.&nbsp; A year of the Shahed︎︎︎Airwars and DerSpiegel. 2023 How Iranian Drones changed automated warfare in Ukraine. Winner of Sigma Award for digital journalism&nbsp; The hidden casualties of Britain's war︎︎︎Airwars and TheGuardian. 2023 Searching for the victims of UK's strikes in Syria and Iraq.&nbsp; Waiting to happen︎︎︎Airwars and VICENews. 2022 Reconstruction of the attack on a US-backed prison that led to the killing of 500 civilians.&nbsp; Riding the Algorithm︎︎︎Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths) and IWGB. 2022 Repurposing delivery workers data into a digital commons. Download app&nbsp; Real Time Structure︎︎︎Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. 2021 Departing from Haans Hacke Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971, mapping the extension and relations of investment funds in Barcelona’s real-estate property structure. Collaboration with Xavier Nueno. Impluvium︎︎︎2nd Prize in Barcelona’s SuperBlock Design Contest. 2021 Like an archeological excavation of Cerda’s Eixample, the proposal removes the current pavement to give a second opportunity to the old cobblestones, the natural substrate, water and roots. Collaboration with Javier Moreno. QGis for Housing Union Strategy&nbsp;︎︎︎ Sindicat de Llogateres 2021&nbsp; Energy Communities&nbsp;︎︎︎ Azimut360 2021Project lead in the design &amp; installation of the first collective self-consumption communities in Spain. Shared Consumption&nbsp;︎︎︎ Azimut360 2020Project lead in the design &amp; installation of 11 PV plants in public buildings to promote a&nbsp; decentralised energy generation model. Stand-alone Container ︎︎︎ Azimut360 2020 Project co-lead, an original idea developed by Azimut360, to achieve a portable and renewable solution to back energy needs of clinical laboratories in The Gambia and Angola.&nbsp; Design &amp; Pedagogy ︎︎︎ Azimut360 + Medical Research Council (The Gambia) 2019Project co-lead in the design, procurement, coordination construction, training and commissioning of a 500kWp solar installation in The Gambia entirely installed by women. &nbsp; Solar microgrids ︎︎︎ Earth Spark International (Haiti)Winner of Latin America Green Award 2018Project assistant in the launch of a solar micro-grid with storage and diesel backup of 100 kW in the town of Les Anglais, and design and coordination of the construction works for a second micro-grid of similar characteristics in the town of Tiburon. &nbsp; EXHIBITIONS &amp; FILM The future of Demonstration︎︎︎ Atelier Autgarten. (Vienna, 2025) Festival BIVAC. CCCB︎︎︎(Barcelona, 2024) Sin lo otro la tierra no sería︎︎︎(Madrid, 2024) Residencia de investigación en CRA e Intermediae en Matadero convocada por María Buey González&nbsp;The six-year-old victim of Britain’s war in Iraq︎︎︎(London, 2023) Visual investigation on the killing of six-year-old Taiba Younis by a Hellfire missile. Open-Source Film Award.&nbsp; ‘Waiting to happen’︎︎︎ (London, 2023). Documentary. Associate Producer in documentary on the findings of Airwars and VICENews year-long visual investigation into the failures in a US-backed prison in Syria. Qualsevol Lloc / Anyplace &nbsp;︎︎︎ Centre d’Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona, 2022).Video installation on the work processes that sustain the mechanisms of reproduction of places and objects resulting from the encounter between mass tourism and digital economies. Collaboration with Noha Mokhtar and Xavier Nueno. Commissioned by Gema Darbo Watch Mix Fruit (23 min. Colour. Sound) Landlord Open-House&nbsp;︎︎︎Model Architecture Festival (Barcelona, 2022). Augmented Reality installation exploring the domestic expressions of the Barcelona’s real-state property structure. Collaboration with Farzin Lotfi-Jam Video of AR experience (only for smartphone) Riding the Algorithm ︎︎︎St. James Hatcham Gallery (London, 2022). MA Exhibition. Video-installation on the role of data and embodied knowledge in delivery work. Sindicat ︎︎︎&nbsp; Raindance Film Festival&nbsp;in Curzon Cinema&nbsp;(London, 2021). Field Producer in Sindicat, TheGuardian (2021) documentary directed by Irene Baqué following the resistance of organised women that defend the right to housing in Spain. WRITING &amp; FORUMS BOOK:&nbsp;Genocidios. Una lectura forense. Galaxia Gutenberg. October 2025 La cuadrícula de borrado Archivo Orsini. October 2025 El Chisme Algorítmico Blog Arquia. October 2024 The Target Factory On Israeli military uses of AI to turn civilian sites into military targets. October 2024 Recursive Violence Public talk at the Institute for Postnatural Studies. September 2024 La vida corpórea de los datos ︎︎︎ Text in Concreta n°23: “La Composición Activa de la Presencia”. June 2024 Patterns beyond AI: Open Source Methodologies and Tools for Investigation Presentation at the Palestine Digital Activism Forum organised by 7amleh. June 2024 Digital Autonomía ︎︎︎ Book chapter in Militant Media. Centre for Research Architecture Books. Spector Books. April 2024 Humanitarian Violence in Gaza: Open Source Methodologies and Tools for Investigating Israel's Military Campaign ︎︎︎ Tutor at Dutch Art Institute Palestine Teach Out. April 2024 Utopías Digitales contra el Scroll-Down ︎︎︎ Podcast in Ciberlocutorio with Andrea Gumes and Anna Pacheco on contesting algorithms and platforms. March 2024 Panel at Challenging the Visual ︎︎︎ Presentation of ongoing work on patterns of attacks in Gaza, truth, documentation, and evidence. March 2024 Arte y activismo digital ︎︎︎ Interview with Victor Balcells, author of Discotecas por fuera (Anagrama, 2022), on digital activism. April 2023 Multiple civilian deaths linked to 2016–17 British airstrikes against IS in Mosul ︎︎︎ The Guardian. Airwars and The Guardian investigation finds deaths despite claims British weapons did not harm a single non-combatant. March 2023 Engines of Inequality ︎︎︎ Fabrikzeitung. Editor for issue 375, exploring invisible information infrastructures and digital feedback loops that reproduce inequality. January 2023 How ISIS militants broke out of a US-funded jail ︎︎︎ VICE News. January 2023 Guest Lecturer at MA Interaction Design London College of Communication. January 2023 Escapar el Bucle ︎︎︎ Catarsi Magazin. December 2021 Unionism today: short-circuiting financial capital through the Housing Struggle ︎︎︎ Catarsi Magazin. May 2021 English translation for Real-Time Structure https://julianueno.xyz/CV Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:34:03 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/CV ︎︎︎ Back Professional experience&nbsp;Aug’22- Now(UK) Airwars - Investigator and Visual Lead&nbsp; Airwars is a London based non-profit organisation which monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims over multiple conflicts. As an investigator I produce visual-led investigations and spatial research projects,&nbsp;and focus on the development of crowd-source and open-source tools to monitor conflict.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oct’18 - Jul’21 (Spain, The Gambia) Azimut 360 - Project Manager At national level designing, installing and commissioning photovoltaic plants and pushing forward shared consumption communities up to 500kWp. Internationally engineering projects for rural electrification specialising in micro-grids and stand-alone solutions, both technically and pedagocially. Oct ‘17 - Aug‘18 (Haiti) Earth Spark International - Operations Assistant Construction and launch of a solar microgrid with storage and diesel backup of 100 kW in the town of Les Anglais, connecting 450 costumers. Coordinating the construction of a second microgrid with similar characteristics in the town of Tiburon. Researching on productive uses of electricity and developing two projects with two women associations in Les Anglais on agroindustrial transformation. Apr‘17 - Sep ‘17 (Peru) Enginyeria Sense Fronteres - Spanish Agency of Cooperation (AECID) Grant for Project on Appropriate Technologies Research, implementation and follow-up study of appropriate technologies and renewable energies for productive development in Jaen, Peru. Jun‘16 - Feb‘17 (Spain) Wattabit - Global Energy Management Service and R&amp;D Research Development of the Wattabit platform for optimization and monitoring of energy use. Design and testing of platform, management service for clients so as to facilitate decision making in consumption reduction, development and testing of hardware solutions Jan’16 - Jun’17 (Spain) Research Grant at&nbsp;CITCEA - Design for an Energy Harvesting System with thermoelectical materials BA Thesis study and parametrization of a thermoelectrical system, ANSYS simulation and design of a boost converter for low voltage input. Academic background Sep’21- Sep’22 (UK) MA Research Architecture - Goldsmiths University Sep ‘12 - Jun ‘16 (Spain) BEng Energy Engineering - Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC)&nbsp;&nbsp; Awards and grants Jul ‘22 Visual Arts and Critical Thinking Grant (Department of Culture of Catalunya) Jun ‘21 Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Grant Mar ‘21 2nd prize in Barcelona’s Superblock Design Competition July ‘18 Latin American Green Energy Award Languages Catalan, Spanish, French and English at proficient level Haitan kreyol at intermediate level SkillsCoding: Phython, Javascript, HTML, php, QGis&nbsp;3D Modelling: Blender and SketchupCAD Design: Autocad 2D Solar Technical Design Software: PvSyst 6.4, SMA-SunnyDesignAdobe Suite https://julianueno.xyz/Riding-the-Algorithm Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:18:34 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Riding-the-Algorithm <img width="1403" height="1415" width_o="1403" height_o="1415" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/319127ebcd949e7a5ddaa62d31e7c7f6e0795e8ea36ee3fb71e8c15c98556f1e/Image-Website.png" data-mid="155472045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/319127ebcd949e7a5ddaa62d31e7c7f6e0795e8ea36ee3fb71e8c15c98556f1e/Image-Website.png" /> ︎︎︎ Back Riding the Algorithm: Repurposing delivery workers’ data into a digital commons Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths) in collaboration with International Workers of Great Britain (London) / UK &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An increasing number of jobs, especially in food delivery, are overseen and organised remotely by what is defined as management algorithms. This research examines how in algorithmic management, delivery workers are engaged in a process of constant improvement of production, under continuously evolving rules that are unknown to them. This is possible through the extraction of the data they generate, which (in)forms the production process and becomes capitalized by platform companies to attract investment. The aim of the project, then, is to propose an alternative exploration of the data generated by riders by developing a crowd-sourced app for delivery workers: Sabot. Sabot has been conceived in conversation with riders from South London and members of the International Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union, and has the aim to subvert the information asymmetry between worker and algorithm. A riders’ app allows to create a digital commons, a real-time collective repository that can inform decisions, breakup riders’ isolation, leverage work conditions and contest the mechanisms of value extraction enabled by platform economy. The proposal goes beyond the demand of transparency to tech companies and understands that to reshape a system it’s necessary to engage with it. Download App https://julianueno.xyz/Standalone-container Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:26:40 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Standalone-container ︎︎︎Back Stand-alone solar container &nbsp; Azimut 360 / The Gambia / 2020 Project Co-Lead&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An original idea developed for Azimut360. The goal of the project was to achieve a mobile and renewable solution that would allow to reinforce energy needs of diagnostic laboratories for Probitas Foundation. The container serves as the structure to hang the solar panels and contains the inverters and batteries that ensure energy supply for the most remote places. All materials are transported inside the container overseas to be set up locally. It can be disassembled to be transported to different locations and adapt to shifting energy requirements in off-grid rural areas. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Currently, a process of standardization and improvement of the container is being realised to propose a replicable solution for zones lacking grid service with a European Union Horizon 2020 grant for the Research and Innovation program (Innowwide) &nbsp; https://julianueno.xyz/Design-Pedagogy Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:54:12 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Design-Pedagogy 4. Design &amp; Pedagogy Azimut360 / The Gambia / 2019 Project Manager &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Azimut360, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the M’Bolo Association (The Gambia), carried out the installation of a 501.33 kWp grid-tied solar system in The Gambia entirely installed by women. My role was to design, procure, coordiante construction, training and commissioning of the biggest installation in The Gambia so far.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This initiative has resulted in a 27% reduction of MRC’s expenditure on electricity (about 160,000 US$ per year).&nbsp; The PV system was entirely installed by a crew of 38 women from Fandema’s Renewable Energy Installation team, which is a central part of the Mbolo Association Educational project. I coordinated the technical and theoretical aspects of the training on solar installations and worked with them on the installation of the plant. <img width="1432" height="703" width_o="1432" height_o="703" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d2ad51527b4473a4fa20152dd8971781175949f6f8f6df7e540ba902064996a/gambix.png" data-mid="128366674" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d2ad51527b4473a4fa20152dd8971781175949f6f8f6df7e540ba902064996a/gambix.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Know-how transfer to the women only Fandema’s Solar Energy Installation team was one of the main goals of the project. The expected result of the participation in the training activities was that the participants could design and install future solar systems on their own, hence replicating and upscaling the existing systems and creating employment opportunities for women. https://julianueno.xyz/QGis-for-housing Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:44:01 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/QGis-for-housing ︎︎︎Back QGis for housing Sindicat de Llogateres / Spain / January 2021 Lead Researcher &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The purpose of the project was to improve QGis skills by analysing the rent bubble in Barcelona and obtaining representations of its impact in the city. The project allowed to rethink the strategy of deployment of Barcelona’s Rent Union [Sindicat de Llogateres]. I developed a database crossing data from census, National Institute of Statistics in Spain (INE), land registry and the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A set of maps with QGis show: &nbsp; &nbsp; The rent increase respect the shift in income between 2015-2018 by census section, to analyse not only the areas with highest tension of rent increase, but also the population most afflicted by the increase. This map allowed to choose which censal sections were most important to inform about Sindicat’s activity.Concentration of property in census section. Using land registry information on vertical property (buildings owned by a single landlord/company) a map with the concentration of vertical blocks by censal section was made, allowing to choose which areas to inform about Sindicat’s activity. <img width="1474" height="825" width_o="1474" height_o="825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aec17a34f257b332a5a8efcc9cccc4ff4b300f96b5f17fd23a51d497f9363683/BCN-RENT.png" data-mid="128367659" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aec17a34f257b332a5a8efcc9cccc4ff4b300f96b5f17fd23a51d497f9363683/BCN-RENT.png" /><img width="1474" height="825" width_o="1474" height_o="825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d0fa69b2245cae3fa6f9bcc205964c01802ec9ce54861e7ef24ca3596d8d34f/bcn-verticals.png" data-mid="128367811" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d0fa69b2245cae3fa6f9bcc205964c01802ec9ce54861e7ef24ca3596d8d34f/bcn-verticals.png" /> https://julianueno.xyz/Energy-Communities Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:52:22 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Energy-Communities ︎︎︎Back Energy Communities &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Azimut 360 / Spain / 2021 Project Manager&nbsp; On April 2019, a new decree on renewable energies in Spain opened the door to rethinking solar installations and self-consumption. Working with two neighbour’s communities in two different buildings, two photovoltaic installations, Camelies 83 (PV 6kW) and La Borda (PV 8kW) have been designed, installed and legalized as the first collective self-consumption communities in Spain. The solar panels installed on the roof supply the common load (e.g. elevator, staircase lighting) and the excess energy is distributed to the neighbours to reduce their electric bill. The project combines engineering with community management. These pilot projects will serve as example to be replicated with the development of an implementation tool and personnel training for which I obtained a grant for Azimut360 in Impulsem El Que Fas call. <img width="376" height="719" width_o="376" height_o="719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ccbcf70820fddbe5d6cf24c1554f9f7fd1e3743ee7ff77e2e6c2173b1745242/laborda.png" data-mid="128223219" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/376/i/7ccbcf70820fddbe5d6cf24c1554f9f7fd1e3743ee7ff77e2e6c2173b1745242/laborda.png" />.&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="384" height="720" width_o="384" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f12fce2ee3abf164fce2435c0b061854127282b69d1439d98db7d0ceb10e7f7b/camelies.png" data-mid="128223217" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/384/i/f12fce2ee3abf164fce2435c0b061854127282b69d1439d98db7d0ceb10e7f7b/camelies.png" /> https://julianueno.xyz/Shared-Consumption Sun, 26 Dec 2021 16:38:00 +0000 julianueno https://julianueno.xyz/Shared-Consumption ︎︎︎Back Shared Consumption Azimut360 / Spain / 2020 Project Manager Coordination, execution, project supervision and commissioning of eleven installations of 500kWp. The challenge for this project laid in the administrative burdens for legalization, both from government and the electrical distribution company. For this project, I designed, executed and legalized eleven self-consumption plants with shared consumption with public buildings in a radius of 500m, improving the use of energy and promoting a new electrical consumption model of energy decentralisation. <img width="1279" height="687" width_o="1279" height_o="687" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2947608f9dca4ab0daedb600da15dc1a0cf3b15d02835757aa256edbe1e084c2/instalasio.png" data-mid="128235337" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2947608f9dca4ab0daedb600da15dc1a0cf3b15d02835757aa256edbe1e084c2/instalasio.png" /> &nbsp;