Us
Cooperative
Raons is an urban social innovation project started in 2009
From the beginning, we at Raons have sought to create a co-operative start-up project with social enterprise values, which allows us to offer quality services to think, build and/or transform collectively the environments in which we live, work and enjoy ourselves.
Mission
Create or transform urban environments by putting people at the center
Vision
Being leaders in building collaborative fair and sustainable urban environments
Values
Cooperativism
Collective work
Professionalism and rigor
Sustainability and proximity
Social and solidarity economy
Team
The team is the key element of our project that has enabled us to get where we are today and continue projecting us into the future. It is made up of professionals from various disciplines with long work experience.
Collaborators
Alice Lancien
Urban planner specialised in group participation and facilitation methodologies. PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Nanterre University
Alicia Calvo
Sociologist specialized in community dynamics, gender and art therapy
David Villota
International trainer and organizational catalyst. Guest lecturer at the Master in Political Ecology (UAB)
Dione Escobar
Urban planner, Msc. in Urban Design
Anna de Torróntegui
Urban architect
Giovanni Roncador
Architect currently studying for a master’s degree in town planning.
Irina Lora
Social educator specialized in citizen participation and social cohesion.
Isaac Uyà
Pedagogy postgraduate in citizen participation and communication.
Javier Fraga
Urban architect
Joan Gener
Social educator and cultural and community facilitator
Maria Vila
Expert in administrative and financial management of non-profit organisations.
Joan Vitòria
Architect specialised in outreach, education and participation projects.
Jorge Romero
Architect with an MSc in energy and sustainability.
Manel Rebordosa
Anthropologist focused on development, participatory processes and ICT, candidate for PhD at the UOC / IN3. Web page
Marta Pau
Illustrator and graphic designer. Web page
Maria Barenys
Urban architect
Noemí Herrero
Architect specilised in education and research
Núria Morral
Group facilitator, community and family mediator
Pere Grané
sociologist and illustrator
Senén Roy
Social educator with an MSc in Social Policies and Community Mediation
Renata Pasero
Urban architect
We work with
Journey
Premios
2020
Second prize in the Enric Lluch Catalonia Territory Award. Catalan Society of Spatial Planning. Together with the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Raons developed the “Imagina Badia” project, a participatory process for the elaboration of the Badia del Vallès Local Action Plan.
12th Manuel de Solà Morales Catalonia Prize for Urbanism. Catalan Society of Spatial Planning. Barcelona City Council’s Ciutat Vella Use Plan. Drafting: 300.000 km / s. Participation process: Cooperative Raons.
2019
Spanish Architecture and Urban Planning Biennial prize and European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Prize’19 for Ciutat Vella’s Land-Use Plan in which Raons designed and developed the participatory process.
Barcelona Educational Innovation Prize in the district area together with the AFA of Dovella School for the project “Transformation and co-creation of the patio of the Dovella School”.
2016
Selected by the 2016 annual PIADs Seminars “Feminisms: Intervention in the Community and the Territory” together with the AFA Dovella school as a good practice of community participation for the “Transformation and co-creation of the patio of the Dovella school”.
2014
Injuve prize in the category “Entrepreneurship Initiatives in the Field of Work” of the national youth prizes 2014
Young Social Entrepreneurs Award. European University of Madrid. Youth Action Net.
XIII prize Barcelona Associations for the best initiative of citizen participation with the project “Create community by transforming the playground of La Pau primary school”. Barcelona Council Hall.
2012
Ex-aequo winners, together with the cooperative Lacol, of the urban planning competition “16 Doors of Collserola” with a proposal called “We Come Down”. Barcelona Council Hall.
2010
Award in the competition or urban design “Public Corners 2009-2010” for the proposal “Greenways”. FAD and the Barcelona City Council
Network
We are part of a network of professionals and initiatives from the world of co-operatives and sustainability. We value networking as a fundamental tool for sharing resources and improving the quality of the work we do.
