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Civic Design
The framework and the tools. A method for activating situated collective intelligence in public and social projects.
Tending the lived infrastructures that keep democracy alive.
I cultivate communities.
Italian based in Valencia. I design spaces —physical and digital— where encounter turns into public and social innovation.
One purpose, four ways of practising it.
I don’t work by formats but by intention. Everything I do falls into four lines that cross one another.
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Democratic innovation
The institutional work. Methodologies and networks that take participation beyond participation-washing.
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Technology with judgment
The digital line. Guiding the use of AI without losing the underlying ethical criterion, and sharing knowledge so we don’t delegate judgment.
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Food and territory
The physical line. Food as an engine of cultural, social and democratic encounter, and as a base for agri-food resilience.
Public Mesh: democracy as lived infrastructure.
My English-language editorial platform where I think of democracy not as an abstract system but as lived infrastructure: the spaces, technologies, protocols and cultures that sustain the public sphere day by day. Honest critique and deep essay, no shortcuts.
Latest 3 articlesOngoing production
The Dopamine Cage of Digital Democracy
How platforms turned participation into reaction, and why federated networks and local AI could help us reclaim civic space.
26 · APR 2026Public Mesh, Private Judgment
Why the future of democracy depends on preserving the "frictions" that make us human.
6 · APR 2026Public Mesh, in Progress
Exploring the Infrastructures of Democratic Life in the Digital Age.
13 · MAR 2026Inteligencia Libre: technology with judgment.
My podcast on AI, free software and digital autonomy, with no sensationalism or clickbait: civic outreach to understand technology and not delegate our judgment.
Latest 3 episodesOngoing production
Transparencia que no transparenta
Qué son los registros de algoritmos y por qué casi ninguno funciona todavía como debería.
22 · JUN 2026Neutralidad de la red
El tecnicismo del que depende tu libertad de expresión.
15 · JUN 2026La Trampa de la IA Gratuita y la Soberanía Local
Quién paga de verdad cuando la inteligencia artificial no te cuesta nada.
9 · JUN 2026Cocina y Poder: food is never just food.
A narrative podcast on how food has shaped history and power, from a Mediterranean perspective. Cooking is not a domestic matter: it is always, also, a decision about who rules.
Latest 3 episodesOngoing production
Cap. 4 — Roma se come el Mediterráneo
Hay una colina en Roma que no es una colina.
24 · JUN 2026Cap. 3 — El árbol que le ganó al mar
Olivo, vid y la apuesta a cien años.
17 · JUN 2026Cap. 2 — El cereal que inventó el poder
Por qué el primer Estado no nació de un ejército ni de un templo, sino de un granero.
9 · JUN 2026Coming soon · Destino Utopías
A podcast series about utopias —not as paradises, but as method.
Communication ecosystems less dependent on social media.
I research how to build public presence without handing it over to platforms designed to capture attention. I prefer newsletters, email and places to meet, and I work to make that alternative viable for organisations and institutions too.
- Open digital infrastructures, federated and democratically governed.
- Distribution by direct subscription, not by algorithm: RSS, email, your own site.
- Attention as a common good, not a resource to extract.
- Connection with European frameworks such as the European Social Stack and the Fediverse.
Manifesto
unscroll.me
“Let technology serve encounter, not capture.”
A manifesto and an invitation: leave the infinite scroll and rebuild a digital life with intention, presence and sovereignty over your own attention.
Democracy also needs a place to happen.
For years I have been activating hybrid spaces: physical places where the digital and the in-person cross, and where people who didn’t know each other start doing things together. They are not offices: they are living civic infrastructure.
Now · Benimaclet, Valencia
Multiprecio
A neighbourhood coworking in Benimaclet that I run and manage. More than shared desks, it is a meeting node: an affordable space where projects, neighbourhood and community coexist.
A trajectory of hybrid spaces
2015 · Paris
Volumes
Coworking and fab-lab. One of the first FoodLabs in the world.
Paris
FoodLab
A gastronomic laboratory as an infrastructure for encounter.
Valencia
Factoría Cívica
A space for civic innovation and collective practices.
Valencia
Colector
A node of culture, community and urban experimentation.
Cocina IA: a lab where we cook and experiment with artificial intelligence.
A physical workshop in Valencia where the gastronomic and the digital cross in practice. We cook, test and explore together what we want AI to do for us —and what we don’t.
In Valencia
Support the project
If you want to join to activate Cocina IA —as a cook, technologist, space or simply eager to make things— let’s talk.
Beyond Valencia
Replicate it where you are
If the idea inspires you and you want to bring a Cocina IA to your city, I share method, learnings and support to get it going.
One of the leading global champions of the practice of civic design.
For over a decade I have been opening, systematising and teaching a discipline of my own: how to activate collective intelligence for public and social innovation. From method to network, from book to classroom, and now to artificial intelligence too.
The network
CivicWise
I instigated CivicWise, an international network focused on civic innovation that connects people, collectives and territories.
The training · first of its kind
First online Civic Design course
I created the first Civic Design course in online format. I still teach the discipline today.
The frontier · AI + Civic Design
Civic Design Copilot
The first prototype of an ecosystem that harnesses AI in the service of civic design: to think and facilitate, not to replace.
The tools
Civic Design Toolkit
A visual toolkit and the Collective Intelligence Canvas, to bring the method to teams, institutions and communities.
The book
Civic Design: Collective Intelligence for Social and Public Innovation
The book that systematises the method, successfully funded through a crowdfunding campaign. Available to buy online soon.
Successfully crowdfunded · online purchase very soon
I accompany democracy where it is really practised.
I work to make democratic innovation more than a slogan: methodologies, infrastructures and processes that take participation beyond participation-washing, both from within organisations and by accompanying others.
Institutional role
Democratic Society
As Community & Membership Lead, I help shape the organisation’s strategy and cultivate international communities of practice around democracy as lived infrastructure, including methodologies such as Democratic Social Infrastructures (DSI).
Consulting and mentoring
Digital democracy
I advise and accompany digital democracy projects as consultant and mentor: participatory process design, platforms, open governance and tools that connect citizens with institutions.
A top-tier advisory for challenges that admit no generic answers.
I accompany institutions, public administrations, organisations, foundations, companies and European consortia in their most demanding challenges of democratic innovation, civic design and territorial transformation. Selective, rigorous and deeply personalised work.
Mode 01
Strategic diagnosis
An expert, focused look to understand a challenge in depth, open the right questions and chart the path. Clarity before acting.
Mode 02
Continuous accompaniment
A relationship sustained over time: presence, judgment and direction throughout a whole process. For those who need a stable ally.
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Design and facilitation
Design and conduct of high-level participatory and collective processes: from the methodological framework to facilitation in the room.
Let’s start with a conversation.
Whatever your starting point, the first contact is always easy and open. From there, if you need expert accompaniment, we take the next step.
First contact · no barrier
Let’s connect
Subscribe to my newsletters or write to me with your idea or your challenge. No commitment and no cost: the door is always open.
The next step
High-level advisory
If after that first contact you seek expert, bespoke accompaniment, we can consider a top-tier advisory for your institution, organisation or project.
Limited places · selected projects.
No social media. No infinite scroll. Only what truly matters.