Laia Sánchez

Col·laboratori, Citilab Cornellà (Barcelona) As head of the Col·laboratori, she explores and strengthens the links that Citilab maintains with the various communities with which it interacts at different levels, from the most local to the international, since she also coordinates European projects. She has been responsible for several Citylab projects, which has improved her living labs, co-creation, methodologies, tools, and innovation skills (iCity, Pelar, JamToday, and Mind the Gap, Future DiverCities). She collaborated as a scriptwriter, producer, and director of the BTV documentary show Theme Nights. Technical director of audiovisual production and shows by EMAV, in 2000, she founded a group of live video-projections; simultaneously, she obtained a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 2007 she was coordinator of the thematic program of the Cabinet of the Rectorate and Culture in Viu, where she programmed events with multidisciplinary outstanding scientific Speakers. Since 2007 she has been an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the UAB.