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Cover of the book Arquitecturas del cuidado, by Irati Mogollón García and Ana Fernández Cubero

Book

Arquitecturas del cuidado

Hacia un envejecimiento activista

Irati Mogollón García y Ana Fernández Cubero

Icaria Editorial · Colección Bioarquitectura, 8 · 2016 · 200 páginas · ISBN 978-84-9888-928-4

An architectural and sociological analysis, with a feminist lens at its core, on how and where we want to grow old. The book widens the frame of the debate on old age in the 21st century: it traces the social factors that raise the question and crosses them with an analysis of collective alternatives for living together and caring. It is the reference work of the Arquitecturas del Cuidado project and the author's most cited publication.

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Doctoral thesis

Estrategias colectivas de sostenibilidad de la vida en tiempos de crisis

Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2021. Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social. Mención de Doctorado Internacional. Dirección: Matxalen Legarreta Iza y Mercedes Larrañaga Sarriegui.

Participatory action research on three collective projects —Calafou, Wikitoki and Ecosocial Lerma— and the challenges running through them: the tension between degrowth and precarious life, the different care ethics that coexist within one project, and a proposal for a feminist reworking of reciprocity and of contemporary systems of total prestations.

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Scientific publications

Ordered by impact (Google Scholar citations, July 2026).

  • 2016

    Arquitecturas del cuidado. Viviendas colaborativas para personas mayores: un acercamiento al contexto vasco y las realidades europeas

    (Architectures of care. Collaborative housing for older people: an approach to the Basque context and European realities)

    Con Ana Fernández Cubero. Emakunde–Instituto Vasco de la Mujer, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 135 páginas. Beca de investigación Emakunde 2015. · 15 citations

    A study of 19 collaborative housing projects in the Basque Country and Europe, analysing separately the soft infrastructures —governance, mutualism, reciprocity, care— and the hard ones —spatial, economic, legal and ownership-related— that sustain them.

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  • 2015

    Estrategias colectivas para la sostenibilidad de la vida en tiempos de crisis. El caso de Calafou

    (Collective strategies for the sustainability of life in times of crisis. The case of Calafou)

    Con Matxalen Legarreta Iza. Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, n.º 9. · 13 citations

    A case study using participatory action research and collective and individual mapping techniques on the post-capitalist eco-industrial colony of Calafou.

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  • 2019

    Reflexiones sobre la economía colaborativa y el capitalismo de las emociones: nuevos retos en el análisis del conflicto Capital-Vida

    (Reflections on the collaborative economy and the capitalism of emotions: new challenges in analysing the Capital-Life conflict)

    Lan Harremanak. Revista de Relaciones Laborales, n.º 41, pp. 141-164. ISSN 1575-7048. · 9 citations

    A feminist review of the collaborative economy and its intersection with the capitalism of emotions: what happens when affect, collaboration and experience become raw material for the production of capital.

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  • 2023

    Hacia la transformación de los Centros Sociales de Personas Mayores

    (Towards the transformation of Social Centres for Older People)

    Con Nagore Almazán Goicoechea, Elena Berrios Prieto, Leire Fernández Cordero y Ainara Tomasena Lasa. Actas de Coordinación Sociosanitaria, n.º 33, pp. 12-39.

    Social Centres for Older People are a singular resource in the European context: they host roughly two thirds of people over 65 in Spain. The article sets out the keys to transforming the model.

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Outreach and media

Interviews, talks, radio and television.

Revista Pueblos · Interview · 2017

«La principal motivación de las personas mayores que se involucran en proyectos de cohousing…»

Con Ana Fernández Cubero

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Hala Bedi · Interview

«Tendemos a buscar modelos únicos de vivienda, pero las vidas son heterogéneas»

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SETEM Hego Haizea · Talk

Viviendas colaborativas y envejecimiento, Basauri (Factoría de Valores)

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SETEM Hego Haizea · Video · 2020

Arquitecturas que cuidan (YouTube)

Onda Cero · Radio · 2020

«Si la conciliación puede darse es gracias a los abuelos»

09/12/2020

Els Matins, TV3 · Television · 2020

«Tenim una visió retrògrada de la gent gran»

02/11/2020

Traficantes de Sueños · Book launch

«Arquitecturas del cuidado: viviendas colaborativas y envejecimientos activistas»

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Full profile on Google Scholar · Metrics as of July 2026: 89 citations, h-index 5, i10-index 3.