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IDRA Barcelona Urban Research Institute | ES

IDRA Barcelona Urban Research Institute conducts research to promote social and environmental justice. The Institute understands research as a networked practice that enables a better understanding of urban reality in order to intervene and transform it. The strategic axes that guide all its activities are transformative social institutions, just ecological transition, and economic democracy.

Within PREFIGURE, IDRA is working with two prototypes: Reviu, an online portal for reviews of real homes, and Wikihousing, a self-managed and open-source social housing production method. The Institute is leading the mobilisation of knowledge exchange to facilitate future up-scaling within Prefigure and is co-leading the up-scaling of innovation into energy efficient, inclusive, and affordable housing policies.