Tomás Sánchez Criado

Social anthropologist with specialization in STS. Senior Researcher at TUM’s Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), he currently undertakes ethnographic and archival research on DIY and institutional urban accessibility struggles and the design/maintenance of sidewalk democracy as well as inclusive urbanism practices in Europe, with a focus on Spain. Interested in their two-fold dimension as forms of ‘technoscientific activism’–with their experience-based challenge and democratizations of expertise through the production of documentation interfaces–, and as ‘ecologies of support’, generating encounters to elicit bodily diversity and the appropriate socio-material affordances to host it. He has published widely on these different topics, and is now editing together with A. Estalella the book 'Experimental collaborations.'