Claudio Cattaneo

Can Masdeu, Camì de st.Latzer s/n Tel. +34 644116328 08035 Nou Barris – / E-mail: [email protected] Citizenship: Italian

Actual positions: Visiting professor at LIUC university (undergraduate course Introduction of Ecological Economics) Visiting professor at University of Edinburgh (part of MSc course Applications in Ecological Economics) Researcher MOVOKEUR project (Analysis of the squatters' movement, case studies: Barcelona, Europe) Associate researcher ICTA-UAB Member of Research and Catalonia

Research Interests: urban movements, degrowth, self-organization, human ecology, political ecology, rural-urban interactions. Interested in sustainable lifestyles (i.e. self-organized communities, co-housing), with experience in energy and material analysis of social metabolisms. Wide use of participant observation methodology. Applied experience with rural organic agriculture (restoration of soil fertility and adoption of sustainable techniques) and management of rural-urban commons.

Education and training:

2009 PhD in Environmental Sciences –Ecological Economics and Environmental Management Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia Thesis: “The Ecological Economics of Urban Squatters in Barcelona”. Supervisors: Prof. Joan Martinez Alier and Dr. Lupicinio Iňiguez Final mark: Excellent

2007 DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in Environmental Sciences Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia Thesis: “El estilo de vida de los neorurales: esquemas de producciòn y consumo y anàlisis del discurso”. Supervisors: Prof. Joan Martinez Alier and Dr. Lupicinio Iňiguez Final mark: Excellent

2000-2001 MSc in Ecological Economics University of Edinburgh, Scotland Thesis: “Modelling Participatory Approaches in a Multi-Criteria Policy Issue. The Case of Wine Making in Cinque Terre National Park, Italy”. Supervisor: Dr. David Oglethorpe Final mark: 68%

1993-1997 Laurea in Business Administration Università Carlo Cattaneo, Italy Thesis: “Il fenomeno delle mode, un’analisi economica” (An economic analysis of fashion phenomena). Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Cavaliere. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude

2008. Certificate from the 5th Life4 Summer School, on Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecological Metabolism (MuSIASEM) for Participatory Assessment of Sustainability Issues. ICTA-UAB

Relevant Work Experience:

Aug 2013 – present MOVOKEUR project (Spanish acronym for The Squatters' Movement in Europe), funded by the Spanish ministry of Science and Education REF: CSO2011-23079 and directed by Dr. Miguel A. Martínez Lopez Researcher and group coordinator for the Barcelona case study.

Sept 2009 – present Univeristy of Edinburgh, Scotland Visiting lecturer in the course “Applications of ecological economics”; supervisor of MSc student dissertations, essay and dissertation marker and moderator.

Oct. 2003 – present Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy Adjunct Lecturer to “Introduction to Ecological Economics” 2 ECTS credit course, taught each semester to international students visiting LIUC university.

Sept 2002- present Can Masdeu Valley community gardens. Participation and Management of the project, responsible of enhancing a self- organized community gardens project through a participative assembly and specific commissions. The project is established on the hills of Barcelona. www.canmasdeu.net.

1999 – 2000 Andersen Consulting, Milan, Italy Business Analyst for the Strategic Services Division. Top management consulting delivered from the consulting team to senior managers of major Italian enterprises (Iveco, Il sole 24 Ore, Ina-Assitalia, Telecom Italia)

Edited special issues:

Cattaneo, C., D'Alisa, G., Kallis, G. and Zografos, C., (eds.) 2012. Politics, democracy and degrowth Futures, 44 (6) 2012

Edited books:

Squatting Europe Kollective, edited by Claudio Cattaneo and Miguel A. Martinez, 2014. The Squatters' movement in Europe. Commons and Autonomy as Alternative to Capitalism. Pluto Press, London

Published papers:

Cattaneo, C. and Engels di Mauro, S., forthcoming. Urban squats as eco-social resistance and resilience in the face of capitalist relations: Case Studies from Barcelona and Rome. Partecipazione e Conflitto

Cattaneo, C., 2014. El rol de las okupaciones en la ecología política de las ciudades. Ecología Política, 47 10-13.

Demaria, F., D'Alisa, G. and Cattaneo, C., 2013. Civil and uncivil actors for a degrowth society. Journal of civil society, 9 (2) 212-224

D’Alisa, G and Cattaneo, C., 2013: Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study. Journal of Cleaner Production 38, Pages 71-79 Cattaneo, C., D’Alisa, G., Kallis, G., Zografos, C.: 2012 Introduction: Degrowth futures and democracy. Futures. 44, 515-523

Cattaneo, C. and Gavaldá, M., 2010: La Experiencia Autogestionaria Ecología política 35 73-76

Cattaneo, C. and Gavaldá, M., 2010: “The Experience Of Rurban Squats In Collserola, Barcelona: What Kind Of Degrowth?” Journal of Cleaner Production, 18 (2010)581-589

Cattaneo, C., 2006: epistemological insights on participant observation and on the logic of ethnographic investigation, Athenea Digital, 10 (2006), -public access online journal.

Book chapters:

Cattaneo, C. (2014) “Eco-communities” in D’alisa, G. Demaria, F. and G. Kallis (eds), Degrowth. A vocabulary for a new paradigm, Routledge-Earthscan Cattaneo, C., 2013. Urban , rural squatting and the ecological-economic perspective in: Squatting Europe Kollective (eds): Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles, New York, Autonomedia and Minor Compositions.

Cattaneo, C. 2012. The money less life of Spanish Squatters in: Nelson and Timmerman (eds.) Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies Pluto Press, London

Book reviews:

Cattaneo, C. (2012) Book review: Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism. Progress in Development Studies. 12 (1), 84-86

Conference Presentations:

Leipzig, September 2014. 4th International Conference on Economic Degrowth. “Basic Income and Degrowth”

Barcelona, March 2010. 2nd International Conference on Economic Degrowth. “Auto-producciòn y autonomìa energética: el caso del Centro Social Okupado Kan Paskual” (Energy Self-Produccion of the Kan Paskual social centre).

Graz, June 2008. 6th Biennal Workshop “Advances in Energy Studies”. Applying the MuSIASEM approach to the household: energy metabolism and time allocation in Catalonia. Liepzig, June 2007. 10th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics: “Energy analysis of the Can Masdeu Valley, Barcelona: the relevance of endosomatic energy in bioeconomics”

Portovenere, September 2006. 5th Biannual International Workshop on Advances in Energy Studies: “The exosomatic evolution of human kind, power and the importance of bioeconomics”.

Barcelona, March 2006. Conferencia en Economìa Crìtica: “Lenguajes tècnicos como herramienta polìtica. Actores en el conflicto de Itoiz: pro o contra?”

Liverpool, September 2005. International Conference on Complexity. “Power, Time and the Exosomatic Evolution of Human Kind”

Lisboa, June 2005. 9th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics: “Autonomy from the money, autonomy from the system and the multicriteria allocation of time: the case of Catalan neorural squatters”

Oral presentations as a guest speaker:

“The squatters' movement in Europe” Oral presentation at the faculty of Social Studies, Brno, Czech Republic, December 4th 2014.

"The social and environmental benefits of squatting" Keynote speech for the first International Workshop on Sustainable Housing and Growth, Responder Project, ETSAV (Escola Tècnica Superior d ´Árquitectura del Vallès) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 28-30 March, 2012.

"Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth" Conference on "Growth Vs. Degrowth", organized by Economistas sin Fronteras and Colegio Vasco de Economistas, Bilbao, February 9th, 2012

Why degrowth? An introduction to the degrowth discourse: According to its different sources. Antiutilitarianism and voluntary simplicity (Lecture by Claudio Cattaneo, Giacomo Dalisa and Federico Demaria). Pre-conference Workshop, 9th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, Istanbul, June 14th, 2011

"Exits to the crisis and environmental management", presented at the First Conference of Bio- arquitecture. Colegio de Arquitectos, Barcelona. May 16th, 2011 “Is there another interpretation of the economic crisis? A vision from ecologial economics”. Summer School in Ecological Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Carmona (Sevilla), September, 14-19 2009

Energy analysis of the Can Masdeu Valley, in: International Conference "¿Quién debe a quién? Deuda ecológica: Energía, transnacionales y cambio climático’’ organised by Ekologistak Martxan and Universidad del País Vasco, Bilabo, 25 -26 October, 2007

Publications in scientific conference proceedings:

Cattaneo, C., 2012. The social and environmental benefits of squatting. Knowledge Unit for the Responder Conference on Sustainable Housing, Barcelona, 28-30 March, 2012.

Cattaneo, C., 2010. Stirring Paper for the working group on “Re-using empty houses and co-housing” Second International conference for Degrowth, Barcelona, 2010.

Cattaneo, C., D'Alisa, G. and Gamboa, G., 2008. Applying the MuSIASEM approach to the household: energy metabolism and time allocation in Catalonia. 6th Biennal Workshop “Advances in Energy Studies”, Graz University of Technology, June 2008.

Izquierdo, B. and Cattaneo, C., 2002. The concept of sustainability in the Spanish evaluation reports reports: the case of the Structural Funds and environmental assessments. Easy-Eco 2 conference proceedings. Wien, 15-17 May, 2003

Fellowships and Awards:

Awarded “Best Doctoral Student Paper” at the Leipzig Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, in 2007.

Awarded two scholarships for outstanding students of Università Carlo Cattaneo by Fondazione Famiglia Leganese in 1996 and 1997.

Organization of R&D activities:

Forthcoming. Organization of the international summer school on degrowth and environmental justice. Barcelona, 5-15th July 2015. http://summerschool.degrowth.net/ Forthcoming. Organization of an international workshop awarded by the Antipode Foundation on “Squatting, self-managed social centres, factories and housing struggles across Europe”. Barcelona, May 20th-24th 2015. sqekbcn.squat.net and http://antipodefoundation.org/international-workshop- awards/201314-recipients/iwa-1314-cattaneo/

2013-2014: Organizer of a study tour to Barcelona for the undergarduate course “Majority and minority identities in Europe” led by Dr. Susan Paulson, University of Miami, Ohio. A group of 30 North- American students come to discover from the grassroots the different identities that co-exist in Barcelona-Catalonia, and are introduced to the main political debate (Catalonia vs. Spain) and to have a first-hand experience of some of the city cultures.

Member of the organizing committee for the “Second International Conference of Degrowth”, Barcelona, 2010. The team was constituted by participants to the Barcelona based association Research & Degrowth. The conference has been attended by more than 400 people. My main task was the organization of the poster sessions (to facilitate and maximise communication most contributons were in the form of posters. Posters were presented during in-room presentations organized in parallel sessions, the rest of the time they were hanging in visible place in a central space of the conference). I was also in charge to organize the social event and a field visit to Can Masdeu, a degrowth permacultural squat commune.

Participation in R&D contracts:

EASY-ECO 2 Evaluation of Sustainability Eu conference. Contract HPCF-CT-2001-00286, co- ordinated by the University of Economics and business Administration of Vienna, From 2002 to 2003.

MOVOKEUR The Squatters Movement in Spain and Europe, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, lead by Dr. Miguel Martinez,REFERENCE: CSO2011-23079

Other non-Academic Interests:

Mananger of a 3ha organic olive farm in Tarragona province Activist of the bicycle culture, bicycle mechanic

Languages: Italian: native speaker English: spoken, written and read: fluent Spanish: spoken, written and read: fluent Catalan: spoken, written and read: fluent French: spoken: basic written: basic, read: good