28/05 | Technology, Decent Living and the Ecosocial Crisis: What Policies Do We Need to Advance Toward New Techniques?

The next session of the seminar series “Technology, Decent Living and the Ecosocial Crisis” will take place on May 28 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. This cycle of conferences has been designed to reflect on the necessary transformation of our current tools and systems.

The seminar can be attended online via the following link: ONLINE, or in person in room 17.2.47 (Building 17, Getafe Campus).

The session, entitled “What Policies Do We Need to Advance Toward New Techniques?”, will begin with a presentation by Paulina Isabel Silva Rubio, who will focus on the limits of public policies and legal frameworks constructed within the paradigm of modern development. Starting from the premise that the environmental crisis cannot be resolved solely through technical adjustments or new regulations while a logic based on unlimited growth and the exploitation of nature remains intact, the session will open a discussion on buen vivir (good living), community autonomy, and social technologies, as well as on the legal and political challenges involved in building models oriented toward sufficiency and ecological limits.

Following her presentation, Jorge Martínez Crespo will focus on policies in the Global North, addressing debates surrounding green capitalism and ecosocialism. He will reflect on the technologies that are necessary and conceivable in the context of an accelerated transition toward a post-growth world, paying particular attention to the development of alternative policies for a just ecosocial transition, with a special focus on the Spanish case.

About the speakers:

Paulina Isabel Silva Rubio (UNAM). She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Guanajuato, awarded with Honors and Cum Laude distinction. She earned both her Law degree and Master’s degree in Administrative Law from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and its Graduate Studies Division. She has taught courses including Public and Private International Law, Professional Ethics, and Environmental Law in the Law program at the University of Durango, Morelia campus, as well as Legal Methodology at La Salle University Morelia. She has also served as a legal collaborator for the Michoacán Climate Change Advisory Council and participated in projects such as the State Agency for the Just and Sustainable Energy Transition of the State of Michoacán, developed by the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences on Human Rights and Environmental Law. She is the author of several published articles and book chapters in these fields and was awarded the Dr. Ignacio Chávez Sánchez Medal by the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in recognition of academic excellence in postgraduate studies.

Jorge Martínez Crespo (UC3M). He holds a PhD in Industrial Technologies (UC3M, 2004) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (UPM, 1995). He joined UC3M as an Assistant Lecturer in 1998 and has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2011, where he coordinates the Bachelor’s Degree in Energy Engineering. He is a member of the REDES, GTADS, and THECO research groups. He has co-authored more than 30 scientific publications and participated in numerous R&D projects, serving as principal investigator in two EU-funded projects and in 11 highly significant R&D contracts with companies and/or public administrations, leading three of them. He has served as Deputy Director and Secretary of the Department, member of the university senate for 12 years across different periods, and more recently as a member of the School Board. He is currently Director of the Bachelor’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Energy Engineering. In addition, he directs the Engineering for Human Development (IDH) cooperation group at UC3M. His research focuses on electricity markets, renewable energy integration, optimization, energy education, energy poverty, and appropriate technologies.

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Reference materials: https://nube.communia.cc/index.php/s/P2bGZLxWZnJw6w7 (password: Sesion4Tecnicas)