Beatriz Pineda

Dr. Beatriz Pineda Revilla is a Research Fellow at RMIT Europe, the Barcelona-based innovation hub of the Australian university RMIT. She is an architect/urban planner and holds a PhD in Urban Studies. She has over 15 years of experience on topics that range from food systems, food waste, energy just transition, sustainable lifestyles, citizen participation, behavioural change, urban governance and social innovation. Her work combines different disciplines (sociology, psychology, human geography, experimental design) and methodologies ((digital) ethnographic action research) and covers overlapping scales, from the regional/urban/neighbourhood scale to the more intimate sphere of the home. In previous research, conducted between New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, Beatriz explored food-related practices in urban agriculture projects and the potentialities of practice-oriented food planning, examined the ritualization of household food practices and its impact on preventing food waste and addressed the role of urban communities in shaping social norms to achieve energy conscious lifestyles. In her most current work she is addressing citizen engagement and exploring the potentials of energy citizenship in developing PEDs (Positive Energy Districts) and investigating how PEB (Plus Energy Building) residents’ lived experiences and practices affect and can influence the design of energy efficient PEB technologies.

As an environmental urban studies scholar and a social practice theorist, her primary research focus is on post-carbon urban transitions and the built environment, which she explores through topics such as energy and food. As a trained architect and urban planner, she is particularly interested in just transitions, viewed from socio-technical and spatial perspectives. Additionally, creativity and design are integral to her research designs and approaches.