Next Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 12:00 pm, the doctoral thesis defense of Chema Segovia (José Manuel Segovia Collado), researcher linked to Econcult-UV and specialist in cultural and urban planning, will take place in the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia.
Chema Segovia will defend his doctoral thesis on publicly promoted urban cultural infrastructures at the University of Valencia
The research examines publicly promoted urban cultural infrastructures and their social, institutional and territorial processes.
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Next Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 12:00 pm, the doctoral thesis defense of Chema Segovia (José Manuel Segovia Collado), researcher linked to Econcult-UV and specialist in cultural and urban planning, will take place in the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Valencia.
The research, entitled “Urban cultural infrastructures of public promotion: genealogy, heterogeneity, foundations and processes”, examines publicly promoted urban cultural infrastructures, analysing their origins, evolution, diversity of models, conceptual foundations, and the social, institutional and territorial processes that shape them.
The thesis is part of the PhD Programme in Social Sciences at the University of Valencia and has been supervised by Pau Rausell Köster, with Antonio Ramos Murphy and Mirela Fiori serving as co-supervisors.
Professional profile
Chema Segovia is an architect and urban planner whose professional and research career focuses on the relationships between culture, territory, cities and innovation.
Current activity
He currently works as Strategic Director at Culturalink S.L. and teaches in the Master’s Degree in City and Urbanism at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Specialisation
His areas of expertise include cultural and spatial planning, urban policies, public space, citizen participation and urban transformation processes from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Over recent years, he has participated in several research projects and publications related to culture and the city. Among these works is the book ESPACIOS. Para la Innovación, la Creatividad y la Cultura (Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2015), developed within the framework of the European project 3C4 Incubators, as well as several studies related to cultural facilities, creativity, territorial innovation and urban representations.
Research line
The doctoral thesis he is now presenting provides a critical understanding of contemporary public cultural infrastructures, analysing their heterogeneity, their urban and symbolic functions, and the role they play in shaping cultural ecosystems and urban public policies.
The defense will be open to the public, and anyone interested is welcome to attend and share this academic milestone.
From Econcult, we would like to congratulate Chema Segovia on this research work and wish him an excellent doctoral defense.
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