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Located in a 1920s old chocolate factory, SokoTech is a digital social innovation laboratory that brings together an intersectoral team of experts in the design and implementation of local and international events, projects and programs related to science, art and technology. We make a difference due to our cross-pollination nature, synthesis of knowledge in various fields, academic and non-academic ones. With dilated and solid experiences, at a vital and professional level.

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We are a multidisciplinary team of experts immersed in the realm of science, technology, creativity and innovation who develop projects from conceptualisation to implementation, boosting innovation with a human centered + data driven design philosophy.

Our Team

Mariona Cíller

Director

Mariona Cíller

Director

SokoTech co-founder. University of Illinois B.F.A, M.Sc. and Assistant Professor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Fab Academy graduate. On 2015 co-founded SokoTech, a citizen laboratory dedicated to social innovation projects focused on the arts, science and technology. The purpose of SokoTech is to extend the use and understanding of technology, science, engineering, art and mathematics among society as a whole, without taking into account age, level of knowledge, status, capacities or gender.

Ian Floyd Jones

Co-founder, Student & Mentor

Ian Floyd Jones

Co-founder, Student & Mentor

Takes his first steps in Carbondale, South Illinois (USA) where while discovering the world and self-learning, encouraged by their teachers, takes care for a vegetable garden in a Montessori Kindergarten. At the age of four he travels to Barcelona, where he begins both programming and reading. Inquisitive and curious, he is constantly Searching for new challenges and information, through books, Internet & YouTube.

Paca Cíller

Senior Advisor

Paca Cíller

Senior Advisor

She was the director at the communication department of the la Caixa Foundation, Director of International Relations, and Programs at CosmoCaixa, the Science Museum of Barcelona, and Executive Director of the European Network of Science Centers Museums (ECSITE). As her final University project she founded, with two colleagues from the University of Barcelona, Staff 76, where, as director, she organized two Education international conferences, focused on games, and toys as a critical factor to tune children into the real world and enhance some of their richer learning experiences.

Ariadna Wahab

Communication Manager

Ariadna Wahab

Communication Manager

Ariadna has a master's degree in communication and project management at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she was working as researcher. Ariadna has worked in companies such as Noumena, Impress, and Conde Nast, in the field of communication and administration.

Andrea Pacheco

Design Manager

Andrea Pacheco

Design Manager

Graphic designer, graduated from Parsons New York. With a master's degree in marketing, communication and art direction. She has worked in the area of graphic design and content creation in different industries in Ecuador, New York and Barcelona.

Dra. Nuria Conde

DIYBio Lab

Dra. Nuria Conde

DIYBio Lab

Nuria is a post-doctoral researcher at Complex Systems Laboratory at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in the PRBB. She holds a major in Biology and an engineering in informatics and performed her research thesis about Biocomputation, which is at the interface of both fields. Nuria teaches biology for architects, artists and designers of IAAC and GreenFabLab.

Petra Garajová

P2Lab Fashion Tech

Petra Garajová

P2Lab Fashion Tech

Petra is a Slovak experimental designer and material researcher based in Barcelona. Over the past years of her architectural studies in Prague, she has encountered different perspectives of “architectural” thinking. The better understanding of materials, their natural origin and artistic implementation led her to the Buj Studio where she has started working on her material research. The main focus of her research is to rethink the textile industry and the environmental impact of architectural materials through biomaterials. At the same time, she observes the close connection between nature, technology and new spatial forms.

Sofía Williamson

Lichen Social Innovation

Sofía Williamson

Lichen Social Innovation

Journalist and Licensee in Social Communication; Master in Cultural Management. Experience in project management from the area of coordination, implementation, and communication and healing of proposals. Interested by new collaborative and participatory models for the implementation of socially committed projects. She seeks to develop dynamics and implement methodologies that favour access to knowledge and cultural democracy. She has led cultural mediation projects in Spain (Endemic Science, Art and Participation; and interdisciplinary encounter Cielos del Infinito) and Chile (Converted Artistic Designation of Viento), a Citizen Laboratory in Bolivia (LAB11+), and is co-founder of collaborative projects of artistic diffusion in Spain and Colombia (Poupart) and Barcelona (Artlocals), as well as volunteers and collaborations in social and cultural projects (ArtBarcelona, DART, MACBA,)

Matias Verderau

Lichen Social Innovation

Matias Verderau

Lichen Social Innovation

Lichen Social Innovation Director, Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Science in Marketing and Master of Branding. His main fields of interest are social innovation, community participation and empowerment processes, citizen science and cultural democracy, through creativity, technology and education. Experience in project management of the European Union and research in education (digital social innovation eu), community management in relation to citizen science and open data (making sense eu, wecount eu)), and developing social innovation projects with companies such as red bull, aguas de barcelona, among others (fab lab barcelona) and with city councils (smart city week 2020), project development (mi parque foundation) and strategic communication (greener ecommunications), has worked in spain, chile, colombia, Bolivia and consortia within European projects in the Netherlands, England, Germany, Italy, Kosovo, among others.

Oriol Codina

STEAM Director

Oriol Codina

STEAM Director

Oriol Codina is an IT engineer and social educator. More than 4 years of experience providing hands-on programs for underserved communities in San Francisco. His mission is to give a voice to vulnerable groups and empower them through education and leadership programs. He also advocates for creating healthy places in our communities. In 2015, he travelled around North America working in organic farms to learn and understand new ways to grow healthy food.

Jose Núñez

Digital Development

Jose Núñez

Digital Development

Developing Software in a professional way for 25 years, from embedded systems to applications for mobile devices. An off-road programmer who has also worked on his own projects such as Tales Apart, where he created children's apps based on classic tales for iOS or The Code Rockers, in which, in addition to creating tools for programming the Minecraft videogame, taught programming and electronics to young people.

Javier Acosta

XR Lab Director

Javier Acosta

XR Lab Director

Experts in new video formats. We have been creating content for Virtual Reality (360, 360 3D, 180 3D...) for more than 10 years, having worked for the best brands in the world.

Marta G

Junior Developer

Marta G

Junior Developer

Marta has been intensively trained in a programming bootcamp for 6 months at the Barcelona digital school Factoría F5, last year. She studied industrial electronics at IES La Guineueta in Barcelona

Manel-Song Ollé Chin

Engineer in industrial design and product development

Manel-Song Ollé Chin

Engineer in industrial design and product development

Master de Disseny de Packaging a ELISAVA i graduat en Enginyeria de Disseny Industrial i Desenvolupament del Producte a la UPC combinat amb estada a la Zhejiang University (Xina) per realitzar el Treball Final de Carrera. Amb experiència de formador de disseny 2D i 3D, tall làser i impressió 3D, per Barcelona Activa en els cursos Antenes Maker des de 2020 fins a l'actualitat i per la Fundació Orange el 2018, tant online com presencial, amb adults i amb joves en risc d'exclusió social de fins a 16 anys.

U.M.A.

Canine in residence

U.M.A.

Canine in residence

Receptionist by vocation executes her work with efficiency and enthusiasm providing guests with a highly & friendly welcome. She adores to greet and lionize anyone who visits SOKO. With a very good mood, she is also in charge of the neighborhood public relations.

Darwin OS

Canine in residence

Darwin OS

Canine in residence

A recent family addition, enjoys providing emotional infrastructure to the SokoTech crew nurturing the power of his rescue Swiss mountain dog genes. He lives in love with his best friend Linus the cat.

Linus

Feline in residence

Linus

Feline in residence

Linus a.k.a. Psychopatitas is always ready to pounce on you! A playful cuddle bug by nature, he loves to be around humans, especially the ones that are willing to change his H2O and refill his food bowl. He is best friends with Darwin OS, with whom they spend most of their time together, playing or napping.

Addy

Canine-Ewok in residence

Addy

Canine-Ewok in residence

The office Ewok, She comes from a diminutive primitive species of furry bipeds native to the forest moon of Ecuador. World traveler, She is here to conquer our world with a very inquisitive smile. She will great you at SokoTech headquarters.

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