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Date: July 2018
Location: Madrid, Spain
Programme: MCH – Master in Collective Housing
Workshop Leader: Alison Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Alejandro de Miguel
Theme: Exploration of new formats for collective urban life through housing, mixed-use programmes and new forms of domestic and productive coexistence.

Date: July 2019
Location: Madrid, Spain
Programme: MCH – Master in Collective Housing
Workshop Leader: Alison Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Alejandro de Miguel
Theme: Investigation of collective housing around the edge of El Retiro, combining domestic, productive and community uses while reinforcing the relationship between the park and the surrounding city.

Date: July 2020
Location: Madrid, Spain
Programme: MCH – Master in Collective Housing
Workshop Leader: Alison Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Alejandro de Miguel
Theme: Reimagining the high-rise residential model after the pandemic, using Madrid’s Torres de Colón as a framework to explore adaptability, reuse, sustainability and new forms of collective life.

Date: July 2021
Location: Tetuán, Madrid, Spain
Programme: MCH – Master in Collective Housing
Workshop Leader: Alison Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Alejandro de Miguel
Theme: Exploration of a hybrid housing typology combining the courtyard block and the tower to address density, domesticity, collective space and long-distance views.

Date: September 2022
Location: Lavapiés, Madrid, Spain
Programme: MCH – Master in Collective Housing
Workshop Leader: Alison Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Alejandro de Miguel
Theme: Contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Madrid corrala, exploring collective housing, shared spaces and productive uses around an existing community garden.

Date: June 2026
Location: Centro Ecuestre Robledales de Ultzama, Navarra, Spain
Programme: Campus Ultzama — Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad
Role: Tutor
Theme: International design workshop focused on real housing and urban-design challenges in Navarra, with social, affordable and sustainable housing as a central concern and particular attention to industrialised construction processes.