Daniel Otero Peña, architect, urban designer, researcher, and lecturer.
Curriculum Vitae
Portfolio
Invited lectures and workshops
2023 UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MEXICO, Mexico City, Mexico. Metabolism: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities lecture at the Faculty of Geography, organized by Louise Guibrunet.
2023 ECOLE SPECIALE D’ARCHITECTURE, Paris, France. Collages and Spatial Speculations workshop within Khristian Ceballos Ugarte Architectural Design Master Studio.
2023UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA, Caracas, Venezuela. Topography and Landscape lecture for the Rio Turbio Workshop.
2022 UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium. Urban Metabolism Scan workshop within Maximiliaan Royakers Architectural Design Master Studio.
2022 ANANT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Ahmedabad, India.Urban Metabolism: Landscape infrastructure design and speculative cartography lecture for the Urban Regeneration Design Studio.
2021 PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERU, Lima, Peru. Urban Metabolism Scan workshop led together with Khristian Ceballos Ugarte within Luis Rodríguez Rivera Architectural Design Master Studio.
2019 KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (KU LEUVEN), Leuven, Belgium. Ecological connectivity workshop within Bruno Notteboom Architectural Design Master Studio.
publications
peer-reviewed journals
2025 Otero Peña, D., Perrotti, D., & Vanderstraeten, P. (202*). A spatially explicit and fine-grained urban metabolism assessment to inform urban planning and design: alternative resource governance systems in the Brussels Capital Region. (Manuscript submitted for publication).
2023 Nalumu, D. J., Otero Peña, D., & Perrotti, D. (2023). Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium. Sustainability, 15(22). https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216103.
2022 Otero Peña, D., Perrotti, D., & Mohareb, E. (2022). Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(4), 1333-1349. doi:10.1111/jiec.13261
2020 Perrotti, D., Hyde, K., & Otero Peña, D. (2020). Can water systems foster commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as social–ecological systems. Sustainability Science, 15(3), 781-795. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00782-1
book chapters
2023 Perrotti, D., Moosavi, S., & Otero Peña, D. (2023). Urban Metabolism research can leverage resource-sensitive planning and design of open spaces and green infrastructure. In I. Moulin & L. Vitalis (Eds.), Ré-imaginer des architectures en prenant soin des milieux habités. Europan C17A "Villes Vivantes" (pp. 121–128). Europan France. https://issuu.com/europanfrance.org/docs/europan-c17_texte_v11_pages
2022 Cavalieri, C., Aragone, A., Grommen, C., Notteboom, B., Perotti, D., Otero Peña, D. (2022). Territory of Water Towers. In A Thousand Water Towers for Flanders; Report for Departement Omgeving; Vlaamse Overheid. https://omgeving.vlaanderen.be/nl/realisaties/groen-met-grijs-vlaanderen#paddle_components_text_block_4cbf93b7-8673-4c5b-81f4-6c1bba769e3a
2020 Bergers, J., Camargo, R., D’Altiero, S., Ferrari, E., Nguyen, S., & Otero Peña, D. (2020). Urban Agriculture COOP’s on a Shared Landscape. In B. Declève, G. Grulois, R. de Lestrange, A. Bortolotti, & C. Sanchez Trenado (Eds.), Designing Brussels Ecosystems (pp. 73-93). https://metrolab.brussels/medias/1591266866-publicatie-metrolab-volledigcover-15.pdf.
2015 Otero Peña, D., Ceballos Ugarte, K., Méndez Smith, A., & Núñez Flores, M., as ADJKM, (2015). Caracas to Future: Caracas Symphony Project. In González Viso, I., Peña, M.I., & Vegas, F. (Eds.). Caracas from the valley to the sea. Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Fomento y Vivienda.
2013 Otero Peña, D., Ceballos Ugarte, K., Méndez Smith, A., & Núñez Flores, M., as ADJKM, (2013). Caracas Symphony Complex, Simón Díaz Cultural Complex, and the Galería Venezia renovation. In Micucci, F., Mena, A., & Silva, E. (Eds.). Idea, Proyecto, Obra: Arquitectura Reciente en Venezuela. Fundación Espacio.
Peer-reviewed conferences without proceedings
2023 Otero Peña, D., & Perrotti, D. (2023). The spatial dimension of urban metabolism. A design atlas of resource-sensitive urban archetypes. In EDRA54 Environment and Health: Global/Local Challenges and Actions. Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 Otero Peña, D., & Perrotti, D. (2023). The spatial dimension of urban metabolism. A design atlas of resource-sensitive urban archetypes. In 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023) of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. Leiden, Netherlands.
2022 Otero Peña, D., Perrotti, D., & Vanderstraeten, P. (2022). Bottom-up, context sensitive, and practice-based Urban Metabolism methodological approach using GIS and Social Network Analysis in Brussels. In Metabolism studies: Materiality and relationality in the Anthropocene. Université de Lyon, France.
2022 Otero Peña, D., Perrotti, D., & Vanderstraeten, P. (2022). A bottom-up, context sensitive, and spatially explicit Urban Metabolism analysis. Alternative resource governance systems in Brussels. In Conference on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development. UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
2020 Otero Peña, D., Perrotti, D., & Mohareb, E. (2022). Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: resource flows and stocks, geography, and informality in Mexico City. In International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference ISIE Americas 2020: Industrial Ecology for Resilient & Sustainable Cities. PUCP, Lima, Peru.