Belinda Tato is the co-founder and co-director of the firm Ecosistema Urbano, established in Madrid in 2000. She has led workshops, lectured and taught at the most prestigious institutions worldwide. Since 2010 Tato has been a faculty member at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in Cambridge and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Ecosistema Urbano is a Madrid-based group of architects, urban designers and professionals specialised in urban innovation projects, operating within the principles of design thinking at the intersection between different disciplines: architecture, urban design, engineering and sociology. Their approach can be defined as urban-social design, understanding that the design of environments, spaces, dynamics and tools are fundamental in order to improve the self-organisation of citizens, social interaction within communities and a community’s relationship with the environment.