About me
I am Domenico Di Siena.
An architect and researcher, I have spent more than twenty years working with cities, European programmes, civic organisations and cultural institutions on participation and public innovation.
As a civic designer, I connect research, communities, technology and territory so that people and institutions can face complex problems together. I live in Valencia and work in Spanish, English, French and Italian.
Urbano Humano is my open archive: the texts, videos and publications of all these years stay here. What I do today lives on other pages, and my website is domenicodisiena.com.
What I do today
Public Mesh
The publishing platform I created in 2026 to bring together my content, communication and media projects, carried out since 2006. A press, an outlet and a school on democracy, technology and civic infrastructure.
Civic Design
Collective intelligence can be activated, but it has to be designed. I have researched, practised and taught Civic Design since 2014: I don’t arrive with the solution under my arm, I design the environment where those who live the problem generate it together.
Democratic Society
Community Lead since September 2026: I help shape the organisation’s strategy and cultivate international communities of practice. From 2023 to 2025 I was City Learning Manager on NetZeroCities, with learning pathways and participatory processes for local climate action.
Multiprecio
Work, neighbourhood and culture: the coworking space I co-founded in 2023 in Benimaclet, Valencia. A tiers lieu, the place where people who had never met start doing things together.
Sensus Cívica
My consultancy for using artificial intelligence on an ethical footing, beyond regulatory compliance.
Consulting on civic innovation
I support institutions, public authorities, foundations and European consortia on challenges that don’t admit generic answers. The work is selective and made to measure.
Before and around it
- CivicWise, since 2015. An international network with distributed governance and local nodes, which I co-founded and drive.
- Ciudades Comunes. An online congress in 2020 to rethink the co-construction of cities after COVID-19, and an incubator of public space interventions.
- Volumes, Paris, 2014 – 2022. Coworking and fab-lab: the city’s largest independent productive and creative space, which grew into a cooperative with three sites.
- FoodLab, Paris, 2015. One of the first FoodLabs in the world.
- Factoría Cívica, Valencia, 2016 – 2018. A space for civic innovation and collective practices.
- Colector, Valencia, 2017. A node of culture, community and urban experimentation.
- Ciudad Escuela, 2013 – 2014. A learning platform built on open urban pedagogy, with the anthropologist Alberto Corsín.
- Think Commons, 2011 – 2014.
Organisations I have worked for
Educational institutions where I have taught
Let’s talk: write to me at domenico@domenicodisiena.com.