REINVENTING life together (2022-2023)

It is true that we have problems, but we also have people who are thinking up and exploring new ways of doing things. New ways of approaching culture, urban planning, environmental and social sustainability, the fight against poverty, participatory social design, the circular economy, tourism, and the integration of functional diversity, among other issues. The people involved in all these areas have been invited to take part in the Reinventing life together cycle. The aim of the cycle is to inform and reflect on innovative responses to key social challenges that are being offered inside and outside of Malaga.

In 2018, LABMálaga launched its activities with “Radar. New ideas for a common future”. LABMálaga is a citizen’s laboratory promoted by the General Foundation of the University of Málaga.

PRÓXIMOS EVENTOS

EVENTS HELD

A SLOW UNIVERSITY?
Haste drains the academia

Date: January, 11th 2023
Speakers: Remedios Zafra and Rafael Vázquez García
Venue: Sala de Estudios del Complejo de Estudios Sociales y del Comercio

Sign Language Interpretation included

Like anywhere else, many of us who work and study at the university feel that we lack time. Time to spend with our family and friends, time for our hobbies, even time to rest and take care of ourselves; but also, time to prepare for classes calmly, to think about the meaning of what we are doing or for reading other than immediate assignments. The development of communication technologies partially explains this impoverishment of time that we regret. We feel the need to be in more places at the same time and to do more things faster: to publish more, to get more training, to participate in more activities, to answer queries from a large network of contacts, to carry out tasks that someone else was dealing with before they were digitalised… All this is exacerbated in a context of global competition for jobs, contracts and research projects, which requires articles in indexed journals and excellence accreditations. And since academic work is endless, its flexibility pushes us to spend the whole day on it or to feel anxious about not doing it.

There is evidence that acceleration in university is harmful to health and wellbeing of those of us who study and work there, because it stresses us, isolates us and takes us away from our true interests. We are also becoming aware that hasty research generates homogeneous and insubstantial, if not outright incorrect, products. And that the quality of teaching depends more on a good atmosphere in the classroom than on the innovative drills that can be carried out. In response to all this, resistance movements, such as slow science and slow humanities, have emerged. Earlier this year, the University of Granada published The Slow Professor, a book by professors Berg and Seeber, which encourages us to actively resist the academic culture of speed for its harmful effects. As for the expression “slow learner”, for Google it is nothing more than someone with learning difficulties.

The aim of this Reinventing Life Together event is to consider to what extent and in which ways acceleration is a problem for the university and what could we do individually and collectively to address it. To this end, we will begin with an enlightening conversation with Remedios Zafra and Rafael Vázquez, who have expressed concern about this issue. From this point on, we will be sharing comments and concerns with those attending the meeting. And with luck, at the end our concerns can be the origin of a local manifesto so that we don’t get caught up in melancholy.

Remedios Zafra

She is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Filosofía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. University professor, lecturer and essayist, her book El entusiasmo. Precariedad y trabajo creativo en la era digital (Anagrama, 2017) has been included among the 100 most outstanding books in Spanish of the 21^st century. In Frágiles (Anagrama, 2021), Zafra explored the new anxious culture of immaterial work and work-lives. Another book relevant to the subject of this talk is #Despacio (Caballo de Troya, 2012). Her other work lines are the critical study of contemporary culture, feminism and the politics of identity in networks. MORE INFO

Rafael Vázquez García

He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada, with an extraordinary prestige among European political theorists. He has researched civic engagement and democracy, civil disobedience, green political theory, non-Western political theory, gender, politics of happiness, animal rights and anti-speciesism. He declares himself a feminist and militant animalist. He is member of PACMA. MORE INFO

ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLENCE
When bureaucracy deprives you of rights

Date: March, 16th 2023
Speakers: Yosi Hatillo y Manuel Moreno Linde
Venue: Sala de Estudios del Complejo de Estudios Sociales y del Comercio

Sign Language Interpretation included

Exercising our rights depends on complicated formalities, sometimes meaningless and sometimes impossible procedures. We all have experimented it sometime. More or less, everyone has been trapped in a bureaucratic loop when trying to make a customer service claim, that in case you have been lucky enough to be picked up on the phone.

It come as no surprise to anyone that applying for any support or assistance means wandering through offices, counter, queues to obtain documents that, in theory, some administrations could obtain from others. Nor is it surprising that there is no way to get some certificates or reports in time (because of the delay in issuing them or simply in giving you an appointment) or that your file may be paralysed for lack of an unexpectedly essential document.

As Sara Mesa says in her book Silencio administrativo. La pobreza en el laberinto burocrático, many administrative procedures “seem to be error-seeking, tripping up, attempting to slow down or paralyse what is already slow”. Digitalisation promises to speed up procedures, but sometimes it just means dealing with crashing websites, “cumbersome interfaces” and cryptic instructions. Not to mention the digital divide, which is added to the helplessness already caused by administrative jargon and regulatory complexity.

The pace and bureaucratic obstacles are particularly galling when they block access to basic services and benefits for the most disadvantaged people. Requirements are made that ignore the circumstances and urgencies of those who are homeless or have a disability, for example. Circumstances and urgencies that are also ignored in the way services are designed and delivered. Those fighting poverty and social exclusion are referring to all this as administrative violence or abuse, using the term with which Dean Spade denounced the discrimination arising from the use of gender as an administrative category.

In this session of Reinventing Life Together we will address the dimensions and damages of extreme bureaucracy, its causes and links with various prejudices (such as aporophobia or racism) and also how we could improve the situation. We will have the following speakers to start the conversation: Yosi Hatillo y Manuel Moreno Linde.

Yosi Hatillo (Yosehanna Ledesma Ramírez)

She holds a Degree in Social Communication by the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and a Degree in Labour Relations and Human Resources by the Universidade de A Coruña. She works as a technician in the Awareness Programme against racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance (SINRACXEN), developed by Accem. And coordinates the participation group of EAPN Galicia, the Galician branch of the European Anti Poverty Network. She is a member of the Afrogalegas collective and co-producer and presenter of the programmes MalhumorHadas and Escuela de Familias on the community broadcasters Cuac FM and OMC Radio.

Manuel Moreno Linde

He holds a PhD in Law and is Professor of Administrative Law at the Universidad de Málaga. His research interests are urban planning, housing, public contracts, social aspects of administrative law, rights to city and citizen participation. He is member of the Institute of Legal Research in Governance and Territory of the University of Málaga and of the Observatory of Environmental Policies. He has directed the UMA POPS music festival (FGUMA/La Térmica) and the course «Three generations of Spanish pop music» (FGUMA). MORE INFO

Past cycles

REINVENTING life together (2021-2022)
REINVENTING life together (2020-2021)
REINVENTING life together (2019-2020)
RADAR Ideas nuevas para un futuro común (2018-2019)

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For this reason, through this notice, the information society services provider provides the data that it is obligated to make available to consumers and users pursuant to the provisions of art. 10 of Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on information society services and electronic commerce, and of the European regulations on Personal Data Protection. It will do so in accordance with the following terms:

FIRST. This website is the property of the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA, with Tax Identification Code G29817301, with registered address at Avenida de la Estación de El Palo, no. 4, 29017 – Málaga, and email address info@fguma.es

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The personal data that may be collected through this website will be processed fairly and lawfully pursuant to the principles and rights included in the Personal Data Protection legislation.

Said data may be incorporated into files that are duly registered with the Spanish Data Protection Agency, which are under the responsibility of the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA, with the specific purposes that arise from properly carrying out the requested services and for sending communications (including ADVERTISING and newsletter subscription) that may be to their interest and always related to the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA’s own services.

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Nevertheless, in order to be able to provide you with the requested services, the following transfers are necessary, which you expressly consent to upon contracting with or making other requests of us:

University of Málaga.
Public and/or private bodies and entities that intervene in an event, course, or activity or those to whom data must be transferred as required by law.

In order to be able to contract with this entity, you must be of legal age.

We may occasionally request and process sensitive data related to health, food allergies, disabilities, or other information for the organisation of a specific activity, given that without this data, we would not be able to provide the service of interest in the proper conditions. Nevertheless, the purpose of data processing by the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA is not specifically the collection of this type of information.

You should know that transfers of data to third countries may occur for the organisation of and participation in activities, events, or courses that are held in those countries. That is to say, if you sign up for a course in Málaga that is held in the United States of America (for example), we necessarily have to transfer your data to the local organisers. This transfer is legally based on both your express consent and on article 49.1.b of the General Data Protection Regulation, that is, when the international transfer:

“…is necessary for the performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller or the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the data subject’s request.”

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Privacy policy summary

Basic data protection information

Controller	GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA
Purpose	Management of your data to provide services, respond to queries, invoice , and/or send you commercial communications (including your subscription to newsletters).
Legal standing	Service provision agreement and the data subject’s consent. Legitimate interest.
Recipients	University of Málaga. Cases required by law, processors, entities that necessarily participate in the activities and services. There may be international data transfers.
Rights	Access, rectify, and erase data, as well as other rights as explained in the additional information.
Additional information	See text below

Additional information about data protection

FIRST. Who is the controller of your data?
Identity: GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA-Tax Identification Code: G29817301.
Address: Avenida de la Estación de El Palo, no. 4, 29017 – Málaga.
Tel.: (+34) 951 952 640
Email: info@fguma.es

SECOND. For what purpose is your data processed?
Your data will be processed for the purpose of providing you services related to our activity, respond to your queries, invoice you, and also to send you advertising communications about the same matters, including your subscription to newsletters.

The data that are processed are obligatory and must be provided in all cases; on the contrary, the service requested cannot be provided nor can the other purposes indicated be fulfilled.

THIRD. How long will your data be stored?
The personal data provided will be stored whilst the service provision relationship is maintained or whilst the data subject does not request its erasure. Nevertheless, your data will be blocked during the pertinent prescribed time frames in the event there is any liability on our part.

FOURTH. What are the legal grounds for the processing of your data?
The legal grounds for the processing of your data are the execution of the service provision agreement and legitimate interest.

The commercial communications that may be sent by the controller are based on your consent, which you provided expressly and freely and which may be revoked at any time by requesting it.

Your consent may always be revoked; revocation must be expressly communicated.

FIFTH. To which recipients will your data be communicated?
The data will be disclosed—as per the law—to the Public Administrations with competence in this matter and to our processors (if you would like more information on their identities, you may request it from us).

Nevertheless, in order to be able to provide you with the service requested, certain transfers are necessary, which you expressly consent to upon contracting with us. Details on the transfers are described in the preceding paragraphs.

Occasionally, there may be international data transfers based on the place where the requested course, event, or activity takes place, as explained in the preceding paragraphs.

SIXTH. What are your rights upon facilitating your data?
Your rights are those regulated in the European General Data Protection Regulations, that is to say:

Right to access or rectify your data, to their erasure, to opposition to and limitation of their processing, and to their transfer.
Right to revoke your consent when it was given for a specific purpose.
These rights can be exercised through certified letter or appearing in person as well as by writing to our headquarters. A form for this purpose may be requested beforehand.
You also have the right to make a claim before the Supervisory Authority when you are not satisfied with the exercise of your rights by submitting a written request through its Registry (physical or electronic).
If you would like more information on what each of your rights consists of, you can request it from us through any channel.

SEVENTH. What is the origin of your data?
Your data have been received:

Because you directly provided us with them.

The data that are processed may consist of names, surnames, identity document, telephone numbers, email addresses, addresses, bank information, data on minors, professional curriculum vitae or commercial information, personal characteristics, and possibly sensitive data.

EIGHTH. Data Protection Officer:
The person designated as the Data Protection Officer at the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA is Ms Susana Castillo Cerdán, with the same address and telephone as said entity and the email address lopd@fguma.es

NINTH. Record of personal data processing activities at the GENERAL FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA

Training activities and other services. Purpose of the processing: Management and control of the data collected for the carrying out of educational activities and other services provided by the controller. Sending of communications and publicity related to the activities and services. The grounds for processing are the data subject’s consent and the professional services provision agreement.
Agenda of clients, suppliers, users, and contacts in general. Purpose of the processing: Processing of data collected from clients, website users, members, suppliers, collaborators, and contacts in general in order to contact and carry out administrative processes and for advertising messages related to the controller’s activity. The processing is based on the data subject’s consent or on the existence of a contractual or precontractual relationship.
Invoicing, accounting, and the tax authority. Purpose of the processing: Processing of data necessary for compliance with the tax and accounting obligations of the file’s controller. They are processed due to a legal imperative (tax regulation).
Board of Trustees Members. Purpose of the processing: Management and control of the data of people or entities that form the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. They are processed due to a legal imperative (legislation on Foundations) and due to the data subject’s express consent.
Patients (Health and Medical Research Centre – CIMES) and services of the Health and Medical Research Centre (CIMES). Purpose of the processing:
Collection and processing of data from CIMES patients and users in order to be able to provide them the Centre’s own services. Management of medical records. The data will be processed due to the data subject providing their express consent and due to compliance with the obligations agreed upon between the CIMES and public bodies of a healthcare nature.
Human resources. Purpose of the processing: Processing of the data of people who provide professional services to the file’s controller (hired personnel) and the processing of curriculum vitae data for the company’s personnel selection processes. Workplace monitoring through fingerprint records (employees clock in and clock out). They are processed due to a legal imperative (workplace regulations) and due to the data subject’s express consent (in the case of curriculum vitae).
Video surveillance and security. Purpose of the processing: Collection and processing of data through surveillance video cameras to safeguard the security of the facilities where the controller’s activity is carried out. They are processed according to the legal grounds of Instruction number 1/2006, of 8 November, on the Spanish Data Protection Agency and with the consent of the data subject, who is informed of the recording by means of informational posters and notes. Suppliers: companies or professionals who sell or provide products or services to the
Care of citizens’ rights. Purpose of the processing: Processing of data collected to attend to data subjects’ requests for the exercise of the rights of access, rectification, erasure, opposition, limitation, or transfer on matters of data protection, pursuant to the law.
Notification of security breaches. Purpose of the processing: Processing of data to manage the procedure for the notification of security breaches on data protection matters, according to the law.

We have detailed information available to all users on said registry of activities pursuant to article 30.1 of the European General Data Protection Regulation. You can expressly request it via the following address lopd@fguma.es.

REINVENTING life together (2022-2023)