Marta Delatte    INDEX

CONSULTING & LECTURING

 

CCCB –  Univers Internet Toolkit (2025)

The Univers Internet project, led by the CCCB and the Municipal Library Network of the Diputació de Barcelona, promotes a critical and creative reflection on digital technologies and their social, ecological, and cultural impact. Its educational toolkit includes five teaching units addressing issues such as internet infrastructure, the ecological footprint of the web, privacy, the future of the internet, and artificial intelligence. These materials are used both in municipal libraries, through school workshops, and in classrooms via downloadable resources.

My contribution in 2024–2025 involved updating the training content of the toolkit, particularly the unit on The dilemmas of privacy, which I revised and enriched with new resources and examples. In parallel, I contributed to the training of librarians and educators, through workshops that complemented the use of pedagogical materials, providing teams with criteria and methodologies to guide school groups in debates on digital rights and data protection. This experience reinforced the project’s open and community-based character, positioning privacy and digital sovereignty as key elements of critical internet education.


Disconnection from Google Analytics and Migration to Open Environments (Barcelona City Council, 2020–2022)


This project involved migrating nearly 900 municipal websites from Google Analytics to open-source, privacy-respecting platforms such as Matomo and Plausible. The challenge was not only technical but also political: it aimed to reduce dependency on private corporations for managing public data and to ensure greater technological sovereignty for the City Council. The process required a thorough needs assessment, internal training, and adaptation of monitoring and evaluation methodologies.

The migration not only ensured regulatory compliance on privacy but also fostered a more transparent and sustainable data culture within the administration.


Design of Active Listening Methodologies (Barcelona City Council, 2020–2025)


As part of the Indicators Service, I developed active listening methodologies to analyse social and media conversations around public interest issues and strategic campaigns (such as Pla Endreça, Pla de Barris, or Pla Clima). These methodologies combined digital monitoring techniques, qualitative tagging, and data visualization, with the goal of understanding not just the volume but also the meaning of citizen debates.

The result was a series of reports that served as strategic tools for the City Council, offering insights into the perceptions and social narratives surrounding public policies. These reports enabled the adaptation of institutional communications, improved planning, and above all, the recognition of citizens as co-producers of knowledge about the city.




Consulting and Support in the Indicators Service (Barcelona City Council, 2019–2025)


Since 2019 I have collaborated with the Barcelona City Council, first in the Mayor’s Office and later in the Indicators Service of the Directorate of Communication, as a consultant and advisor, contributing to the consolidation of an integrated system for auditing and monitoring public policies. My work ranged from defining indicators to evaluate strategic plans to coordinating data communication projects, always ensuring the integration of gender perspective and transparency.

During the most critical months of the pandemic, I contributed to the City’s COVID-19 response as part of a joint task force between Barcelona City Council and the Government of Catalonia, under the direction of the City Manager, to monitor the situation in elderly care homes. In this context, I was responsible for compiling, analysing, and delivering daily executive reports that informed urgent decision-making and coordinated action across institutions.

This long-term work also involved continuous support to the municipal team, providing technical and strategic advice in decision-making processes. The experience has been key in establishing a dialogue between research, technology, and public policy.



Lecturing (2011–present)


Between 2015 and 2024, I have been a lecturer and visiting professor in universities and design schools at local, national, and international levels. My teaching focuses on the social and feminist impact of technologies, critical and speculative design, and co-creation methodologies.

I have taught in the Master’s in Design for Emergent Futures (Elisava, 2024), the Master’s in Data Journalism (University of Alcalá, 2023), and at UPF within the course Gender and Globalization (2023), where I presented the session 5 lessons on gender bias in digital platforms. I have also taught at the CCCB’s Institute of Humanities (2021), IED Barcelona (2020–2023), and LCI Barcelona (2018–2021), with courses integrating feminist perspectives, sustainable design, and critical branding.

My first experience as a university lecturer goes back to my doctoral studies at the University of Hull (2015–2017), where I was a Teaching Assistant and developed sessions on performance, identity, and digital storytelling.

Earlier, in 2011, I collaborated with The Will to Live centre (Hanoi, Vietnam), where I worked for four months designing and implementing audiovisual creativity workshops for young people with disabilities.



Conferences (2015–present)


Throughout my career, I have been a speaker at conferences, festivals, and cultural venues around the world, addressing issues of data justice, gender, digital technologies, and cultures.

I have participated in events such as the Ethical and Ecological AI Days at Konvent (2023), the Feminist Ontologies congress in Madrid (2019), Smart City Expo Barcelona (2018–2019), or the CUHK Research Summit in Hong Kong (2016). I have also contributed to local forums, such as UPEC (2021), Decidim Barcelona talks (2019), or the presentation of the report Gender and Participation in Barcelona (Barcelona City Council, 2018).

Some of my most notable contributions include Self-defense Against Online Sexist Violence (Radio Primavera Sound, 2022), Dades en lila per la igualtat (Government of Catalonia, 2019), Accumulation Technologies: Databases and “Other” Archives (UB, 2017), and Signal/Noise: A FemTechNet Conference (University of Michigan, 2016).