Fernando Sánchez

Fernando Sánchez runs the school that was started in 2010 by the Fundación Estudiantes, which is connected with the well-known basketball team. The school has played an integrating role in the district and is committed to experiential methodologies, sports and languages.

Fernando tells us how students and parents have participated in different actions to get involved with the Madrid Nuevo Norte project.

The perspective to be valued in
children’s participation is to see the change, the urban development, through their eyes

Jorge Vallejo

Jorge Vallejo is president of the Association of Merchants and Businessmen of Montecarmelo and Las Tablas (ACEMTA). He has also run a mechanical workshop on bustling calle Isabel Colbrand since 1991. This veteran merchant is confident that Madrid Nuevo Norte will solve the problems of access to the neighbourhood.

Citizen participation through the
citizen services offices has been very important. We’ve all worked together to make the Madrid Nuevo Norte project grow

Pepe Peláez

Pepe has a degree in English and is a retired teacher, a resident of Las Tablas and a representative of the neighbourhood’s Senior Citizens Group. It is his hope that Madrid Nuevo Norte will improve things for the elderly in the neighbourhood and for all of Madrid’s citizens in general.

We want to create a neighbourhood spirit and help the residents

Lorenzo Alvarez

Lorenzo explains how participating in Madrid Nuevo Norte has given his neighbourhood association first-hand information about the project. “The residents of Las Tablas are very interested in how the project will impact mobility and housing, and how the works will affect us.”

We’ve been working all these years to give residents the information they need to get a clear idea of a project of this magnitude, which will radically change the north of Madrid

Inés Novella

Inés is an architect and holds a master’s degree in equal opportunities. She currently researches and coordinates the projects of the UNESCO Chair of Gender Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Her two lines of research address, on the one hand, equality and gender policies in technological fields, and on the other, architectural and urban design with a gender perspective.

She says that thanks to the collaboration with Distrito Castellana Norte, it’s been possible to put work that was known at a theoretical level to the test. Many activities have been carried out, such as exploratory safety walks with women through Chamartín, Fuencarral and Las Tablas.

This contact with women is fundamental,
to let them know that we need them and that we want them to be part of the Madrid Nuevo Norte project.