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Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the Open University of Catalonia’s CareNet-IN3 group.

His ethnographic and public engagement work focuses on different instances of relational, knowledge and material politics in a wide variety of settings where care is invoked as a mode of intervention: be it as a practice of articulating more or less enduring ecologies of support; or as a particular mode of technoscientific activism democratising knowledges, design practice and infrastructures.

He has been grappling with how diverse embodied experiences, sensory knowledges and modes of dwelling come to matter in democratizing care infrastructures, particularly in urban design and city-making. He is currently writing a book monograph on these topics, tentatively titled An Uncommon City: Bodily Diversity and the Activation of Possible Urbanisms.

As part of this work, he has been invested in experimenting with forms of anthropological intervention and multimodal devices for storytelling, joint problem-making or concept work (digital platforms, pedagogic toolkits or games) co-convening collective venues like xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory, Colleex (Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation, an EASA network), or the Digital Curatorial Collective of the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

As part of his reflections on these matters, he has co-edited An Ethnographic Inventory: Field Devices for Anthropological Inquiries (Routledge, 2023) and Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices (Berghahn, 2018).

Tomás is interested in exploring inventive forms of collaborative inquiry where multimodality could be understood not just or not only as ‘in a plurality of media’ but rather in a plurality of relational and epistemic modes.