Director’s Message
Luis Calandre Burgueros
Dean of Creative Campus
Dear Students,
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the Creative Campus and the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies — a unique, open, cosmopolitan, inclusive, multicultural, and transdisciplinary space of higher education where the designers, artists, and creative professionals of the future are trained. Here, we prepare you to face the global challenges arising from technological, ecological, social, and economic change, empowering you to propose innovative, bold, fair, and sustainable solutions that improve people’s lives, society, and the planet’s future.
The Creative Campus is an open, vibrant, and diverse ecosystem that fosters curiosity and a wide range of perspectives — a place to meet, share experiences, and promote collaboration, lateral thinking, and the development of skills that are difficult to automate due to their human, creative, and contextual nature. Design is progress: it is the conceptualization and creation of ideas, objects, places, systems, information, products, and services. Designers imagine, create, and use their skills in collaboration with others to make a positive impact on the world.
Our academic model is based on experiential (learning by designing) and collaborative learning, a transdisciplinary approach, and the use of applied design thinking methodologies across all disciplines. This is reinforced by a strong connection with industry, internationalization, diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism in our classrooms — all supported by the intensive use of cutting-edge technology.
The Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, and by extension the Creative Campus, aspires to become a benchmark in higher education for the creative industries through the contributions of its research groups and the creations and achievements of its students and faculty.
With enthusiasm and hope,
Warm regards,
Luis Calandre Burgueros
Marta del Valle Canencia
Vice Dean of Digital Design
She is currently the Deputy Director of the Digital Design area at the Creative Campus. She also teaches 3D Animation courses in the Video Games and Animation degree programs at Universidad Europea de Madrid. She serves as Vice President of MIA, the Spanish Association of Women in the Animation Industry.
She is pursuing a PhD at the University of Alcalá. Her research focuses on body language and movement as applied to 3D Animation. She holds a Master’s degree in 3D Character Animation from U-TAD and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
She was part of the international design team in Ahmedabad, India, at Vastu Shilpa Foundation + CEPT University. She has worked as a 3D Character Animator for the video game Die Young (Indiegala, Rome) and Runner Heroes (Ikigai Play), as well as on other game productions, short films, animated series, and collaborations on feature films such as Wonder Park (Ilion) and Snow Queen (Wizart Animation).
Marta de la Rocha Fernández-Jardón
Vice Dean of Fashion Design
Marta de la Rocha Fernández-Jardón is Vice Dean of Fashion Design and Deputy Director of the Fashion Area at the Creative Campus of Universidad Europea. She is a lecturer, illustrator, and researcher in the Department of Fashion Design at the Creative Campus.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies at INSTIFEM (Complutense University of Madrid). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Diploma in Fashion Design from IADE.
She teaches Fashion Drawing and Illustration courses in the first and third years at IADE and Universidad Europea.
Her line of research focuses on drawing as a scientific tool. She is the author of several articles, co-author of various publications, and illustrator for multiple pedagogical and scientific outreach works. She has presented at national and international conferences and academic meetings.
She has also been a lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and an art therapist at Fundación Recal.
Alberto Galindo
Vice Dean of Interior and Product Design
Alberto Galindo Muñoz is Deputy Director and lecturer at the Creative Campus of Universidad Europea. He holds a PhD in Architecture from Universidad Europea.
He currently teaches first-year courses in the Bachelor’s Degree in Design.
He has served as Director of the PBS (Project Based School) Office and Head of the Academic Model (2020–2023), Coordinator of Final Degree and Final Project (PFC/TFG) (2013–2016), and Coordinator of Professional Internships (2009–2016). He has also been a lecturer at the School of Architecture, Engineering and Design, teaching programs in Architecture, Design, Civil Engineering, and Video Games (since 2004). Additionally, he was Director and Lecturer for various courses at the COAM Foundation (2007–2014).
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