Clara Gromaches

About

Barcelona, Spain, 1990

With a background as regen architect and social housing incubator I leverage the power of self-organization and decentralized technology to bring housing and land commons to mainstream to advance into having more fair, regen and sovereign societies.

Blockchain Experience

Community-Led Housing & Blockchain Consultant

Independent, remote | Jan 2024-Present

Advising organizations, start-ups and entrepreneurs on their community-led housing (co-living, pop-up cities, permanent residences) projects using blockchain enabled mechanisms.

DAO People Ops & Operations Lead

deng service DAO, remote | December 2021-Present

Leading system improvements for enhanced member and client success, business development strategies and partnerships, org cross-team coordination, and optimizing DAO governance as organization runs as a workers co-operative.

Co-founder, Product Design

Communitaz, remote | Feb 2020-April 2020

SaaS to create and manage housing co-operatives as DAOs, project started at Blockchain for Social Impact (BSI) Hackaton.

Architecture and Housing Commons

Cohousing/Co-operative Housing Incubator

Independent, Barcelona (Spain) | Jan 2021-Present

Assess local administrations to promote social housing, wrapped as co-ops, as a solution to provide stable and affordable housing in rural areas. Support civil groups to promote cooperative housing with participatory design focused on regen and user-centric solutions.

Visiting Professor

University of Girona (Spain) | 2018-2021

Co-operative Housing and Participatory Design Workshop with Estel Jou. Architecture Photography Seminar with PhD M.P. Fontana 2018 & 2019.

Architect

Auquer Prats Arquitectures, Girona (Spain) | July 2017-December 2021

Development of initial and executive projects for new construction, rehabilitation, renovation, and expansion of farmhouses and traditional houses following regenerative, passivhouse and bioclimatic principles.

Architecture Photographer

Independent, Girona (Spain) | July 2017-May 2023

Development of architecture and urban photography projects for studios.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA (Spain)

6y Architecture (Msc) | 2008-2016

UNIVERSITY OF LA SAPIENZA (Italy)

Exchange Year Architecture | 2013-2014

Blockchain Cohorts

  • Kernel X | Starting Feb 2025
  • SOAM Research Residency | 2024
  • Edge City Lanna | 2024
  • SheFi 12 (Granted) | 2024
  • Blockchain for Social Impact | 2020

Blockchain International Speaker

  • Funding the Commons (Bangkok) | November 2024
  • Ethereum Prague (Czech Republic) | May 2024
  • Crypto Commons Gathering (Austria) | August 2024
  • Regen Village (Belgium) | 2024
  • Metafest (Croatia) | August 2023
  • Ethereum Barcelona (Spain) | 2023
  • Ethereum Barcelona (Spain) | 2022

Publications

  • No bosses what's like working in a DAO? | Time Magazine, 2022
  • How community ownership could solve affordability crisis | Reimagining Future, 2025
  • It takes a village or a DAO? | Housing Affordability, 2024
  • Divisare Publications | 2021

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