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
Contact
- Email: cgromaches@protonmail.com
- Website: www.claragromaches.com