Ana Villagordo Vegara is an environmental scientist, environmental consultant, project manager and lecturer specialising in sustainability, communication and design. With more than twenty years of experience, she develops projects that explore how communication, culture and design can contribute to addressing contemporary environmental and social challenges.
Founder of AVV – Environmental Strategies in Communication and Design, she works at the intersection of sustainability, communication and design, supporting public institutions, companies and organisations in processes of ecological and social transformation.
Selected Professional Experience
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Founder and Director of AVV – Environmental Strategies in Communication and Design.
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Coordination of Terra50 (Smart City Expo World Congress & Tomorrow.City), an international initiative focused on urban solutions to the climate crisis.
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Development of the narrative framework and support in defining the content for A Bosc, the Municipal Conferences on Strategic Forest Management.
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Participation in the drafting, implementation and communication of the Barcelona Climate Plan, as well as in monitoring the Climate Emergency Declaration.
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Advisory and participatory facilitation work for the Barcelona Nature Plan 2030.
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Definition of the communication strategy for the Environmental Quality Label of the Government of Catalonia.
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Coordination of the Catalan Ecodesign Programme, one of the first public strategies promoting ecodesign in Catalonia.
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Concept development, coordination and curatorship of exhibitions such as Emboscades. Women and Forests (Government of Catalonia), Climate Plan (Barcelona City Council), From Granollers to the Planet. From the Planet to Granollers (Granollers City Council), and Biomimicry. Design Inspired by Nature (Roca Barcelona Gallery, London and Lisbon).
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Editorial Director of Sostenible.cat and Opcions, leading platforms in local sustainability and conscious consumption.
Author of the report Beyond Design. The Design We Need to Transition Towards a Better World, a research study and essay on design within the framework of the ecosocial transition, commissioned by Esdesign (2026).
She currently leads the course Ethics and Sustainability in Design at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and collaborates with a range of educational programmes related to design, communication and sustainability. She is co-author of Alerta Greenwashing. Greenwashing in Spain (2023) and author of publications, research projects and educational resources on sustainability, design and the ecosocial transition.