Daniel is an urbanist, researcher, and artist, currently located in the Washington DC region from where he works as an independent consultant on areas of Disaster Response and Preparedness, Urban Development, Knowledge Management, Contemporary Culture, and the Arts.

His dedication to the area of Disaster Preparedness and Response coalesced during the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when he was deployed to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans shortly after the peak of the disaster by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Daniel supported the effort of local residents and community representatives to be at the center of the process of evaluation and reconstruction of their communities.
In Mississippi with the help of dedicated volunteers he coordinated groups of professionals to evaluate building damages pro bono, and facilitated the engagement of the local architectural community during the reconstruction process set by the state. In New Orleans, he assisted with the preparation and deployment of the conference that brought together for the first time representatives of all affected communities in order to craft a plan for their common future. In the following year, Daniel also followed through with some of the developments on the ground, including monitoring the forums organized for the population displaced from the region.
As a result, Daniel was the Project Manager involved during the following years in crafting a proposal to develop a Comprehensive Response System for the AIA, enabled and monitored the deployment of the resulting plan, and developed the tools and resources to equip volunteers and organizations at the community level, while supporting other efforts to respond to several disasters.

Daniel offers his services to organizations, groups, and individuals interested to analyze, implement, or develop best practices regarding disaster preparedness and response, support knowledge management strategies, and evaluate broader urban culture topics.

Alongside Disaster Bound, Daniel also manages the Spanish platform Daquella manera dedicated to art proposals, cultural debates, and socio-political commentary.

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Résumé (Spanish, PDF - 100KB)

Fostering social change through free technologies

About This Site and Drupal:

Disaster Bound is built using Drupal. Distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") Drupal is a highly configurable open source content management system maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers worldwide.

There are plenty of well recognized content management platforms developed under an open source philosophy besides Drupal, such as Mambo, Joomla, WordPress or Plone, and plenty more are joining them. These efforts alongside those of programmers, advocates, and users in all areas of digital technology, from content management systems to word processors, from mapping to servers, constitute a collaborative effort that permeates and stimulates the fair development and access to resources and innovative tools that look to explore a more sustainable and widespread approach to growth. While we are far from witnessing the disappearance of proprietary software despite the emergence of other economic and knowledge models, the growing presence of open source options next to proprietary practices often stimulates competition and the improvement of these tools, which otherwise typically fall into oligopolistic or monopolistic practices.

The logotype that illustrates Disaster Bound is part of the work "Avian Flu" by artist Santiago Sequeiros (Buenos Aires, 1971), which was used originally to illustrate an article on Avian Flu at Spanish Paper "El Mundo", and is used with permission from the artist

Santiago studied graphic design at the Escola Elisava of Barcelona. His professional activity has been centered on the comic book world. And he has participated in multiple collective and group exhibitions in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Mexico.

He has obtained several awards for his illustrations, including a "Silver" for the best illustration for print press on the XXI edition of the est Newspaper Design of the SND (Society for News Design Inc.), EE. UU., "Mejor Autor Revelación del Año" at the Saló Internacional del Cómic of Barcelona for his graphic novel Nostromo Quebranto and the award for the best commissioned short for tv at the Anecy Festival 2000 (France).

He has collaborated with his drawings on multiple newspapers and magazines, such as El País, El Periódico, El Mundo, Primera Línea, Tretze Vents , Marketing & Development Digest...

His comics have appeared in flagship comic book publications such as Nosotros somos los muertos, Tótem el Cómix, El Víbora, Makoki, Strapazin (Germay) and Dirty Comics (USA). He is the author of the books Ambigú, Nostromo Quebranto, and To Apeiron.

He has done animation clips for Cinemanía, Dcine Estudio and Dcine Español, for Canal Satélite and Digital+.

In advertising he has worked for Vinicius Young & Rubicam, on branding for example for Smirnoff and Danone, and for El Sindicato on branding for Eristoff doing storyboards.

He has illustrated the books El Mercado y la Globalización and Los Mongoles en Bagdad by Jose Luis Sampredro for Ed Destino, La Hija de Fu Manchú by Sax Rohmer for Ed. B , El Gallitigre by Javier Tomeo for Ed. Ronsel and the book Problemas with poems by Miguel Froilan for Ediciones de Ruina.

He now lives in Madrid

The bio above was quickly translated from his profile at Sins Entido: a publisher, store, and exhibition space, where Satiago Sequeiros's work can often be found