Paco Marco is a retired Professor of Philosophy of the University of Jaume I in Castellon, Spain. During his tenure in the University, he served as its Secretary General, Head of the Department of Education and established links with Universities in Greece, UK, Austria, Finland and Germany under the umbrella of Erasmus. Since his retirement, he has co-funded and is co-editor of kult-ur, a University Jaume I research publication, and a plural, transversal and interdisciplinary platform that invites debate on how human beings think about the “City”. He has also helped establish an active cross cultural and intersectional academic exchange on Complex Thinking between the Jaume I and teaching Universities in Argentina and Mexico. He forms part of the Jaume I Programa de Extensión Universitaria (PEU) which aims to make the university present in its region and instrumentalises culture as a vehicle of communication to participate in the progress and
development of society.
Paco Marco is also an artist who has worked in the field of photography since the 1970’s. He has a unique style which captures the mundane, ordinary, and quotidian suggesting the artists point of view but forcing the viewer to question and determine what it is s/he sees. Marco has exhibited extensively in his native Spain over the past three decades both individually and collectively. His work is large scale and installational and has been featured in architectural magazines, and private homes and collections in Europe and North and South America. As a long-time jazz aficionado, he is regularly invited to provide artwork for album covers and
sleeves. Paco Marco has a lifelong interest in cross cultural learning having participated as a teenager in a yearlong AFS exchange student to upstate New York. He later served as President of the Board of Directors of Intercultura, the national organisation representing AFS and the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) in Spain.