The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in…
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A special congratulations to our faculty member and visiting professor Reena Tiwari, who received an Australian National Award for Teaching Excellence for 2013. The Australian Awards for University Teaching recognize…
In a current workshop led by our co-director Carmen Mendoza together with other faculty members, our students are undertaking a socio-spatial analysis of Barcelona’s multi-ethnic Fondo neighborhood in Santa Coloma…
Last month’s practical workshops had our students getting their hands dirty to learn superadobe and rammed earth construction techniques. The two-week workshop period was led by our co-director Sandra Bestraten…
The annual AESOP congress organized by the Association of European Schools of Planning as a platform of exchange in the fields of research, education and practice in urban planning is…
You may remember our former student, Shareen Elnaschie, from her article on building disaster-resilient communities in flood-prone areas and her recent competition for creative activism. Today at EJOLT (Environmental Justice,…
The villas of Buenos Aires, also referred to as villas miserias, are informal settlements found in Argentina, mostly around the largest urban settlements. The term was adopted from Bernardo Verbitsky‘s…
Just recently, our guest professor Sergio Palleroni gave us the head’s up on this new publication titled The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World, a compilation of articles from…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Yesterday on our Facebook page we shared this candid shot of our students in a physical exercise where 10 students had to “cooperate” and lower a paper tube to the…