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During the next month, teachers and students from UIC, AUB, Chalmers and RMIT university will work together on the planning and design components of the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan in Bourj Hammoud after the August…
We continue the academic year with our course “Reframing Urban Resilience”, led by professor Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri and our director Dr. Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo. This course gives an introduction of the…
In our course Gender, Space and Culture led by Dr Apen Ruiz, the students are introduced to the various approaches and assumptions that are implicit in the phrase “Gender and…
After starting the year with online classes, our students returned to hands-on learning to gain some practical skills with the workshop Low Technology Construction taught by our professor Emilio Hormías….
Our guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde from the University of Montreal returned this month to teach the workshop “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”, exploring the connections between…
At the end of last year, our students participated in the socio-spatial workshop Post-Covid Public Space Transformations. The workshop, led by our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, assistant director Raquel Colacios and…
The global pandemic has overshadowed the last year and our Master’s program, students and staff had to adapt to the “new normal”. Now, as we have moved into the new…
We are delighted that David Sanderson from the University of New South Wales has joined our university as a Collaborating Professor. A few weeks ago, our students attended David’s course…
“Post-Covid Public Space Transformations” is the topic of our current socio-spatial workshop. Over the past years, our students worked with Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that handles the reception, accommodation…
For the second year in a row, Dr Gaja Maestri from Aston University in the UK has joined us to teach her course about Camps, politics, and space: Complexities and…
