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ALUMNI INTERVIEW: VALENTINA RIVERSO

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Exciting News! Our Alumni Interviews are Back! As we embark on the new academic year of 2023-2024, we are thrilled to kick off our Alumni Interview series once again. Our…

September 11, 2023

FROM PRACTICE TO RESEARCH: MICSEA STUDENT’S THESIS OUTCOMES

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At the beginning of June, the eighteen students of this year’s Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture MICSEA presented their theses. As you may know, a master’s thesis includes…

July 18, 2023

ALUMNI INTERVIEW: ALFRED KAREH

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Continuing our series of Alumni Interviews, we had Alfred Kareh answering our questions about his career path after graduating at MICSEA. What have you been working on since you’ve graduated…

June 27, 2023

ALUMNI INTERVIEW: FIZZA FATIMA

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Continuing our series of Alumni Interviews, we are happy to share the experience of Fizza Fatima after graduating from MICSEA. What have you been working on since you’ve graduated from…

June 13, 2023

ALUMNI INTERVIEW: DINI KUSUMAWARDHANI

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Next on our series of Alumni Interviews: Dini Kusumawardhani, answering our questions about her experience after graduating at MICSEA. What have you been working on since you’ve graduated from the…

May 29, 2023

ALUMNI INTERVIEW: TAYLOR RAEBURN

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Next on our series of Alumni Interviews: Taylor Raeburn, answering our questions about his experience after graduating at MICSEA. What have you been working on since you’ve graduated from the…

May 18, 2023

Alumni Interview: Chiara Oggioni

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We are continuing our series of Alumni Interviews with Chiara Oggioni, answering our questions about her experience after graduating at MICSEA. What have you been working on since you’ve graduated…

May 12, 2023

Alumni Interview: Lorenza Esquinca

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Lorenza Esquinca is our first guest alumni to answer our questions on her experience after graduating at MICSEA. In the following weeks, we will be publishing more interviews, stay tuned! What…

May 8, 2023

A couple of thoughts on March 8th

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As today is International Women’s Day, our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo and student Phyllis Tsang, took the chance to share their thoughts on women working in the humanitarian field. We believe…

March 8, 2023

INTERVIEW TO NEREA AMORÓS ELORDUY

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Nerea Amorós Elorduy, an Alumni of our program and currently a guest professor, is founder of Creative Assemblages, a research and architecture studio based in Kampala, Uganda. This year, their…

November 25, 2021

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Master’s Degree in International Cooperation ranks third in the ranking of university master’s degrees in the ‘El Mundo’ newspaper

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This programme has now been counted among the top five master’s degrees in the Design and Architecture category for five years in a row. One again this year, our Master’s…

July 12, 2021

Intersections of academia and practice. Interview with Matt Wilson, Lucía Wright, Mohamed Gad and Begoña Peiró

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At MICSEA we strongly believe in the importance of research to inform our approach to both post-emergency and sustainable urban development challenges. Through research, we can reflect on how to…

July 7, 2021

Contributing to society as an entrepreneur – An Interview with Alumni Carolina Collignon

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In this new part of our alumni interview series, we talked to Carolina Collignon, who completed our master in 2017 and went back to her home country Mexico after two…

October 1, 2020

People-Centric Cities are Resilient Cities – An Interview with Alumni Barsha Chitrakar

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In our latest alumni interview, we catch up with Barsha Chitrakar, who completed our master in 2014 and now works as an urban planner at the Urban Planning and Development…

September 25, 2020

Combining Local Knowledge with Scientific Understanding – An Interview with Alumni Md. Sarfaraz Gani Adnan

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In this new part of our alumni interview series, we talked to Md. Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, who completed our master in 2014 and went on to complete his PhD at…

July 14, 2020

Architecture saves lives – An Interview with Alumni Esther Menduiña

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The integration and social inclusion of migrants and refugees is one of the core issues of our Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture. Our former student Esther Meduiña explored…

July 7, 2020

Urban Resilience in the face of Climate Change – An Interview with Alumni Ramiz Khan

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This week, we talked to Ramiz Khan, who graduated from our program last year and continued to work with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, where he completed his internship…

June 11, 2020

2020 Alumni Awards for Best Social Transformation Project

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Nerea Amorós Elorduy, a 2010-2011 graduate from our Master program and current guest professor, has won the 2020 Alumni Awards in the category for Best Social Transformation Project for her…

March 6, 2020

Expanding the Frontiers of Architectural Practice

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An Alumni Interview with Dario Guazzo, Jonathan Maier, and Marcello Maltagliati about their work with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman at the UCSD Center on Global Justice The complex challenges…

February 11, 2020

Our alumni Elizabeth Rivera featuring in Hispanic Showcase article

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Former student Elizabeth Rivera recently featured in an article for the Hispanic Showcase series of the American Institute of Architect’s New Jersey Chapter. Elizabeth at her Master thesis presentation Elizabeth,…

October 28, 2019

In Times of Integrative Transformation – An Interview with Alumni Rossana Poblet

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This academic year, we welcome back former student Rossana Poblet as guest professor. She will be leading the workshop ‘Integrated nature-based solutions for post-disaster recovery through public space design’ that…

October 19, 2019

Improving India’s Urban Spaces – An Interview with Alumni Shubhashweti Sinha

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India’s urban population is projected to grow from around 400 million (2011 census) to 600 million by 2030, comprising 40 percent of the country’s population. Cities will face multiple challenges…

September 2, 2019

Between Utopia and Pragmatism – An Interview with Alumni Fabiano Sartori

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The integration and social inclusion of migrants and refugees has always been one of the core issues of our Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture. One of the aims…

July 11, 2019

Ask the right questions – An Interview with Alumni Chiara Pirro

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This week, we talked to Chiara Pirro, who graduated from our program in 2014 and returned to her native Italy. Inspired by her experience during her time at our university, she…

April 25, 2019

Architects design for the people – Interview with alumni Soledad Viteri

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In this new part of our alumni interview series, we talked to Soledad Viteri, who completed our master in 2017 and went back to her home country of Ecuador to…

March 28, 2019

International Women’s Day | Changing the field

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Teaching a Master program that includes topics such as spatial and environmental justice, urban integration of refugees and migrants, and community engagement in both reconstruction post-disaster and upgrading, a gender…

March 7, 2019

Former Student Paola Vasconcelos on Working in Remote Zambia with Orkidstudio

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In our latest alumni interview, we catch up with Paola Vasconcelos, a Mundus Urbano alumni who completed our master in 2018 and recently worked with Orkidstudio, a social enterprise based…

December 21, 2018

Former student’s research sees impact on safe water access in Vietnam

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During her internship as a student of our program in 2014-15, former student Lucia Wright began researching a case study of safe water access in Hanoi. Now, her new paper…

November 15, 2018

Alumni Renata Mendez On Working in Emergency Response After Hurricane Maria

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In our latest alumni interview, we catch up with Renata Mendez (1991), who completed our program in 2017 and recently concluded an internship with the United Nations Environment Program from…

July 30, 2018

Alumni Carolina Collignon on Working as an Emergency Architect in her Native Mexico

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We recently caught up with former student Carolina Collignon (1987), an architect from Guadalajara, Mexico who completed our program in 2017. Since graduating, Carolina has been applying her knowledge of…

June 19, 2018

From Internship to Full-Time Job with UN-Habitat: An Interview with Alumni Walker Toma

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We recently caught up with former student Walker Toma (1986), a former land use economist from Berkeley, California who completed our program in 2017. After completing his internship with UN-Habitat…

June 11, 2018

Why Do We Still Build Refugee Camps ?

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Former student Dana Barqawi asks this question in a recent article in which she advocates for planning cities rather than camps, as a much-needed long-term approach to housing refugees. It’s…

May 9, 2017

Alumni’s Community Center in Senegal Nears Completion

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All we could feel was shock and profound sadness at the loss of our former student Nerea Perez-Arrospide in a tragic motorcycle accident during her internship in Senegal in September…

March 6, 2017

Right to the City: A Tentative Victory at Habitat III

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The final draft of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a 20-year roadmap to sustainable urban development agreed upon at the Habitat III conference in Quito last week, features the word…

October 28, 2016

Learning from Calais The Jungle: An Interview With Architecture for Refugees

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As the refugee crisis intensifies across European borders, one of its most notorious epicenters, the Calais “Jungle” refugee camp, is being evacuated as we speak, hours before its pending demolition….

October 20, 2016

RAPIDO led by alumni Elaine Morales of BCworkshop wins SXSW Eco 2015 award

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We are so proud to hear that RAPIDO, the disaster recovery housing pilot program led by our former student Elaine Morales with BCworkshop, has been awarded 1st place in the…

October 9, 2015

Interview with former student David Kostenwein

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We recently caught up with former student David Kostenwein, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, who is now based in Bogotá implementing Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative,…

October 8, 2015

Former student Allison Koornneef joins our staff!

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Adding to this year’s course highlights, we’re excited to welcome Allison Koornneef, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, as the new assistant coordinator of our masters program. Allison is from…

September 30, 2015

Alumni Flavia Scognamillo designs community-based projects in India

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We recently caught up with former student Flavia Scognamillo, a graduate of our 2011-12 class, who is designing schools and residences for disadvantaged communities in Tamil Nadu, India through an…

July 22, 2015

Alumni Yuya Fukada works with Syrian refugees and rural Nepal

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We recently caught up with former student Yuya Fukada, a graduate of our 2011-12 class, who has since been overseeing a Syrian refugees project with the Japan International Cooperation Agency…

July 7, 2015

Former student Sonam Lama’s account of the earthquake and rebuilding efforts in Nepal

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Sonam leadding the Trek for Rebuilding to aid remote communities affected by the earthquake Former student Sonam Lama has been hard at work since the first of two devasting earthquakes…

May 28, 2015

Alumni Nerea Amoros pursues PhD after teaching and working in Rwanda

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We caught up with former student Nerea Amoros after she recently gave a lecture to our current students about her work in Rwanda since graduating our masters program in 2011….

February 12, 2015

Alumni Elaine Morales’ disaster-relief work with bcWorkshop

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It’s been nearly a year since we interviewed former student Elaine Morales, who had recently started working with the design non-profit bcWorkshop in Texas after graduating from our masters back…

October 31, 2014

Architecture for Humanity interviews former students

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This year, once again, our students spanned the globe to complete their internships with diverse organizations in the field of design and development. These ranged from large institutions like UN…

September 22, 2014

Alumni interviews | Nazanin about her experience working in Haiti

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For the past 17 months, our alumni Nazanin Mehregan has worked as Urban Designer at Architecture for Humanity’s Haiti Rebuilding Center (RBC). She first went there in 2012 for her…

June 6, 2014

Former student Mbongeni Ngulube to speak at LSE

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We are excited to announce that former student Mbongeni Ngulube will be the guest speaker of an event titled Food Sovereignty in Africa: Financing Zimbabwe’s New Rural Farmer, this January…

January 16, 2014

Former students launch documentary on preservation of cultural heritage in Nepal

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Class of 2012 graduates Sonam Lama and Ella Chau have released their trailer for a documentary that brings to light a controversial road development that is threatening the preservation of…

November 14, 2013

Alumni interviews | Elaine Morales

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Through this series of short interviews with former students of our masters course, we aim to trace their career paths since graduating and offer a glimpse of their current experiences…

November 6, 2013

Alumni interviews | Silvia Aldana

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Through this series of short interviews with former students of our masters course, we aim to trace their career paths since graduating and offer a glimpse of their current experiences…

September 23, 2013

Alumni interviews | George Kassab

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This is the first in a series of short interviews with former students of our masters course, through which we aim to trace their career paths since graduating and offer…

September 20, 2013

Afritecture Exhibition features work of former student

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Contemporary architecture in Africa is gaining ground as new and innovative approaches are adopted by both local and foreign architects who build socially committed buildings, such as schools, marketplaces, hospitals…

September 12, 2013

Alumni: Past and Present

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If you’re keen to learn more about our program and wonder where our students have gone on to work after completing the course, you’ll be happy to hear we’ve recently…

April 16, 2013

Former student seeks to preserve Nepal's architectural heritage

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In a remote valley of the Nepalese Himalaya, former student Sonam Lama is making sure that ancient architectural landmarks remain intact in the face of modernization. Amidst constant headlines of…

November 7, 2012

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