
We are thrilled to announce our Final Thesis Presentation 2022. The event will take place onThursday the 9th and Friday 10th of June at the UIC Architecture School. After such…
Over 95% of students who graduated from our program have gone on to work in the field of social design and development in a broad range of contexts, from self-founded NGOs and local design firms to governmental agencies and international organizations.
Read more about their stories below.
We are thrilled to announce our Final Thesis Presentation 2022. The event will take place onThursday the 9th and Friday 10th of June at the UIC Architecture School. After such…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…