Before end of year, our students spent some time with guest professor Hug March to study the Political Ecology of Urban Transformation, with a special focus on how power relations…
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Alejandro de Castro returned this year as guest professor to teach the course “The visual bias: A history of urban design arguments at precarious areas”. De Castro coordinated GSAPP’s Latin Lab…
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Augsburg, 1971) is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. She has carried out research into urbanisation processes linked to migration, informal…
Next Monday January 16th, the second edition of our Development by Design conference continues with our second talk by Clara Irazabal, urban planning expert specialized in the Latin American informal…
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…
Following the success of their Global Urban Lectures debut in 2014, our partner UN-Habitat has launched its third season of free online lectures by leading experts in the field of…
We are proud to announce that our co-director Carmen Mendoza has been invited to speak at the 1st Public Spaces International Congress at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do…
UN-Habitat, one of our collaborating institutions, has launched a series of free online lectures by leading experts in the field of sustainable urban development. Recruited from UN-Habitat’s partners as well…
As one of the main issues of our program, we talk often about the informal city and work on real-world projects that explore the role of participative design in improving…
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…