People

lead researcher

Dr. Rita Velloso

ritavelloso@gmail.com

Architect, urbanist with a PhD in Philosophy. Full professor of Urban Theory and History of Architecture at the school of Architecture, UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). Her research focuses on the philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Henri Lefebvre, studying urban history, urban politics, social movements, and the relations between aesthetics and politics. Holds a CNPq Productivity Research Grant. Her latest book is Urbanismo e Planejamento no Brasil: formação, práticas e instituições (Cosmopolis, 2021).
http://ritavelloso.net/

professor

Dr. Ana Paula Baltazar

baltazar.ana@gmail.com

Ana Paula Baltazar is a Brazilian qualified Architect, MArch, and PhD in Architecture and Virtual Environments at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (UK). She is Associated Lecturer (reader) teaching at both graduate and undergraduate programs at the School of Architecture at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG), where she also co-leads the research groups MOM (Morar de Outras Maneiras / Living in Other Ways) and LAGEAR (Laboratório Gráfico para Experimentação Arquitetônica / Computer Laboratory for Architectural Experience). From 2014 onwards she has been granted the CNPq Productivity Scholarship. Her current research focuses on the development of interfaces for technical advisory and socio-spatial pedagogy having human emancipation as its ultimate aim. She has several papers and book chapters published and was awarded four research prizes, two design prizes and a prize for best book chapter.

professor

Dr. Heloisa Soares de Moura Costa

heloisasmcosta@gmail.com

Architect, urbanist with a M.Phil in Planning and a PHD in Demography. Current position is Full Professor at the Department of Geography, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Holds a CNPq Productivity Research Grant. Teaching and research interests: urban, environmental and metropolitan planning, housing, urban political ecology, urban agriculture. Supervision of dissertations and thesis at the UFMG Graduate Program in Geography.

associate professor

Dr. João Tonucci

jontonucci@gmail.com

Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Center for Development and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and a collaborating professor at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism, both at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is also a research associate of the National Institute of Science and Technology Observatório das Metrópoles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics, a master’s in Architecture and Urbanism and a PhD in Geography. He was a visiting scholar at the City Institute, York University, Toronto, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to having worked as a planner, João researches, teaches, and publishes on critical urban theory, property markets, land policy, metropolitan planning, housing informality, popular economies, urban commons, and the right to the city. https://docentes.face.ufmg.br/joaotonucci/

professor

Dr. Junia Maria Ferrari de Lima

juniaferrari15@gmail.com

Architect, urbanist with specialization in Philosophical Themes, and in Urban and Architectural Revitalization, Masters and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism. Adjunct Professor of the Department of Urbanism at the School of Architecture, UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). She was a visiting scholar at the University of Lisbon (Portugal). She is currently sub-coordinator of the Laboratory of Urban and Metropolitan Studies (LAB-URB) at School of Architecture, and a researcher at Observatório das Metrópoles. She has experience in Urban and Metropolitan Planning and works on the themes: urban theory, urban policies, civil society organizations, shared social practices, and mining territories.

professor

Dr. Jupira Gomes de Mendonça

jupira@gmail.com

PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Full Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Researcher for CNPq and Observatório das Metrópoles, coordinating the BH Regional Center of this Lab. Leader of the Lab-Urb Research Group (Urban and Metropolitan Studies Laboratory).

associate professor

Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva

lassaraiva@yahoo.com

Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His current research interests encompass interdisciplinary perspectives with organizational focus related to Cities, Technologies and Differences. http://lattes.cnpq.br/8812184151373749

associate professor

Thiago Canettieri

thiago.canettieri@gmail.com

Associate Professor professor in the department of urbanism at the School of Architecture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His research focuses on critical theory and critical political economy in the analysis of the social production of space. He is currently researching living conditions and social reproduction in the Brazilian peripheries.

professor

Dr. Andre Dal´Bó

andredalbo@gmail.com

Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, an postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo and an associate researcher at the Sophiapol University of Paris Nanterre. His research focuses on Neoliberalism, Urbanism, Critical Theory and Social Movements. http://lattes.cnpq.br/1114197185644330

adjunct professor

Dr. Clarissa Cordeiro de Campos

clarissaarquiteta@gmail.com

Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil. Her research focuses on urban social movements whose main form of action is the occupation of land for self-construction and of abandoned buildings in the context of struggles for housing and the right to the city. She is currently engaged with mapping and better understanding initiatives for the right to the city in Brazil and the construction of narratives and memories of the squatting movement in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. http://lattes.cnpq.br/2879454269259123 https://ufsj.academia.edu/ClarissaCampos https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clarissa-Campos-2

professor

Timo Bartholl

Timo Bartholl lives and engages in grassroots work in Maré/Rio de Janeiro. Works at the interface of university and social movements, is a founding member of the Roça! Collective and Geography Professor at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói/Brazil. Geographies in movement(s), militant investigation, favela resistance, urban struggles for food sovereignty, collective economies and geopolitics from a global south perspective are his key fields of interest. Coordinates, together with Rogério Haesbaert, the Research Group Territory and Resistance in Globalisation (NUREG/UFF), and is coordinator of work groups on action research and other economies and research projects such as “Making geographies in movement(s) and research in action against the impacts of the pandemic in favelas” and “Peripheries in movement in cities of the state of Rio de Janeiro: scales of urbanisation-perifericization and social mobilisation in territories between domination and appropriation.” http://lattes.cnpq.br/5024064652217990

postdoctoral researcher

Philippe Urvoy

ph.urvoy@gmail.com

Philippe Urvoy is a historian, currently postdoctoral researcher at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is a member of Cosmópolis group (CNPq / EA – UFMG) and associate researcher at ALTER-LAVUE (CNRS / Paris 8 University). His research focuses on urban social history, social movements and their relationship with collective memory and territory in the contemporary period, mainly in Brazil and Western Europe.

in memoriam

Gustavo Henrique Maciel Camargo

ghmcamargo@gmail.com

Architect and urban designer graduated from FUMEC University in 2007. Since then, he has been involved with both, practice and research since . In 2008, he concluded a graduate-level specialization on philosophical themes (FAFICH-UFMG). In 2018, Gustavo concluded his Master’s Degree from the School of Literature at PUC-MG, the local catholic school. His line of research was and has been since then the connection between literature and urban space. Within this research, his efforts remain namely how literature is able to affect the imaginary which, in turn, influences the building of urban spaces in Brazil and abroad.

PHD candidate

Laís Grossi de Oliveira

grossideoliveira.lais@gmail.com

PhD Candidate at the Postgraduate Program in Geography at UFMG, and master in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG. Since 2013, she has been a member of the Association Architects Without Frontiers – Brasil (ASF-Brasil) working with organized groups such as Urban Occupations, urban quilombos, and other types of precarious settlements. Currently, she is a researcher at Lab-Urb and member of Observatório das Metrópoles.

PHD candidate

Leila de Oliveira Lima de Araujo

PhD in Geography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Researcher in Research Groups (NUREG, NEURB and ETHOS) at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, with interest in themes of Human Geography and Education. Basic Education teacher in the city of São Gonçalo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Reviewer of journals of Geography and Education. Was a member of the Evaluation Commission of Geography Textbooks – High School – PNLD/MEC, 2018. Worked as a Technician in Educational Issues at UFF, where she participated in the commission of the Pedagogical Policy Project of the Undergraduate Course in Geography. Has published national and international articles. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0652244442076125

PHD candidate

Marcus Cesar Martins da Cruz

marcuscesar79@gmail.com

PHD candidate

Marina Sanders Paolinelli

marinasanderspaolinelli@gmail.com

Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in Architecture and Urbanism at Federal University of Minas Gerais (EA-UFMG), PhD candidate in Architecture and Urbanism at NPGAU (EA-UFMG). Researcher at Cosmópolis and member of Observatório das Metrópoles.

PHD candidate

Priscila Musa

priscilamusa@gmail.com

Photographer, architect and urban planner. PhD candidate in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG (2017), Master in the same Program (2015). Researches urban historiography, the production of images and memory from the perspective of social movements and other knowledge. She has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC Minas (2008). She is currently an architect and urban planner at the Association of Architects without Borders – ASF BRASIL and member of the Common Space Luiz Estrela.
55 31 99120-8260
http://lattes.cnpq.br/6928927382866811

PHD candidate

Tiago Cícero Alves

tiagoc88@gmail.com

PHD candidate

Vivian Tofanelli

vivian.tofanelli@gmail.com

Psychologist, specialist in Ergonomics, master and doctoral student in Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She is a militant of the Brigadas Populares, organizer of the CSA (Community that Sustains Agriculture) Ora-pro-nóbis and a researcher at Núcleo Alter-Nativas de Produção – UFMG. Research and work with urban occupations in the struggle for land, territory and work; in the defense of the right to housing, to the city and the social production of space; for food sovereignty in the construction of agroecology, urban agriculture, alternative marketing systems and other economies.

undergraduate student

Lai Bronzi Rocha

Undergraduate student in Geography at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). During her studies, she joined the Tutorial Education Program (PET) and its research group “Geography, Racism, Oppressions and Resistances”, developing research on ethno-racial relations and Afro-Brazilian studies. Participates in the Research Group on Territory and Resistance (NUREG/UFF) as researcher in the project “Making geographies in movement(s) and research in action against the impacts of the pandemic in favelas”. Thais is an artist and activist of cultural movements of the African Diaspora. http://lattes.cnpq.br/0545455003020056

undergraduate student

Thais da Silva Matos

Undergraduate student in Geography at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Scholarship with the Programa de Educação Tutorial (PET, Geography/UFF), where he works in the Research Group on Geography and Cinema. Participates in the Research Group on Territory and Resistance (NUREG/UFF) and the research project “Making geographies in movement(s) and research in action against the impacts of the pandemic in favelas”. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Ensaios de Geografia of the Postgraduate Program in Geography POSGEO-UFF. Research interests: queer theory; anarchism; sexualities; teaching in Geography; decolonial studies; resistances. http://lattes.cnpq.br/9587731682638546

undergraduate student

Yago Evangelista Tavares de Souza

Undergraduate student in Geography at Federal Fluminense University (UFF). Researcher at AUÊ! – Research Group on Urban Agriculture of the Institute of Geosciences (IGC/UFMG) and of the Evictions Museum, Vila Autódromo – Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Research Group on Territory and Resistance (NUREG/UFF) and researcher in the project “Making geographies in movement(s) and research in action against the impacts of the pandemic in favelas”. Editor of the journal Ensaios de Geografia. Research interests: urban planning, social movements, urban agriculture and housing. http://lattes.cnpq.br/0841581326729336

lead researcher

Dr. Miguel Martínez

miguel.martinez@ibf.uu.se

Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the IBF (Institute for Housing and Urban Research), Uppsala University (Sweden). His research interests cover social movements, urban politics, squatting, housing issues, migration, and activist-participatory methodologies, among others. His latest book is Squatters in the Capitalist City (Routledge).
www.miguelangelmartinez.net

associate professor

Dr. Dominika Polanska

dominika.polanska@ibf.uu.se

Associate professor of sociology interested in urban social movements, extra-parliamentary activism, squatting, tenants’ mobilizations, informal organization, and non-traditional forms of civic engagement. She is affiliated with Södertörn University and the Department of Social Work, and Uppsala University and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Her recent research is concerned with renovictions in Sweden and the different forms of resistance among tenants. www.dominikavpolanska.se

professor

Dr. Donald Mitchell

don.mitchell@kultgeog.uu.se

Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University and Distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University. His work focuses on historical and contemporary struggles over urban public, the relationship between capital, labor and the state in the making of the geographical landscape, and the geography of culture. He is the author of six books and more than a hundred articles and book chapters. His most recent books are Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits to Capital (2020) and Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (with the late Neil Smith, 2018). Other books include They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (2012), The People’s Property? Power, Politics, and the Public (with Lynn Staeheli, 2008), The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003/2014), Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000) and The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996). Mitchell has been a recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Fulbright Fellowships and the Vega Medal from the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography.

professor

Dr. Irene Molina

irene.molina@ibf.uu.se

research assistant

Christoffer Berg

christoffer.berg @soc.uu.se

researcher

Ismael Yrigoroy

ismael.yrigoy@kultgeog.uu.se

research associate

Dr. Valesca Lima

valesca.lima@ucd.ie

Research Associate at Maynooth University, Department of Sociology and Social Science Institute (MUSSI). She has published extensively on social mobilisation, housing policy, and governance. Her research has appeared in Housing Studies, Political Studies Review, Urban Studies, Cities and Bulletin of Latin American Research, among others. Recent books include Participatory Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazil (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) and The Consequences of Social Movements in Brazil (Routledge, Forthcoming). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valesca-Lima 

PHD candidate

Åse Richard

ase.richard@ibf.uu.se

PHD candidate

Anton Ösgard

anton.osgard@ibf.uu.se

PHD candidate

Özge Altin

ozge.altin@soc.uu.se

PHD candidate

Yngve Heiret

yngve.heiret@gmail.com

PhD student in human geography at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on state territoriality, imperialism, energy and climate politics and more specifically the reterritorialization of the Norwegian state in the neoliberal period.

Daniel Vernegg 

ernegg@gmail.com

Member of the editorial board of the Norwegian marxist journal Gnist and the housing activist group Reduser Husleia (Reduce the Rent). He holds a masters degree in human geography from the University of Bergen.