Participation in Urban Governance

This project explores how digital and in-person engagement shape public voice in urban governance in Niterói, highlighting gaps between demographic reality, lived territory, and how institutions listen through digital systems.

‘Accessibility Passport’: Inclusive Tourism

The project develops a methodological framework to evaluate physical, sensory, and communicational accessibility along tourist routes, translating data into spatial indicators for public policy and inclusive well-being

Reclaiming the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

This project examined the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through a community engagement and sustainability lens, emphasizing the importance of incorporating resident-led visions into large-scale infrastructure planning.

Site Engagement: SDGs, People & Place

A critical site-specific approach grounded in the SDGs, students engage in month-long fieldwork in pressured regions. Collaborating with local communities, they test designs informed by context, gaining methodological, empathetic, and applicable architectural competencies.

Middle Class Housing Design Workshop

The stakeholder workshop aimed to identify challenges and opportunities, and to design strategies to enhance quality of life and sustainability in a cooperative housing site through community, expert, and municipal engagement and collaboration.

Bamboo & the Disappearing City

Research and community based project documenting Hong Kong’s disappearing bamboo scaffolding through photography, oral histories, archives; foregrounding labour, material intelligence, and urban heritage while reflecting on regulatory change and sustainable, low-carbon futures.

Landscape in Transformation: Proso Basin

This research analyzes the transforming urban landscape, considering the process of expansion of settlements, within the limits of the headwaters of the Sóter and Pindaré streams, in the Prosa basin, in Campo Grande, MS.