Revisiting Torre David [UTT’s Alfredo Brillembourg]- Screening + Conversation [@ DC]

For those of you who are in or around the US Capital city- Washington DC- I will be moderating a Continue reading →

Inside the limit, the ideas

Post by Silvia Soonets Few weeks ago I posted about the work we are doing at Simon Bolivar University in Continue reading →

De-colonizing Favela

  Post by Diana Maldonado & Emanuel Giannotti [1] [2]. In the last decades, the ‘forms’ of urban informality in Continue reading →

Spatial Resilience-Role of Public Space in a slum

In my previous post  I introduced, the Pedda Jalaripeta (PJ) Slum. In that post, I argued that the slum is Continue reading →

HIDDEN CITY [DC ALLEYS] // Part 1: My new fascination

For this next series of posts, I will talk about my latest obsession: the alleyways and alley spaces of Washington Continue reading →

Housing safari in Malmö

Everyday, my parents stroll me around Malmö. It is a bit like going on safari, we follow our nose and Continue reading →

Inside the limit

Post by Silvia Soonets The highway between the informal settlement of Petare and the formal one “La Urbina”, in Caracas, Continue reading →

Resilience of a Slum: What, Why and How?

Image above: Picking up the pieces in Pedda Jalaripeta’s fishermen’s colony (India) after Cyclone Hudhud. Source: Al Jazeera   With this post, Continue reading →