Keynote Speakers
Julio Davila (UCL, UK)
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Julio Davila is a civil engineer and planner who has participated in research and consultancy projects in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His work focuses on issues regarding urban and peri-urban planning, infrastructure and environmental policy. He has also worked extensively on urbanisation and gender policy as well as on the research methods applied in the study of such subjects.
Jorge Fiori (Architectural Association, UK)
Urban space, poverty and governmentality
Jorge Fiori is a Sociologist and Urban Planner. He has worked extensively on programmes to improve the environmental conditions of life for people in shanty towns in Latin America, China and Africa. He is Chair of the Graduate Management Committee and Director of the Housing & Urbanism Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association Graduate School.
Peter Kellett (University of Newcastle, UK)
Informal settlements and the construction of everyday life
Peter Kellett is an architect with an MA in Social Anthropology and has worked and researched in Latin America for many years (particularly in Colombia). He has also worked on large comparative research projects in Asia and Africa, as well as in the UK.
Christien Klaufus (Centre for Latin American research and Documentation, The Netherlands)
Agency versus structure in production of urban
space
Christien Klaufus is an Architect and Cultural Anthropologist who occupies a professorship in Human Geography. Her research interests include processes of urbanization, urban change, housing and the socio-cultural meanings of
space, place and architecture in Latin America (particularly in Ecuador).
Fernando Luiz Lara (University of Texas at Austin)
The origin of form in popular buildings
Fernando Luiz Lara is an architectural academic whose work focuses on the development of popular architectures in Brazil and other parts of the world. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil (University Press of Florida 2008).
