Viegas, Sílvia | 2009-2022

Sílvia Leiria Viegas | 2009-2022 . Portuguese architect who graduated from the Lusíada University of Lisbon in 1999 and, in 2004, attained a Master's degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon (FA-UTL). In 2009 I concluded Advanced Studies in Conservation and Rehabilitation, while working towards a PhD in Architecture which I accomplished at the University of Lisbon (FA-UL) in early 2015, with the thesis: Luanda, (un)Predictable city? Government and Urban and Housing Transformation: Paradigms of Intervention and Resistances in the New Millennium. I am a member of the Urban Socio-Territorial and Local Intervention Study Group (GESTUAL), since 2010, where I participate in the research project Africa Habitat: From the sustainability of habitat to the quality of inhabit in the urban margins of Luanda and Maputo (2018/2022), coordinated by Isabel Raposo and sponsored by FCT/Aga Khan. In 2020, I participated simultaneously in the project GENDER RESEARCH for COVID 19 # How to stay at home? Immediate interventions to combat Covid-19 in precarious neighbourhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, coordinated by Joana Pestana Lages (DINÂMIA-CET-ISCTE) and financed by FCT. In 2016, I participated in the Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development: Regional Survey for Portuguese Speaking Countries, coordinated by Walter Rossa and produced by the UNESCO for the New Urban Agenda, in the context of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, of the United Nations. I also participated in the research Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project, coordinated by Yves Cabannes and Barbara Lipietz, produced by the UN-Habitat and the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) with the Bartlett (DPU), University College of London (UCL), in 2017. From 2017 until 2022, I was an FCT scholarship holder (SFRH/BPD/118022/2016) for developing my post-doctoral research entitled INSEhRE 21. Socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in contemporary Europe: Lessons from the African diaspora in Portugal. I then belonged to the research group Cities, Cultures, and Architecture (CCArq) of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC). In May 2022 I became researcher at the Research Centre for Arts and Communication, University of Algarve (2021.03008.CEECIND/FCT). I am member of the Inter-Thematic Group on Migration (ITM) of the CES-UC since 2017, and of the Rede H, National Housing Studies Network since 2020. I am collaborator of the Refugee Forum Portugal since 2019, and of the Empowerment Initiative for Refugee Women since 2020. My work crosses architecture, urban studies, migrations and, recently, media arts. I adopt a multidisciplinary perspective and a collaborative approach. I produced and participated in a myriad of publications, events, and teaching and outreach activities.

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