The Space of Dynamic Informality

Today's standard spatial experience of the contemporary city is like one of a continuous sequence of small homogeneous functional enclaves via thresholds and leftover spaces, which can be summarized as the 'margins', where plenty of temporary or long-lasting informal practices take place. Those marginal spaces, as well as informal practices they...

Informal Networks: Embracing Otherness through Performative Spaces

Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the project incorporates the...

IN_FORMAL SPACES: Towards Urbanity in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: a Piecemeal Intervention

In this work I investigate, what I have called ‘the paradox of urbanization’, through the case of Rio de Janeiro. The paradox of urbanization is a process in which the qualitative impulses - improvements of urbanization, such as public infrastructure and facilities - are planned and implemented in central neighborhoods, while the quantitative...