Clarissa Duarte
“I am an ‘ordinary’ and ‘common’ architect and urban planner. For over twenty years I have dedicated myself to studying, promoting and defending the obvious: the daily ‘ordinary’ well-being of people and their living environments. The common well-being, in free or built spaces. I am passionate about the urban and street life. From the microscale of a piece of furniture to the macroscale of a metropolis, I am interested in collectively (re)thinking, (re)designing and (re)building everything that can promote the integral health (both human and non-human), specially in cities; everything that makes it possible to integrate and include different living beings and opportunities to (re)create more just, lively and happy forms of coexistence.”
Mini biography
Architect and Urban Planner from UFPE (2002); Master in Urban Planning and Space Dynamics from Paris 1-Sorbonne University (2005) and PhD student in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism from Université de Toulouse-FR (2020).
Professor of the Architecture and Urbanism course at UNICAP (www.unicap.br @arquiteturaunicap) since 2006 and researcher, in this same course, at the humaniLAB Laboratory, developing research related to the Planning and Design of Public Spaces, with a focus on Streets (mobility, vegetation, urban furniture) and its relationship with architecture (private built spaces); Between 2014 and 2019, she was a member of the Centro Cidadão Plan coordinating team (https://www1.unicap.br/centrocidadao/).
For twenty years, she has been a founding partner of CD Architecture and Urbanism, with projects and consultancies developed in the areas of architecture, urbanism, design and museography. Between 2003 and 2005, when she lived in Paris, she collaborated in the office of award-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc (https://www.christiandeportzamparc.com ) and in the AREP Agency (www.arep.fr). In recent years, she has been involved in technology and innovation projects and strategies, such as “pedeLUZ” (humanized and sustainable public lighting), the creation and coordination of the professional master’s degree in Design Technologies at Unicap-Icam School, and UNIMPACT (collaborative platform for connecting universities and society for the development of projects with socio-environmental impact).
She currently lives in the city of Toulouse, France, where she develops a PhD research at the Laboratory for Research in Architecture (LRA/ENSAT) and is part of the research team at ICAM-Toulouse. Her current research studies the streets’ benefits on the socio-environmental health of contemporary cities and its contribution to the socio-ecological transition.
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