Erica Åberg is a university lecturer in economic sociology at the University of Turku. Her research interests include appearance-based inequality, sociology of consumption, and more recently, Nordic drill rap music as a lens through which to explore societal developments and expressions of solidarity from the perspective of young people — all within the context of […]
Hanna Tyvelä (MA Cultural Environment Studies) works as a PhD Researcher in the Whose City research project on the history and future of urban equality, funded by the Kone Foundation. She is finalising her PhD at Tampere University, Finland on the social and architectural planning of the welfare state in Finland.
Julie Goodrich has an MSc (2024) in Urban Studies from Malmö University, where she works as a research assistant at the Institute for Urban Research (IUR). She is interested in the ways that people make their surroundings fun, homey, or just, and the sometimes-untidy means through which expressing one’s right to the city occurs. She […]
Mario Espliego (Guadalajara,1983). Sculptor and Professor of sculpture at the TAI University School and at the University of Salamanca (USAL). His artistic practice, linked to the program of monumental sculpture, is resolved through various media and procedures, including writing as a regular component. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of […]
Lorena Arias Solano is a Colombian historian and geographer with experience in land and water-grabbing studies and environmental conflicts. She is interested in everyday forms of resistance within contexts of structural violence and is currently analyzing daily life and the violence experienced by racialized communities in sugar production areas in southwestern Colombia.
Katherine A. Román Aquino is an independent Peruvian researcher with a Bachelor’s degree in Andean Archaeology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Management from Leuphana University in Germany. In 2022, she attended the María Lugones Decolonial Summer School in the Netherlands, where she deepened her understanding […]
Hira Ovais, an architect & conservationist, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Dawood University of Engineering and Technology. Having done her bachelors and master’s both in architecture with her practical experience in the field of heritage and conservation, she has become a seasoned conservationist. She has been involved in many research projects among which […]
Maria Sajid Zaheer is a trained architect and an urban planner. With a focus primarily on urban design and landscape architecture, Maria has garnered extensive experience in these fields throughout her career. Currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Dawood University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Maria’s design […]
Ana Gilmet is an architect and urban planner based in Milan, working at the intersection of architecture and politics. Her interest lies on urban dynamics and their influence in shaping individual and collective identities. Beyond her architectural practice, Gilmet has a longstanding commitment to right to the city activism. Over the past decade, she has participated in […]
Fernando Gutiérrez is an urban researcher, architect and PhD candidate in urban studies at UCL (University College London). Fernando was a full-time lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City (2016-2019). He has taught and contributed to modules on public space, urban design, urban planning, heritage and urban studies at The Bartlett-UCL, the […]