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Vanessa de Pacheco Melo, architect researcher, focused on the social production of space in different geographical-historical contexts and at different scales, from housing, to the urban and landscape scales | 2008 - Master degree in Planning and Sustainable Construction by Lusíada University of Lisbon | Since 2009 - Collaborating researcher at the Urban Socio-Territorial and Local Intervention Study Group (GESTUAL), of CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa (LSA-UL) | 2015 - Doctoral degree in Urbanism by LSA-UL, with a Doctoral Research Grant of the Funding Agency for Science and Technology | 2016-2018 - Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a researcher in the project "Urban transformations with the growth of middle classes in African cities, through a case study of Maputo, Mozambique", with a Research Grant of the University Research Committee Post-Doctoral Research Grant | 2018-2021 - Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Azores, Study Centre of Applied Economy of the Atlantic (CEEAplA), as the responsible researcher of the project "Tourism and Landscape in the Azores: change, challenges and opportunities. Research contributions towards collaborative planning and management strategies", with a Research Grant of the Regional Funding Agency for Science and Technology of the Azores | 2018-2022 - Researcher of the project "Africa Habitat - From the sustainability of habitat to the quality of inhabit in the urban margins of Luanda and Maputo" | 2021-2023 - Member of the Technical Commissions of the Architects Association, Regional Section of the Azores | Since 2023 - Integrated researcher at CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, of NOVA Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade dos Açores
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
VANESSA DE PACHECO MELO
Date of birth
1974/02/20
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Melo, Vanessa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CF14-C0FF-AA1D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4007-6686

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 916415043 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua Padre Jorge Fernandes, n.º 4, 2º Esq., 9500-451, Fajã de Baixo, Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Other Humanities
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/05/01 - 2021/09/26
Concluded
 Post-doctoral Fellow (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in paisagem e turismo [landscape and tourism]
University of the Azores, Study Centre of Applied Economy of the Atlantic, Portugal
 not applicable
2016/06/01 - 2018/04/30
Concluded
 Pos-doctoral Fellow (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in estudos urbanos [urban studies]
University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa
 not applicable
2009 - 2015/12/09
Concluded
 PhD in Urbanism (Doutoramento)
Major in urbanismo [urbanism]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal
"The recent production of urban African peripheries. Discourses, practices and spatial configuration: Maputo versus Luanda and Johannesburg" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinção e Louvor [Distinction and Honors]
2010/07 - 2010/07
Concluded
 Course on Spring: software open source for remote sensing (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Sistemas de Informação Geográfica [Geographical Information Systems]
Nova University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
 20
2010/01 - 2010/01
Concluded
 Course on Active Public Participation (Outros)
Major in participação pública [public participation]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
not applicable
2008/12/05
Concluded
 Master degree in Sustainable Planning and Construction (Mestrado)
Major in planeamento e construção sustentáveis [sustainable planing and construction]
Lusíada University of Lisbon, Portugal
"Sustainable Planning and Construction in the periphery of Maputo: Mumemo 4 de Outubro neighbourhood in the context of the capital’s peri-urban area" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2004
Concluded
 Course on Architecture and Durability of Constructions in Coastal Areas (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in arquitectura [architecture]
Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
 not applicable
2003
Concluded
 Course on Built Heritage Recovery and Maintenance (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in arquitectura [architecture]
Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
 not applicable
1998
Concluded
 Graduation in Architecture (Licenciatura)
Major in arquitectura [architecture]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal
"not applicable" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/10 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
2018/05/01 - 2021/09/26 Postdoc (Research) University of the Azores, Study Centre of Applied Economy of the Atlantic, Portugal
University of the Azores, Study Centre of Applied Economy of the Atlantic, Portugal
2016/06/01 - 2018/04/30 Postdoc (Research) University of the Witwatersrand, School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/02/20 - 2017/06/20 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
2016/07/11 - 2016/11/16 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of the Witwatersrand, School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10/07 - Current Member of the Technical Commission for Territorial Planning, Environment, Sustainability, Energy, Tourism and Housing Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2021/10/07 - Current Member of the Technical Commission for Urban Renewal, Architecture, Heritage and Culture Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/05/01 - 2021/09/26 Tourism and Landscape in the Azores: change, challenges and opportunities. Research contributions towards collaborative planning and management strategies
M3.1.a./F/0092016
Principal investigator
University of the Azores, Study Centre of Applied Economy of the Atlantic, Portugal
 FRCT - Regional Funding Agency for Science and Technology of the Azores
Concluded
2010/01 - 2013/12 A produção recente de periferias urbanas africanas. Discursos, práticas e configuração espacial: Maputo versus Luanda e Joanesburgo [The recent production of urban African peripheries. Discourses, practices and spatial configuration: Maputo versus Luanda and Johannesburg]
SFRH/BD/62445/2009
Principal investigator
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
FCT - Funding Agency for Science and Technology
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2022/07/31 AFRICA HABITAT - From the sustainability of habitat to the quality of inhabit in the urban margins of Luanda and Maputo
IC&DT/FCT-AKDN/333121392/2018
Researcher
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
Aga Khan Development Network

FCT - Funding Agency for Science and Technology
Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2018/04/30 Urban transformations with the growth of middle classes in African cities, through a case study of Maputo, Mozambique
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Post-doc Fellow
University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa
 University Research Committee Post-Doctoral Research Grant, of the University of the Witwatersrand

Research the Funding from the School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
Concluded
2015/11 - 2016/05 Reconversão e reinserção urbana de bairros de génese ilegal [Reconversion and Urban Reinsertion of Illegal Genesis Neighbourhoods]
PTDC/AUR/71721/2006
Post-doc
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
FCT - Funding Agency for Science and Technology
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Melo, Vanessa. "Habitação nos subúrbios periféricos de Maputo: características e processos de produção [Housing in the peripheral suburbs of Maputo: characteristics and processes of production]". In Habitar os Subúrbios de Luanda e Maputo, edited by Raposo, Isabel; Salvador, Cristina. Lisbon, Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2024.
    In press
  2. Melo, Vanessa (CF14-C0FF-AA1D). "Sustentabilidade ecológica em contexto de ‘urbanização turística’ nos Açores". In Guia da Formação em Arquitetura Bioclimática e Eficiência Energética nos Açores.. Ordem dos Arquitectos – Secção Regional dos Açores, 2024.
    Under revision
  3. Jorge, Sílvia; Melo, Vanessa. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "The production of (re)settlements in Maputo, Mozambique: hovering between habitats and inhabited spaces". In Urban Resettlement in the Global South, edited by Beier, Raffael; Spire, Amandine; Bridonneau, Marie, 149-168. New York and London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Melo, Vanessa; Viegas, Sílvia. "Habitação de iniciativa pública em Luanda e Maputo: modelos de intervenção e impactes sócio-territoriais no novo milénio [Public housing initiatives in Luanda and Maputo: intervention models and socio-territorial impacts in the new millennium]". Paper presented in 2º CIHEL 2013 - 2º Congresso Internacional Habitação no Espaço Lusófono: Habitação, Cidade, Território e Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, 2013.
    Published
  2. Jorge, Sílvia; Melo, Vanessa. "Processos e dinâmicas de (re)produção do espaço (peri)urbano: o caso de Maputo [Processes and dynamics of (peri)urban space (re)production: the case of Maputo]". Paper presented in 2º Congresso Internacional de Jovens Investigadores Urbanos - SICYUrb 2011, Lisbon, 2011.
    Published
  3. Melo, Vanessa. "Provisão habitacional de muito baixo custo em contexto de emergência: o bairro Mumemo 4 de Outubro na periferia de Maputo [Very low cost housing supply in an emergency context: Mumemo 4 de Outubro neighbourhood in Maputo’s periphery]". Paper presented in 1º CIHEL - 1º Congresso Internacional Habitação no Espaço Lusófono: desenho e realização de bairros para populações com baixos rendimentos, Lisbon, 2010.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Melo, Vanessa. "Agri-food production vis-à-vis tourism growth: changes and local perceptions in the Azores". RIVAR. Revista Iberoamericana de Viticultura, Agroindustria y Ruralidad (2024):
    Submitted
  2. Vanessa Melo. "URBANIZAÇÃO E TURISMO NOS AÇORES: ILUSÃO E CONTRADIÇÕES NUM DESTINO DE NATUREZA / Urbanisation and tourism in the Azores: illusion and contradictions in a nature destination". Informe GEPEC (2023): https://doi.org/10.48075/igepec.v27i2.31152.
    10.48075/igepec.v27i2.31152
  3. Melo, Vanessa. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "Tourism landscape production and urbanisation: illusion and contradictions in a nature destination". Tourism Geographies (2023):
    Under revision
  4. Melo, Vanessa; Jenkins, Paul. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "The growth of different spaces of middle-classness in Greater Maputo: a methodological approach for assessing processes of urban transformation". Cities (2023):
    In press
  5. Melo, Vanessa; Jenkins, Paul. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "Peri-urban expansion in the Maputo city region: land access and middle-class advances". Journal of Southern African Studies 47 4 (2021): 541-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1939499.
    Published • 10.1080/03057070.2021.1939499
  6. Melo, Vanessa; Jenkins, Paul. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "Between normative product-oriented and alternative process-oriented urban planning praxis: how can these jointly impact on the rapid development of metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique?". International Planning Studies (2019): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2019.1703654.
    Published • 10.1080/13563475.2019.1703654
  7. Melo, Vanessa. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "Top-down low-cost housing supply since the mid-1990s in Maputo: bottom-up responses and spatial consequences". Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 93 1 (2017): 41-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/trn.2017.0002.
    Published • 10.1353/trn.2017.0002
  8. Melo, Vanessa. Corresponding author: Melo, Vanessa. "The production of urban peripheries for and by low-income populations at the turn of the millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg". Journal of Southern African Studies 42 4 (2016): 619-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1196955.
    Published • 10.1080/03057070.2016.1196955
  9. Melo, Vanessa; Viegas, Sílvia. "Habitação de iniciativa pública em Luanda e Maputo: modelos de intervenção e impactos socioterritoriais no novo milénio [Public housing initiatives in Luanda and Maputo: intervention models and socio-territorial impacts in the new millennium]". Pós. Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP 21 36 (2015): 124-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-2762.v21i36p124-140.
    Published • 10.11606/issn.2317-2762.v21i36p124-140
  10. Jorge, Sílvia; Melo, Vanessa. "Processos e Dinâmicas de Intervenção no Espaço Peri-urbano: O caso de Maputo [Processes and dynamics of peri-urban space interventions: the case of Maputo]". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 27 (2014): 55-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cea.1488.
    Published • 10.4000/cea.1488
  11. Melo, Vanessa. "Urbanismo português na cidade de Maputo: passado, presente e futuro [Portuguese urbanism in the city of Maputo: past, present and future]". URBE - Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana 5 449 (2013): 71-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/urbe.7786.
    Published • 10.7213/urbe.7786
  12. Raposo, Isabel; Jorge, Sílvia; Melo, Vanessa; Viegas, Sílvia. "Luanda e Maputo: inflexões suburbanísticas da cidade socialista à cidade-metrópole neoliberal [Luanda and Maputo: sub-urbanistic inflections from the socialist city to the neoliberal metropolis city]". URBE - Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana 4 446 (2012): 189-205. http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/urbe.7395.
    Published • 10.7213/urbe.7395
Journal issue
  1. Melo, Vanessa; Jorge, Sílvia. "O acesso a uma habitação condigna em Portugal: um olhar sobre os grupos mais vulneráveis [Access to adequate housing in Portugal: a look at the most vulnerable groups]". Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios (2023):
    Accepted • Coeditor
  2. Jorge, Sílvia; Viegas, Sílvia; Pestana Lages, Joana; Melo, Vanessa; Pavel, Fabiana; Vaz, Murad. Corresponding author: Jorge, Sílvia. "Políticas urbanas e outros espaços na construção do direito à cidade [Urban Policies and other spaces in the construction of the right to the city]". Finisterra 55 114 (2020): https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/index.
    Published • Coeditor
  3. Jorge, Sílvia; Viegas, Sílvia; Melo, Vanessa; Pestana Lages, Joana; Pavel, Fabiana ; Vaz, Murad. Corresponding author: Jorge, Sílvia. "Dossier Direito à Cidade (1968-2018) [File Right to the City (1968-2018)]". Espaços Vividos e Espaços Construídos: estudos sobre a cidade 1 9 (2020): http://biblioteca.fa.ulisboa.pt/images/revistas/espacos_vividos_e_espacos_construidos09.pdf.
    Published • Coeditor
Report
  1. Melo, Vanessa. 2021. Relatório Final da bolsa de pós-doutoramento ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016 [Final Report of the postdoctoral grant ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016].
  2. Melo, Vanessa. 2020. Relatório para pedido de renovação da bolsa de pós-doutoramento ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016 [Report to request the renewal of the postdoctoral grant ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016].
  3. Melo, Vanessa. 2019. Relatório para pedido de renovação da bolsa de pós-doutoramento ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016 [Report to request the renewal of the postdoctoral grant ref.ª M3.1.a./F/009/2016].
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Melo, Vanessa. "The recent production of urban African peripheries. Discourses, practices and spatial configuration: Maputo versus Luanda and Johannesburg". PhD, University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, 2015. https://www.repository.utl.pt/handle/10400.5/11527.
  2. Melo, Vanessa. "Sustainable Planning and Construction in the periphery of Maputo: Mumemo 4 de Outubro neighbourhood in the context of the capital’s peri-urban area". Master, Lusíada University of Lisbon, 2008. http://koha.ulusiada.pt/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=211365.
Translation
  1. Melo, Vanessa. Understanding climate adaptation and transformation challenges in African Cities. Sweden: University of Technology. 2015.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/07/15 Agri-food production vis-à-vis tourism growth in the Azores: changes and local perceptions of future development STRINGS. Selling the Rural in Urban Areas. The role of Local Food Products in the Sustainable Development of Rural Areas
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/07/12 O estado da habitação em Maputo: um olhar através dos censos de 2007 e 2017 [The state of housing in Maputo: a look through the 2007 and 2017 censuses] Seminário Final Africa Habitat - round table on "The quality of inhabiting and the sustainability of the habitat""
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/07 Landscape legacies of transatlantic relations in the touristic Azores of today Transatlantic Studies Association 19th Annual Conference
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/06/09 Peri-urban expansion in the Maputo City region: land access and middle-class advances Middle Class Urbanism: New Aesthetics of Difference and Detachment in Cities of the Global South
National Museum of Denmark (Denmark)
2021/05/28 La producción del paisaje turístico en las Azores en el contexto de urbanización global: una lectura a la luz de Lefebvre [The production of a touristic landscape in the Azores in the context of planetary urbanisation: an understanding in the light of Lefebvre] Henri Lefebvre y la producción del espacio: entramados de resistencia al capitalismo
Universidad de la República; Universidad de Caen-Normandía; Université de Angers; Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México (Uruguay)
2021/05/27 Turismo e Paisagem nos Açores: transformação, desafios e oportunidades. Contribuições da investigação para estratégias de planeamento e gestão colaborativas [Tourism and Landscape in the Azores: change, challenges and opportunities. Research contributions towards collaborative planning and management strategies] Spring Seminar BIOISLE. Webinar - Biodiversidade e Ilhas
CIBIO - Açores, Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2019/06/22 The role of memory in the production of rapidly changing spaces: the case of the Azores The Place of Memory and Memory of Places International Conference
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2019/06 (Re)settlement spaces of Maputo, Mozambique: between habitat and the inhabit 8th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2019
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2019/05/08 Da auto-produção à produção mercantil: diversidade de territórios na periferia de Maputo [From self-production to market production: diversity of spaces in the periphery of Maputo] Seminar 1 Africa Habitat - round table on "Diversity of situations and interventions in the urban margins"
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05 As tecnologias de informação geográfica na (re)invenção metodológica para o estudo das margens urbanas de Luanda e Maputo [The geographical information technologies in the methodological (re)invention for the study of the urban margins of Luanda and Maputo] XVIII ENANPUR – Encontro Nacional da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Planejamento Urbano e Regional
Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Urbanos e Regionais da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
2018/11 Housing and tourism in the increasingly urbanised Azores: challenges and opportunities to the right to the city in São Miguel island 8th International Conference on Building Resilience
University of Lisbon; University of Coimbra; University of Huddersfield, Global Disaster Resilience Centre; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/10/25 Manifestações da classe média na cidade de Maputo: do espaço urbano à habitação [Middle-class manifestations in the city of Maputo: from urban space to housing] Seminário Interno do Centro de Estudos Urbanos
Centro de Estudos Urbanos (Maputo, Mozambique)
2018/06 The current urbanisation process in the Azores: questions about planetary urbanisation and the right to the city TICYUrb’18. 3rd International Conference for Young Urban Researchers
Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology; Research Center on Socioeconomic Change and Territory; Interdisciplinar Center of Social Sciences; University of Porto, Institute of Sociology; University of Sheffield, School of Architecture (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/04/25 Transformações urbanas resultantes do crescimento da classe media nas cidades africanas: o caso de estudo de Maputo, Moçambique [Urban transformations with the growth of middle classes in African cities: the case study of Maputo, Mozambique] Presentation of research results
University of the WitsWatersrand, School of Architecture and Planning; Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning (Maputo, Mozambique)
2018/02 Different spaces of ‘middle-classness’ in Great Maputo: processes of urban development, housing features and social differentiation International Conference – Middle Class Urbanism: Routes, Shapes and Aspirations
Aarhus University; Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning (Maputo, Mozambique)
2017/09 The spatial manifestations of ‘middle-classness’ in Maputo II International Conference on ‘Africa Urban Planning’
University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning; International Planning History Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/09 Multi-layered practices of urban planning and development in Maputo metropolitan area: agents, practices and typologies of residential occupation II International Conference on ‘Africa Urban Planning’
University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning; International Planning History Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06 Urbanisation at Maputo city region urban-rural interface: land demarcation and middle-class advances 7th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2017
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; Centre for African Studies Basel; Swiss Society for African Studies (Basel, Switzerland)
2017/06 Residential mobility between pericentral and peripheral neighbourhoods of Maputo: processes and spatial configuration 7th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2017
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; Centre for African Studies Basel; Swiss Society for African Studies (Basel, Switzerland)
2016/10 Urban transformations with the growth of middle classes in African cities: through a case study of Maputo, Mozambique Workshop Dynamics of Dwelling in Urban Africa
University of the Witwatersrand; Aarhus University; Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning (Maputo, Mozambique)
2016/04/21 A produção recente de periferias urbanas africanas. Discursos, práticas e configuração espacial: Maputo versus Luanda e Joanesburgo [The recent production of urban African peripheries. Discourses, practices and spatial configuration: Maputo versus Luanda and Johannesburg] Presentation in Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/07 Top-down low-cost housing supply, bottom up responses and territorial impacts in Maputo 6th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2015
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; Institut des Mondes Africains; Les Afriques dans le Monde (Paris, France)
2015/06 Actuais processos e dinâmicas de intervenção em Maputo e o direito à cidade [Current processes and dynamics of intervention in Maputo and the Right to the City] Seminário da Exclusão Urbana à Construção do Direito à Cidade em Espaços da Lusotopia
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/06 New housing interventions in the new millennium: the case of Maputo 5th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2013
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; Centre for African Studies, of the Lisbon University Institute (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/11 Housing interventions in Maputo’s expansion area at the turn of the new millennium Workshop Empirical Studies, Theory and Criticism
CUBES Laboratory (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2012/07 Urbanisation processes in the expansion areas of Luanda, Maputo and Johannesburg: urban planning and everyday practices 15th International Planning History Society Conference – 15th IPHS 2012
The International Planning History Society (São Paulo, Brazil)
2011/07/07 Um olhar sobre a diversidade socio-espacial da actual área peri-urbana de Maputo: desafios às noções de slum e de (in)formal [A look at the socio-spatial diversity of the current peri-urban area of Maputo: a challenge to the notions of slum and (in)formal] Presentation in Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010/10/26 Transformações do uso do solo em Maputo [Land use changes in Maputo] Workshop (In)formal. (I)legal: leitura do território e paradigmas de intervenção
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies; Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning (Maputo, Mozambique)
2010/10 Ocupação e gestão do solo em Moçambique: o caso de Maputo [Land occupation and management in Mozambique: the case of Maputo] Seminário Internacional Urbanização de Territórios de Génese Ilegal
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/06 Sustainable planning and construction in the periphery of Maputo: Mumemo 4 de Outubro neighbourhood in the context of the capital’s peri-urban area 3rd European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2009
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS; University of Leipzig, Institute of African Studies (Leipzig, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017 - 2018 Alternatives to involuntary resettlement: making an argument for in situ multi-storey social housing in Maputo
Supervisor of Oliveira, Márcia
 Master degree in Housing (Master)
University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Seminar Right to the City (1968-2018), member of the organisation team and of the scientific committee - for more information see http://direitoacidade.fa.ulisboa.pt/ (2018/12/05 - 2018/12/08)
Seminar (Other)
 University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/04/27 - 2023/04/27 Participating member in the 15º Webinar CHAM Azores about the “Rehabilitation of Historic Centres”
Round table
 15º Webinar CHAM Azores about the “Rehabilitation of Historic Centres”
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2022/06/22 - 2022/06/22 Co-chair of the panel "Housing access as a democratic challenge: between public policies and practices" - one session, four participants
Other
 28th International Conference of Europeanists on The Environment of Democracy
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/02/25 - 2021/02/25 Attendance at the online seminar "Regional Workshop on Sustainable Urban Transitions"
Seminar
 "Regional Workshop on Sustainable Urban Transitions"
Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/01/14 - 2021/01/14 Attendance at the online seminar "Introduction do Horizon Europe"
Other
 "Introduction do Horizon Europe"
Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/11/19 - 2020/11/19 Attendance at the online seminar "Housing Fair Finance"
Seminar
 "Housing Fair Finance"
URBACT, France

Urban Innovative Actions, France
2020/10/17 - 2020/10/17 Attendance at the online forum "Participar, agir, cogovernar. Dentro de ti, oh cidade! [To participate, act, cogovern. Inside you, oh city!]"
Meeting
 Participar, agir, cogovernar. Dentro de ti, oh cidade! [To participate, act, cogovern. Inside you, oh city!
Morar em Lisboa, Portugal
2020/09/22 - 2020/09/22 Attendance at the "1ª sessão de esclarecimento do Programa Bairros Saudáveis [1st clarification session of the Program Healthy Neighbourhoods]"
Other
 1ª sessão de esclarecimento do Programa Bairros Saudáveis [1st clarification session of the Program Healthy Neighbourhoods]
Rede (H)abitação, Portugal
2020/06/16 - 2020/06/16 Attendance at the online seminar "Missões no Horizonte Europa - Missões Clima, Solo e Cidades [Missions on Horizon Europe - Missions Climate, Land and Cities]"
Seminar
 Missões no Horizonte Europa - Missões Clima, Solo e Cidades [Missions on Horizon Europe - Missions Climate, Land and Cities]
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Portugal in Europe Research and Innovation Network, Portugal
2020/06/02 - 2020/06/02 Attendance at the online Seminar "So, what’s next? The role of creative tourism in the regenaration of communities"
Seminar
 So, what’s next? The role of creative tourism in the regenaration of communities
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/06/01 - 2020/06/01 Attendance at the webinar "Cidade, território, paisagem - desafio Covid-19 [City, territory, landscape - Covid-19 challenge]"
Seminar
 Cidade, território, paisagem - desafio Covid-19 [City, territory, landscape - Covid-19 challenge]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal
2020/05/27 - 2020/05/27 Attendance at the Webinar "Turismo e pandemia: mudança e futuro [Tourism and the pandemic: change and future]"
Seminar
 Turismo e pandemia: mudança e futuro [Tourism and the pandemic: change and future]
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
2020/05/21 - 2020/05/21 Attendance at the online debate "Covid-19, turismo e alojamento local [Covid-19, tourism and local tourist accommodation]"
Other
 Covid-19, turismo e alojamento local [Covid-19, tourism and local tourist accommodation]
Morar em Lisboa, Portugal
2020/05/14 - 2020/05/14 Attendance at the online debate "Covid-19 e os bairros auto-construídos: como se faz o confinamento sem condições de habitabilidade? [Covid-19 and the self-built neighbourhoods: how is confinement done without housing conditions?]"
Other
 Covid-19 e os bairros auto-construídos: como se faz o confinamento sem condições de habitabilidade? [Covid-19 and the self-built neighbourhoods: how is confinement done without housing conditions?]
Morar em Lisboa, Portugal
2019/11/22 - 2019/11/23 Attendance at the "Encontro de boas práticas museológicas: os turistas como público alvo. Problemáticas e desafios [Meeting of good museum practices: the tourists as a target audience. Problematics and challenges]"
Meeting
 Encontro de boas práticas museológicas: os turistas como público alvo. Problemáticas e desafios [Meeting of good museum practices: the tourists as a target audience. Problematics and challenges]
University of the Azores, Portugal

Municipal Council of Nordeste, Portugal
2019/06/11 - 2019/06/14 Chair of the panel “Continuities and disruptions in urban land governance: the rise of the middle-class in Sub-Saharan Africa” - one session, four participants.
Conference
 8th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2019
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS, Netherlands

University of Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies, United Kingdom
2019/04/14 - 2019/04/18 Participating member in the Workshop "Emergence Azores: digital media science communication hackathon"
Workshop
 Emergence Azores: digital media science communication hackathon
FRCT - Regional Funding Agency for Science and Technology of the Azores, Portugal
2019/04/11 - 2019/04/13 Attendance at the "1º Encontro Regional do Turismo dos Açores" [1st Regional Meeting of Tourism of the Azores]"
Meeting
 1º Encontro Regional do Turismo dos Açores" [1st Regional Meeting of Tourism of the Azores]
Regional Government of the Azores, Portugal
2018/12/05 - 2018/12/08 Co-chair of the panel “Práticas contra-hegemónicas emergentes de produção colectiva de outro espaço [Emerging counter-hegemonic practices of collective production of another space]” - three sessions, thirteen participants
Seminar
 Seminar Right to the City (1968-2018)
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
2015/12/11 - 2015/12/11 Participating member in the round table "Transformação urbana recente em Luanda e Maputo [Recent urban transformation in Luanda and Maputo]"
Round table
 Transformação urbana recente em Luanda e Maputo [Recent urban transformation in Luanda and Maputo]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal
2015/11/16 - 2015/11/18 Participating member in Barcelona Urban Thinker Campus, a World Urban Campaign Event, which was a preparation event for the United Nations’ conference HABITAT III, under the theme “Housing in the city we need”
Other
 Barcelona Urban Thinker Campus about “Housing in the city we need”
Área Metropolitana de Barcelona, Spain

Habitat International Coalition, United Kingdom
2014/06 - 2014/06 Chair of the panel "Reconfigurações urbanas e sociais em Mozambique [Urban and social reconfigurations in Mozambique]" - one session, two participants
Conference
 Reconfigurações Espaciais e Diferenciação Social em Cidades de Angola e Moçambique [Spatial Reconfigurations and Social Differentiation in cities of Angola and Mozambique]
ISCTE-IUL, Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal

Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/04 - 2012/04 Attendance at the Workshop ‘Home Space’: compreender o ‘espaço do lar’ na cidade africana [understanding ‘home space’ in the African city]”
Workshop
 Home Space’: compreender o ‘espaço do lar’ na cidade africana [Understanding ‘Home Space’ in the African city]
Danish Council for Independent Research, Denmark

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Department of Human Settlements, Denmark

Heriot-Watt University, School of the Built Environment, United Kingdom

The University of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, United Kingdom

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
2011/11 - 2011/12 Attendance at the “Jornadas de Sensibilização sobre Habitabilidade Básica [Sensitisation workshops on basic habitability]”
Workshop
 Jornadas de Sensibilização sobre Habitabilidade Básica [Sensitisation workshops on basic habitability]
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Cátedra UNESCO de Habitabilidade Básica, Spain

Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
2011/10 - 2011/10 Participating member in the round table “Direito à habitação, à terra e o acesso à justiça em Angola [The right to housing, to land and the access to justice in Angola]”
Round table
 Direito à habitação, à terra e o acesso à justiça em Angola [The right to housing, to land and the access to justice in Angola]
Omunga , Angola
2011/06/15 - 2011/06/18 Attendance at the "4th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2011"
Conference
 4th European Conference on African Studies – ECAS 2011
Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS, Netherlands

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Sweden
2010/11 - 2010/11 Participating member in the Workshop “Direito à cidade e justiça espacial [Right to the city and spatial justice]”
Workshop
 Direito à cidade e justiça espacial [Right to the city and spatial justice]
University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Group of Socio-Territorial, Urban and Local Action Studies, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020/07/22 Mangroves of Maputo - Towards urban resilience through green infrastructure
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Luisa Arrais Falcão Beja da Costa (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2018/12/05 - 2018/12/08 Seminar Right to the City (1968-2018) University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/02 - 2023/02 Parecer sobre Manual de Arquitetura Bioclimática para a Região Autónoma dos Açores [Contributions for the Bioclimatic Architecture Manual for the Autonomous Region of the Azores], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2022/08/03 - 2022/08/03 Parecer sobre o RECAPE e licenciamento ambiental do projecto da central de valorização energética e aterros de cinzas inertizadas e escórias do Ecoparque da ilha de São Miguel [Contributions for the RECAPE and environmental licensing of the project for the energy recovery plant and landfill for inertised ashes and slag of the Ecoparque on the island of São Miguel], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2022/07/27 - 2022/07/27 Esclarecimentos e recomendações sobre obras públicas com impacte significativo na paisagem na Região Autónoma dos Açores [Clarifications and recommendations on public works with a significant landscape impact in the Autonomous Region of the Azores], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2022/02/28 - 2022/02/28 Esclarecimentos e recomendações sobre edificações pré-fabricadas, habitações de madeira, habitações móveis, contentores, caravanas e situações similares na Região Autónoma dos Açores [Clarifications and recommendations on prefabricated buildings, wooden housing, mobile housing, containers, caravans and similar situations in the Autonomous Region of the Azores], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2022/01/31 - 2022/01/31 Contributos para a proposta de Directiva de Desempenho Energético dos Edifícios da Comissão Europeia, de 15 de Dezembro de 2021 [Contributions for the proposal for a Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings of the European Commission, of 15 December 2021], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2022/01/12 - 2022/01/12 Contributos para a revisão do Regime Jurídico de Proteção e Valorização do Património Cultural Móvel e Imóvel (Decreto Legislativo Regional N.º 3/2015/A, de 4 de Fevereiro) [Contributes for the revision of the Legal Regime for the Protection and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage (Regional Legislative Decree No. 3/2015/A, of 4 February)], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2021/12/14 - 2021/12/14 Contributos para a proposta de Programa Nacional de Habitação (Proposta de Lei 1226/XXII/2021) [Contributes for the proposal of the National Housing Program (Law Proposal 1226/XXII/2021], as a member of a Technical Commission of the RSA-PAA (institution) Regional Section of the Azores of the Portuguese Association of Architects, Portugal
2020/10/15 - 2020/10/15 Contributos para a Estratégia de Investigação e Inovação dos Açores 2021-2027 [Contributes for the Research and Innovation Strategy of the Azores 2021-2027] Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/03 - 2019/03 Contribuições para a revisão do Plano de Ordenamento do Turismo da Região Autónoma dos Açores [Contributions for the revision of the Tourism Plan of the Autonomous Region of the Azores] Secretaria Regional da Energia, Ambiente e Turismo – Direção Regional do Turismo, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/12/06 - 2021/12/06 Lecture about "A produção da paisagem turística nos Açores: evidencias e consequências [The production of the tourist landscape in the Azores: evidences and consequences]" Turismo (Licenciatura) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/05 One joint lecture about “Reflexões em torno da habitação: da auto-construção à mercantilização [Reflections around housing: from self-help housing to commodification]” Sócio-Economia do Espaço [Socio-Economy of Space] (Graduado) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
2017/02/20 - 2017/06/20 Course on Urban Planning Laboratory III, Project 1 (Graduado) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning, Mozambique
2016/07/11 - 2016/11/16 Course on Urban Planning ARPL3007 Johannesburg as a City in Africa & ARPL3006 Comparative African Cities (Bachelor) University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture and Planning, South Africa
2016/04/22 - 2016/04/22 One joint lecture about “The production of space in the analysis of three African cities” Qualificação de Subúrbios Habitacionais [Housing Suburbs Upgrading] (Doutoramento) University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal
2016/04/20 - 2016/04/20 One joint lecture about “Políticas e práticas (sub)urbanas de Luanda e Maputo: bairros pericentrais e periféricos [(Sub)urban policies and practices in Luanda and Maputo: pericentral and peripheral neighbourhoods]” Qualificação de Subúrbios Habitacionais [Housing Suburbs Upgrading] - PALOP (Mestrado integrado) University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal
2015/12/02 - 2015/12/02 One joint lecture about “Urbanização contemporânea em África: entre Luanda e Maputo [Contemporary urbanisation in Africa: between Luanda and Maputo]” Urbanização da Pobreza [Poverty urbanization] (Mestrado integrado) University of Porto, Faculty of Architecture, Portugal
2015/05/22 - 2015/05/22 One joint lecture about “Processos e dinâmicas de (re)produção do espaço urbano: o caso de Maputo [Processes and dynamics of urban space (re)production: the case of Maputo]” Qualificação de Subúrbios Habitacionais [Housing Suburbs Upgrading] (Mestrado integrado) University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2014/06/25 - Current Journal of Southern African Studies (1465-3893) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2019/12/19 - 2020/01/22 African Geographical Review (2163-2642) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2018/01/02 - 2018/01/10 urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana (2175-3369) SciELO
2017/09 - 2017/10 Espaços Vividos e Espaços Construídos: estudos sobre a cidade (2183-4644) Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitectura
2016/09 - 2016/09 Colecção ebook'IS - 40 anos de independências CEI-ISCTE-IUL

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2017 - Current Assistance to the PhD thesis "Formalities of informal housing in pericentral neighbourhoods of Maputo city" Lage, Jéssica