Goldsmith Talks: Evidence - Studying Housing in Brazilian Informal Settlements

Decades of building, unbuilding, and rebuilding define housing in informal settlements. One parcel of land reveals a family’s evolution over years, while a building the outcomes of broad political transformation. Amid these changes, housing provides evidence through which to understand the impacts of past urbanization on future community alternatives. Drawing upon a comparative housing study undertaken across São Paulo’s largest informal settlements, this talk presents a part of Kristine Stiphany’s ongoing research about the politics of citizen-sourced data, and provides insights into participatory analyses of informally constructed environments.      



Kristine Stiphany, PhD, AIA, is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the School of Architecture, where she undertakes research at the intersection of ethnography, sociospatial analysis, and urban design. Learn about Stiphany’s current research in São Paulo at www.chapa.io.



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Goldsmith Talks is an open-format series of presentations organized by UTSOA faculty, staff, and students. the series aims to encourage and promote presentations that are outside of the scope of the main lecture series. Examples are: invited seminar presentations, book talks, lectures by designers and scholars who may be in Austin for another engagement, round-table discussions, film screenings, product demonstrations, or any other activity related to research, scholarship, and teaching activities and at the school. The format provides a platform for encouraging the dissemination of work by visitors and members of our community. The goal is to raise awareness, increase access, and better integrate such events within the public life of the school.