Dr Adriana Laura Massidda
School of Architecture and Landscape
Lecturer in Architectural Humanities
a.l.massidda@sheffield.ac.uk
Arts Tower
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Dr Adriana Laura Massidda
School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
91直播
S10 2TN
School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
91直播
S10 2TN
- Profile
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I am currently working in two main research areas. First, for twelve years I have been studying and reconstructing the history of Buenos Aires shantytowns. Second, in my most recent research, I have begun to investigate and expand on the environmental aspects of the processes of urban change I have found when studying precarious settlements, linking them to architectural design. In particular, I am piloting research-by-design techniques and co-design in low-income housing contexts in the UK, more specifically in the context of two social housing complexes built on top of former sewage farms in London and Leicester. I am also preparing a new project to pursue similar work in Buenos Aires, thus combining both elements of my expertise.
Recent publication:
. C贸rdoba, Rosario y Buenos Aires. Co-edited with Valeria Snitcofsky and Eva Camelli. Buenos Aires: Caf茅 de las Ciudades, 2021. Declared (Bien de Inter茅s para la Comunicaci贸n Social) by the Buenos Aires Legislature in November 2023.
- Research interests
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Shantytown history, urban informality, urban history, social housing, (water and sewage) infrastructure, critical environmentalisms, waste, flooding, co-design, urban rivers, landscape design, phytoremediation.
- Publications
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Edited books
- Villas en Dictadura. C贸rdoba, Rosario y Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Caf茅 de las Ciudades.
- . London: University of London Press / Institute of Latin American Studies.
Journal articles
- Reocupar, reconstruir, 鈥渞efundar鈥: el repoblamiento de las villas del sur de Buenos Aires (1981-1985) [Reoccupying, rebuilding, "re-founding": the repopulation of the villas of south Buenos Aires (1981-1985). Vivienda y Ciudad, 10, 72-93.
- . Journal of Urban History, 49(3), 552-570.
- . EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 49(147), 1-21.
- . Journal of Latin American Studies, 54(3), 553-555.
- Art and the toxic politics of waste: Latin America. a roundtable discussion with filmmakers and researchers at University College London. A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, 20(1), 317-335.
- Film and the toxic politics of waste: a roundtable. e-flux Journal(127).
- Shantytowns and social engineering in 1950s Argentina. RIBAJ: The RIBA Journal.
- . Planning Perspectives, 36(2), 215-236.
- . Bit谩cora Urbano Territorial, 30(1), 115-126.
- . Journal of Design History, 32(1), 35-51.
- C贸mo nombrar a la informalidad urbana: una revisi贸n de las definiciones en uso, sus implicaciones anal铆ticas y su alcance. Quid 16, 10.
- Lo pol铆tico en lo urbano. Pobreza urbana en el pasado reciente. Villa Jard铆n, 1958-1967. Revista Encuentros Uruguayos, XI(1), 59-72.
- . Journal of Romance Studies, 18(2), 159-179.
- . Bulletin of Latin American Research, 37(2), 144-159.
- . Architecture_MPS.
- . Carta Econ贸mica Regional, 29(120).
- . URBANA: Revista Eletr么nica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos sobre a Cidade, 9(1), 15-15.
Chapters
- Entre invisibilidades y dirigencias: mujeres en villas de Buenos Aires (1958-1967) In Cravino MC (Ed.), Historia y memoria de villas y favelas (pp. 37-74). Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
- The spatiality of desire in Mart铆n Oesterheld鈥檚 La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega鈥檚 Drom贸manos (2012) In Geraghty NHD & Massidda AL (Ed.), Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America (pp. 201-240). University of London Press, Institute of Latin American Studies
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- 脩颈辩耻颈帽补辩耻别/别虫迟谤补脩辞. In Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste UCL Press.
- Villas en Dictadura. C贸rdoba, Rosario y Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Caf茅 de las Ciudades.
- Teaching interests
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- Architectural humanities
- Architectural and landscape design
- Research/doctoral supervision