About

Urban researcher & designer

Current engagements

PhD candidate @ Sheffield University

Producer @ Duty of Care Podcast with Prof Dr Roberto Rocco

Composer and musician on an experimental music project called Oceans Like Arms (audio, video)

Guitarist in the band Biki Baya

I'm currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. I'm affiliated with the TU Delft Centre for the Just City (just-city.org) and collaborate with the Urban Climate Change Research Network European Hub. I am also a guest researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Studies (LeU-UFRJ). Further information about my projects and engagements can be found at yettobeinhabited.com.

CRITICAL URBAN THEORY

URBAN-NATURAL

RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY

My doctoral research approaches the Atlantic Forest as an urban project, pursuing a counternarrative of the forest’s urbanisation through sustained engagement with the memories and aspirations of a quilombola community in Rio de Janeiro. By attending to the community and foregrounding its territorial practices, the research seeks to communicate their relational understandings into dialogue with urban–environmental planning debates, advancing justice-oriented sustainability pathways.

Education

PhD

2025 -

@ University of Sheffield, UK

Department of Urban Studies & Planning

MSc Urbanism

2020 - 2022

@ TU Delft (Faculty of Architecture), NL

Thesis project: “Energy as a spatio-temporal project: temporalities of energy landscapes in the Rhine Basin”

MSc Architecture

2019 - 2020

@ KABK (Royal Academy of Arts), Den Haag, NL

Unfinished.

BSc Architecture & Urbanism

2011 - 2017

@ Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, BR

Exchange programme

2014 - 2015

@ Institute for Housing and Urban Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

Course: Urban Management and Development: Sustainable Urbanism