CV

I'm Hugo Lopez, a researcher at TU Delft's Department of Urbanism and a member of the Centre for the Just City (just-city.org). I'm collaborating in the Spatial Planning & Strategy chair on the Horizon Europe Project UP2030 (up2030-he.eu/). I hold a degree in Architecture & Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), completed a one-year exchange course at the Institute for Housing and Urban Studies (IHS-EUR) in the Erasmus University Rotterdam on Urban Management and Development, and earned a master's degree in Urbanism from TU Delft. I'm also a guest researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Studies (LeU-UFRJ). Lastly, alongside Prof Dr Roberto Rocco, I edit and co-host the "Duty of Care" podcast, a platform for discussions with academics, practitioners, and students focusing on planning for a just transition considering the entanglement between spatial justice and sustainability.

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URBAN THEORY

TERRITORIAL DESIGN

LANDSCAPE URBANISM

SPATIAL JUSTICE

ANCESTRAL FUTURES

PLURIVERSE

 

I'm also engaged in exploring the agency of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil in redefining and repositioning the very memory and notion of architecture and the urban, and its influence in just sustainability transitions. My research delves into the socio-spatial transformations recognising Indigenous, quilombola, and other contracolonial strategies. I aim to investigate the gaps in current conservation and restoration discourses, emphasising the importance of integrating heterogeneous organisational structures and territorialities.