'Memories from worlds yet to be inhabited' collects the research from Hugo López Silva
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Urban researcher & designer
Current
Researcher @ TU Delft in the EU Horizon Project UP2030
Guest researcher at the Delta Urbanism research group @ TU Delft, NL
Member of the Centre for the Just City
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 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.
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.
Education
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.
Workshop
2019
@ Independent School for the City, Rotterdam, NL
Spring School “Borders Are For Crossing”
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