Apresentação Pessoal

Ana Silva Fernandes (Porto, 1982) is an architect and researcher with postgraduate studies in architectural heritage rehabilitation, a PhD in Architecture focusing on policies for the improvement of urban self-produced areas (FAUP, 2016), and training in evaluation of public policies (IPPS-ISCTE, 2020) and analysis of public policies (London School of Economics, 2023). She is currently Assistant Researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, Portugal (CEAU-FAUP). She has been undertaking applied research and consultancy works in the Portuguese context and several developing countries, seeking to improve regional and urban policies through participatory processes and work in proximity with residents, public entities, the third sector, and the different stakeholders on the ground. She is interested in urban policies, participatory processes, spatial justice, social inclusion, self-produced settlements, territorial cohesion, and heritage. She has recently been a postdoctoral researcher on the impacts of the infrastructural network in the transformation of the territory in Mozambique, as well as on participatory policies for overcoming the social asymmetries in its access and improving deprived neighborhoods. In the collaborations with CEAU-FAUP, she has worked on regional studies, urban rehabilitation operations, and participatory processes, namely through projects of cooperation with public entities by participating in the analysis, cartography, and guidelines for tackling recent socio-spatial challenges in several territories in the northwest of Portugal. She is nowadays the Scientific and Participatory Process Coordinator at a project for the promotion of new public housing in Maia, involving the relocation and socio-spatial integration of three Roma communities through a multidimensional process of involvement of the residents in the architectural projects and their capacitation towards family autonomy, gender perspective and improved access to job opportunities. She has experience in policy analysis, participatory processes, spatial analysis (GIS, statistical data, architectural surveying), database management, and cartography. She is also a member of several research projects funded by FCT, namely on public space adaptation to climate change and for older people’s demands [‘CAOP’, ref. PTDC/GES-URB/2038/2021] and governance in municipal housing strategies [‘LOGO’, ref. 2022.03719.PTDC]. She has also been an Invited Assistant Professor at FAUP (2016-2024), where she co-created several curricular units and continues to lecture at the Integrated Masters in Architecture (MIArq), at the Course of Advanced Studies in Territory (CEAT) and the PhD Programme in Architecture (PDA) of the same institution, also collaborating at the Masters on Planning and Urban Project (MPPU) coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and FAUP. She has publications in books, international journals with peer-review, and conference proceedings, as well as supervisions and participation in national and international conferences.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Technological sciences > Architecture
2. Social sciences > Cultural studies > Regional studies
3. Social sciences > Political sciences > Public policy