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1/18/22
Kristine Stiphany to present the community engagement process of the Chapa Civic Data Lab at Oxford University

The Chapa Civic Data Lab formed at the intersection of missing data about housing informality and urban planning inequities. Extending the arguments of a recent publication, Kristine will present to Oxford’s MsC in Sustainable Cities program five values for using situated data to design for social impact in urbanization-vulnerable communities.

9/24/21
Public panel at the International Symposium about Informal Settlements

Kristine Stiphany joined Clara Irazábal, Roberto Rocco, and Malini Krishnankutty on a panel “Alternative Approaches to Urban Planning” to discuss new ways for equitably and sustainably addressing housing informality.

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CONURB - Peru

New PlaNext Special Issue article now available

“Infrastructural Insurgency: Constructing Situated Data on Brazil’s Urban Periphery” is an ethnographic account of co-constructing a civic data infrastructure with residents of two urban settlements in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Download the open-access article here
Download a versão Português, traduzido por Clarissa Freitas, aqui

4/26/21
Kristine Stiphany is invited to speak at the 27th World Congress of Architects

On a panel with Brazilian architects Gabriela de Matos and Marcelo Ferraz, Kristine Stiphany discussed the role of design pedagogy for social impact architecture:

”A good design is not enough for us to deal with structural problems…design education can serve as a tool for moving architecture ahead with a new social agenda.”

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Access the panel discussion summary here

9/15/20
Public presentation about informal rental at the University of São Paulo

“New or not? Informal housing now” is about how rental housing shapes informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil. Kristine echos numerous Brazilian colleagues in arguing for public policies calibrated to the reality of rental on urban peripheries.

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8/1/20
SSAU is recognized with a Texas Society of Architecture Studio Award for the Brownie Neighborhood Park Project

The Texas Society of Architects recognizes studio or as-yet-constructed projects that contribute to progressive movements in architecture practice, in this case Kristine Stiphany’s collaboration with Jason Sowell on the community-engaged design of a park on one of the last open land tracts in Austin’s low-income Rundberg neighborhood.

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See the work
Read juror’s comments in Texas Architect Magazine
Read the project report posted on the Austin Parks and Recreation website

New article in Journal of Architectural Education available

Since her Fulbright research, Kristine Stiphany has focused on the building methods and materials of self-building or autoconstruction, which she writes about in the context of the Brazilian mutirão — ‘core’ housing that is half formal, half informal.

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Read the article here
Engage Kristine’s Fulbright research

New article in International Journal of Housing Policy available

Kristine Stiphany and Peter Ward write about urban settlement divestment from new social housing construction and sociospatial segregation in the case of the Brazilian Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House My Life) program.

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Read the article here
Engage Peter Ward’s Lab: Latin American Housing Network

4/16/18
ComuniDADOS public data visualization tool is recognized by the American Planning Association

Kristine Stiphany and Nathan Brigmon were awarded a Smart Cities Technology Division Award for the National Science Foundation - funded development of ComuniDADOS, a webmapping tool that visualizes the data created by residents of informal settlements.

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Engage ComuniDADOS
Read the APA press release

11/24/16
Public Presentation at the University of São Paulo on 11/24/16

Kristine Stiphany presented the Chapa Civic Data Lab at the Economy and the City: Housing and Urban Development Symposium hosted by Arco-Futuro, and contributed to a panel discussion about the role of data for preserving and regenerating urban settlements moderated by Raul Justres Lores.

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See the full symposium agenda here

10/6/16
Chapa Civic Data Lab is introduced at the United Nations Habitat III conference in Quito

Kristine Stiphany and Luiz Bettencourt co-chaired the side event “Participatory Technologies for Redeveloping Informal Settlements,” including a panel discussion about the Chapa Civic Data Lab with Nathan Brigmon, Kirsten Larson and Peter Ward, attended by UT alumni Sara McTarnaghan and Heather Rule.

Watch the film about Chapa made with community collaborators for Habitat III

2015
New National Science Foundation sponsored research - 1513395

Kristine Stiphany was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to lead a participatory post occupancy study of two urban settlements in São Paulo, and develop a digital tool to visualize data outcomes.

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Visit the project website

2013
New National Science Foundation sponsored research - 1331333

Kristine Stiphany was awarded a one-year doctoral dissertation improvement grant to undertake fieldwork about how informal housing shapes education in Brazilian favelas.

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Read the dissertation “Learning Displacement: Self-Building, Educational Infrastructure, and the Politics of Development in Brazilian Informal Settlements”

3/1/09
Kristine Stiphany and Marcos Rosa are recognized with the Alcoa Prize for Social Impact Architecture

Kristine Stiphany and Marcos Rosa were honored with the 2009 Design for Social Impact award at a dinner hosted at the Alcoa Headquarters in São Paulo for their adaptive reuse project of an inner city tenement or cortiço.

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