A statement by director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo regarding the COVID-19 crisis As a master program for which humanitarian crisis is our raison d’etre, the COVID-19 crisis arrives to us with…
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On Friday March 6, our students presented their proposals for the Montjuïc area in Barcelona prepared during the two-week socio-spatial workshop Mapping Towards Connectivity. The jury included director Carmen Mendoza,…
Just returned from their field trip to Peru, our students this week went straight back to the class room for their Low Technology Construction workshop, which focuses on low-tech architecture…
Before end of year, our students spent some time with guest professor Hug March to study the Political Ecology of Urban Transformation, with a special focus on how power relations…
Alejandro de Castro returned this year as guest professor to teach the course “The visual bias: A history of urban design arguments at precarious areas”. De Castro coordinated GSAPP’s Latin Lab…
In November, our students got to spent time with our professor Dr Kathrin Golda-Pongratz to look at ad-hoc processes that take place in the public sphere, appropriate and reclaim public…
In September and October, our students undertook the three-week Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop, offered in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC). The…
We are starting the 2019/2020 academic year with our course “Introduction to Development and Emergency” with Mbongeni Ngulube. Ngulube is an architect and urban designer with experience in informal settlements….
This week we welcome our new students for the 2019-20 term. Our new class, as all of our students, have very diverse backgrounds and come from many different countries. As…
Today is World Refugee Day. We are currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record with 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR. Among them are…