Viviana D’auria
Biographic Data
| ID | 4896029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viviana D’auria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viviana |
| FAMILY NAME | D’auria |
| SIGNATURE | D’AURIA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5124-7685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prefiguring the right to housing. Right to the city approaches in alternative housing initiatives in Belgium
Chinese inner-city kampung’s spatial pattern transformation in colonial and post-colonial Semarang
The ex-colonial part of Semarang hosts a significant population of the Chinese Indonesian community (descendants of Chinese migrants). They live in an area (Chinatown and the adjacent neighborhood) designated by the colonial government. Since colonial times, the Chinese Indonesian community has played an essential role in economic activities and acted as intermediate merchants between the Dutch and the indigenous. The Chinese Indonesians benefite…
Recovering the (hi)stories of popular urbanism in revolutionary times: Insights from conversations with Tupau and Taller 5 architects on critical pedagogy, the politics of participation and urban desi…
This paper describes the attempt to preserve the memory of a rich experience within an innovative university–grassroots alliance developed in Guayaquil (Ecuador) in the 1970s to support rural and urban migrants in their struggles for land and housing. The investigation is based on the oral testimony of architecture students and professors who were part of a Marxist-influenced workshop at the University of Guayaquil, and is rooted in questions rai…
Mapping Brussels' Displaced Housing Ecosystem: Palais des Droits’ Post-Eviction Geographies and “Weird Alliances”
As displaced people arrive at European cities, the experiences of displacement caused by forces of bordering and securitization do not end at the point of arrival. Due to a pre-existing housing crisis characterized by critical shortages in affordable housing, a series of urban displacements ensue. The intersectionality between the border regime and neoliberal housing systems produces gaps in migrant housing needs which neither the reception nor t…
Stabilization and change under planning and everyday practices – the politics of becoming public space in Dharavi, Mumbai
This study offers an often-invisible narrative of Dharavi’s long-term development history, coupled with Bombay / Mumbai’s urbanization. It scrutinizes how diversely originated forms of ‘public space’ and plural ‘publics’ serve as local reproductions of the exogenous notion of ‘public’. Such scrutiny covers three phases of interactions between planning and everyday practices, characterized by periodic crises and radical transformations. Based on t…
Home tailoring: Independent living on the autism spectrum
Many autistic adults tend to live with their parents rather than independently. Few studies exist about what independent living means from their perspective and what role the built environment plays therein. Our study reports on the lived experience of two autistic men living in two different residential settings. Data were collected through conducting in-depth interviews, photographing, drawing and following social media sites during one year, a…
Multi‐Actor Housing to Address Vulnerabilities at a Personal and Local Level
In response to an everlasting housing crisis, cities worldwide have witnessed a surge in alternative housing initiatives (AHIs) driven by third‐sector organisations. In Brussels, a network of third‐sector organisations has been developing strategies with each other and local authorities, resulting in a plethora of initiatives focusing on various critical situations. Drawing on ethnographic research in a Brussels AHI, this article investigates how…
Homing social housing in Brussels: Engagements in architectural anthropology through three visualisations
Architectural anthropology offers a way to critically analyse spaces through the social life that happens around them. It is a qualitative approach that relies on ethnography to connect larger systems and subjective dimensions, self-reflexivity, and the use of visualisations as a key analytical tool. This paper reflects on the possible contribution of architectural anthropology to housing studies. More specifically, it looks at homing processes i…
The homing of newcomers in Brussels at the intersection of bordering and urban speculation: From survival strategies to infrastructures for civic imagination and urban inclusion
Informed by a year of participatory action research in Globe Aroma, an organisation supporting artists and art lovers with a background as newcomers in Brussels, this paper examines how newcomers negotiate their homing at the intersection of bordering and securitisation on the one side, and gentrification and urban speculation on the other. We argue that these exclusionary structures of power do not only challenge newcomers’ homing by restricting…
Appropriating Aid and Its Multiple Histories: Hannah le Roux and Viviana d’Auria in Conversation
status: Published online
Popular cartography: Collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai
This paper foregrounds the methodological question of how the heuristic research practices of mapping and ethnography operate together to co-produce situated knowledge of/with the urban margin. By critically reflecting on collaborative map-making with young adults in Dharavi (Mumbai), it argues for mapping as an open-ended collaboration in which mappers’ various ‘finding’ and ‘founding’ acts to support the production of situated knowledge of an e…
The materialization of the Buen Vivir and the Rights of Nature: Rhetoric and Realities of Guayaquil Ecológico urban regeneration project
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare nature as a subject of rights based on the ‘ Buen Vivir ’ (Good Living) philosophy which is premised on an indigenous principle that envisions a world where humans are part-and-parcel of a larger natural and social environment. Although Ecuador’s constitution is groundbreaking from a legal standpoint, the question arises of how the rights of nature is spatially manifested beyond th…
Recording Permanence and Ephemerality in the North Quarter of Brussels: Drawing at the Intersection of Time, Space, and People
Lying in the Senne River Valley, the North Quarter of Brussels is a physical record of spatial transformations unevenly distributed over time. Waves of developments and unfinished plans colonized its original landscape structure, erasing, writing, and re-writing it with large-scale metropolitan projects and transportation systems, around which an industrial and urban fabric developed. Accumulated expansions left an assemblage of incomplete infras…
User-based design for inclusive urban transformation: Learning from ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ dwelling practices in Guayaquil, Ecuador
In Latin American cities, modes of housing and settlement production are rapidly shifting with city-making becoming an increasingly unequal process. While the Latin American region was once a cradle for ground-breaking research on incremental urban development, more recent housing policies have radically disengaged from incremental dwelling typologies and socially engaged design practices. Taking a people-centred approach, this article documents …
Popular cartography: Collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai
This paper foregrounds the methodological question of how the heuristic research practices of mapping and ethnography operate together to co-produce situated knowledge of/with the urban margin. By critically reflecting on collaborative map-making with young adults in Dharavi (Mumbai), it argues for mapping as an open-ended collaboration in which mappers’ various ‘finding’ and ‘founding’ acts to support the production of situated knowledge of an e…
User-based design for inclusive urban transformation: Learning from ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ dwelling practices in Guayaquil, Ecuador
In Latin American cities, modes of housing and settlement production are rapidly shifting with city-making becoming an increasingly unequal process. While the Latin American region was once a cradle for ground-breaking research on incremental urban development, more recent housing policies have radically disengaged from incremental dwelling typologies and socially engaged design practices. Taking a people-centred approach, this article documents …
Recording Permanence and Ephemerality in the North Quarter of Brussels: Drawing at the Intersection of Time, Space, and People
Lying in the Senne River Valley, the North Quarter of Brussels is a physical record of spatial transformations unevenly distributed over time. Waves of developments and unfinished plans colonized its original landscape structure, erasing, writing, and re-writing it with large-scale metropolitan projects and transportation systems, around which an industrial and urban fabric developed. Accumulated expansions left an assemblage of incomplete infras…
The materialization of the Buen Vivir and the Rights of Nature: Rhetoric and Realities of Guayaquil Ecológico urban regeneration project
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare nature as a subject of rights based on the ‘ Buen Vivir ’ (Good Living) philosophy which is premised on an indigenous principle that envisions a world where humans are part-and-parcel of a larger natural and social environment. Although Ecuador’s constitution is groundbreaking from a legal standpoint, the question arises of how the rights of nature is spatially manifested beyond th…
The homing of newcomers in Brussels at the intersection of bordering and urban speculation: From survival strategies to infrastructures for civic imagination and urban inclusion
Informed by a year of participatory action research in Globe Aroma, an organisation supporting artists and art lovers with a background as newcomers in Brussels, this paper examines how newcomers negotiate their homing at the intersection of bordering and securitisation on the one side, and gentrification and urban speculation on the other. We argue that these exclusionary structures of power do not only challenge newcomers’ homing by restricting…
Appropriating Aid and Its Multiple Histories: Hannah le Roux and Viviana d’Auria in Conversation
status: Published online
Popular cartography: Collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai
This paper foregrounds the methodological question of how the heuristic research practices of mapping and ethnography operate together to co-produce situated knowledge of/with the urban margin. By critically reflecting on collaborative map-making with young adults in Dharavi (Mumbai), it argues for mapping as an open-ended collaboration in which mappers’ various ‘finding’ and ‘founding’ acts to support the production of situated knowledge of an e…
Mapping Brussels' Displaced Housing Ecosystem: Palais des Droits’ Post-Eviction Geographies and “Weird Alliances”
As displaced people arrive at European cities, the experiences of displacement caused by forces of bordering and securitization do not end at the point of arrival. Due to a pre-existing housing crisis characterized by critical shortages in affordable housing, a series of urban displacements ensue. The intersectionality between the border regime and neoliberal housing systems produces gaps in migrant housing needs which neither the reception nor t…
Stabilization and change under planning and everyday practices – the politics of becoming public space in Dharavi, Mumbai
This study offers an often-invisible narrative of Dharavi’s long-term development history, coupled with Bombay / Mumbai’s urbanization. It scrutinizes how diversely originated forms of ‘public space’ and plural ‘publics’ serve as local reproductions of the exogenous notion of ‘public’. Such scrutiny covers three phases of interactions between planning and everyday practices, characterized by periodic crises and radical transformations. Based on t…
Home tailoring: Independent living on the autism spectrum
Many autistic adults tend to live with their parents rather than independently. Few studies exist about what independent living means from their perspective and what role the built environment plays therein. Our study reports on the lived experience of two autistic men living in two different residential settings. Data were collected through conducting in-depth interviews, photographing, drawing and following social media sites during one year, a…
Multi‐Actor Housing to Address Vulnerabilities at a Personal and Local Level
In response to an everlasting housing crisis, cities worldwide have witnessed a surge in alternative housing initiatives (AHIs) driven by third‐sector organisations. In Brussels, a network of third‐sector organisations has been developing strategies with each other and local authorities, resulting in a plethora of initiatives focusing on various critical situations. Drawing on ethnographic research in a Brussels AHI, this article investigates how…
Homing social housing in Brussels: Engagements in architectural anthropology through three visualisations
Architectural anthropology offers a way to critically analyse spaces through the social life that happens around them. It is a qualitative approach that relies on ethnography to connect larger systems and subjective dimensions, self-reflexivity, and the use of visualisations as a key analytical tool. This paper reflects on the possible contribution of architectural anthropology to housing studies. More specifically, it looks at homing processes i…
Chinese inner-city kampung’s spatial pattern transformation in colonial and post-colonial Semarang
The ex-colonial part of Semarang hosts a significant population of the Chinese Indonesian community (descendants of Chinese migrants). They live in an area (Chinatown and the adjacent neighborhood) designated by the colonial government. Since colonial times, the Chinese Indonesian community has played an essential role in economic activities and acted as intermediate merchants between the Dutch and the indigenous. The Chinese Indonesians benefite…
Recovering the (hi)stories of popular urbanism in revolutionary times: Insights from conversations with Tupau and Taller 5 architects on critical pedagogy, the politics of participation and urban desi…
This paper describes the attempt to preserve the memory of a rich experience within an innovative university–grassroots alliance developed in Guayaquil (Ecuador) in the 1970s to support rural and urban migrants in their struggles for land and housing. The investigation is based on the oral testimony of architecture students and professors who were part of a Marxist-influenced workshop at the University of Guayaquil, and is rooted in questions rai…
Prefiguring the right to housing. Right to the city approaches in alternative housing initiatives in Belgium
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