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Mariana Moura is Professor of Architecture for Societal Transitions at the Faculty of Design Sciences. Her research focuses on informal and self-organised spatial practices, drawing from decolonial and feminist theories. She was an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp (2024-2025) and a AHRC postdoctoral researcher in the Translating Ferro / Transforming Knowledges project (2021-2024), where she co-edited Construction of Classical Design (Mack, 2026), Design and the Building Site (Mack, 2025) and Architecture from Below (Mack, 2024). Since 2023, she has coordinated the Her Know How group, a network of scholars and practitioners interested in gendered aspects of architectural production and women’s historical contributions to architecture and construction.

Lina Bo Bardi's project for the SESC Pompéia Factory, a sports and cultural center in a working-class neighborhood of São Paulo, is an inspiration not only for the remarkable spatial adaptations of the old factory complex but also for the significance of Lina's professional activity as one of the first influential women architects in Brazil. The fact that the architect chose to preserve the communal activities that were informally taking place before she was commissioned for the project also highlights the ways in which communities shape their own built environment, with or without architects.

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mariana.moura@uantwerpen.be

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