Center for Favela Studies (CEFAVELA).

• Grant number: 22/12259-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: July 31, 2029
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Fundamentals of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Jeroen Johannes Klink
• Grantee: Jeroen Johannes Klink
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro ; Flávia da Fonseca Feitosa ; Francisco de Assis Comarú ; Maria Lucia Refinetti Rodrigues Martins ; Rosana Denaldi ; Silvana Amaral Kampel ; Vanessa Elias de Oliveira
• Associated researchers: Adauto Lucio Cardoso ; Analida de la Cruz Rincon Patiño ; Anderson Gomes de Oliveira ; André Buonani Pasti ; André Luiz Brandão ; Beatriz Tamaso Mioto ; Caio Santo Amore de Carvalho ; Camila Caldeira Nunes Dias ; Camila Pereira Saraiva ; Carolina Moutinho Duque de Pinho ; Christian Ricardo Ribeiro ; Daniel Arribas-Bel ; Fernando Rocha Nogueira ; Francisco Rowe ; Gautam Bhan ; Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz ; Gustavo de Oliveira Coelho de Souza ; Joana Xavier Barros ; Juliano Pamplona Ximenes Ponte ; Karina Oliveira Leitão ; KARINE REIS FERREIRA GOMES ; Liliana María Sánchez Mazo ; Lúbia Vinhas ; Luciana de Oliveira Royer ; Luciana Nicolau Ferrara ; Marcos Medeiros Raimundo ; Maria Cristina Cravino ; Maria de Lourdes Zuquim ; Maria do Carmo Dias Bueno ; Maria Isabel Sobral Escada ; Marie Hedwig Huchzermeyer ; Melissa Cristina Pereira Graciosa ; Monika Kuffer ; Nathaniel Muzzy Millington ; Pedro Ribeiro de Andrade Neto ; Raian Vargas Maretto ; Ramin Keivani ; Roberta Menezes Rodrigues ; Sidnei João Siqueira Sant'Anna ; Victor Fernandez Nascimento ; Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/09013-2 - Favela's real estate: particular conditions of valorization via housing developments in armed militia's territories in the city of Rio de Janeiro, BP.DD; 25/04197-0 - Development of a Geospatial Metadata Catalog of Brazilian Favelas, BP.TT; 25/04372-7 - Heliopolis: Characteristics and Socio-territorial Transformations in the 21st Century, BP.IC; + associated scholarships 25/04789-5 - ESTIMA FAVELAS: Analysis of Housing Needs in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, BP.TT; 25/01743-4 - Urban metabolism and the social production of risk in a peripheral context: an analysis of the impacts of the Aricanduva Drainage PAC works on São Paulo slums, BP.TT; 24/23550-0 - Favelas: production of space and the real estate market, BP.PD; 25/01597-8 - THE ENVIRONMENTAL MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN FAVELAS, BP.PD; 25/02414-4 - Scientific Representation of the Favelas: a critical analysis of CEFAVELA's work on social networks, BP.JC; 24/23583-6 - Recent informal settlements upgrading practices in Latin America: physical and regulatory approaches and their impacts, BP.PD; 24/20451-1 - New Approaches to Favela Characterization: Urban Heat and Socio-Spatial Inequality in Times of Climate Emergency, BP.TT; 24/21895-0 - The quality of housing and the built environment in the Lagoa sector of the Heliópolis favela, BP.TT; 24/16581-7 - Technical support for cataloging and organizing an audiovisual and bibliographic collection about Favelas, BP.TT; 24/16589-8 - Methods and tools for participation within the scope of CEFA, BP.TT; 24/17361-0 - BDC-Favelas - Phase 1: Design, implement, customize, test, and document BDC computing platform services to integrate at BDC-Favelas as an instance of the BDC Brazil Data Cube Platform., BP.TT; 24/15076-7 - Identification and characterization of precarious settlements, BP.TT; 24/14669-4 - Methods and tools for planning, development, and monitoring of CEFA's actions, BP.TT; 24/14473-2 - "Meta Favela: Geospatial Metadata of Brazilian Favelas", BP.TT - associated scholarships

Abstract

Precarious housing -slums and informal settlements- represents a key challenge, both for academia and the policy community involved in the design and decision making processes related to the finance, regulation and intervention in the built environment. The main theoretical approaches that have been developed to describe the emergence and state interventions in informal settlements during the twentieth century have been unable to catch up with the scale, complexity and multifaceted socio-environmental entanglements between contemporary slums and cities. The justification behind the creation of the Center for Studies on Slums is to fill this gap, generate and disseminate new knowledge to increase our understanding of the phenomenon, as well as the limits and potential of upgrading programs and policies in the contemporary urban setting. It will do so through a work plan that articulates three dimensions: (i) Slum analytics and modeling; (ii) Slum dynamics in critical urban studies; and (iii) Statecraft for slum upgrading. (AU)