Viviana d’Auria

Viviana d’Auria is Assistant Professor of International Urbanism at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, KU Leuven. Trained as an architect and urbanist at Roma Tre University (Italy), she pursued studies in Human Settlements at the KU Leuven (Belgium) where she also completed her doctoral inquiry. She has been NWO Rubicon fellow at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Exploring ‘practiced’ architecture is an integral part of her research within a more general interest in the trans-cultural construction of cities and their contested spaces.