Vitor Pessoa Colombo
Vitor Pessoa Colombo
Vitor Pessoa Colombo is a Brazilian architect, trained in Switzerland (B.Sc. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, M.Sc. Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio), with a background in urban studies.
Since 2016, he has carried out research on urbanisation processes in cities of the global South. His research has focused on participatory, “citizen mapping” methods that provide spatial information useful to support the improvement of vulnerable human settlements in cities marked by socio-spatial segregation.
Now he is working on his PhD project at EPFL‘s CEAT unit and investigates the potential of urban design as a preventive tool against disease in the context of rapid/unplanned urbanization, analysing the cases of Nairobi (Kenya) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).
