WHO?
Barbara Roosen (°1978, Herk-de-Stad) studied architecture at PHL Diepenbeek and at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels. Between 2001 and 2006 she worked for B-architecten, Lhoas et Lhoas architectes, Stéphane Beel Architects, MVRDV and Conix architects. In 2006 she started the Master Human Settlements at the KULeuven, in combination with individual architectural work. In July 2009 she presented her dissertation ‘Projecting the Volta River Project’ (Ghana), of which an article was published in UFO1 on Water Urbanisms, SUN. She has been a guest studio assistant at Sint-Lucas Brussels Architecture and Urban Design. Currently she lives in Brussels and divides her time between freelance work, design of installations, interiors, architectural-landscape projects and urban research, often in collaboration with other architects, landscape architects, urban designers, photographers and artists.
Bert Joostens (°1978) studied architecture at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels. His graduate project (2001) was a proposal for a leisure parc including a cemetery and crematorium building in the port of Antwerp. After graduating he continued Theatre Studies at the Antwerp University. He worked for theatre company De Roovers, Tom Cartrysse Architect, Stéphane Beel Architects, The Flemish Government Architects’ Team and others.
Ana Beja da Costa (º1980, Lisbon) studied Landscape Architecture in the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, in Lisbon, being her thesis a dissertation on “Methodologies for the classification of Landscape Heritage”. Between 2004 and 2007 she has worked as landscape architect, in Lisbon and in East Timor, for the Research Group for the Reconstruction of Timor-Leste (GERTiL). In 2007 she enrolled the Master of Human Settlements of the KU Leuven. Since 2008, after a short passage by BUUR (BE), she has worked as a landscape architect at Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse (NL). Meantime she has written articles for several publications, as in UFO1 on “Water Urbanisms” (2008), Sun Explorations book series “Reclaiming (the urbanism of) Mumbai” (2009). She has also been a conference speaker at the Urban Water Conference (KU Leuven, 2008) and at the International Forum on Urbanism (TU Delft, 2009).
Sabina Favaro (°1979, Padova) studied architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Her final thesis focused on possible scenarios for post-apartheid cities, using Cape Town as a case study. She subsequently worked on informal settlement upgrading at ArG Design in Cape Town before starting the European Master in Urbanism at KU Leuven and IUAV. In 2008 she graduated with a thesis entitled Water and Soil: remoulding topography to support new forms of densification (r-urbanization) in Khulna, Bangladesh. Her thesis was published in UFO 1 Urban Fascicles OSA and in The New Urban Question, Urbanism beyond Neo-liberalism at the 4th International Forum of Urbanism in Delft as well as being selected for the 16th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress in Ahmedabad. She has worked at MVRDV in Rotterdam on urban projects and publications. Today she is a freelance urban researcher.
