Tatiana Terry is a brasilian architect and urban planner with a postgraduate degree in urban planning in Federal University of Rio de janeiro. She has expertise in coordinating favelas upgrading projects such as Favela Bairro Program since 1994. Her doctoral dissertation investigated recent social-spatial transformations in some favelas of Rio de Janeiro affected by speculative real state market as a consequence of State retraction and growth of the influence of militias or paramilitaries groups in informal settlements over the last decade.

Since 2008 she has been working on projects and researches in Rocinha Favela in Rio de Janeiro, and, as a professor in the Course of Architecture and Urbanismo of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de janeiro (PUC-RIO) since 2013, has actively participated of the process of curricularization of extension in the university, creating, disciplines in the undergraduate that envolves real projects in favelas in a participatory way. Her professional experience in the favelas contributed to her approach to grassroots collectives and to UNIR PROJECT: Research Center and articulation of knowledge between Rocinha and University PUC Rio - This was the basis for her current research project titled : Mapping Rocinha from new perspectives: critical cartography as a backdrop.

Research

• Urban informality
• Social and critical cartography
• Public housing policies
• Decolonialism

The research Mapping Rocinha from new perspectives: critical cartography as a backdrop, aims to explore new possibilities for representing informal spaces such as favelas in Brazil, thinking about alternative ways of representing favelas against the hegemonic vision of favelas as “spaces of absence” (Silva, 2009). It considers the context of the neglect of public policies aimed at favelas in one side, and in the other, the gradual mobilization around the fight for rights in popular territories by grassrrots collectives focused in Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro. These groups are formed mainly by women and young favela residents who conduct researches and produce informative contents, which, to a certain extend, come close to what Holston conceptualized as “insurgent citizenship”(2008).