Anna Karla De Almeida Santos
anna.dealmeidasantos@epfl.ch +41 21 693 48 75 https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakarlaalmeida/
Nationalité: Brazilian
EPFL ENT-R HRC-GE
BP 4136 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Site web: https://habitat.epfl.ch/
EPFL ENAC IA LAB-U
BP 4134 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Site web: https://lab-u.epfl.ch/
DO@ENAC
CH A1 375 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Site web: https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/about/diversity-office/
Domaines de compétences
Company towns
Productive Habitats
Industrial heritage
Biographie
Fellow EPFLinnovators co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-CurieAnna Karla Almeida received a 5 years B.Arch degree in 2015 (Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Brazil), a triple M.Sc. degree in Historical Sciences with honours in 2018 (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Padova and University of Evora) and is currently doing a PhD in Architecture and Sciences of the City at Laboratory of Urbanism (2019-2023) under the direction of Prof Paola Viganò.
In early 2019, she awarded a Smithsonian Institution fellow to work on the behalf of the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program) at the Office of Historic Preservation of the City of San Antonio, Texas. In the same year, Anna Karla was awarded with a fellow Marie Skłodowska-Curie cofund EPFLinnovators for her current doctoral thesis entitled "Conditions of Habitability in a Company Town, rethinking the industrial cities and its productive habitats".
From 2020, Anna Karla is also a member of the Executive Board of Habitat Research Center at EPFL and from 2022, a representative of the Architecture section at the Diversity Office of ENAC.
Mission
In a context of persistent urban and environmental transformations, characterized by the transition from the modern city to the contemporary city, rethinking Company Towns becomes significant to observe the interaction between inhabitants, the urban space and their living conditions. Therefore, assessing citizens’ demands of habitability is important to promote urban and industrial innovation within a healthier and more sustainable environment. The focus of the doctoral thesis is to study Company Town from a perspective of its contemporary living conditions.Parcours professionnel
Teaching Assistant
Master Erasmus Mundus TPTI
Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichita' - DiSSGeA, University of Padova
2019
IEP Class 2019 (Intern, Historic Preservation)
City of San Antonio TX, Office of Historic Preservation
US/ICOMOS United States International Council of Monuments and Sites, Smithsonian Institution
2019
Architect
Studio di Architettura Dell'Osso Milano
2015
Formation
MSc. - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree TPTI: Techniques, Heritage, Territories of Industry
History
Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Coord.); Università di Padova; Universidade de Évora
2016/2018
B.Arch - Architecture and Urban Planning
Architecture and Urban Planning
UEMA
2009/2015
CsF - Science without Borders Excellence Scholarship Program
Architecture and Urban Planning
Sapienza Università di Roma
2012/2013
Publications
Publications Infoscience
Publications
2019
Modernidades Industriais no Maranhão
In the construction of the memory of the modern city, the industrial vestiges are an important part in the understanding of the modernities in Brazilian cities. The ICOMOS advisory body evaluation, when evaluating the candidature of São Luís do Maranhão as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHL, 1997), argues that the capital was "a relevant textile producer until the middle of the twenty century, giving the city an important role in national culture, represented by the work of its poets, writers and politicians and in material terms by its urban fabric of open spaces and housing". This article aims to understand the industrial modernities of Maranhão, addressing to how the economic cycles, urban development and the implementation of factories, from the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentieth, was influenced the urban transformations of São Luís, Brazil. Between the city center and the axes of urban expansion, from the Caminho Grande to the Anil River, the article highlight the emersion of bourgeois bungalows and working-class districts such as Filipinho district. In conclusion, the study presents a reflection of the urban development of industrial areas should be recognized as a Brazilian industrial heritage.
Labor e Engenho. 2019-12-17. DOI : 10.20396/labore.v13i0.8656090.2020
Repertorio
Se un censimento dei tipi insediativi che hanno accompagnato il pro- cesso di industrializzazione è difficilmente realizzabile, resta indispensabile ampliare lo sguardo oltre la casistica più nota. Cosi, in questo volume, alle 47 schede principali si affianca un repertorio di 120 ulteriori casi di studio, selezionati per documentare consistenze, tipologie e localizzazioni di rilevanti esempi di città e paesaggi industriali nel mondo. Per garantire la comparazione, il repertorio utilizza la medesima partizione cronologica adottata per le schede: dalle origini preindustriali alla diffusione del fenomeno tra Otto e Novecento, dalla modernizzazione nel periodo tra le due guerre alla ripresa della costruzione di nuovi insediamenti nel quadro del più recente welfare d'impresa. I casi repertoriati sono accompagnati da un'immagine emblematica e da brevi note redatte dagli autori che si sono avvalsi del contributo di corrispondenti e specialisti delle molteplici manifestazioni del patrimonio industriale nelle diverse aree geografiche del pianeta.
Architetture del lavoro. Città e paesaggi del patrimonio industriale; Forma Edizioni, 2020. p. 384.Corona Citizen Science Research Team. Regards sur le futur / Perspectives.
L’enquête a donné l’occasion aux répondant.e.s de se projeter dans l’avenir et de partager leurs attentes et inquiétudes sur les effets à plus long terme de la crise du Covid19. Ce rapport synthétise ces résultats.
2020Urban Living and Covid-19: Impacts on Architecture and the future of cities
As the world is being hit by the Covid-19 epidemic and people are asked to stay home, the way we use the city grid, urban spaces and constructed areas is changing. New flows and rhythms are adopted, new ways of experiencing spaces are born. Are cities’ structures ready to adapt to this new way of living?
Urban Living and Covid-19: Impacts on Architecture and the future of cities, (online) SwissNex Brazil, June 18, 2020.Vivre plus localement après le coronavirus ? - Scénarios d'avenir pour les économies locales
Le citizen think tank intitulé “Vivre plus localement après le coronavirus ? - Scénarios d'avenir pour les économies locales » s’inscrit dans le cadre de la recherche Corona Citizen Science. Les citoyens et les scientifiques de l’EPFL, de l’UNIL et de l’idiap ont travaillé ensemble dans le but de repenser et de recadrer notre vie individuelle et collective et les conditions de logement et de bien-être durant le (semi-)confinement causé par la pandémie COVID-19. Bien que ces discussions autour de l'économie locale ne soient pas nouvelles, elles ont été relancées récemment par la crise du coronavirus. Cette situation inédite, d'une part, a mis en évidence notre éventuelle dépendance à l'égard des biens et services fournis par les acteurs de proximité et, d'autre part, a incité les autorités locales à mettre en place des moyens pour soutenir l'économie locale paralysée pendant la pandémie. Dans ce contexte, la question posée qui a motivé le think tank "Vivre plus localement après le coronavirus ? - Scénarios d'avenir pour les économies locales" a été la suivante : Qu'est-ce qui détermine le rayon de la vie économique quotidienne, et comment peut-il évoluer dans l'avenir post-pandémie ? Au vu de l'étendue des possibilités offertes par les quatre scénarios discutés avec les citoyens, les résultats de la recherche ont démontré que la situation de l'économie locale en Suisse en 2030 reste une question ouverte. Toutefois, la contribution du think tank a été de donner une forme explicite à ces possibilités et d'entamer une conversation bien nécessaire sur les mesures à prendre pour arriver au scénario le plus souhaitable au cours des dix prochaines années.
2020-07-06https://www.coronacitizenscience.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CTT_Rapport_Economie_Locale-1.pdf
2021
Urban living, mobility & health – the future of our cities
The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the social inequalities and exposed frailties in the access to certain fundamental human rights, such as access to health and mobility. The type of housing, sanitation level, mobility, and urban structures play an essential role in people’s individual and collective health. The right to the city, the right to an efficient mobility structure, planned urbanization, and urban equipment improve a population’s quality of life and health. How can architects and urban planners tackle the global challenges of developing necessary infrastructure and services, especially in more impoverished regions of the world? Which practices can be implemented to improve citizens’ lives? How can technology, innovation, and local communities contribute?
Urban living, mobility & health – the future of our cities, Online, March 4, 2021.2022
The company town palimpsest: space, life and politics in Dalmine, Italy
This article proposes a reflection on the company towns’ actual conditions, presenting as a case study an up-to-date and articulated reconstruction of the conditions of habitability in Dalmine, Italy. The research strives on the phenomenon of company towns not as a mere static historical object but as an object that has undergone many transformations during the last three centuries in step with the social, environmental, and economic transition of the Anthropocene. For this purpose, the research uses a mixed-method approach to trace the urban condition of the case study town using business archives from the Fondazione Dalmine, among others. Findings demonstrate that the industry’s role in the city has changed from a producer and supplier of social services and welfare policies to a supporter/contributor of high-level education and innovation, research facilities, and development programs. Dalmine is an interesting case study of a contemporary company town and can stimulate the discussion around the current role of historical industries in the development of the territory.
Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale 2022; Venezia: Marsilio, 2022. p. 3800.The biopolitics of a company town: shaping the urban, shaping identities in Dalmine, Italy
Since the Industrial Revolution, Industrialists promoted and funded the development of housing projects, infrastructures, and social facilities around the production sites, some of them known as company towns. The scope was twofold: the entrepreneur or the company built and managed the community following business and production needs and promoted social harmony and social cohesion, providing services and goods for citizens’ consumption to enhance their living conditions urban health, where state services were not yet entrenched. the company towns could be retained as a valuable case study to examine how the urban rationalities and living conditions were shaped by industry politics. For this scope, this paper attempts to discuss the extent of the industry biopower in the context of cities entirely constructed by one company, with the case study of the city of Dalmine, a seamless pipe mill founded in 1906 in Italy. To reach this goal, the company town of Dalmine is investigated through archival research with a subsequent thematic content analysis of the house organ Conversazioni, from the company archives collected during two research periods in Fondazione Dalmine. The archival and thematic content analysis yields two main findings: (a) the company town was planned as a self-sufficient container environment in which urban planning and welfare policies appear as an instrument to exercise its biopower over the citizens; (b) the industry dictated the rules of working-class housing construction and entered workers' domestic lives with the incursion of industrial governance into the most intimate spheres of citizens was key to moulding citizens' values.
2022-09-21. 17th International Docomomo Conference. Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life, Valencia, Spain, September 6-9, 2022. p. 995-1004.