Peer-reviewed Publications
Forte, Giuseppina. “Raising the Ground, Climbing the Trees: Territorial Irreversibility and Its Contestation in East River Park.” In Mess of a Planet: Territoriology and Terrestrial Politics, edited by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Alexis Gonin, and Mattias Kärrholm. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
Forte, Giuseppina. “Concrete: Assembling Modernity in the Peripheries of Mexico City.” In Mexico City: Materiality/Places/Power, edited by Greig C. Crysler, and Maria Moreno Carranco, forthcoming.
Forte, Giuseppina, “El concreto y el ensamblaje de la modernidad en la periferia de la Ciudad de México,” In Ciudad de México: siete categorías materiales. edited by Greig C. Crysler, and Maria Moreno Carranco. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2026.
Giulio Giovannoni, Paola Briata, and Giuseppina Forte (eds.) “Anthropological Approaches to Urban Space.” Contesti 2, Florence University Press, 2024, ISSN 2035-5300.
Forte, Giuseppina, and Kuan Hwa (eds.) Embodying Peripheries. University of Florence Press, 2022, ISBN 978-88-5518-660-5.
Chiesi, Leonardo, and Giuseppina Forte. “Design for Climate Change in the Neoliberal Present. Gentrification, Ecocide, and the Loss of Urbanity in New York City.” Social Sciences, 11(10), 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100451.
Forte, Giuseppina. “Houselessness, infrastructural exclusion, and stigmatization.” Radical Housing Journal 4(1), 2022. https://doi.org/10.54825/FGTY7460.
Forte, Giuseppina. “‘Uninhabitable’ Spaces of Flooding in an Urban South,” Lo Squaderno 60, 2021. ISSN 1973-9141.
Forte, Giuseppina. “The Neighborhood in the Morro: Heterogeneity, Difference, and Emergence in a Periphery of the Global South.” Lo Squaderno 53, 2019. ISSN 1973-9141.
Media Exposure
Mentinfuga Magazine. “Giuseppina Forte: Research and Praxis in Social Architecture and Urban Planning.” Interview with Pasquale Esposito.
Williams Magazine. “Architecture for All.” Interview with Tomas Weber, Fall 2023.
Public/Open-source Scholarship
Forte, Giuseppina. “The Pluriverse Pavilion.” The Zilkha Center for the Environment. November 13, 2024.
Forte, Giuseppina. “O Caminho Para um Espaço mais Aberto” (The Path towards a more Open Space). In Jardim Filhos da Terra: Reflexões de uma Experiência Construída, edited by Glauber Triana et alt, Escola da Cidade, 2018.
Forte, Giuseppina. “Subversive Spatial Practices at the Urban Fringes of São Paulo,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, Vol. 266, 2015.
Forte, Giuseppina. “Architettura e Comunicazione Sociale” (Architecture and Social Communication). Misurare la Comunicazione 18, 2009.
In Preparation
“Intersectional Ecologies of Risk in São Paulo,” article
“The Biennalization of a Periphery of the Global South,” article
“The Architecture of the Grey Rents,” article
São Paulo at the Edge, Studio X, Milan, Series Terrae, book
Academic Collaborations
Organizer, Teaching Roundtable, Williams College, 2026.
Co-organizer, Ecologies of Difference, UC Berkeley, Center for Race and Gender, 2022-25.
Member, “Research/Creative Endeavors Roundtable,” Williams College, 2022-2023, 2023-2024.
Member, “Beyond Biophilia,” the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, 2023.
Co-organizer, Intersectional Ecologies, UC Berkeley, Center for Race and Gender, 2021-22.
Co-organizer, Dispossession in Motion Workshop, UC Berkeley, 2020.
Coordinator, Ethnographic Methods for Design, Asian Neighborhood Design, Low-Income Adult Students, with the Collective Thread, San Francisco, 2016.
“Materiality as a Method,” Research Fieldwork, with Nora Morales (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City) and Ralf Korbmacher (University of São Paulo), 2016.
“Social & Cultural Processes in Architecture & Urban Design,” Course restructuring for American Culture requirement, with Leonardo Chiesi (University of Florence) and Galen Cranz (UC Berkeley), 2018-2019.
Co-organizer, “(Re)thinking South Discussion Series,” UC Berkeley, Diversity Platforms Award, 2016.
Invited Speaker
“The Self-Built City: Material Politics and Ecologies of Difference in São Paulo,” University of Florence, Department of Architecture, June 2024.
“Inequality and Urban Planning,” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, April 2024.
“Technopolitics and Ecologies of Risk,” Lecture Series: On Architecture and Being Just, University of Florida, October 2023.
“Material Ecologies in São Paulo,” Columbia GSAPP, Symposium: Material Landscapes, March 2023.
“Ethnographic Methods for Environmental Justice,” Indigeneities, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Initiative, Davis Center/OIDEI and Oakley Center, Williams College, October 2022.
“Topographies of Difference in the Peripheries of São Paulo,” University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Sciences, December 2020.
“Relearning Architecture,” Social and Cultural Processes in Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley, October 2018.
“Transformative Pedagogies in Architecture and Planning,” Seminar in Teaching of Architecture, UC Berkeley, January 2017.
“Global Archeology of Informality,” Understanding Informal Urbanization: between Different Narratives and Conflicting Meanings, Symposium, Keynote Speaker, Polytechnic of Milan, June 2016.
“Spatial Justice: Social Justice through Space,” Social and Cultural Basis of Design, UC Berkeley, December 2015.
“Architecture and the Postcolonial: the CBF in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,” Yale School of Design, April 2011.
“From Architecture to Reality,” Polytechnic of Milan, December 2010.
Symposia and Paper Sessions organized
“Anthropological Urbanism,” Symposium, University of Florence, Dept. of Architecture, 2024.
“Embodying Peripheries,” Symposium, Polytechnic of Milan, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Studies, & Triennale of Milan, 2023.
2021 “Gender and Race in Urban Latin America: Segregation, Exclusion, and Resistance,” Panel, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Annual Congress, Montreal, 2021.
Conference Activity
“Occupying the Hills: Land, Self-Built Houses, and Ecologies of Difference in São Paulo (1984-1998),” International Conference of Critical Geographies (9th), Mexico City, October 2023.
“Ecologies of Risk and Reconstruction in São Paulo,” European Association of Social Anthropologists, Belfast, July 2022.
“Intersectional Ecologies in São Paulo,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, February/March 2022.
“Racialized and Gendered Ecologies along the Riverbanks,” LASA Conference, April 2021.
“The Biennalization of a Periphery of the Global South,” SAH Conference, Montréal, April 2021.
“Sensescapes of Difference in the Peripheral Frontier,” Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Urban Space, UC Berkeley, May 2020.
“Uneven Ground: Frontiers of Urbanization and Difference in São Paulo’s Periphery,” States of Space: Critical Geographies in Contemporary Brazil, BRASA 2020 (Brazilian Studies Association), University of Texas, Austin, March 2020.
“Black Cultural Politics transforming Urban Subjectivities in the Peripheries of São Paulo,” Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Urban Space, University of Florence, June 2018.
“Building Humanitarian ‘Expertise’ in Ouagadougou,” Landscapes of Humanitarian Expertise, American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2017.
“Towards a more Inclusive City? Architecture and Social Justice in São Paulo,” Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Urban Space, University of Florence, June 2016.
“Bottom-Up Incremental Urbanism,” International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2014.
Service to Profession
Member of the Search Committee for Land Systems and Environmental Science TT, Williams College, 2024-2025.
Member of the Standing Grievance Panel, Williams College, 2024-2025.
Organizer, Career Series, Workshops, Architecture (Practice and Academia), Williams.
Member, Hutchinson Fellowship Committee, Williams College, 2024-2025.
Juror, Bruce Sanderson 1956 Prize in Architecture/Design, Williams College, 2024-2025.
Member, Studio Honors Defense Committee, Williams College, 2024-2025.
Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, Williams College 2023-2025.
Juror, Art Flow: International Art Competition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Made Event, New York, 2011.
Reviewer, Ardeth Journal, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2017.
Professional Reports
“Broadly Experienced Architect.” NCARB, Chicago, 2016
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