Daniela Sanjines
Daniela Sanjinés has been a researcher at the ETH Wohnforum and lecturer of the MAS ETH in Housing since 2018. Currently she is pursuing a PhD within the framework of the SNSF funded project titled "Negotiating space for housing cooperatives in Latin America. The case of post-conflict Colombia and El Salvador". She holds an MSc in International Cooperation and Urban Development from TU Darmstadt and an MSc in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Previous work includes the design and implementation of affordable housing policies in Colombia and the design of participatory camp improvement plans for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the West Bank (UNRWA).
- Housing Cooperatives Role in the Revitalization of Historical Centers. The case of Uruguay, El Salvador and Colombia
- Negotiating Space For Cooperative Housing In Latin America
- Tackling the global housing challenges: relevance and replicability of Switzerland’s and Uruguay’s housing cooperatives’ policies and strategies
- Promoting peace and reconciliation through cooperative housing in post-conflict Colombia
- Art-based urban upgrading initiatives in Bogota: Policy expectations vs. local impacts
09.2018 – ongoing: Lecturer and Coordinator of the Master of Advanced Studies ETH HOUSING. ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Teaching courses: (1) Housing issues, challenges and strategies in the Global South, (2) Housing issues, challenges and strategies in Europe; (3) Housing research methods. 4) Seminar Week 2021, 2022: “School of Architecture for Reconciliation”. Valledupar, Colombia. 5) Seminar Week 2024: “Towards a Cooperative Housing Pilot Project in Bogotá City Center”. Bogotá, Colombia.
08.11.2023: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Guest Lecturer: “Negociando espacio para la vivienda cooperativa en Colombia. De la Investigación a la Acción Educativa”. Course: “Vivienda Global: perspectivas internacionales para el diseño y gestión de vivienda asequible”. Prof. Dr. Luz Maria Vergara.
15.09.2023: Universidad de los Andes. Guest Lecture “The role of Cooperative Housing in the provision of Affordable Housing”. Prof. Santiago Pradilla. Bogotá, Colombia.
2014-2022: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Guest Lecturer: “More than Just a Numbers Game: Introduction to Housing Policies in Colombia” at the Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities Course. Dr. Alexander Von Hoffmann. Boston, USA.
30.08 – 10.09.2021: Guest Lecturer at the Reus Architecture and Urban Design International Workshop. Organized by Escola d´arquitectura de Reus. Reus, Spain.
09.2018: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. “Research Methods for Architects”. Workshop Week. Taller MITUO. Bogotá, Colombia.
Articles
- Sanjinés Encinales, D., Duyne Barenstein, J., & Quiñónez, N. (2024). Exploring the conditions for the emergence and sustainability of housing cooperatives in Latin America. Housing Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2024.2392697
- Sanjinés, D. and N. Quiñónez. 2022. Housing and Reincorporation Strategies in post-Conflict Colombia: Mismatch of micro-level visions and macro-scale approaches, Radical Housing Journal, 4(2), pp. 203-209; https://doi.org/10.54825/VNCY2498
- Duyne Barenstein, J., P. Koch, D. Sanjinés, C. Assandri, C. Matonte, D. Osorio & G. Sarachu. 2021. Struggles for the decommodification of housing: The politics of housing cooperatives in Uruguay and Switzerland. Housing Studies, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1966392!
- Sanjinés, D. 2021. "Migrant Architecture". Dearq, no. 30 (2021): 88-106. https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq30.2021.09
- Duyne Barenstein, J ; Sanjines, D. 2018. The Role of Cooperatives in the Provision of Affordable Housing: an introductory overview. Archi. pag. 21 numero 1/2018.
- Castro J.: Kostenwein D.: Sanjinés D. 2016. Returns to the Rural. Migrant Journal, Issue 1: Across Country.
- Bermudez, R., Bermudez, J. R., & Sanjinés, D. 2014. El Tunal Experimental: 40 Years Later an Experimental Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia, 1972. Docomomo Journal, (51), 40–47. https://doi.org/10.52200/51.A.48YL3PDT
Book Chapters
- Duyne Barenstein, J. Sanjinés, D. 2022. Can top-down art-based urban renewal strategies contribute to demarginalize informal settlements? Voices and perspectives from two neighborhoods in Bogotá. In Citizen-Led Urbanism in Latin America: Superbook of Civic Actions for Transforming Cities, edited by Alarcón, L., Alata, P., Alegre, M., Egger, T., Fassina, R., Hanono, A., Huffmann, C., Nogales, L., & Piedrafita, C. Inter-American Development Bank. https://doi.org/10.18235/0004582
- Krebs, R.: Sanjinés, D. 2019. The Need for an Urban Laboratory. In Urban Design Lab Handbook. Dialogue-Oriented Urban Transformation Processes, edited by Roland Krebs / Markus Tomaselli. JOVIS Verlag GmbH, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86859-562-8
- Bermúdez, R.; Bermúdez, J.R.; Sanjinés, D.; Villegas, J. 2008. High Density Housing, In Alejandro Bahamón (ed.) High Density. Parramón Ediciones: Barcelona. ISBN-10 : 8434233622
- Sanjinés, D. 2008. Chandigarh: between utopia and waste. In, Rematerial: del desecho a la arquitectura, edited by Alejandro Bahamón. Parramón Ediciones: Barcelona. ISBN-10 : 8434233657