Alessandra Fabbri

Alessandra is a PhD Candidate at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and a Fellow of the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Her research focuses on environmental policy and planning for the conservation of transboundary ecosystems. Specifically, she studies transnational cooperation and sovereignty at the local and national levels with evidence from the Amazon Biogeographical Region. She is engaged in projects concerning socioenvironmental well-being in the Amazon, including initiatives on integrated territorial planning in border areas and on equitable growth in urban centres, with an express commitment to preserving the ecological integrity of the region.

Previously, Alessandra was a Tenured Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has also worked in Genova, Milan, Paris, London, and Sydney. Her educational background includes a Master of Architecture cum Laude in Urban Design at the University of Ferrara, Italy, an exchange program at the Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, Argentina, and a Master in Emerging Technologies and Design cum Distinction at the Architectural Association of London, UK.

Projects
TAKÜMA ARÜ MAÜ
The Amazon Headquarters of the National University of Colombia and its Amazonian Research Institute (IMANI), in collaboration with the Magüta Museum of Mocagua, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and with the sponsorship of the MIT MISTI Seed Grant, aim to organize a meeting on the integrated socio-environmental management of the territory in the transborder region. The purpose of this event is to provide a space for dialogue among the Magüta located in the transborder region, with the intention of sharing experiences of territorial management, both within and across administrative and legal boundaries, and despite them. The objective is to contribute to the discussion on the regional plan of the Amazon, in line with its conception of territory and territoriality, and in the context of their experience in cooperation for conservation and integrated territory management. The symposium aims to serve as a point of reference for the development of territorial policies from the communities themselves and generate inputs for influencing public policies on territorial governance. This meeting will be held in the Mocagua settlement as a pilot study to identify how integrated management unfolds and expresses itself in practice and within the framework of the territorial and environmental policies of the countries, how these policies can be compatible, and to develop specific recommendations for the region that can be integrated into regional, national, and local policies, with the goal of prioritizing and promoting policies and projects with high potential to influence equitable development and conservation in the transborder region of the Andean Amazon and the Brazilian Amazon.

Contact

afabbri@mit.edu