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Amorim, Vanessa. Sesc Pompeia. SĂŁo Paulo, 2018.
This booklet gathers a summed up version of my CV, a brief portfolio, and, lastly, the proofs of the listed activities (such as declarations, certificates, and so on). The portfolio contains some works, such as architectural designs, authorial photographs and other.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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SQUATTING: SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR THE RIGHT
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ARCH. CONSULTANCY
TALK AT CAU-RJ
Social movement
Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism
Undergraduate thesis
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ARCH. DESIGN
WORK EXHIBITION
PHOTOGRAPHS
PROOFS
Regeneration of Av. Presidente Vargas
About women in architeture
A bit of how I see the world
Statements, certificates etc.
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WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2019 - PRESENT Fiocruz | Scientific Institution Research Assistant | Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2019 - PRESENT Movimento de Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas (MLB) | Social Movement Volunteering - Architectural Consultant | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
NAME CONTACT
NATIONALITY ABOUT ME
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Vanessa Ribeiro de Amorim
2017 - 2018
Casa&Video | Architecture Office Intern Architect | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2017
Fiocruz | Scientific Institution Research Intern | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2016 - 2017
UFRJ | Núcleo de Pesquisa e Documentação | Scientific Institution Research Intern | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2015 - 2016
Imageplan | Architecture Office Intern Architect | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2014 - 2015
UFRJ | PROARQ | Graduate Program in Architecture Intern Architect | Rio de Janeiro
ribeirova0@gmail.com +55 21 984045422 Brazilian Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She currently works as Research Assistant at Fiocruz and volunteers as Architectural Consultant for former homeless families. Her background is divided in both practice and research work, among scientific institutions, social movements, and architecture offices. Moreover, she is an activist in the fight for housing.
SOFTWARES Autodesk AutoCAD ArchiCAD (BIM) SketchUp Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Artlantis
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Kerkythea Lumion CorelDRAW Microsoft Office MS Project ArcGIS
ATTENDED COURSES
CONFERENCES
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2018
Social Urbanism Training Course Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil | São Paulo, SP
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Course ministered by David Harvey: The Right to The City Organized by Observatório da Democracia | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2018
Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Art Direction Academia Internacional de Cinema | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Architecture Exhibition
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Art:
Conception
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Art
The Ministry of Cities: structures and policies under its responsibility
Urban Project Management
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Urban Rehabilitation with Focus on Central Areas
Participant on the International Seminar Valuing Cultural Heritage: A New Critical Look at Heritage Materials Studies Fiocruz | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2019
Ministério das Cidades | Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2016
Member of the organizing committee of the II National Seminar on Slum Urbanization (II URBfavelas) UERJ (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) and UFRJ | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Ministério das Cidades [Ministry of Cities - Federal Government of Brazil] | Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2016
Lecturer on the Seminar 25th Annual Scientific Initiation Meeting [25ª RAIC] Fiocruz | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
EAV Parque Lage | Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2016
Invited Speaker on the Seminar: Architecture: Feminine Noun
Participant on the Workshop Characterization and Conservation
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Fiocruz | Rio de Janeiro, RJ 2016
Ministério das Cidades | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Participant on the International Seminar Contemporary Cities - Urban Ethnography between Brazil and Portugal Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF | Niterói, RJ
OTHER 2019 2018
2016 Literature awarded | Prêmio Poesia Agora – Verão 2019 Invited to publish in a magazine | Co-author of the article: Meu Professor Machista | Revista Desvio
2017
Invited to exhibit a work about women in architecture | at Casa de Estudos Urbanos, RJ
2016
Undergaduate Teaching Assistant | History of The Theories of the Urban Planning III | UFRJ – FAU | RJ
2015
Undergaduate Teaching Assistant Architectural Design III | UFRJ – FAU | RJ
Participant on the Workshop Earth Construction: Other views of architecture technology as a political tool ABRICÓ | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
2016
Participant on the Workshop Bioconstruction: Construction Introduction with bamboo ABRICÓ | Rio de Janeiro, RJ
LANGUAGES Portuguese English 7Spanish
November, 2018
SQUATTING: SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO HOUSING Undergraduate thesis presented at FAU-UFRJ. Available in: https://issuu.com/ribva (Portuguese content)
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This work aimed to investigate urban occupations, organized by social movements. It consists on the social implementation of underutilized and empty properties, transforming their use into housing. The objects of study were three occupations in the center of Rio de Janeiro: Manuel Congo, Mariana Crioula and Quilombo da Gamboa. The material was produced by means of theoretical references and extensive fieldwork, with visits to the occupations and dialogues with social movements and residents, in well as with the architects involved. 9
Furthermore, the socio-political contexts and historical processes linked to the occupations, such as the insufficient Brazilian social housing policies, were analyzed. During the execution of this work, there was a great setback for the social movements: the election of extreme-right politicians at all three levels, with special attention to President Jair Bolsonaro, whose government proposal was to classify occupations as terrorism.
Finally, a brief architectural experiment (which we see in the images on the previous page) was carried out on a public building that had already been occupied several times, suffering violent re-integrations of property and, nowadays is empty and with its structure ruined. It’ s located in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro’s famous bohemian neighborhood. The proposal of the experimental design is to think about how this building could be, if it fulfilled its social function.
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Facade of the building that was taken for the architectural test. Photograph taken during a repossession. Image: Gabriel Bernardo / Fazendo MĂŠdia. 11
October, 2019 until the present
ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANCY Movimento de Luta nos Bairros Vilas e Favelas [Fighting Movement in Districts, Villages and Slums] mlbbrasil.org ABOUT
MLB is a national social movement that fights for urban reform and the human right to live in dignity. In its words: “We are a movement formed by thousands of homeless families from all over the country who are victims of the predatory action of land and real estate speculation. For the MLB, the fight for housing is the main fuel of the fight for urban reform, because through it we can mobilize thousands of people, pressure governments and draw attention to the problems faced by poor people in major cities�. I, along with two other architects, give architectural consultancy to people in urban occupations and collaborate on seminars and debates. My core contains about 80 families, formed by 4 sub-cores of different areas in the Metropolitan Region of Rio, one in downtown and the other three in the peripheries.
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Photograph of one of the meetings, with some of the families of the core, with the coordinators of the movement and with the architects. Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Image: MLB
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March, 2018
ARQUITETURA: SUBSTANTIVO FEMININO Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism | Rio de Janeiro, RJ ABOUT
On this day, March 6, 2018, other women and I were invited by the Council of Architecture and Urbanism to present a seminar named “Architecture: Feminine Noun”. Its main topics were women’s representation in architecture, women and the city, and the female exercise of architecture. Among the speakers was the politician and activist Marielle Franco, who was brutally murdered, along with her driver, Anderson Gomes, on March 14, 2018. The case remains unsolved after a criminal scheme, formed by state officials, to cover up the elucidation of the murder.
“Marielle Franco is a councilwoman and the president of the Women’s Commission at the City Council of Rio de Janeiro. She coordinated the Commission for the Defense of Human and Citizen Rights of the State Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj). She is a sociologist with a Master’s degree in Public Administration from UFF.” (translation) 15
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October, 2017
REGENERATION OF AVENIDA PRESIDENTE VARGAS Avenida Presidente Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
ABOUT
Much of the extension of Presidente Vargas Avenue is marked by an abundance of urban voids. In addition, it also has a large number of institutional and business monofunctionalist buildings, with the absence of activities on the ground floor. Although it is a metropolitan flow road axis, endowed with great infrastructure, the absence of quality spaces transforms the so opportune neighborhood into a mere place of passage. Taking advantage of the potential of the place and seeking to implement greater diversity of uses, we had as a premise to intervene in these urban voids. In fact, most of them belong to public power. The idea is to create blocks with buildings of mixed use, arranged in a way to create a street in its interior. The interiors of the block provide pleasant spaces, of permanence, in opposition to the flow character, of metropolitan context of Avenida Presidente Vargas.
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It provides equipment for the new demands of new residents in the area, as well as for the general population, such as the Municipal Market and Cultural Center. The project was developed with Nathalia Blayer and Rafael Xavier.
Urban voids mapping.
Indication of the design area.
Strategies for pre-existing buildings
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Demolitions
Implantation of urban equipment and squares
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General scheme of the design, with multi-use buildings.
September, 2017
PROVOCA.AÇÕES 3 Casa de Estudos Urbanos [Urban Studies House], Rio de Janeiro ABOUT
Exhibition of work created in partnership with Mikhaila Copello, containing testimonials from female architects and architecture students on the sexism they experienced at university and in their own professional practice. It took place in the third edition of the event Provocações, entitled Provoca. Ações.3 - Nomear a cidade no feminino [Naming the city in the feminine], alongside debates conducted by Tainá de Paula and Rosana Tavares, about the city from the perspective of gender inequality.
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