Sílvia Jorge is an architect, with a master's degree in Rehabilitation of Architecture and Urban Centers (2009) and a PhD in Urbanism (2017) from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Socio-Territorial Urban and Local Action Studies Group (Gestual-CIAUD/FA-UL), since its inception in 2008, where she has been part of several action research teams, namely as a postdoctoral fellow at the Africa Habitat Project (2018/2021), coordinated by Isabel Raposo. Also as a research fellow, she was part of the team of the project “Spatial Reconfigurations and Social Differentiation in Cities in Angola and Mozambique” (2012-2014), coordinated by Cristina Udelsman, developed at the Center for African Studies of the University Institute of Lisbon (CES-IUL). /ISCTE-IUL). Also noteworthy is her participation in the "Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project", coordinated by Yves Cabannes and Barbara Lipietz, produced by United Cities and Local Governments and Bartlett, University College of London (2017).
Processes of production and transformation of self-produced urban areas; socio-spatial qualification; urbanization and peri-urban planning.
VIEGAS, S.; JORGE, S. (2019). “The role of the urban grid in Luanda and Maputo’s current transformation: between the idealised city and the pre-existing self-produced spaces”. In Architext, Journal of the School of Architecture at Ariel University, Vol. 7, pp. 114-121. ISSN: 2415-7492
JORGE, S. (2018). “The Exception to Tradition: Urban Policies in the Urban Outskirts of the Mozambican Capital in the Last Years of the Colonial Regime”. In Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series. Vol. 296.
RAPOSO, I.; JORGE, S. (org.) (December 2017). Observar e Intervir no local. Magazine Espaços vividos e espaços construídos. Estudos sobre a cidade magazine, 5 and 6. Lisbon: CIAUD-FAUL.
RAPOSO, I.; JORGE, S. (December 2017). “A Construção do direito à Cidade nas margens de Maputo: das práticas de habitar à produção capitalista da cidade”. Observar e Intervir no local. Magazine Espaços vividos e espaços construídos. Estudos sobre a cidade, 6. Lisbon: CIAUD-FAUL.
