Laura P. is a geospatial designer and researcher combining architecture, cartography, and programming.

PhD, Urban and Regional Planning (public-policy track)

Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo (FAU-USP)

Doctoral research funded by FAPESP.

Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D.)

Yale School of Architecture

Thesis: Mapping Grounds for Reparations in Jaraguá Peak. Advisor: Keller Easterling.

B.A., Architecture and Urbanism

Escola da Cidade, São Paulo

Postgraduate certificate — Georreferenciamento, Geoprocessamento e Sensoriamento Remoto

Anhanguera / AmbientalPRO, distance learning

Geoprocessing Technician

Centro de Trabalho Indigenista (CTI), Programa Guarani, Projeto Fundo Amazônia

Produces maps for Guarani Indigenous lands the project works with, between the Vale do Ribeira and the coast of Paraná.

Co-founder

Colaborações por Justiça Territorial (CJT)

Organizes collaborative workshops and social cartographies; spatial data visualization and georeferencing; website and graphic document design; architecture and territorial-planning projects.

Researcher

Chão Coletivo

A research-action platform composed of Guarani and non-Indigenous researchers, architects, and builders.

Responsável Técnica — "Nossa Cultura na Cozinha Quilombola"

CAU-SP, Edital de Patrimônio Cultural

Technical lead, in Quilombo André Lopes, with local community leaders.

Designer and Senior Researcher

Autônoma — spatial advocacy agency

Produced geospatial mapping and visualizations using QGIS, Google Earth Engine, and Mapbox; researched historical aerial photographs and archival imagery and georeferenced them; organized interactive mapping and digital-archive platforms, including documental.xyz.

Collaborator — RETA

Rede Transdisciplinar da Amazônia

With Ligia Nobre, Eduardo Staszowski (The New School), and Claudio Bueno (UC Santa Cruz). Mapping the transdisciplinary community network of the Amazonia project; organizing collective workshops.

ATHIS — Chão Coletivo

Project Tekó Porã, Tekoa Pyau requalification

Weekly meetings with the Guarani community on sanitation, drainage, and territorial planning; preliminary territorial-planning study (technical drawings, diagrams, 3D model); implementation budget; technical assistance for a "Model Houses" manual.

Cultural Heritage Project — Chão Coletivo

Jaraguá Indigenous Land

Guarani Mbya memory, knowledge, and constructive practices. Produced the 2022 book Memórias, saberes e técnicas construtivas dos Guarani Mbya na Terra Indígena Jaraguá.

Volunteer

Centro de Trabalho Indigenista (CTI)

Organized monthly reports and accompanied environmental-monitoring activities for the PSA (Payment for Environmental Services) program at the Peguaoty Indigenous Land.

Executive Editor

Editora Escola da Cidade

Managed the full publishing process for architecture and urbanism books, from manuscript to print; editorial direction, book and promotional design, press outreach.

Gruber Fellow in Global Justice and Women's Rights

Yale Law School

Coordinated the Chão Coletivo project in Pyau village, Jaraguá Indigenous Land: GIS mapping, oral histories, zoning-law reports, a housing prototype, and construction-training workshops.

Researcher / Designer

Green New Deal Network, Phoenix, Arizona (remote)

Led by Billy Fleming (UPenn), Keller Easterling (Yale), and Janette Kim (CCA). Infrastructure Art Project — graphic materials, community meetings, fund-distribution research.

Media Team

Yale School of Architecture

Edited lecture videos, organized graphic materials for social media, photographed field visits and events.

Research Assistant to Prof. Keller Easterling

Yale School of Architecture

Advanced Studio "No Normal" — GIS maps and databases; organized an ArcGIS / ArcGIS Online workshop.

Archives Assistant

Yale University, Manuscripts and Archives

Research, organization, and digitization of archival materials.

Architect

Marina Portolano Architecture, São Paulo

Project management, budgeting, construction-site coordination, technical drawings, and client presentations across a health clinic, apartment, office, restaurant, and furniture fair.

Design and Construction — "Era o Hotel Cambridge"

Housing occupation, São Paulo

Design and construction of common areas for a housing-occupation community, with a team of 26 students; community engagement, prototype design, and an associated publication.

Guest lecturer — "Aquilombamentos: ancestralidade, cultura e projetos para o território"

Pós Cidades em Disputa — 7º Ciclo Aberto: Urgências e Insurgências

Instructor, with Beatrice Perracini and Amanda Klajner

IAB-SP — "Arquivos Vivos: Memória, Território e Biodiversidade"

Guest lecturer — "A Land Reparations Network"

Yale University, ARCH 3075: History and Theory. Invited by Keller Easterling.

Assistant Professor, Estúdio Vertical

Escola da Cidade

Professor — "Arquitetura no Antropoceno: Impasses e Possibilidades"

Inter-university course with Escola da Cidade, UFRJ, UFMG, and PUC-Rio

Guest lecturer — "Architecture as allyship"

FAU-UFMG, Cosmópolis. Co-taught with Beatrice Padovan Perracini.

Examining committee

Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, UFRJ

Invited speaker — "O Chão da Cidade"

UFRJ, Floresta Cidade series, with Beatrice Perracini

Examining committee

Parsons School of Design, The New School

Guest lecturer

Columbia GSAPP, advanced studio led by F-Architecture

Guest reviewer / examining committee

Yale School of Architecture

Teaching Assistant to Prof. Anthony Acciavatti

Yale School of Architecture — "Out of Date: Expired Patents and Unrealized Histories"

Assistant Professor, course by Prof. Ana María Durán

Yale School of Architecture — "Sustainability: A Critical View from the Urban History of Amazonia"

Assistant Professor, Estúdio Vertical

Escola da Cidade

Guest lecturer, with Paula Marujo

Plano Negativo / Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá — forensic-architecture methods, session "Forests"

Guest Fellow — "Affective Map: Memories of the Mocho Antigo"

Frame Colectivo, "Cidades Fragmentadas Ato 4"