Silvina Lopez Barrera

Publications

Book, Chapter

• Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin American Informal Settlements. Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions . Ed. Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic. Springer. 2022
• Centro Cultural Movil: Critical Service Learning and Design with Latinx Farmworkers. Public Space/Contested Space: Imagination and Occupation. Ed. Sally O’Driscoll and Kevin D. Murphy. Routledge. 2021

Conference Paper

• Community Resilience under Contexts of Informal Housing and Climate Change in the Americas.  Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023. 2023
• The Architectural Typologies of Latinx Housing Precarity.  Proceedings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 110th Annual Meeting. 2023
• The Unknowing of Outcome: The Exploration of Components and Structural Form in Architecture Foundations Studios.  Proceedings of the Building Technology Educator’s Society Conference. 2023
• Virtual Reality Applications in Housing Insecurity Research.   Proceedings of the 28th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA). Volume 2, Pages 39-48. 2023
• Housing Insecurity in Mississippi: Virtual Reality Documentation and Presentation.  The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design In Asia. Volume 2, Issue 28, Pages 39-48. 2023
• Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project.  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). 2021

Conference Proceeding

• Mississippi’s New Blue Economy.  Gulf of Mexico Conference (GOMCON) 2024 Proceeding. 2024
• Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi.  Proceedings of the ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2022. 2022
• Community Resilience and Self-Help Housing After a Natural Disaster: A Case-Study from Southwestern Uruguay.  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), International Conference 2021. 2021
• Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project.  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 109th Annual Meeting. 2021
• The Right to the City in Informal Settlements: Case Studies of Post-Disaster Adaptation in Latin America .  Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2019. 2019

Conference poster

• The Unknowing of the Outcome: Exploration of Components and Structural Form in Architecture Foundations Studios. Proceedings of the 2023 Building Technology Educators’ Society Conference. 2023

Journal Article

• Community resilience, governance, and [in]justice in the context of informal housing after an F3 tornado. Local Development and Society. 2022
• Building Collaborative Governance and Community Resilience under Socio-spatial Rural Disparities and Environmental Challenges . Community Development Practice. Volume Fall 2019, Issue Issue 23. 2019
• Community resilience and collective agency under significant changes in the natural and built environment: a community capitals framework approach . Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability . Volume 24, Issue 12. 2019

Published Abstract

• Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy in Architectural Education. 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference 2019. 2019

Presentations

Abstract

• "Participatory Design Using Emergent Technologies in Small-towns in Mississippi." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2019 , Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Denver, CO. 2019
• "Resilience and Collective Mobilization in Two Communities of Uruguay: A Community Capitals Framework Approach ." 2019 Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Justice and Tyranny: Mobilizing Rural Sociological Imaginations, Rural Sociological Society, Richmond, VA. 2019
• "Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy in Architectural Education ." 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, Practice of Teaching | Teaching of Practice, ACSA/EAAE, University of Antwerp, Belgium. 2019
• "Addressing Housing Inequality through Affordable Housing in Small-Towns in Mississippi." Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) International Conference, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Toronto, Canada. 2019
• "Housing Inequality and Affordable Housing in Vulnerable Communities in Rural Mississippi ." 49th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Urban Affairs Association, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). 2019
• "Exploring a Socio-Structural Approach to Examine Community Resilience: Two Case Studies from Rural Uruguay." 50th Annual Meeting of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association, Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association, Mississippi State University. 2019

Lecture

• "The Right to Housing in the Americas." 2023-24 Lecture Series: New South meets Global South, University of North Carolina Charlotte, School of Architecture., Charlotte, NC. 2023
• "Community Engaged Learning Course Design." Center for Community-Engaged Learning Fellows Session, Mississippi State University, Center for Community-Engaged Learning (CEL), Mississippi State, MS. 2023
• "Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi." Course: The Paradox of Hunger – Rural Mississippi, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, . 2022
• "Architecture and Communities." The Architecture Society Lecture Series, El Paso Community College Community and , El Paso, TX. 2022

Oral Presentation

• "Community-Engaged Learning: Collaborative Co-Creation for Collective Impact ." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2024, Engagement Scholarship Consortium , Oregon State University,. 2024
• "Nurturing Required: Sustainable Partnerships." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Engagement Scholarship Consortium , Michigan State University . 2023
• "In the Details: Building A Community-Engaged Learning Course." Engaged Scholarship Consortium, Engaged Scholarship Consortium, Athens, Georgia.. 2022
• "Activism in the Face of Economic and Housing Insecurity." Evicted: an exhibition , Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, Jackson State University. 2021

Other

• "Panel discussion: Nuestro Mississippi." Nuestro Mississippi, Mississippi Museum of Art., Immigrant Alliance for Justice & Equity of Mississippi, Mississippi Humanities Council, and Mississippi Museum of Art., Mississippi Museum of Art. 2024
• "Approaching Engagement from a Collaborative Lens." Campus Compact 2024 National Conference, Campus Compact, Denver, CO. 2024
• "Fostering Academic Achievement through Our Identity." Latinx Heritage Month, Mississippi State University, Division of Access, Diversity, and Inclusion., Mississippi State, MS. 2023
• "Housing Insecurity in Mississippi in Community Engagement and Social Justice in Architectural History Workshop." SAH Virtual Conference 2021, SAH , Virtual. 2021

Paper

• "Community Resilience under Contexts of Informal Housing and Climate Change in the Americas." UIA World Congress of Architects, International Union of Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2023
• "The Architectural Typologies of Latinx Housing Precarity." 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), St. Louis, MO. 2023
• "Virtual Reality Applications in Housing Insecurity Research." Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Ahmedabad, India.. 2023
• "Housing Inseucurity in Mississippi: Virtual Reality Documentation and Presentation." CAADRIA 2023, The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. 2023
• "Effectiveness of Writing as an Active Learning Tool in an Architectural Design Studio." 37th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, National Conference on Beginning Design Students, Ball State University. 2022
• "Informal Housing: An Evolving Architecture of Social Justice ." 40th Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), . 2022
• "Informal Housing Practices in Small Towns in the American South." 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) , Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) , Virtual. 2022
• "Writing the History of American Home(-lessness)." SAH Annual Conference 2022, SAH, Pittsburgh. 2022
• "Informal Housing in the Americas: Case Studies from Rural Areas in Uruguay and the Mississippi Delta ." 50th Urban Affairs Association Conference, Urban Affairs Association Conference, Washington, DC. 2022
• "Writing the History of American Home(-lessness)." Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference 2022, Society of Architectural Historians , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2022
• " Latinx Community Resilience After Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi." Diversity Research Mini-Talks, Research Week, ORED/ADI, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State . 2022
• "Oral Histories of Housing Insecurity in the American South." AIARG Annual Conference 2022, All-Ireland Architecture Research Group, University College of Dublin. 2022
• "Housing Insecurity and Latinx Community Resilience in Small Towns in Mississippi ." ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference 2022 , ARCC-EAAE Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Florida International University. 2022
• "Oral Histories of Housing Insecurity in the American South." Architecture and Its Stories , AIARG All Ireland Architectural Research Group, Online . 2022
• "Understanding Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta ." American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers , Virtual. 2022
• "Emmett Till Memorial: A Community Engaged Studio Project." 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Virtual. 2021
• "Ethics of Collaborative Work in Architectural Education." 36th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, National Conference on Beginning Design Students, Texas A&M University. 2021
• "Supporting Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship: A University-wide Fellowship Program." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2021, Engagement Scholarship Consortium, . 2021
• "Community Resilience and Self-Help Housing After a Natural Disaster: A Case-Study from Southwestern Uruguay." Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), International Conference 2020-2021, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2021
• "Housing Inequality and Affordable Housing in the Mississippi Delta , Special Session: Mississippi River Watershed (MRW)." Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA),108th Annual Meeting , , San Diego, CA. (virtual due to Covid-19). 2020
• "Ethics of Collaborative Work in Architectural Education." 36th National Conference on Beginning Design Students, , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 2020
• "Collective Agency and Decision-Making Processes in Post-Disaster Housing Recovery: A Case Study from Southwestern Uruguay." Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 51st Conference, , Temple, Arizona. (virtual due to Covid-19). 2020
• "Spatial Justice in Latin-American Informal Settlements." International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. , , Pratt Institute, New York.. 2020
• "Claiming the Right to the City through Informal Housing: Two Case Studies from Latin America ." Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) International Conference, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. 2019

Poster

• "The Unknowing of Outcome: The Exploration of Components and Structural Form in Architecture Foundations Studios ." Building Technology Educator’s Society Conference, Building Technology Educator’s Society , Arcosanti, AZ. 2023
• "The Unknowing of the Outcome: The Exploration of Components and Structural Form in Architecture Foundations Studios." BTES 2023, Building Technology Educators Society, Phoenix, AZ. 2023

Short Course

• "In the Details: Building A Community-Engaged Learning Course." Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2022, , University of Georgia. 2022

Webinar

• "Housing Insecurity in Mississippi." AIA Webinar Series: Housing and Community Development, American Institute of Architects (AIA), online. 2023
• "Service-learning in architecture curriculum: exploring tactical urbanism in Mississippi." Where Mission Meets Advocacy, Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2019