Residency 2023
Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez is a researcher and educator with a background in architecture (TUBerlin-ETSAM, 2012), anthropology (UCM, 2014) and urban sociology (LSE, 2015). Her research work situates mainly across the fields of urban anthropology, critical geography and feminist political theory. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Spanish National Research Council with a Juan de la Cierva fellowship. She completed her PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL, 2020). She has held teaching positions at the UCL – the Bartlett School of Planning, the Department of Art History and the Development Planning Unit. In the past, she has practised as an architect and was a member of the editorial board of the journal Pasajes de Arquitectura y Crítica.
In her work, she is interested in practices, imaginaries and spaces of life in common and collective care within contemporary urban contexts marked by widespread processes of neoliberalisation and crisis. Her current research project explores grassroots and other ex-titutional modes of knowledge production for eco-social transformation in cities in Southern Europe. Previously, she focused on grassroots infrastructures of social reproduction and care practices that sustain urban struggles.
