Camilo V. L. Amaral is an architect and urbanist. He holds Master’s Degree in Research at UFMG, Brazil, and PhD in Architecture at University of East London. He is an assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a professor at Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil, where he coordinated the Design Processes Laboratory. He has taught at Pontifical Catholic University and State University of Goias and he is an experienced member of steering committees for community engagement actions in London, UK; Hasselt, Belgium; Milan and Turin, Italy; Bergen, Norway; and across Brazil. He has practical experience in architecture, urban design, and environmental planning.
He has published widely in scientific journals, books, and conferences, and he has won 11 prizes and awards for his professional experience, research, teaching, and architectural and urban design and sustainability work, such as the Bengt Turner Award from the European Network for Housing Research. His research interests are on trans-disciplinary links between environment, architecture and economy, critical theory, urban aesthetic and politics, philosophy of subjectivity, the imagination of socioenvironmental alternatives, collaborative design processes, and education.
Because he lives between Europe and South America, he is concerned with building a centrality for postcolonial knowledge from the South and with exploring critical ideas from the North.