Juliana Canedo, born in 1981, work as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Habitat Unit at Technische Universität Berlin. The architect and urbanist did her doctorate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a research stay at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. She has more than 15 years of experience of collaborative and participatory design and planning, especially working in favelas, squats and with migrant communities in Brazil and Germany. Her research focuses on insurgent practices and collaborative design and on the critical debate of the role of city-building professionals.