Arturo ValladaresUniversité de Montréal | UdeM · School of Architecture
Arturo Valladares
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
My current research focuses on how urban landscapes have an impact on the mental health of vulnerable populations. Using participatory methods, I collaborated in fieldwork seeking to understand how public spaces are perceived by the Community of people living with schizophrenia in Montréal. Interest in the research led to a partnership in México City aiming at conducting a similar study. Future research will look at how urban landscapes generate mental distress in the LGBTQ+ Community.
Additional affiliations
April 2021 - April 2021
International Institute for Environment and Development
Position
- Anonymous Peer Reviewer
Description
- Evaluated and commented an academic manuscript
April 2020 - May 2020
Konya Technical University (Konya Teknik Üniversitesi)
Position
- Anonymous Peer Reviewer
Description
- Evaluated and commented two academic manuscripts
October 2018 - November 2018
McGill University
Position
- Instructor
Education
September 2009 - May 2017
McGill University
Field of study
- Urban Planning, Policy and Design
September 2005 - November 2007
McGill University
Field of study
- Urban Planning
September 1996 - November 2002
Publications
Publications (5)
This article discusses how people living with schizophrenia experience, understand, and respond to their urban environment. Our study relies on experiential photo-voice data gathered with a sample of six people diagnosed with schizophrenia and living in non-institutional settings in Montréal, Canada, to identify how individuals in this community pe...
Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced a crisis that forced it to change its housing approach. Self-help building programs began to supplant the construction of mass standardized housing estates. The Community Architect Program was developed to provide design advice to self-help builders, and it expanded exponentially within a decade. B...
Through its capacity to evoke systemic adaptation before and after disasters, resilience has become a seductive theory in disaster management. Several studies have linked the concept with systems theory; however, they have been mostly based on theoretical models with limited empirical support. The study of the Cuban model of resilience sheds light...
During the 1990s, the most widely used participatory design method in the world emerged in the context of a severe economic crisis in the Republic of Cuba. Today more than 1,000 community architects practice the participatory design method in almost all of the municipalities on the island. The guiding principle of this method is to provide self-hel...
The Community Architect Program was created in Cuba in 1994 to support self-help housing construction. Since the creation of the program, the community architects have used participatory techniques to provide technical advice to residents who wish to build, expand or renovate their homes. The article documents the codification and implementation of...
