Suzete Bessa

Suzete Bessa is an architect and Urban Planner who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the State University of Goiás in 2009. She gained a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism from the Postgraduate Program of the University of Brasília in 2016 with a National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Scholarship. She is a PhD student in Human Rights from the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Human Rights at the Federal University of Goiás with a completion scheduled for 2025. She has had experience with residential and commercial architecture projects [2009-2017], in addition to working with the technical staff of the City of Goiânia (2009-2010). She has been a full-time Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Goiás - UFG, Campus Goiás since 2017. She has researched Modern Architecture in the city of Goiânia and currently coordinates the extension of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair at (UFG - UNHCR). She also coordinates the interdisciplinary extension and research group Resilient Architecture, which investigates urban-architectural relations and forced displacement: shelter, the daily life of the forced displaced person and the singularity of this "in-between", transience, provisionality, temporality, links in the occupation of the city, ordinary and everyday, thinking about the centrality of the city’s space from the margin.

Planned Research at ODID

"The place of forced displacement under the mold of exclusion in cities" aims to understand how displacements insert three concepts into the city that faithfully describe the relationships established by displaced people in urban space: transience, provisionality and temporality. In a similar way, we intend to understand the (re)production of spaces of inequality and/or legitimization of spaces of inclusion, and thus recognize how these spaces materialize within the scope of the occupation of urban space (Types of occupation: institutional shelters, private , homelessness, etc.) Recognizing that urban space can be a tool for participation, understanding the spatiality of social invisibility produced and maintained by socio-spatial segregation, in urban spaces, of those who suffer forced displacement, as social invisibility is also combatted with spatial visibility.