Ana Medina Gavilanes
- Professeure adjointe
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Faculté de l'aménagement - École d'architecture
Portrait
Affiliations et responsabilités
Enseignement et encadrement
Enseignement
Cours siglés (session en cours uniquement)
- ARC-1802 – Intégration 2
- ARC-2011 – Atelier d'architecture 3
- ARC-6801 – Projet de recherche
- ARC-6803 – Séminaire de recherche
Programmes
Projets
Rayonnement
Publications et communications
Publications
2025. Perilla, O., Hernández-García, J., Yacelga Toro, L. M. and Medina, A. (2025) “Web-Based, Crowdsourced, First-Person Narratives of Young People’s Daily Commutes as a New Method for Identifying Situations Impacting Their Subjective Wellbeing”, The Journal of Public Space, 10(1), pp. 37–62. https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v10i1.1855
2025. Medina, A.; Garon, A.; Díaz-Bedoya, D.; González-Rodriguez, M. “Aerial Vehicle Detection and DBSCAN-Based Interchange Region Identification for Urban Traffic Analysis,” IEEE Access. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3558717
2024. Medina, A.; Beretić, N.; López, C.; Donoso, R. “Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighborhoods. Co-design collective experience in Calderon, Quito,” CoDesign. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2024.2416627
2024. Cano-Ciborro, V.; Medina, A.; Burgueño, A. Díaz-Bedoya, D.; González-Rodriguez, M. “Micro-Occupations in Complex Public Spaces in Carapungo, Quito. Prediction of spatial behaviors within drone perspectives by relational and occupational cartographies,” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241262548
2023. Medina, A., Mosquera, D., Gallegos, F. “A methodological approach for data collection and geospatial information of healthy public spaces in peripheral neighborhoods. Case studies: La Bota and Toctiuco, Quito-Ecuador,” Sustainability, 15, n. 21, https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115553.
2023. Cano-Ciborro, V., Medina A. “Invisible Networks: Counter-cartographies of dissident spatial practices in La Jota Street, Quito,” Cities, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104435.
2023. Medina, A., Cano-Ciborro, V. “Three Moments of Migratory Movement as Urban Generator. Solanda – Quito Case,” Bitácora Urbano Territorial, 33(2), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v33n2.106777.
2022. Medina, A., Cano-Ciborro, V. “Cartographies of everyday conflicts in public spaces. Informal micro-activities on formal infrastructure. Carapungo Entry Park, Quito,” Revista INVI, vol. 37, n. 106, pp. 149–176, https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2022.67122.
2021. Medina, A. “Politics of Space. Dissident occupations in Tokyo’s Public Space,” A+U Architecture and Urbanism, Special Issue: Infraordinary Tokyo: The Right to the City, pp. 108–111
2021. Zambrano, M. R.; Gonzalez, M.; Medina, A.; Acosta-Vargas, P. “Modern architecture in the professional discourse: analysis of the Architectural Biennial of Quito’s 1976–92 archive using bipartite networks,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 37, n. 3, pp. 894–909, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab061.
2020. Radovic, D., Boontharm, D., Bruzesse, A., Cairns, S., Fifkak, A., Klomp, P., Kuma, K., Maturana, B., Medina, A., Oguma, E., Sim, D., Sintusingha, S., Verhaegen, S. “Urban Questions in the Time of Coronavirus. Responding to the crisis of public space,” Journal of Public Space, vol. 5, n. 3, pp. 233–248. https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i3.1362
2018. Amann, A., Grigoriadou, M., Medina, A. “#MeTooArchitecture. Critical feminist tactics,” Feminismo/s, vol. 32, pp. 205–229. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2018.32.08
2018. Medina, A. “Towards the Radical Space. Dissident actions in contemporary occupations,” Space and Culture, vol. 24, n. 1, pp. 97–112, https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218793320
2017. Medina, A. “Dissident Micro-occupations. Architectural practices transforming the urban landscape: Istanbul, Hong Kong, Tokyo,” MONU: Magazine on Urbanism, vol. 27, pp. 14–19.
2017. Medina, A. “Post-Revolution Urban Landscape. Transformation of Public Spaces after 2011 Revolutions,” Athens Journal of Architecture, vol. 3, n. 4, pp. 395–410. https://doi.org/10.30958/aja.3-4-4
2016 . Medina, A. “Temporal ad-hoc dissident architecture in the state of exception,” HipoTesis, vol. 4, pp. 5–15.
Communications
2025. « Habiter ensemble : nouvelles domesticités et modèles collectifs pour répondre aux crises du logement », presented at Colloque annuel de la Faculté de l’aménagement, Repenser l’accès à l’espace public et au logement. Montreal, Canada.
2025. “Critical training. Strategies for diversifying professional profiles”, presented at the 9th Ecuadorian Congress on Urban Studies, Discussion 70: Teaching Innovation in Urban Studies. Quito, Ecuador.
2025. “Collective Practices for a Housing Crisis”, presented at RAIC – IRAC, Conference on Architecture, Montreal, Canada.
2025. “Urban design, Feminist practices, and AI” presented at ACSA 113 “Repair”, New Orleans, United States. 2025.
2024. “Narrative Cartographies,” presented at Science Connects, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito - Ecuador.
2024. “Collective spaces,” presented at INDA, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok - Thailand.
2023. “Dissident Public Space. Women in action,” presented at V Academic Gender Focus Week, School of Psychology, Quito - Ecuador.
2023. “Dissident collective practices,” presented at UNESCO & IDEAA, Mostar - Bosnia-Hercegovina.
2023. “Public Space, Collective Space”, presented at Master Plan of Sustainable Mobility 2022–2042, Metropolitan Municipality of Quito - Ecuador.
2021. “Public Space for all,” presented at City Space Architecture, Bologna - Italy.
2020. “Dissident Public Spaces Through Domestication,” presented at S.ARCH, the 7th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment with Architecture Awards, Tokyo - Japan.
2020. “Informal Use of Public Space in Informal Infrastructures,” presented at S.ARCH, the 7th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment with Architecture Awards, Tokyo - Japan.
2019 . Acosta-Vargas, P., Medina, A., González, M. “Clustering model for the use of public space using data mining techniques,” RISTI, vol. 7, n. E23, pp. 528–539.
2018. “Dissident Domestication of Public Spaces. Micro-occupations in Urban Redevelopment Areas: Tokyo and Hong Kong,” presented at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto - Canada.
2017. “Towards the Post-Public Space: from occupation to privatization of public spaces in central Tokyo,” presented at ISUF: International Seminar on Urban Form Conference Proceedings, pp. 236. https://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.7017. Valencia - Spain.
2017. “Dissident Shibuya. Radical micro- occupations in leftover urban spaces,” presented at International Visual Methods Conference, Singapore
2017. “Two modes of Tokyo temporalities. Shibuya and Taito under-construction everyday-life,” presented at the 4th Conference on Human Development in Asia, COHDA, INTESDA, Hiroshima-Japan.
2017. “Meantime Shibuya. Potential and Opportunities of Temporal Common Spaces in Shibuya’s Urban Redevelopment,” presented at the 3rd Conference on Management and Sustainability in Asia, COMSA, INTESDA, Fukuoka-Japan.
2017. “Towards the Post-Public space,” presented at Amsterdam + Tokyo International Symposium, Tokyo
2016. “Hacktivismo Urbano. Activando el espacio Post-Público,” [Urban Hacktivism. Activating the Post-Public Space], presented at International Congress Contested Cities, Madrid
2016. “Post-Revolution Urban Landscape. Transformation of Public Spaces after 2011 Revolutions,” presented at the 6th Annual International Conference on Urban Studies & Planning, Athens
2015. “From ‘sit-in Tahrir Square’ to ‘sit and drink in Starbucks’ Contemporary Social Revolutions transforming the urban landscape,” presented at the International Seminar: Matter, Sensation and Meaning, organized by Freie Universität Berlin, Goldsmiths University of London, and University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
2015. “Radical occupation, radical spatiality: The path of the multitude in the Occupation,” presented at the European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity, London
2015 . “Privately Owned Public Spaces in capital cities. The case of London, Manchester and Liverpool,” presented at Investee Activism, London
Disciplines
- Aménagement
- Architecture
Champ d’expertise
- Architecture
- Habitation
- Logement social
- Espaces publics
- Quartiers durables
- Design architectural
- Processus de création
- Méthodologie de la recherche
- Design urbain et architecture urbaine
- Approche participative
- Figuration et représentation
- Pédagogie du projet
- Conception assistée par ordinateur (CAO)
- Recherche-création
- Responsabilité sociale
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