The Board of Directors of the Simón Bolívar University Association of Professors awarded the Andrés Bello Award for Research and Publication in Social Sciences to "CABA Cartography of the Caracas Barrios 1966-2014" and the professors Elisa Silva, Henry Vicente, Lorenzo González Casas and Orlando Marín. The awardreconnizes research work published within the last two years.
El Nacional publishes anarticle on Enlace Arquitectura´s work regarding the Cartography of the Caracas Slums presented at the IV Research Conferences of the Venezuelan Studies Section of LASA Latin American Studies Association on November 21,2016. The article highlights the study´s projections of future population growth in slums and the number of people that must berelocated to do eminent geological risk.
Elisa Silva presents the work of CABA Cartography of the Caracas barrios 1966-2014 as part of the Research Conference Series at the Engineering School of the Central University Venezuela, Friday November 18th, 2016 at 10:30 am.
Elisa Silva participates as aspeaker at the IV Session on Venezuelan Studies of theLatinAmerican Studies Association LASA, together with proferosor Veronica Zubillaga and Manuell Llorens at the CIAP in Caracas the15th of November 2016, at 10:00am.
Architecture students of the Simón Bolívar Universtiy in Caracas, invite Elisa Silva to participate in a discussion about memory and identity togther with profesors Lorenzo González Casas and Orlando Marín at the university´sPavillion 5, Tuesday November 15th, 2016 at 5:30.
CAF presents the publication Pro-Inclusion by coauthors PabloVaggione and Elisa Silva at Habitat IIII the 17th of October 2016, in Quito Ecuador.
Elisa Silva announces the 15sh ortlisted cities for the Guanzhou Award for Urban Innovation together wtih Sheila Ochugboju of Kenya and Belinda Yuen from Singapore, at the UCLG Conference in Bogotá the 15th of October 2016.
The Guangzhou Award for Urban Innovation invited Elisa Silva to participate as member of theTechnical Committee together with 11 other experts from around theworld, to select the 15 finalist cities in Bogotá Colombia duringthe UCLG - United Cities and Local Governments between the12th and 15th of October 2016. The Guangzhou Award´s objective is to disseminate exemplary local government practices with innovative projects to improve inhabitant´s qualityof life and advance efforts to protect the environment.
Enlace Arquitectura joinedthe CCS en 365 team on its tour of the Villa Borges, currently the Simón Díaz Center, to share facts about the Julian Blanco slum inthe CABA cartography of the Caracas Barrios 1966-2014 investigation.
Elisa Silva (MArch I 02' +Wheelwright Fellow 11') is invited by Latin GSD to present thelecture "Mapping 48 years of informal settlement growth in Caracas"at the GSD - Harvard University Graduate School of Design - on Monday Sept 19th at 12:00 in Room 109. (Foreword by AnitaBerrizbeitia).