SES-5528 Anticipatory Design: Mapping Transitions, Designing Legacies

Join us for the final review of SES-5528: Anticipatory Design: Mapping Transitions, Designing Legacies, a project-based seminar from the Department of Landscape Architecture. This open event brings together students, faculty, and invited practitioners to present and discuss design proposals that engage with pressing urban and territorial challenges across Latin America.

Through an interdisciplinary lens, the seminar explores how design can anticipate change, map transitions, and shape more equitable and sustainable futures. The review will feature feedback from a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of urban policy, economics, architecture, and planning.

Open to the public. 

Instructors:
Anita Berrizbeitia
Diane Davis

Teaching Assistant:
Facundo Soraire

Cynthia Goytia is a leading Urban Economist with a Ph.D. from the LSE, Head of the Master's Program in Urban Economics and the Center for Urban Policy and Housing Research at UTDT. She serves as Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and advisor to the IDB, World Bank, UN and CAF.

Mariana Barrera is an economist and urban planner who directs CEPE at UTDT, focusing on how natural resource booms reshape territorial inequality. With 15+ years across sectors, she specializes in infrastructure and sustainable development in vulnerable areas and previously led national urban policy initiatives in Argentina.

Lenin H. Balza is an economist at the Inter-American Development Bank specializing in infrastructure, energy, and natural resources. He designs and supervises projects across Latin America and the Caribbean, with prior experience at CAF and Santander. His research focuses on energy economics and development in resource-rich countries.

Natalia Dopazo is an urban planner and curator based in Mexico City. She serves as Chief Urban Officer at Polistudio, leading projects in housing and urban transformation. A Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD, her work bridges design, policy, and care, focusing on equitable urban futures and community.

Joaquín Tonne is the Director of CEEU (UNSAM) and Professor at IE University, he founded Sustainable Ideas Lab and Culdesac. With master’s degrees from Harvard and UTDT, he works across public, academic, and private sectors, focusing on urban economics, regeneration, and local economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Brian Kohan is an architect trained at UBA and Harvard GSD (MLA, 2024). His work bridges architecture and landscape, focusing on sustainability, environmental consulting, and landscape preservation. He collaborates across Latin America through the Laboratorio de Ideas Sostenibles, supported by the Harvard Innovation Lab.

Juan José Leguía manages the World Bank Group Scorecard, supporting results-based decision-making. With 20 years of global experience, he has strengthened governance and delivery systems across governments. He previously led Peru’s Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and held senior roles at the Tony Blair Institute.