Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa
A02 : The Spatial Knowledge of Young AdultsResearch Associate
Technische Universität Berlin
BH-5-1 | Room 228
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1
10587 Berlin
CV
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Studies
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2011-2017
Doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning | Berlin University of Technology | Title of Dissertation: Space and Radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development
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2008 - 2010
M.Sc. Urban Management | Berlin University of Technology | Title of Master thesis: Megaprojects—Megaparticipation?
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1998 - 2005
Licentiate in Architecture | University of Costa Rica | Title of graduation project: Modelo Análisis Imagen Urbana [Urban image analytical model]
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Working Experience
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since 2019
Coordinator | Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS)
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since 2018
Research Associate | Collaborative Research Centre 1265 "Re-Figuration of Space"
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since 2017
Research Associate and Lecturer | Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development
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07/2009 – 10/2010
Project assistant-Project manager
INPOLIS UCE GmbH | Berlin, Germany
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05/2009 – 06/2009
Consultant
(former) GTZ | Dhaka, Bangladesh -
02/2009 – 04/2009
Intern
Center of Metropolitan Studies of the Berlin University of Technology | Berlin, Germany
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09/2005 –06/2008
Researcher-Project manager
Research Center on Urban Sustainable Development of the University of Costa Rica (ProDUS-UCR) | San José, Costa Rica
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10/2005 –06/2008
Project designer-Project manager
Freelance Architect | San José, Costa Rica
Research Focus
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Planning theory
urban theory
citizen participation
community development
socio-spatial analysis
(urban) social movements
Publications
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Lectures
Cities as educational settings: Results and Impacts of Built Environment Education. Workshop Reflecting on Methods — Project proposals for post-doctoral research. Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS). Tempelhof Airport: Berlin, October 2020.
From apophenia to epiphany: Seeking to make planning theory-research-practice co-constitutive. Lecture series summer 20: Interdisciplinary theory and practice. Berlin University of Technology: Berlin, July 2020.
When participation meets spatial(ized) pedagogy: Children’s participation and the re-figuration of public space. AESOP Annual Congress, ACESP-AESOP Special Session. Università luav di Venezia: Venedig, July 2019.
„I spy with my little eye“: Children’s appropriation and re-figuration of public space in defiance of its intended use. International Conference of the CRC 1265. Berlin University of Technology: Berlin, February 2019.
Distilling materially the immaterial: The variation of the spatial knowledge of children and youngsters within the re-figuration of spaces. V Simposio Internacional: Encuentros Etnográficos con Niños, Niñas, Adolescentes y Jóvenes en Contextos Educativos. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste: Chaco, Argentinien, October 2018.
Protest action and self-development meets head-on urban growth. Lecture series summer 18: Interdisciplinary theory and practice. Berlin University of Technology: Berlin, 16 April-July 16, 2018.
How much of an anagram are (planning) theoretical and practical research? Urban Management Alumni Symposium. Berlin University of Technology: Berlin, 26-28 May 2016.
Self-organization and political subjectivity: Community development that overcomes structural impairment and exclusion. Community Development Society Annual Conference. Lexington: 19-22 July 2015.
Heading (inevitably) towards Trantor? (Urban) society, planning and ecology. Ecology Days Berlin. Humboldt University: Berlin, 12-16 May 2014.
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Research Papers
Public space as a catalyst for a disrupting ‘redistribution of the sensible’. International Conference Quartiersentwicklung im Globalen Süden/Neighbourhood Development in the Global South. University of Kassel: Kassel, 16–17 June 2016.
From aphopenia to epiphany: Seeking to make planning theory-research-practice co-constitutive. International Conference Differences and Connections: Beyond Universal Theories in Planning, Urban, and Heritage Studies IX YA Conference. University of Palermo: Palermo, 23–26 March 2015.
The spatial politicisation of planning. International conference Cities that Talk AESOP Young Academics Conference. University of Gothenburg: Gothenburg, 10–13 March 2014.
Acting in reality within the cranny of the Real: Towards an alternative agency of urban commons. International Conference Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market. Humboldt University: Berlin, 27–28 September 2013.
Unravelling spaces of representation through insurgent planning actions. International Conference Cities to be tamed? Standards and Alternatives in the Transformation of the Urban South. Polytechnic University of Milan: Milan, 15–17 November 2012.
Urban-social movements and urban planning: From confrontation to mutual cooperation. International conference Planning/Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Development. Berlin University of Technology: Berlin, 27–28 October 2011.
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Publications
Castillo , Ignacio/ Schröder, D. Joshua/ Helbrecht, Ilse (2021). Subject(ified) strategies for spatial(ised) ontological security in refigured modernity —SFB 1265 Working Paper No. 7.
Castillo Ulloa, Ignacio/ Schwerer, Jona (2021): Qualitative Meta-Analyse. In: Heinrich, Anna Julian/ Marguin, Séverine/ Million, Angela/ Stollmann, Jörg (Hrsg.): Methoden der qualitativen Raumforschung. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. utb: Bd. 5582. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. S. 415–426.
Castillo, Ignacio / Heinrich, Anna Juliane / Million, Angela / Schwerer, Jona (2021; accepted): The Evolving Spatial Knowledge of Children and Young People. CRC Press Series: The Refiguration of Space. Abingdon: Routledge.
Million, Angela / Haid, Christian / Castillo, Ignacio / Baur, Nina (eds.) (2021; accepted): Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces. CRC Press Series: The Refiguration of Space. Abingdon: Routledge.
Million, Angela / Haid, Christian / Castillo, Ignacio / Baur, Nina (eds.) (2021; accepted): Navigating Spatial Transformations Through the Refiguration of Spaces. In: Million, Angela / Haid, Christian / Castillo, Ignacio / Baur, Nina (eds.): Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces. CRC Press Series: The Refiguration of Space. Abingdon: Routledge.
Castillo, Ignacio / Million, Angela / Schwerer, Jona (2021; accepted): „I spy with my little eye“: Children’s actual use and experts intended design of public space. In: Million, Angela / Haid, Christian / Castillo, Ignacio / Baur, Nina (eds.): Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces. CRC Press Series: The Refiguration of Space. Abingdon: Routledge.
Castillo, Ignacio (2020): Space and radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development. Berlin: TU Berlin Press.
Castillo, Ignacio (2019): The planner’s subjective destitution: Towards a hysterical-analytical triad of planning theory-research-practice. Raumforschung und Raumordnung 77(2): S. 181–198.
Castillo, Ignacio (2019): Crystallising actual neighbourhood development via public space, ‘non-adversarial’ political subjectivity and extra-institutional politics. In: U. Altrock, D. Kurth, R. Kunze, H. Schmidt and G. Schmitt (eds.) Quartierentwicklung im globalen Süden. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 249–276.
Castillo, I. (forthcoming). Crystallising actual neighbourhood development via public space, ‘non-adversarial’ political subjectivity and extra-institutional politics. Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2018.
Castillo, Ignacio (2018): A renaissance of ‘socially rebellious’ community development: A tale of a locale. Radical Community Work Journal 3(2).
Castillo, I. (2017). Public space as catalyst for an alternative politics of neighborhood TRIALOG 126/127: 5-11.
Castillo, I. (2016). From apophenia to epiphany: Making planning theory-research-practice co-constitutive. plaNext—next generation planning 3: 16-35.
Castillo, I. (2015). Acting in reality within the cranny of the Real: Towards an alternative agency of urban commons. In: M. Dellenbaugh, M. Kip, M. Bieniok, A. Müller and M. Schwegmann (eds.) Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market. Basel: Birkhäuser, pp.130-147.
Castillo, I. (2013a). Unravelling spaces of representation through insurgent planning actions. Planum—The Journal of Urbanism 26(1): 1-12.
Castillo, I. (2013b). Unravelling spaces of representation through insurgent planning actions. In: F. Chiodelli, B. De Carli, M. Falletti and L. Scavuzzo (eds.) Cities to be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Global South. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.262-283.