Karen ANDERSEN

Architect, PhD and Master in Urban Planning. Université Paris-Est, France. Institute of Architecture and Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia, Chile.

PhD and Master in Urban Planning at the Université Paris-Est, France. Architect at the University of Chile. She is currently an academic and researcher at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism and Director of the Master in Design of Sustainable Environments of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the Universidad Austral de Chile. Her work focuses on urban studies seeking to innovate and explore new participatory and ethnographic methodologies. Her research topics are public space, neighborhoods, walking methodologies and participatory design. Her main sites of study are river edge spaces, streets, parks, university campuses, fluvial landscapes and waterfront public spaces. She is currently working in a research project financed by National Council For Science And Technology CONICYT of the Government of Chile (2019 - 2022).