C.D. Rivera-Choscó (Carlos)

I am an architect and urban planner from Guatemala, with experience working in multidisciplinary projects in a variety of contexts in Latin America and Europe, and sectors, ranging from social research, policy-making, urban planning and design, construction planning and management, architectural design and implementation of digital technologies in the infrastructure sector. 

My passion lies in the intersection between infrastructure systems and the humans that conceptualize, built and use these systems, and how can we find better solutions to address the wicked problems found in these interactions. Wicked problems like Climate change pose fundamental challenges to our built environment and infrastructure systems, and therefore to us, the humans that make them possible. A complex and diverse socio-technical and ecological configuration of actors, assets, values, institutions, policies and practices determines how we design, plan, build, manage, use and renew our built environment. Currently, this complex socio-technical configuration deals with these wicked problems in a sectoral way, where each discipline domain is managed by actors within the domain, without considering possible cascading effects in other sectors. However, the potential for developing integrative approaches to better address these societal challenges is to some extent recognized, but still broad and therefore not engrained in practice. Consequently, more knowledge on how to develop and implement these integrated approaches to better address Climate Change and other related challenges is needed. In this context, I am currently doing my PhD at University of Twente (CRIS - Climate Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Department of Construction Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology) on how to design and implement integrated approaches to address climate change in the built environment.

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Horst Complex (building no. 20), room Horstcomplex - Meander
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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