Gabriela Ornelas is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Urban Design and Planning of the Technical University of Darmstadt and member of the DFG Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures”. She graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning (2015) and hold a Master’s degree in Human Geography (2019) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. There, she conducted researches on how cultural and political expressions manifest in cities and how urbanization conditions affect social cohesion in marginalized territories. In her early professional life, Gabriela worked with cultural heritage protection (2015-2019), on the reconstruction process after the Mariana Dam disaster (2019-2022) and as an assistant professor (2020). Her current research investigates the relation between political behaviour and co-presence of distinct ethnic groups in public spaces in Berlin.
E-Mail: gabriela.ornelas@tu-darmstadt.de