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Alice Tavares is an architect and researcher, with a doctorate in Civil Engineering, working at CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials / Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her specialty is the conservation of built heritage, earthen architecture, old materials and Portuguese / Brazilian Architecture architecture from the 18th-20th centuries. She is the president of the Portuguese Association for Urban Rehabilitation and Protection of Built Heritage – APRUPP ( https://aprupp.org/) . She develops projects for the empowerment of communities through valorization and conservation of their built heritage and traditions of use of the territory (to support implementation of touristic/cultural routes), including the recovery of ancient communal practices of construction, as the case study of Seixo-Mira (PT) or the Coordination of International Forum of Built Heritage (FIPA – Portugal, Brazil). She is also an MC Member of Cost Action 18110 – Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
