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Research Proyects
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Intergenerational Relationships
Embodied Knowledge
Visual Language
Neurodiversity
Adultcentrism
Care
Fieldwork
Education
Social Housing
Urban Regeneration
Deprived Neighbourhoods
I carry out research and projects mainly through fieldwork, with great flexibility to adapt to each environment and creativity to generate appropriate solutions, always together with people from other disciplines and backgrounds.
I link the social housing and neighbourhood regeneration work with school and university education projects with an interdisciplinary approach and active citizenship for the co-creation of the built environment.
2022-
Senior Fellow - AFSEE Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity
London School of Economic and Political Science, London, UK.
2018
Mixed Methods in Social Research
Universidad Alberto Hurtado;
Santiago, Chile.
2006-2012
Architecture
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC); Santiago, Chile.
Research cluster that explores processes of growth of the city “inward”, recycling urban land without expelling its residents, integrating the logic of family organization and enhancing the collective dimension of housing and its capacity to produce the city. laboratorio9x18.arquitectura.uc.cl
Associate
Researcher and management support for projects on neighbourhood regeneration and social housing projects.
Support and education to children with Special Educational Needs, including Critical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (SEND), Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH), and children who have been displaced and have English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Supply Learning Support Assistant
One-on-one work supporting SEND students.
I do
2023
Teaching
Casa Compleja: Diseñando hogares para vidas diversas / Complex House: Designing Homes for Diverse Lives
The Center for the Study and Development of Talent (PENTA UC) Year 8 Key Stage 3
Teacher
2022-2024
Project
Phase 1 of Recoleta Neighbourhood Regeneration Small Condominium Proposal
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Technical Support Team Coordinator
2022-2023
Project
Casa Abierta https://casaabierta.online/
AFSEE - Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity
Director
2021-2024
Teaching
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
TeacherActive
Supply Learning Support Assistant
2021-2022
Research
Updated National Cadastre of Neighbourhoods 9x18
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Coordinator
2021
Publication
Towards a post-neoliberal policy of neighbourhood regeneration of the pre-dictatorship in Chile?
Vers une politique post-néolibérale de régénération des quartiers de l’avant-dictature au Chili ?
Forray, R & Muñoz, S. (2021). Sur HABITER LES VILLES LATINO-AMÉRICAINES. Débats, réflexions et enjeux de la recherche urbaine. HABITAT et SOCIÉTÉ. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp 411-437.
Author
2020-2021
Research
Local government management support model for regeneration of 9x18 neighbourhoods
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Research Assistant
2020-2021
Research
Housing, citizenship and aspirations: neoliberalism, people’s self-production and politics of daily life in Greater Santiago
ENA “Ethnographies of neoliberalism and aspiration”
Research Assistant
2020
Publication
Towards a comprehensive urban-housing regeneration model with densification in 9×18 neighborhoods.
Hacia un modelo integral de regeneración urbano-habitacional con densificación en barrios tipo 9×18.
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Tapia, R., Araos, C., Forray, R., Gil, D., y Muñoz, S. (2020). En: Centro de Políticas Públicas UC (ed.) Propuestas para Chile. Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2019. Santiago: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, pp. 319-351.
Author
2020
Teaching
Etnography
Master in Sociology PUC
Teacher Assistant
2019-2020
Research
City dreams.
Construction of imaginaries from experiential participation
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Research Assistant
2019
Project
The extraordinary of everyday life: Regeneration of 9x18 Neighborhood
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
XXI Biennial, Santiago Chile “Free Architecture Fair. The common and the ordinary“
Designer
2019
Teaching
Training on Small Condominium Subsidy and its context
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Facilitator
2019
Research
Towards a comprehensive urban-housing regeneration model with densification in 9x18 neighborhoods
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Research Assistant
2019
Conference
Towards a post-neoliberal policy of neighborhood regeneration of the pre-dictatorship in Chile.
Hacia una política posneoliberal de regeneración de barrios de la predictadura en Chile
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Rosanna Forray, Sebastián Muñoz. COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL: Habiter les villes latino-américaines : Nouvelles approches et interdisciplinarité dans les recherches urbaines, 17 et 18 octobre 2019,Paris. Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture.
Author
2019
Project
From the roots of Joao Goulart together to the progress of tomorrow
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Architect
2018-2019
Project
Interinstitutional Roundtable for Neighborhood Regeneration 9x18
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Coordination Assistant
2018
Conference
Teaching, Research and Project at the service of Urban Regeneration and Public Policies
Docencia, Investigación y Proyecto al servicio de la Regeneración Urbana y las Políticas Públicas
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Rodrigo Tapia, Sebastián Muñoz, Andrea Urbina, Francisco Walker. XIV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Escuelas de Urbanismo y Planificación: Las Universidades Latinoamericanas y la Nueva Agenda Urbana Santiago de Chile, Campus Lo Contador Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 22-23-24 de Agosto 2018
Author
2018
Research
The house we dream of
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Researcher and Facilitator
2018
Publication
Proposals for urban renewal in residential neighborhoods of the 9×18 type in Santiago de Chile.
Propuestas para la renovación urbana en barrios residenciales del tipo 9×18 en Santiago de Chile.
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Rodrigo Tapia, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Walker. (10 septiembre 2018). Limaq, 4, 165-191.
Author
2018
Conference
Lots 9×18 - A new opportunity in housing policy.
El lote 9x18 – Una nueva oportunidad en la política habitacional.
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Sebastián Muñoz, Juan Correa. (2018). En Intersecciones proceedings(1143-1148). Santiago de Chile: Felipe Encinas, Gonzalo Arce, Pablo Fuentes.
Author
2018
Conference
Urban regeneration in pericentral areas: Micro-densification pilot in 9×18 neighborhoods.
Regeneración urbana en zonas pericentrales: Piloto de Micro-densificación en Barrios 9×18.
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Author
2017-2019
Project
State Subsidized Housing Project Paine Definitive Housing Line
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Architect
2017-2019
Teaching
Training for institutional construction of emergency houses
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Architect
2017-2019
Project
Union for Progress: Los Álamos + Santa Raquel
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Architect
2017-2019
Project
House evaluation of families of the Emergency Housing Line
NGO Fundación Vivienda
Architect
2017
Teaching
Towards a healthy environment
Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Medicine PUC
Teacher Assistant
2017
Project
Energy Efficiency Manual for Emergency Homes of Fundación Vivienda
NGO Fundación Vivienda, Positive Planet international and Foundatión ENGIE.
Architect Counterpart
2017
Volunteer Work
Spanish lessons
Freelance
Teacher
2016-2017
Project
Network of Study Centers in Sustainable Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean-REDEUS
CEDEUS PUC
Managment Support
2016-2017
Research
Sustainability at neighborhood scale: Re-visiting Quiero mi Barrio program
CEDEUS PUC
Research Assistant
2016
Conference
Pilot project of family condominiums in 9×18 sites.
Proyecto piloto en Condominios familiares en sitios 9×18.
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
Rodrigo Tapia, Carolina Salinas, Daniella Innocenti, Pía Mora, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Walker. (2016). En Intersecciones proceedings(529-533). Santiago de Chile: Felipe Encinas, Andrea Weschler.
Author
2016
Research
Urban regeneration and densification of lots 9x18: preliminary project in the nighbourhood of La Faena, Peñalolén
Center of Public Policy PUC
Researcher
2016
Teaching
Living Conditions in Vulnerable Settlements
Faculty of Architecture PUC
Teacher Assistant
2015
Teaching
My neighborhood: complex and diverse habitat
The Center for the Study and Development of Talent (PENTA UC) Year 9 Key Stage 3
Teacher
2015
Research
Academic certificate in Vulnerable Territories: an interdisciplinary work opportunity for students and teachers
Architecture PUC
Research Assistant
2014-2016
Teaching
Knowing and building my neighborhood
The Center for the Study and Development of Talent (PENTA UC) Year 8 Key Stage 3
Teacher
2014-2015
Research
Neighborhood improvement and establishment of close families: interdisciplinary study of feasibility of a public policy proposal at the local level
Architecture PUC
Research Assistant
2013-2014
Research
Development of methodologies for interdisciplinary work in Vulnerable Territories
Architecture PUC
Research Assistant
2013
Research
Analysis of the cadastre of high-rise social condominiums
Center for Public Policies for the CEHU Housing Studies Commission of MINVU.
Research Assistant
2012
Project
Development of adaptations to social housing for blind couple in order to opt for a supplementary disability subsidy.
NGO Techo
Architecture Internship
2010
Volunteer Work
Post-earthquake damage cadastre.
Faculty of Architecture PUC
Catastrator
2010
Volunteer Work
OpenChapel-Stage for Tres Cruces Community, Coquimbo Region.
“Servants For Chile”-PUC
Architect
2010
Volunteer Work
Volunteer Social Coordinator: Southeast Zone.
NGO Techo
Coordinator
2009
Volunteer Work
Summer camp monitor for children at social risk.
Jesus Child Foundation
Tutor
2008-2009
Volunteer Work
Informal settlement Social Coordinator: Villa Ferro, Commune of Padre Hurtado.
NGO Techo
Coordinator
2008
Volunteer Work
Diagnosis of housing and training for residents on housing improvement subsidies.
Municipality of Maipú
Inteviewer
a Chilean architect, researcher and teacher with more than 10 years of experience collaborating, engaging and co-designing with people in highly vulnerable situations, working in both academic and NGO settings, closely related to the private sector, local governments and ministries
2024
Through
Instruction on expansion possibilities for recent owners of subsidized rural social housing.
Instructing
Neighborhood planning design with children of Year 9 Key Stage 3. Each group designs a sector of a large neighborhood based on the regeneration of an old air base in the urban area of Santiago.
Discussions
Interview through neighborhood commented tour.
Walks
Final coursework. An event in which learning is presented to the residents of the neighbourhood. Feedback and retribution is generated with the neighbours.
Retribution
Collage as one of the initial activities with families of the community project to open imaginaries about improvements in the neighborhood “Our neighborhood of dreams”
Dreaming
Focus group with close families living with the owners of the land to study the willingness to build family condominiums on their own site.
Focus groups
Spanish language classes to Haitian immigrants. Volunteer work with Jesuit Migrant Service work material.
Communication
Instruction on expansion possibilities for recent owners of subsidized rural social housing.
Evaluations
Guidance and participative decision making with extended households living in precarious housing, on 1 or 2 floor typologies for on-site densification.
Guidance
Session of the Interinstitutional Roundtable for Neighborhood Regeneration 9x18
Cooperation
Activity with monopoly game with unequal basic conditions and proposal of alternative games that correct the inequalities.
Games
Neighborhood scenarios for the Santiago Architecture Biennial. Comparative model with: origins, current situation, intensive densification and regeneration on a medium scale.
Exhibitions
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