Jota Samper is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Design Program ENVD at the 麻豆影院. He is an architect and planner; he has taught architecture, urban design, and planning. His work at Informal Settlements Research ISR concentrates on sustainable urban growth and dwells at the intersection between urban informality (鈥渟lums鈥�) and violent urban conflict. The main goal of ISR is to create and reveal innovative urban tools to visualize the challenges (climate, regulatory, and violence) presented in informal landscapes. He is a co-founder of Mobility/Movilidad, a nonprofit dedicated to video archiving and mapping with marginalized communities. He Co-Directs the Community Engagement, Design, and Research Center (CEDaR) at CU 麻豆影院. Born and raised in Medell铆n, he obtained his BA in architecture at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, has a master鈥檚 in City Planning, and a Ph.D. On Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he lectured. His project 鈥淟iving rooms at the Border,鈥� with estudio teddy cruz, exhibited at the MoMA. He is a fellow of the 鈥淒rugs, Security and Democracy, SSRC,鈥� alongside colleges from Oxford University, he developed the 鈥淭he Changing Character of Conflict Platform,鈥� Samper鈥檚 work the 鈥淎tlas of Informality鈥� has been presented in a
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