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Professor Catalina Ortiz

Headshot of Dr Catalina Ortiz. Image: Skivalos Photographia

Prof Catalina Ortiz began her tenure as Director of UCL Urban Laboratory in June 2024. She joined UCL in 2015 and is Professor of Critical Urban Pedagogy in The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU). She helped to develop the Global Urbanism MASc programme, for which she is a teaching contributor, and has been a member of Urban Lab’s Steering Committee since 2021. An urbanist who is passionate about spatial justice, her research uses decolonial and critical urban theory through knowledge co-production methodologies to study the politics of space production to foster more just cities and the recognition of multiple urban knowledges. Her work revolves around critical urban pedagogies, planning for equality, and southern urbanisms. As an educator, she is committed to an ethics of care and an engaged scholarship to trigger radical spatial imagination for a negotiated co-production of space.


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