Diego Carracedo Uribe holds an MSc in Urban Management and Development from the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and an MBA in Sustainable Mobility from TU Berlin. He is currently a PhD candidate at Dublin City University (Ireland), funded under the MSCA – Industrial Doctorate programme.
Before starting his PhD program, Diego worked in the Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation in Lima, Peru; in the SDG Localization and Local Government team of UN-Habitat; and the consultancy SD Strategies, in Berlin.
Diego is from Peru and is focusing his fieldwork on Medellin, Colombia. As part of the PRESILIENT project, his research scope will cover strategies for social capital, networks, resilience, and informal workers".
RESEARCH PROJECT
Informality and Innovation: Building Post-Pandemic Resilient Communities in Colombia.
An Exploration of Migrants’ Informal Work Through Space and Rhythm.
My study focuses on understanding the spatial processes that people from Venezuela engage through their informal labour and the rhythms that these convey, exploit, and sustain.
PUBLICATIONS
Carracedo, D. (Under evaluation). Informal Economies as Urban Infrastructure: Economía Popular and the Making of Latin American Cities. In SI: “What is informality and what could be? Examples from the Latin American Region". Co-editors: Miria Gambardella, Abel Polese, Jairo Baquero Melo, Kate Maclean. Currently under evaluation by the Journal of Latin American Studies.
Molina, J. L., Pulgar Corrotea, M., Polese, A., Fradejas-García, I., Ianole-Călin, R., Isaev, A., Mengato, S., Nguyen, M., Carracedo, D., De Lombaerde, G., Avesani, M., Sasikornwong, N., Gambardella, M., Andrias, B., Massera, M., Lima, J. P., Cisagara, B., Rahman, A., Kabaghe, W., & D'Urso, D. (2024). PRESILIENT Horizon Scanning Dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14285318