Associated Researcher 

Diane Barbé

diane.barbe@sciencespo.fr

Room A 621 
T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 73655 
F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907 

Curriculum Vitae 

Diane Barbé has been a research associate at the Habitat Unit since October 2015. Diane is a graduat from the School of Urban Affairs at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po), where she concentrated on governance, property rights and informal housing policies in cities of the global South, particularly Kabul, Afghanistan and São Paulo, Brazil. She was the chief editor for a research report on regional and town planning in Casablanca and Tangier, Morocco, published in 2014.

Diane collaborated with researchers at the University of Washington as well as local experts to produce the 1994-2014 Sustainable Neighbourhoods Assessment Report, commissioned by the city of Seattle, USA to help prepare the upcoming 20-year master plan. She worked as a consultant for the architecture firm Grumbach & Associés in the context of the Atelier du Grand Paris, an urban think-tank dedicated to facilitate collaborations and knowledge exchanges between agencies and disciplines of the Paris municipality, department and region.

As a researcher with the Habitat Unit, Diane's research focuses on revealing political and social tensions through psychogeography, exploring the crossroads of ethnography, cartography and social history to understand cities from the bottom up. Diane is currently a research associate for the Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives project, which is funded by the German Cultural Foundation.