Senior Researcher
Natacha Quintero González
Curriculum Vitae
Natacha Quintero González is a senior researcher at the Habitat Unit since September 2025. She supports the strategic and conceptual development of the research training group initiative. Her research centres on critical urban pedagogies, collaborative knowledge production, and more-than-human political ecologies. Through those interests, she explores how urban pedagogies can question and make visible issues of power, how diverse spatialities and knowledge are produced, and the ways humans and nonhumans participate in such production.
Natacha studied architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and did her master’s degree in urban development at TU Berlin. She earned a doctoral degree in landscape and urban studies from TU Berlin in 2025, with a dissertation titled “Tracing Knowledges for Other Possible Worlds: Thinking with Urbanisms of Resistance in Brazil and Puerto Rico” (publication forthcoming). She has co-organised and contributed to various international workshops, collaborative research activities, and participatory DesignBuild projects in different contexts in Latin America and the Caribbean, working with self-managed communities and local partners to co-produce spaces and knowledge(s). Formerly, she worked at the Chair of Urban Planning at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, where she led courses in strategic planning, urban design, and integrated urban development concepts (ISEKs), as well as seminars on critical cartographies of urban food systems, feminist approaches, and more-than-human perspectives in planning.
2019 – 2025
Doctorate (Dr. Ing.), TU Berlin, with distinction (summa cum laude). Title: Tracing Knowledges for Other Possible Worlds: Thinking with Urbanisms of Resistance in Brazil and Puerto Rico. Supervised by Prof. Undine Giseke and Prof. Dr. Nina Gribat (in publication).
2013 – 2016
Master’s degree in urban development (M.Sc.), TU Berlin Campus El Gouna
2007 – 2012
Architectural Degree (Arch.), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
2024 – 2025
Co-Researcher in LAKUTEZU (LandKulturen Teilhabe – Zukunft), a research project from the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg funded by BMLE (Bundesministeriums für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat)
2017 – 2024
Lecturer and Researcher at the Chair for Urban Planning, Prof. Dr. Nina Gribat, Faculty 6, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
2012
Architect at ODA Oficina de Arquitectura, Architectural Office, Caracas
since 2019
Project member and co-facilitator: Alumni workshop series "Collaborative Production of Transformation Knowledge in Self-organized Occupations – (COLLOC)". A cooperation between TU Berlin, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg. Funded by DAAD and BMZ.
2022
Project Coordinator: Summer school "Play, Placemaking and Participation in Puerto Rico". Winner of the DesignBuild PROJECT Competition from the Sto Stiftung. In cooperation with the University of Puerto Rico, Taller Creando sin Encargos, and the Huerto, Vivero y Bosque Urbano Capetillo. 31. Jul–08. Aug
2020
Project Coordinator: Summer school in Puerto Rico: "Play, Placemaking, and Participation in San Ciprián” (accepted for DAAD funding but cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
2018
Project member and Co-facilitator: Summer school "Interactive Knowledge Production in Self-organised Occupations” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In cooperation with TUB and UFRJ. Funded by DAAD and BMBF.
Summer 2024
Feministische Stadtplanung in/für Cottbus: Überwindung patriarchaler Strukturen durch Interventionen und Spekulationen“ (Feminist urban practices in/for Cottbus: overcoming patriarchal urban orders). Master Studio Project Urban and Regional Planning, b-tu Cottbus-Senftenberg.
Winter semester 2023/24
Feminist thinking in Urban Planning. Master Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning, B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg,
Summer Semester 2022
Reimagining Urban Space Beyond the Human”. Master Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning, B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Winter Semester 2020/21
Feeding the city: Food cycles and the production of urban space. Master Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning, B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Together with Anke Hagemann.
Summer Semester 2020
50 MILES MENU. MENSA GOES REGIONAL. Master Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning of b-tu Cottbus-Senftenberg.Together with Monique Jüttner.
Summer Semester 2023
Lecturer and Co-Facilitator at the DAAD-funded summer school "Practising Interdisciplinarity in planning and design in secondary cities" in Arequipa, Peru. Organised by the Chair for Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, in cooperation with the USMP. September 3-10
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Alumni Workshop “Collaborative production of transformation knowledge in self-organized occupations” in Rio de Janeiro, funded by the DAAD and coordinated by Dr. Kathrin Wieck (TU-Berlin) in partnership with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and FAU/UFRJ.
2018
Participation as Project Faculty in the Study Visit “Strategies and tactics toward urban spaces and housing” in Berlin, funded by the DAAD and organized by Prof. Dr. Luciana Andrade (PROURB- UFRJ).
Supervision of Master Theses (selection)
Summer Semester 2023
Lía Duarte Rodríguez, (uncaring) landscapes: a look into the trajectories of domestic care workers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Co-Supervised with Dr. Elke Beyer.
Summer Term 2021
Clara Santos Giordani Benevenuti, Waste Routes: An analysis of the Solid Waste Management in Rio de Janeiro’s Favela through the Journey of Organic Waste. Master's thesis for the degree of M.Sc. in Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus Senftenberg. Co-Supervised with Prof. Dr. Nina Gribat and Prof. Dr. Ana Nobre.
From 2019 to 2020
Maria Burgos, The Spreepark Beyond the Wall. Redeveloping the Spreepark in Berlin to Promote the City’s Growth and Strengthen its Identity. Master's thesis for the degree in Architecture “Construction And City”, Politecnico Di Torino. Co-Supervised with Prof. Paolo Mellano and Arch. Juan Carlos Parilli.
Summer Semester 2018
Irina Solovyeva, Bewegungstadt der Kinder und Jugendlichen. Ist ein Schritt zu Aktionsräumen in Berliner Quartieren möglich? Master's thesis for the degree of M.Sc. in Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus Senftenberg. Co-Supervised with Prof. Anna Lundqvist and M.A. Thomas Knorr-Siedow.
Book contributions
(2024) Follow the food… and the spaces it shapes. In K. Bohn & M. Tomkins (Eds.), Urban Food Mapping. Making Visible the Edible City (pp. 108–119). Routledge. With Anke Hagemann
(2022) Going to Places and Staying at Home: Reflections on Critical Cartography and Desktop Documentation in Online Education. In M. A. Wilson & S. Burns (Eds.), Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy (pp. 29–50). Routledge. With Emily Bereskin
(2021) Feeding the city: Food cycles and the production of urban space. BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg. With Anke Hagemann
Other Articles and Publications
(2025) Hybrid pedagogies for knowledge co-production, translocal solidarity and collective action. City, 29(3–4), 580–596.
(2023) Cocreación para una ecología de saberes en el Caribe: Huerto de Capetillo. Revista de Arquitectura, 28(44), Article 44, 56–75. With Yazmin Crespo Claudio, Omayra Rivera Crespo and Irmaris Santiago Rodríguez
(2022) Common grounds across Brazil and Germany. ’Scape Magazine, 19, 124–129. With Kathrin Wieck, Juliana Canedo, Fernanda Petrus and Toni Karge
(2020) Collaborative Knowledge Production for Planning under Uncertainty. In C. Kollert & S. Weidner (Eds.), Städte erforschen und Räume gestalten – Forschung am Institut für Stadtplanung der BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 204–213. BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.
(2018) Interactive Knowledge Production in Self-Organized Areas. In S. Delarue & R. Dufour (Eds.), Landscapes of conflict ECLAS Conference 2018, Ghent, Belgium: Book of proceedings. University College Ghent - School of Arts - Landscape & Garden Architecture and Landscape Development, 244–253. With Kathrin Wieck
Conference papers
(2024) Domestic Peripheries: Spatialities of Invisibilised Reproductive Work. RC21 Conference: The politics and spaces of encounters. Advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South. Panel 1: Spaces of the rich and powerful: Producing and reproducing privileged neighbourhoods. July 24. With Lía Duarte Rodríguez
(2024) Domestic Peripheries: Spatialities of Invisibilised Reproductive Work. Urban Studies Days Helsinki Conference. Panel: (Work)space, Society, and the Changing City. May 24. With Lía Duarte Rodríguez
(2024) Periferias Domésticas: Espacialidades del Trabajo Reproductivo Invisibilizado. CIUR II 2024 Conference. Panel: Neoliberalismo y transformación urbana y territorial (N02). March 13. With Lía Duarte Rodríguez
(2022) Hybrid Pedagogies for Knowledge Co-Production, Trans-local Solidarity and Community Development. RC21 Conference: Ordinary Cities in Exceptional Times. Panel: Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times. Athens, Greece. August 24 – 27
(2022) Thinking food relationally: Exploring methodological frameworks towards metabolic readings of urban food systems. Scientific Research Symposium “Metabolism Studies: Materiality and relationality in the Anthropocene", Lyon, France. June 28 – 30.
(2022) Thinking food relationally: Reflections on systemic and relational perspectives for mapping socio-material interactions, translocal networks and complex relationships within food systems and food supply chains [Online]. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), New York. February 25 – March 1.
(2021) Mapping Food Supply Chains. Approaching translocality through spatial analysis and visualization [Online]. SMUS CONFERENCE Botswana, Botswana. September 23-25. With Anke Hagemann. https://gcsmus.org/conferences/botswana/sessions/27-methods-in-food-studies-research/
(2021) Going to Places and Staying at Home: Critical Reflections on Thematic Cartography and Desktop Documentation in Online Education [Online]. International Conference Online Education: Responding to a Crisis, and more hosted by Architecture Media Politics and Society, Ball State University, the University of Kassel, the University of Pretoria, and Beaconhouse University. April 21 – 23. With Emily Bereskin.
(2020) The Extitutional Role of Scholarship in Knowledge Production Networks [Online]. Virtual conference "Decolonizing Planning in Latin America", organised by Dr. Clara Irazábal-Zurita (University of Missouri), Dr. Jessica Pineda-Zumarán (Saint Augustine National University) and Dr. Lara Furtado (University of Fortaleza). July 3.
(2019) Developing Common Ground through Collaborative Knowledge Production. Trialog Conference “Whose Knowledge Counts”. Stuttgart, Germany. November 8. With Dr. Kathrin Wieck.
(2018) Interactive Knowledge Production and its Potentials for Designing Spaces of Hope in Self-Organised Environments. AESOP Annual Congress “Making Space for Hope”. Gothenburg, Sweden. July 12. With Dr. Kathrin Wieck.
(2017) Informal Ecologies: an emergent approach towards landscape integration in Caracas, Venezuela. 7th ArchCairo International Conference "Building Innovatively Interactive Cities". Giza, Cairo.
Invited lectures
(2024) Feministisches Denken und feministische Raumpraktiken in der Stadtplanung [Guest lecture]. Seminar “StadtLand der Vielfalt - Feministische und andere Räume”, SoSe 2024, Led by Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mario Tvrtković. June 5
(2023) Systemic scenarios and materialisation of co-produced knowledge. Keynote Presentation for the Alumni Workshop COLLOC23. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. September 7.
(2023) La relacionalidad como principio en prácticas participativas de planificación y diseño. Keynote lecture for the DAAD Summer School Practicing Interdisciplinarity in planning in secondary cities. Arequipa, Peru. September 7.
(2023) Feeding the City: Pedagogies and Methods to approach Urban Food Systems. Lecture Series Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice, SoSe 2023, Led by Gast. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Wieck (ILAUP) and Prof. Dr. Angela Million (ISR). May 22
(2023) Participation and hybridity in practices of co-production, trans-local collaboration and community development. International Planning Studies (IPS) - SPRING Program, WiSe 22-23, Led by Prof. Sophie Schramm. Feb 3.
(2022) Relational thinking in participatory planning and design. Keynote Lecture in the framework of the Summer School COLLABORATIVE DESIGN METHODS organised by Juliana Canedo, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, Berlin. August 21.
(2022) Co-creation of Knowledge: transformation in informal settlements. Lecture Series “Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice” SoSe 2022, Led by Prof. Undine Giseke (ILAUP) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million (ISR). July 4. With Kathrin Wieck
(2021) El Cuarto de la muchacha que limpia: A closer look into domestic service spaces and the narratives they embody. Master Seminar Architectures of Care SoSe 2021, led by Prof. Dr. Elke Beyer and Dr. Christian Haid. Session 05, The Global Household: Domestic Layouts and Care Chains. May 18.
(2018) “Berlin Urban Parks” [Urban walk in Berlin] as part of an international excursion from Umea University.