Francisco Calafate-Faria
Francisco is a sociologist and geographer with specialism in cities. His wide research experience includes the design, management, and delivery of projects on processes of urban change, politics of urban waste, performance art festivals, municipal cultural policy, art in public spaces, night workers at the London Underground, and repurposed temporary buildings.
In Curitiba (Brazil) he worked with informal collectors of recyclables, public prosecutors, third sector workers, and council officers to map the forms of value generated by alternative recycling circuits. In London he has worked with various local groups involved in disputed processes of urban transformation. He has worked in partnership with a municipality in the Metropolitan region of Barcelona on an experiment to reconfigure the notion of Smart Cities. Francisco teaches quantitative and qualitative research methods, environmental politics, sociological theory and criminology at Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, Brighton and Westminster Universities.