Acoyani Adame Castillo

Acoyani Adame Castillo
Acoyani Adame

Urban planner and architect with 8+ years experience leading international cooperation projects at the intersection of gender equality, climate resilience, urban and housing policy and sustainable urban mobility. Proven track record in managing multi-stakeholder initiatives, designing participatory methodologies, and providing technical assistance to local and national governments across Latin America. Founder of the urban and architectural research and project studio Urbanismo Mujeres y Ciudad en Latinoamérica UMCLA.

Selected publications or texts

Situated Urban Diagnosis: Contributions to Understanding Women’s Daily Mobility and Designing Mobility Policies with Gender Justice. Book chapter. Urban Studies Collection UC – RIL Editors, Thesis Series. 2024.

Women’s Embodied Experiences: Qualitative Tools for a Gender-Conscious Approach to the Territory. Loci Communes, Vol. 1(1). 2021.

Selected speaking engagements

Panel moderator of the event Care Public System: design with a gender approach in public works. UNAM 2024.

Speaker – International Congress on Gender and Space, UNAM, Mexico: Participatory Methodologies – My Walk Logbook and Immobility Logbook. April 2019 and March 2021.

Awards and recognitions

Third place in Contest Vida Urbana with the “Low Emission Zone Iztapalapa: Mobility and Care Network” project. Dec 2024.

 

 

Acoyani Adame Castillo
Acoyani Adame