Stéphanie Perrini
Stéphanie Perrini is an architect-urbanist and first-year PhD candidate at the Université de Mons (UMONS), Belgium. She holds a Master in Architecture (ULB, 2015) and a Master in Territorial Management and Urban Development (ULB-UMONS, 2021). Before entering academia, she worked as an independent architect and in several architecture and urbanism practices (Eon archi/urba, Urban Platform, Twyce), before joining citydev.brussels as a public equipment project developer ;managing feasibility, programming, financing, and legal-political structuring of public interest facilities like schools, museums, .... Her research interests sit at the intersection of territorial governance, project development, and social and environmental justice in processes of urban (re)development, including the deliberate choice not to develop.
Her doctoral research examines how citizen and associative actions can influence the reconfiguration of municipal governance in the context of brownfield development in Brussels and Wallonia. Her work pays particular attention to the vulnerabilities (social, spatial and environmental) that structure conflicts and negotiations around these sites, and to the relay between civil society actors, public servants and political decision-makers in shaping project trajectories. Drawing on urban sociology and participatory governance frameworks, her research questions the institutional reflex toward systematic brownfield development, and seeks to foreground the social, participatory and ecological values that alternative uses or non-development can produce. Her research integrates questions of collective action, territorial justice, and spatial reconfiguration of post-industrial territories.
Contact: stephanie.perrini@umons.ac.be