Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023. 6:00pm
Room 9207

Pedro Javier Jaramillo Cruz is a professor at the University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in the Architecture and Habitat School.

Since 1997, following a strong car accident that he suffered, his practice has been oriented towards the problematization of the relationship between physical space and people with disabilities. This is how the topics of his expertise focus on universal accessibility, inclusive design, and human safety.

He is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and a Fulbright Grantee recipient as a Visiting Research Scholar this Fall Term at The Graduate Center.
His research work aims to know how people with disabilities produce the lived and perceived space through their representations and spatial practices, their material experience from daily life, and their self-representation in comparison with the space conceived and represented by so-called experts like policymakers, architects, and planners.