Sued Ferreira

I am an architect and planner currently pursuing a PhD in Landscape Planning at SLU Ultuna, under the supervision of Mattias Qviström, Johan Pries (Lund University), and Greet De Block (University of Antwerp).

My PhD project critically investigates the mobilisation of greenspace models - such as green belts, green wedges, and greenways - into physical planning and policy at both urban and regional scales. It is an exploratory, critical, and situated research with case studies in the so-called model cities of Stockholm and Brasília, addressing pervasive narratives of success and failure. The aim is to reorient approaches to and assumptions about models as they circulate across texts, institutions, social arenas, and geographies. This reorientation seeks to contribute to a just, reflexive green planning practice while revealing the complexities of a model’s inner workings, its performances, and reality effects in and on the world. 

Strongly driven by intellectual curiosity and interdisciplinary explorations, I see research as an utterly creative, transformative, and embodied practice. I fully enjoy speculating on future urban scenarios, qualitative data analysis, archival research, and the exciting creative possibilities that emerge from engaging with planning and policy documents, tools, and (visual) representations. 

Book Chapters:

Ferreira da Silva, S. 2022. "Brasilia, a story seen from the roadside: narratives of landscape transformation and the technological sublime", in Heathcott, J. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Infrastructure Designs. New York: Routledge. 

Da Silva, SF 2019. "Ways of Seeing: the Downplay of Landscape Aesthetics in Sustainable Urban Paradigm", in Haas, T. et. al (ed.) Perspectives on Urban Realities. Stockholm: KTH ABE. 

Master Thesis:

Da Silva, SF, 2018. "Paisagens Atravessadas: Projeto, experiencia e cotidiano na Estrada Parque Taguatinga em Brasília" (Traversed Landscapes: Urban project, experience, and everyday life at the Taguatinga Parkway in Brasilia), Master Thesis, University of Brasilia, 296 pages, <https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32664>. 

Peer Reviewed Articles: 

Da Silva, SF et. al. 2016. Poéticas da Paisagem: do sublime ao pitoresco no movimento Land Art ( Landscape Poetics: From sublime to picturesque in the Land Art Movement ), Revista Estética e Semiótica 6(1), <https://doi.org/10.18830/issn2238 -362X.v6.n1.2016.10>. 

Da Silva, SF, 2016. "Paisagens em trânsito: o caso da Estrada Parque Taguatinga" (Landscapes in Transit: the case of the Taguatinga Parkway), Labor e Engenho 10(3):302-312, <DOI: 10.20396/lobore .v10i3.8646182>. 

Conference Papers:

Pereira, LB and Da Silva, SF 2016. "Espaços livres, enclaves ea paisagem urbana na modernidade agravada: o caso de Águas Claras" (Open Spaces, Enclaves and 
the Urban Landscape in the Aggravated Modernity: the Case of Águas Claras ),IV ENANPARQ: Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Porto Alegre: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. 

Da Silva, SF 2016. "Gestos na paisagem: o imaginário do horizonte no cotidiano urbano" ( Gestures in the Landscape: the imaginary of the horizon line in everyday life ), Corpocidade 5: Gestos Urbanos, Federal University of Bahia, December 6th to 9th 2016. Salvador: Plataforma Corpocidad.