I am a trained Architect and Urban Planner who is currently pursuing a PhD in Landscape Planning at SLU Ultuna under the supervision of Mattias Qviström, Johan Pries (University of Lund) and Greet De Block (University of Antwerp). I have a keen interest in the fields of landscape, urban, and regional planning, and to varied degrees, I engage with policy and spatial analysis, field and archival research methods, mapping, and other forms of scientific representation.
My current research attempts to reposition prevalent theoretical debates on models from the fields of architecture, planning history, and philosophy of sciences within the context of landscape and green planning. Specifically, I critically explore models of green planning related to questions of form and formation through the lenses of performativity and performance practices in the context of postwar reconstructions and critique to modernism. The green belt of the modernist capital Brasília, the 1952 General Plan for Stockholm, and the city's renowned green wedges serve as case studies to question the "blueprint approach" to models based on "end-states" and self-referentiality. Beyond stable rules of success and failure across global divides, I highlight a model's gaps and fractures, which open up possibilities for disruption, refusal, and resistance against its own inner workings, totalizing desires, and ontological positionings.
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.