Kristine Stiphany

Kristine Stiphany Ph.D., AIA, is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Stiphany is a multidisciplinary urban scientist, designer, and scholar of Latin American urbanism interested in the politics and design agency of urban transformation, with a particular focus on the role of informal housing in community and urban infrastructural systems. She is the founder and principal of Chapa Studio, a digital humanities initiative of citizen scientists for social justice in urban transformation. Supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation (two), the Andrea von Braun Foundation, and the J. William Fulbright Fellowship, Kristine's practice, scholarship, and teaching frames-built environments not only as technological artifacts, but a spatial politics for transforming where and how urbanization-vulnerable communities live in cities.