March 25, 2009 – Brasil, São Paulo UCLA – School of Public Affairs – Department of Urban Planning Students Visit to the University of São Paulo - USP, São Paulo Experiential Educational Experience (Fotos)
March 12 – 13, 2009 – York University, Toronto, Canada - “Lumpen-City: discourses of marginality/ marginalinzing discourses”, organizada pelo The York University Sociology Graduate Students' Association (YSGA), in conjunction with the City Institute at York University and the Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL) (SITE) (Fotos)
February 14 – 15, 2009 – Japan, Tokyo - JICA - JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY WORSHOP AND SEMINAR ON TOKYO SUSTAINABILITY (Fotos)
14 de Novembro de 2008 – Brasil, São Paulo, São Carlos - Seminário Nacional População em situação de Rua, dia 14 de novembro - Espaço de debate sobre o tema da População em Situação de Rua, congregando diversos segmentos da sociedade. (flyer eletrônico) (SITE)
07 de Novembro de 2008 às 19h30 – Brasil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte - PARTICIPAÇÃO NA MESA REDONDA: DESIGN E SUSTENTABILIDADE: VISÕES E CENÁRIOS POSSÍVEIS, ESCOLA DE DESIGN DA UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS - UEMG. (cartaz)

15 a 17 de Outubro de 2008 – Suécia, Malmo - Designboost 2008 Forum - "Long Live the City!", dia 16 de outubro - Short abstracts from the different lectures during the Boost Talk day October 16th:
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo
"Excavations: the prototype of our urban future?"
What will our urban future be like, considering the serious degradation of our environment and the crisis of the technological age?
If the current tendency of the obsolescence and rapid discarding of products continues, very soon the public space of our cities will become large cemeteries of degraded objects, garbage of our technological and industrialized culture.
In these areas, one can dig for things, and, using this waste, set up survival strategies, thus constructing a new materiality and extending the life of products and materials.
Collectors, urban nomads, and the homeless have envisioned and created a collective and environmental friendly project of recycling, which contains a great deal of social usefulness and solidarity.
What is the value of looking at lifestyles, displacement, homelessness and the collection of recyclable material? What could we learn from the excavators and their experience?

(abstract)
(SITE) (Speakers at boost chats on october 16th 2008)

10, 11 e 12 de Setembro de 2008 das 14 às 17 hs – Brasil, São Paulo - 7º Fórum da Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro, dia 10 de setembro - 1º dia - Mesa de debates: A Arte na Sombra - Como torná-la visível. (flyer eletrônico)
02 a 06 de Setembro de 2008 – Brasil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte - 7º Festival Lixo e Cidadania, dia 04 de setembro - Painel II: Desenvolvimento Urbano: Direitos e Cidadania. (SITE)
February 2008 – EUA, California - LESSONS FROM LIFE IN THE CITIES OF PLASTIC AND CARDBOARD: design, homelessness and recyclable material collectors in Brazil (SITE)
January 2008 – Japan, Tokyo - DEVELOPING MATERIAL AND TRANSFORMING LIFES: NOTES ON WOMEN COMMUNITIES, BANANA FIBER AND DESIGN IN BRAZIL (SITE) (PDF) (Program)
18 a 22 de Setembro de 2007 – Brasil, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte - 6º Festival Lixo e Cidadania, dia 19 de setembro - Revitalização urbana, população de rua e direito à cidade. (SITE) (Fotos)
27 a 31 de Agosto de 2007 – Brasil, São Paulo - Conferência no Auditório Ariosto Mila - FAU, Semana Ambiental da Fau - Natureza Arquitetura e Cidade, proferida no dia 31 de agosto Pobreza e Meio Ambiente Urbanos: produção de resíduos sólidos e o papel do catador (flyer eletrônico)
28 de Agosto de 2007– Brasil, Minas Gerais - 6º Congresso Brasileiro de Gestão e Desenvolvimento de Produto - VI CBGDP, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Belo Horizonte - Design: os avanços nos últimos dez anos – conferência proferida em 28 de agosto de 2007.
22 e 23 de Maio de 2007 – Brasil, Minas Gerais - Seminário na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais debate desafios da reciclagem, Desafio da Reciclagem no Século XXI: O Papel dos Catadores (flyer eletrônico) (SITE)
12 de Março de 2007 – Brasil, São Paulo - LUZ E SOMBRA:
A INSPIRAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DA NATUREZA PARA O DESIGN,
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Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo - USP (PDF)
  • March 12, 2007 - Brazil, São Paulo - Profs. Cecilia Loschiavo and Fumi Masuda - Opening Address by Cecilia Loschiavo – Design, sustainability and social justice (PDF) (Fotos)
March 2007 – Brazil, São Paulo - Design e Sustentabilidade, Japan Foundation, São Paulo (SITE)
  • Tokyo Zokei University and Universidade de São Paulo - Design And Sustainability: The Creative Re-Utilization Of Recyclable Materials (PDF)

December 2006 – Japan, Tokyo - The International Conference of Design for Sustainability / Destination 2026. Guest speaker - Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Tokyo Zokei University (SITE)

• Banner for the "Exhibition Recycling Materials - Transforming Lives: a Brazilian Experience" presented at Destinations 2026, Tokyo, Big Sight, December, 2006
January 2006 – India, Delhi - Living in the cities of plastic and cardboard: the homeless survival strategies and resistance in São Paulo, Los Angeles and Tokyo (PDF). Lecture presented at International Conference Homelessness a Global Perspective, India Habitat Center (INDIA programe - PDF)
November 2004 – Australia, Melbourne - Desire of Design Knowledge. Notes on CNPq Doctoral Education Program in Brazil (PDF) – Lecture presented at International Conference of the Design Research Society, Monash University
Cities of plastic and cardboard – The homeless informal habitat in São Paulo, Los Angeles and Tokyo (PDF). Lecture presented at The Asia-Pacific network for Housing Research International Conference Housing and Globalization. Kobe, Japan, 2005.
May 2000 – Italy, Milano - Spontaneous design, informal recycling and everyday life in postindustrial metropolis (PDF) – Lecture presented at Conference Design plus Research, Politecnico di Milano
December 1999 – Japan, Tokyo - Packaging: Function, Re-function and malfunction. From consumer society to the homeless material culture – Lecture presented at EcoDesign ’99. First Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing. The University of Tokyo
September 1999 – Los Angeles - Castoff/Outcast. Living on the street – Exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, a photo-documentation of the ways that homeless folk in São Paulo, Los Angeles and Tokyo craft shelter for themselves.
Móvel Moderno no Brasil (Brazilian Modern Furniture), by Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos Santos, book about the history of Brazilian Furniture Design in the 20th century
   
 
 
CREATING THE 21st CENTURY.
June, 2008 - São Paulo.
 
6º Festival Lixo e Cidadania.
Setembro, 2007 - Minas Gerais.
 
6º Congresso Brasileiro de Gestão e Desenvolvimento de Produto - VI CBGDP.
Agosto, 2007 - Minas Gerais.
 
TZU - Tokyo Zokei University and USP - seminar, workshop and exhibition.
March, 2007 - São Paulo.
 
Destination 2026 - The International Conference of Design for Sustainability.
December, 2006 - Tokyo.
 
COOPAMARE - Recyclabe Materials Collectors Cooperative.
August - December, 2003.