Karin Schaeffer

She’s an architect and urban planner. After studying at the Architecture School of Grenoble, where she specialized in earth architecture techniques, she obtained a master’s degree in urban planning at the Urban Planning Institute of Grenoble. For 15 years, she worked in an architectural office, mainly designing social housing and public buildings. Today, she is working as a project leader in urban renewal in Isère; and at the same time, she is studying, as part of her PhD in the research centre of social sciences Pacte and under the direction of Paulette Duarte, the impacts of urban renewal on the social representations of districts.