Roberta’s writing is shaped by urgent conversations about the future of architecture, economics, and socio-environmental justice, and by her lived experience working alongside communities across the Amazon, Africa, and other regions. Through her essays, she reflects on regenerative practices, exploring how architecture can foster resilience, adaptability, and reciprocal relationships with the natural world. She is particularly interested in recognising forms of intelligence often overlooked by dominant systems, those embedded in land, culture, and collective memory, and in understanding how they can guide more regenerative and just ways of building and living. To find out more, follow Roberta on Substack.

LATEST WORK:

• The road to Antalya runs through the neighbourhood
• Culture’s road to COP31 Antalya
• What does the Equator teach? An essay on biocultural design, indigenous knowledge, regenerative practice, and the relationship between ecology and culture across the Amazon and the Mara-Serengeti
• ‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism’
• From sustainability to regeneration: What are we really trying to sustain?
• Can regenerative economics overcome the economy-ecology divide?
• Designing the In-Between: Void, Ma, and the architecture of relation
• 5 Principles for integrating indigenous knowledge to create inclusive cities
• Can a building know how to die? Lessons on impermanence from a Cambodian temple, an Italian cemetery, and a Japanese shrine