About “Rosangela Tenorio”

Rosangela Tenorio is an Associate Professor at the UWA School of Design, and has over 20 years of experience as an academic and as a practicing architect. Born in the northeast of Brazil, she was trained in Recife as an architect where she started working in affordable housing and slum upgrading projects. Her training continued as she undertook internships and work/research experience in Japan, USA and Italy. It was in Australia that she officially started her academic career, when under the guidance of Dr Steven V Szokolay (UQ), one of the world’s leading experts and pioneers on environmental science, she completed her PhD. Throughout her professional career, Rosangela has been always committed to affordability of resources (environmental and financial) and how these two aspects can have a substantial purpose in the way we provide better living conditions, culturally, socially and economically. Her original research work (PhD) focused on building energy simulation and thermal comfort studies of housing in tropical regions – Darwin (AUS)-Salvador (Brazil). Passive cooling design in hot regions has been at the core of her research interests as a way towards tackling bigger urban environmental issues (e.g. Urban Heat Island (UHI). She has expanded her research interests also towards remote communities (design for education and development/use of bio-based materials/traditional architecture monitoring and mapping in developing countries). RESEARCH PROJECTS & ROLESSince joining academia, Rosangela has led various research projects having attracted funding as PI or CI from a number of funding agencies. Her work on environmental design has been widely published (please refer to publications list). She has served as an associate editor and reviewer of scientific journals and conferences, such as Architectural Science Review, Journal of Housing & The Built Environment, amongst others, as well as contributing as a member of international panels and Scientific Research committees, such as: (NZCLAS- New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS), Institute of Asia Pacific Studies (IAPS – China, Malaysia, UK), INTA-SEGA (International Network for Tropical Architecture), ANZASCA (Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Conference Association), ENCAC (Brazilian National Conference on Thermal Comfort and CNPq/CAPES(Brazil). Rosangela’s recent co-edited book “Beyond the Market: Building Sino-Latin American Relations” has been the result of a two year collaboration with academics from over 30 countries, looking at cross-cultural and transdisciplinary relationships in Sino-Latin American contexts. Acknowledging that the forces of trade and business in a globalized economy has pushed its way towards connectivity, mostly through business and financial grounds, the book looked into the state of the cultural transformations undergone by Sino and Latin American societies in the last 40 years, when the current trade connections started to take place. Attention to these changes are meant to shed light into old as well as new points of cultural connectivity between these two major regions, both of which have significantly increased their economic and cultural influence in the global scene. Through a focus on culture, arts, society and spaces, the collection of essays aimed towards providing a dialogue between these two regions, searching for the creative links between the two continents beyond the market logic that presently dominates their mutual interaction.