Sandra Guinand

Sandra Guinand is an urban geographer and research associate at Eirest-Irest, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Ouvdd, Université de Lausanne. She holds her PHD from the Géosciences de l’environnement Faculty, Université de Lausanne and Université de Paris I. Her dissertation delt with urban regeneration projects and their ability to integrate memory, the meanings of  territories and people’s experience in a context of globalization, tourist flows and metropolisation. She recently co-edited a book “qualité urbaine, justice spatiale et projet” (PPUR editor). At CUNY she will work as a Swiss National Fund fellow on the material and immaterial dimensions constitutive of the memory/(ies) of festival market places as a mean to shed light on the socio-cultural and economic trajectories of these type of public-private partnership projects and the way they shape public space and the urban landscape.