LARA FREITAS

Biourbanist, Master in Urban Management, Permaculturist, ODS Multiplier and certified facilitator of Gaia Education. She is part of the Working and Research Group: Ecobairros para comunidades regenerativas da Plataforma Arquitetura e Biofera da Escola da Cidade. Director of Instituto Ecobairro Brasil, an institution dedicated to the activation of the Ecobairro Permanent Programme. Acts as co-founder and coordinator of Ecobairro in São Paulo - the main focus of these efforts is the creation and/or transformation of neighbourhoods into Ecobairros in the different dimensions of sustainability and location of Agenda 2030/ODS. Tutor of GEDS - Gaia Education Design for Sustainability/Ecological Design and Design Studio, of the Municipalities in Transition Project - MiT, coordinated the application of the One Planet Linving/Bioregional Methodology in Vila Mariana. Associate director of Paisagem Design Regenerative that its main action in Design socio-ecological, integrated management of multidisciplinary teams in studies, plans and urban, social and environmental projects. Works in the organization, and acts as an educator, of the course Gaia Education (Ecovillage Design Education - EDE) in São Paulo from 2006 to 2010; and, in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, she co-idealized the online/live and hybrid version of EDE - the ciclo Gaia vivA.