Edgardo Contreras Nossa

Edgardo Contreras Nossa is a doctoral student in Urban Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. He has a Master in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at the Center for Habitat and Housing Studies [CEHyV / FADU / UBA] on urban problems and phenomena in different Latin American cities.

Edgardo is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Montreal in the Department of Geography, currently researching collective ownership of the land, especially proposed by social movements in Buenos Aires. He is also a consultant for urban projects structuring and urban instruments design for multilateral organisms and different levels of governments.

Edgardo is a former advisor in the Parliament of the city of Buenos Aires in the urban planning and housing commission and in the recovery of land value in the National Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat. He is a member of the winning team International competition IDB UrbanLab 2016, Santa Marta, Colombia. Edgardo is a fellow of the ELAP program of the Canadian government at Ryerson University, Toronto (Master’s degree 2014) and University of Montreal (PhD degree 2024). He is a member and co-founder of the surbanistas organization.