November 2019 – SILVIA TAVARES

SILVIA TAVARES

Sensing Cities: Smart Thermal Comfort for Climate Adaptation

Quite unexpectedly, last week I was interviewed by Channel 7 (Cairns) and WINNEWS. The interviews aired on the 26th November. Read more…

About Dr Silvia Tavares

Urban designer with a background in architecture, urbanism, and building and city science. Brazilian national. Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Town Planning at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Affiliate member of PIA and registered architect and urbanist in Brazil.

Passionate about interfaces between urbanism, landscape and architecture. Interested in providing evidence through research to produce public open spaces that are thermally comfortable and economically effective, while promoting the good health of users and the natural environments that surround them.

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All opinions and points of view expressed in this website are my own and do not reflect employer or colleagues' opinions.