Viviana Cordero-Vinueza is focused on planning cities hand in hand with children and adding play and child-friendly design to the urban environment. She is a lawyer and urban planning specialist, driven by social and environmental justice.
Founding Member of Huasipichanga, an interdisciplinary consultancy for urban transformations that aims at positively impacting communities by co-creating more inclusive, playful, and livable cities.
Currently, she is based in the Netherlands, working as a Ph.D. candidate in Spatial Science at the University of Groningen, her research focuses on how can child-friendly cities be included in the local governance agendas.
She is a thought leader in PlacemakingX and actively collaborates in networks such as The City at Eye Level for Kids and Trust in Play: European School of Urban Game Design.