Duncan Crowley (131C-3C21-2E95)

Curriculum Vitae

Duncan Crowley

Duncan Crowley is an Irish architect exploring Community-Led Ecocities through an action research PhD in Lisbon, Portugal (Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories / ISCTE-IUL). A climate activist for a quarter-century, his work builds bridges between different communities, languages, movements, and peoples. Assistant Researcher in the Cities and Territories research group of DINÂMIA'CET (Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies) at ISCTE and External Collaborator at CE3C Research group in FCUL (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes / Lisbon University Faculty of Science). Co-president of the European Network for Community-Led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability (ECOLISE) (2021-2022) & team member (2022-2024). Worked on H2020 (UrbanA: Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities & FLIARA) & Erasmus+ (WAVE, Regen4all, ETiA) projects. Work involved collaboration with Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). Lived in Barcelona (2006-13), co-founded Transition group, gained Permaculture Design Certificate (2010) and participated in 2011’s Indignado square occupations. Also worked with Eco Intelligent Growth (EIG) on LEED and Cradle to Cradle certification, collaborated with William McDonough and contributed to a White Paper for Sustainable Urban Development of Barcelona for the Catalan Government (CADS). Lived in Curitiba, Brazil (2014-18), attained Master in Environment and Development from UFPR’s multidisciplinary PPGMADE course at UFPR, focusing on Urban Sustainability & Citizen Participation. Living in Portugal since 2018, active in Portuguese Regenerative movements and member of the Portuguese Degrowth Network. Ecocity activist since Banja Luka, Bosnia (2003), set up “Ecocity Groups” in Dublin, Curitiba and Lisbon. Set up the Curitiba Ecocity Festival during the 2017 Ecocity World Summit, supported Ecocity Builders online conference in 2020 and participated in the 2021 (online) and 2023 Ecocity World Summits. Part of the Climate Social & Climate Justice Caravan, with indigenous groups, during COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 and co-created the 1st Curitiba Indigenous Week in 2016. Elected part of ECOLISE delegation to COP25 in Madrid 2019. Facilitated October 12th event between Indigenous groups and Climate Action groups 2020. Work to create community gardens and develop an urban bicycle greenway in Dublin mentioned at Venice Art Biennale (2005). Invited resident at the French pavilion METAVILLA at the 2006 Venice Art Biennale. Active in Irish and UK Climate Camps 2007-09 and many subsequent Climate Justice activist movements. River lover, Gaelic footballer, comic book enthusiast and big fan of adventures. VIVA LA PACHAMAMA (Long live Mother Earth).

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Duncan Crowley
Género: Masculino

Nomes de citação

Crowley, Duncan

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 131C-3C21-2E95
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7110-5959
Google Scholar ID: -q5ZPkwAAAAJ
Researcher Id: ABD-6305-2021
Scopus Author Id: 57223233605

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Duncan_Crowley (Académico)
https://dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/full-team/duncan-crowley (Académico)
https://www.ce3c.pt/research/research-groups/towards-sustainable-and-resilient-ecosystems/plant-soil-ecology/duncan-crowley (Académico)
https://linktr.ee/duncancrowley (Pessoal)
https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/duncan-crowley/cv (Académico)
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=57223233605 (Académico)
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ABD-6305-2021 (Académico)
https://www.dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/research-team/Duncan-Crowley (Pessoal)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-q5ZPkwAAAAJ (Académico)

Domínios de atuação

Humanidades - Artes - Arquitetura e Design
Ciências Naturais - Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente
Ciências Sociais - Geografia Económica e Social - Estudos Urbanos
Ciências Sociais - Ciências Políticas
Ciências Sociais - Outras Ciências Sociais
Humanidades - Outras Humanidades
Ciências Sociais - Geografia Económica e Social

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão
Inglês (Idioma materno)
Português	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2018/10/01 - 2026/03/01 Em curso	Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories (Doutoramento) Especialização em Research line: Cities and Territories ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal "Architecture is a Political Act. Regenerative Community Responses to Ecological Emergency" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2022/01/01 Concluído	Conflict Transformation: A Systemic Approach (Outros) The Whole Partnership, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/03/19 Concluído	Regenerative Development Practioner (Outros) Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2021/01/01 Concluído	Municipalities In Transition, Training of Tutors (Outros) Municipalities In Transition (MiT), Portugal
2020/01/01 Concluído	Regenerative Urban Communities (Outros) Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2018/05/01 Concluído	Environment and Development (PPGMADE / UFPR) (Mestrado) Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil "Constructing a Sustainable Curitiba through Citizen Participation. Local Responses from Civil Society groups in Curitiba, Brazil." (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2017/01/01 Concluído	Ecology, Democracy, Utopia: Introduction to Social Ecology (Outros) Institute of Social Ecology, Estados Unidos
2017/01/01 Concluído	Ecological Urbanism (Outros) Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brasil
2017/01/01 Concluído	Sustainable Cities (Outros) SDG Academy, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Portugal
2017/01/01 Concluído	Rethink the City: New Approaches to Global & Local Urban Challenges (Outros) TU Delft , Países Baixos
2016/01/01 Concluído	Creation and Management of Areas of Conservation in Urban Areas (Outros) Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB), Brasil
2015/01/01 Concluído	Reclaiming Broken Places, Civic Ecology (Outros) Cornell University, Estados Unidos
2010/08/31 Concluído	Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) (Outros) Richard Wade / Mas Franch, Espanha
2005 Concluído	Architecture Degree (B.Arch) (Bachelor) Technological University Dublin, Irlanda "Catalyst @ Botanic Spine" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Pass

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/01/01 - Atual	Investigador (Investigação)	Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
	Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Portugal
2019/11 - Atual	Assistente de Investigação (carreira) (Investigação)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Informação Tecnologias e Arquitetura, Portugal
2019/11 - 2021/12	Investigador Contratado (Investigação)	FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
	Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2016/09 - 2018/03	Investigador (Investigação)	Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brasil

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2007 - 2009	Chief architect. White Paper for CADS (Catalan government sustainable advice). LEED Certification. Collaboration with Spanish & international archictural firms including William McDonough.	Eco Intelligent Growth, Espanha

2006 - 2006	Ireland’s largest urban design practice. Architect on range of various scaled schemes.	Reddy Architecture + Urbanism, Irlanda

2001 - 2004	Architect in Dublin, Ireland.	TOT Architects, Irlanda

Projetos

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2024/01/01 - 2024/12/31	We Are Voices of Ecology (WAVE) KA220-YOU-BA6DEFB3 Project Management ECOLISE, Bélgica	European Commission Em curso
2024/01 - 2024/08	FLIARA: Female-Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas 101084234 Project Management ECOLISE, Bélgica	European Commission Concluído
2023/01/01 - 2024/03/31	Regenerative Communities For All (ReGEN4All) 2022-2-DE02-KA210-ADU-000099233 Action Researcher ECOLISE, Bélgica	European Commission Concluído
2020/01 - 2022/12	Ecovillage transition in action (ETiA) KA204-ADD77A89 Project Management ECOLISE, Bélgica	European Commission Concluído
2019/05 - 2021/12	UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities) 822357 Bolseiro de Integração na Investigação FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal	European Commission Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Crowley, Duncan; Marat-Mendes, Teresa; Falanga, Roberto. "Drinkable cities. A regenerative approach for cities and their rivers". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios sp26 (2026): https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.40819. Acesso aberto • 10.15847/cct.40819 Avelino, Flor; van Steenbergen, Frank; Schipper, Karlijn; Steger, Tamara; Henfrey, Tom; Cook, Ian M.; Bach, Matthew; et al. "Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities". Urban Transformations 6 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-023-00058-8. 10.1186/s42854-023-00058-8 Crowley, D.; Hefrey, T.. "Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities". Ökologisches Wirtschaften - Fachzeitschrift 38 1 (2023): 24-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14512/oew380124. Publicado • 10.14512/oew380124 Crowley, Duncan; Marat-Mendes, Teresa; Falanga, Roberto; Henfrey, Thomas; Penha-Lopes, Gil. "Towards a necessary regenerative urban planning: Insights from community-led initiatives for ecocity transformation". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Sp21 (2021): https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.20505. 10.15847/cct.20505
Capítulo de livro	Crowley, Duncan; Marat-Mendes, Teresa; Falanga, Roberto. "Social Movements". In Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles, editado por Thomas Smith, 269-273. Routledge, 2025. Publicado • 10.4324/9781003584056-64 Crowley, D.. "Transformational Politics. New networks of governance". In The transformational wave: Beyond Covid-19. Lisbon, Portugal: Independently published, 2021. Publicado Crowley, D.; Belchior, C.; Hamilton, M. "Creating a Sustainable and Just Lisbon". In Urban Hub 20 : Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World: Thriveable Cities, 184-192. Paul van Schaik, 2020. Publicado Crowley, D.. "Greening the City, Connecting Communities, C2C City". In Self-sufficinet city, 388-389. Barcelona, Espanha: IAAC - Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, 2010. Publicado Crowley, D.. "Art spaces as weapons of war.". In Permaculture : visual arts at Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2001-2006, 68-69. --, Irlanda: The Metropolitan Complex and Project Presss: a division of Project Arts Centre, 2008. Publicado
Livro	Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lobner, Nadine; Martins, Mirelle; Veiga-Pires, Cristina; Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Roborg-Söndergaard, Justin; Gonçalves, Fernando; et al. The Transformational Wave. Lisbon, Portugal: Independently published. 2020. Publicado
Recurso online	Crowley, Duncan. Community responses to covid-19. 2020. https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/Cities,_justice,_sustainability_and_covid-19.
Tese / Dissertação	Crowley, D.. "Constructing a Sustainable City through Citizen Participation. Local responses from civil society in Curitiba, Brazil.". Mestrado, 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327060391_Constructing_a_Sustainable_City_through_Citizen_Participation_Local_Responses_from_Civil_Society_groups_in_Curitiba_Brazil. 10.13140/RG.2.2.35821.23525 Crowley, Duncan. "CATALYST @ Botanic Spine". Licenciatura, Technological University Dublin, 2005. https://tinyurl.com/kwn6xyyk. 10.13140/RG.2.2.12280.70402

Outros

Outra produção

The Cloud that kills the river. A 4-minute interactive theatre piece that grew from the SPARK project after the "Fixing the Future" festival in Barcelona with many Climate Justice youth groups from Europe, Latin America and beyond in 2023. It has 4 parts and includes the use of a magical time machine, which needs audience participation to function. Performed twice: With ECOLISE in Belgium and SOS Quinta dos Ingleses in Portugal.. 2023. Crowley, Duncan. https://www.instagram.com/p/DT8kNmcgPXN/.
Urban walking tours as a tool to Connect Communities and green our cities. Ecocity World Summit 2023. 2023. Crowley, D.. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372282041_Urban_walking_tours_as_a_tool_to_Connect_Communities_and_green_our_cities.
10.13140/RG.2.2.31355.90406
Community-led Ecocity Transformation. Developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem. SCORAI Webinar Series 2020-2021. 2021. Crowley, D.. https://scorai.net/webinar-series/.
From Curitiba: A Municipalist based Ecocity Network response to Today’s Global Crises. TICYUrb (Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers). 2018. Crowley, D..
10.13140/RG.2.2.27144.26884

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2023/06	UrbanA's experiments in connecting communities to create a sustainable just cities community of practice.	Ecocity World Summit 2023: Connecting Communities (Panel "A global catalogue of community action") Ecocity Builders (London, Reino Unido)
2022/10/19	De Oeiras para Umundu – a importância dos territórios locais no paradigma económico global	Evoluir Oeiras no Festival UMUNDU Evoluir Oeiras (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/10	"Lisboa, crise climática e inferno urbanao" -Degrowth Portugal event, speech given in Lisbon's public library.	Lisboa, crise climática e inferno urbanao Degrowth Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/07	Community-led Ecocity Transformation. Developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem	Degrowth + International Society for Ecological Economics Conference 2021: Building Alternative Livelihoods in Times of Ecological and Political Crisis University of Manchester (Manchester, Reino Unido)
2021/11	Regenerating Cities.	COP 26 - Humanity Rising Special Coverage Ubiquity University
2021/09	UrbanA Portugal asks “How might an urban Community of Practice help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?”	Frontiers in E3 - 7th cE3c Annual Meeting Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/06/08	Ativismo e Liderança Climática	Seminários em Ecodesign I 4a. Temporada Design ao Vivo (Curitiba, Brasil)
2021/06/05	Governança e Políticas Participativas	Habitar o Vago Associação Eco-bairros de Futuro (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/04/23	The future of Urban Commons	SSE&Commons Webinars, 2020 and 2021 Centre for International Studies, ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/03	Community-led Ecocity Transformation. Developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem	SCORAI Webinar Series 2020-2021 Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)
2021/02/22	Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice	The Nature of Cities Festival TNOC
2019/11	Examining and Enabling Community-Led Responses to Climate Breakdown as base for a Global Ecocity Network	Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy (SSEC 2019) ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/04	Kicking our Oil Addiction to create a Post-Capitalist Community led Ecocity in Lisbon	4th International Conference URBAN E-PLANNING Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning; University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/04	Lisbon as an Ecocity. Examining and enabling Community-Led Responses to Climate Breakdown	4.º Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Arquitetura + Urbanismo e Design (ENIA+UD) Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/04	Adapt or Die. Kicking our Oil Addiction to create Post-Capitalist Community led Ecocities	4th annual NEST Conference 2019 (Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions) CENSE (Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2022/03/01 - 2022/04/03	"We Are Nature" was a month long artistic, cultural, social adventure happening in the Ourico art space in Parede neighbourhood in Lisbon, during March 2022. https://www.instagram.com/wearenature_2030/ (2022/03/01 - 2022/04/03) Exposição (Coorganizador)	Ouriço, Portugal
2021/06/08 - 2021/06/08	Governance and citizenship for transition - A "Cities for Change" event. Tue 8th June, 18h CEST. The event explores Portuguese case studies on citizen participation for new models of governance and public space. (2021/06/08 - 2021/06/08) Conferência (Coorganizador)	Amsterdam City Council, Países Baixos
2021/05/26 - 2021/05/26	From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? - Part of the "Cities for Change", a 2 month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. (Infos: https://x.com/sustjust_cities/status/1395717595362435074 ) (2021/05/26 - 2021/05/26) Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Amsterdam City Council, Países Baixos
2019/11/22 - 2021/02/24	Arenas Urbanas para Cidades Sustentáveis e Justas (2019/11/22) Conferência (Presidente da Comissão Organizadora)
2019/12/02 - 2019/12/13	Convenção das Nações Unidas de 2019 sobre Mudança do Clima (2019/12/02) Conferência (Presidente da Comissão Organizadora)
2016/10/12 - 2016/10/14	1st AMERICA INDIGENOUS WEEK CURITIBA. 1st Curitiba Forum marking 12 October. Aldeia Tupã Nhe'é Kretã (Guarani + Kaingang communites) + Setorial da Cultura dos Povos Originários de Curitiba, Casa Latino-Americana (CASLA) (2016/10/12) Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	CASLA (Casa Latino-Americana), Brasil
2014/04 - 2014/04	ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE (First Live Streamed Talk) (2014/04) Conferência (Coorganizador)	Bicicletaria Cultural, Brasil

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2025/11 - 2025/11	The Ethical Assembly, Roundtable on "Engaged Citizens" Conferência	Climate & Social Justice Summit
2022/03 - 2022/04	Introducing conflict transformation with a systemic perspective and deepening our personal enquiry into a live conflict situation.	Conflict Transformation: A Systemic Approach The Whole Partnership, Reino Unido
2020/10 - 2021/03	The Regenerative Practitioner (TRP). Directors: Pamela Mang & Ben Haggard. Regenerative practice is based on the premise that we cannot make the outer transformations required to create a truly sustainable world without making inner transformations in how we think, how we work, and who we are.	The Regenerative Practitioner Regenesis Institute, Estados Unidos
2019/04/04 - 2019/04/05	Adapt or Die. Kicking our Oil Addiction to create Post-Capitalist Community led Ecocities Conferência	4th annual NEST Conference 2019 (Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions). Theme: “Transitions to where? Shared values and visions for sustainability transitions. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade, Portugal
2015/12 - 2015/12	"From the edge of the World to the New World, an Irishman's journey" Conferência	GLOBAL TALKS. (Immigrants Life Stories) Paiol Theatre, Brasil
2010/03 - 2010/03	LEAVING THE OIL AGE BEHIND. Conferência	Climate Justice Talk EXCHANGE Gallery, Irlanda
2003/03 - 2003/03	ECOCITY BANJA LUKA EXHIBITION. (2 week art exhibition at State Art Gallery with EASA, European Architects Student Assembly) Exposição	ECOCITY BANJA LUKA Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Bósnia-Herzegovina

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2023/03 - 2023/03	Invited speaker for a masters class in Germany	(Master)	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Alemanha

Membro de associação

	Nome da associação	Tipo de participação
2019 - Atual	Portuguese Degrowth Network	Member of Lisbon group
2019/01/01 - 2024/12	ECOLISE	Co-President

Membro de comissão

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de participação	Instituição / Organização
2024/01/01 - Atual	SOS Quinta dos Ingleses - Membro	SOS Quinta dos Ingleses, Portugal

Outro júri / avaliação

	Descrição da atividade	Instituição / Organização
2021 - 2022	Transformative Cities "Atlas of Utopias" jury member. The Atlas of Utopias showcases collective transformations that ensure access to basic rights: water, energy, housing and food.	ECOLISE, Bélgica

Distinções

Outra distinção

2021	Co-President of ECOLISE, European Network for Community-Led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability ECOLISE, Bélgica
2019	Part of ECOLISE delegation at COP 25 in Madrid
2017	Rethink the City Exhibition TU Delft (1 of 12 selected from 9,000+ MOOC) Technische Universiteit Delft, Países Baixos
2017	NASA Hackathon: Stardust Peoples choice award Curitiba NASA, Estados Unidos
2010	Self Sufficient City Finalist Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, Espanha