Ana Rivas de Gante

Since 2020, I’ve been a Research Associate at the Technical University of Munich, working across the Chair of Urban Structure & Transport Planning and the Professorship of Urban Design. My research focuses on how street experiments can transform mobility and public space. This work culminated in my PhD dissertation “From research to practice and back: A methodological framework to plan, implement and assess street experiments, with the Steinhuber Miniblock case study in Munich”.

In 2021, I co-founded SET – Street Experiments for Transitions, a platform that helps cities, organizations and communities reimagine streets through guidelines, workshops, implementation and evaluation →www.streetexperiments.com

I hold a Bachelor’s in Architecture (Tec de Monterrey) and a Master’s in Graphic Design (University of the Arts London). By combining these two fields, I explored how temporary graphic interventions, such as duct tape installation could reactivate underused public spaces →https://tapeitpublic.wixsite.com/publictape. These work sparked my passion for city planning and urban transformation, which is what I do today.

Do you dare to change your street?