Isadora Hastings is a professor in Architecture from UNAM and the Polytechnic University of Madrid, 2007. She is a founding member of the non-profit organization Cooperation Comunitaria A.C. together with Eng. Gerson Huerta and, since 2010, director of said organization, where Habitat Social Production and Management projects have been developed, as well as Integral Reconstruction in rural communities of the most vulnerable states of Mexico. In the regions where she works, she has directed participatory and training processes with a comprehensive and systemic approach. For the comprehensive reconstruction work that it has directed, Community Cooperation has been recognized with 5 awards, including the Green Star Awards 2017, awarded by UNEP and OCHA, of the United Nations (UN) and the Transformative Cities Award 2019, in the category of housing awarded by the Trasnational Institute, in Amsterdam, Holland. Since 2003, she has conducted research on progressive self-produced housing processes, both in peri-urban and rural areas, and the impact of participatory social interactions on the production and social management of housing and habitat. In 2004 she was a FONCA fellow in the Young Creators program. She has been a judge at the Oscar Hagerman Awards, the IAP Social Foundation Share Awards, and the Transformative Cities Awards, TNI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has published articles in the books Venandlungssache Mexiko Stadt and Städt im wandel, Berlin, Germany; in the magazine Informes de la Construcción and Traditional Architecture Journal, Madrid Spain and in the book La Vivienda Popular, Mexico. Challenges for the XXI Century, Mexico. Since 2020 she is a full-time academic at the National Academy of Architecture of Mexico.
