BELARBI Wafae
BELARBI Wafae
Euromed School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (EMADU)
w.belarbi@ueuromed.org
2011 National Doctoral Diploma in Urban Geography, Department of Geography of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences - Med V University - Rabat, in partnership with ENA and with the support of French cooperation.
2001 – 2003 Diploma of advanced higher studies (DESA), Department of Geography of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences - Med V University - Rabat, in partnership with ENA and with the support of French cooperation
1992 – 1999 Architect diploma from ENA.
Ms. Wafae BELARBI is a professor of higher education authorized to direct research, director of the Euromed school of architecture, design and urban planning at the Euromed University of Fez.
She has served as a professor since 2012 at the National School of Architecture of Rabat and has actively participated, as head of the teaching coordination service, in the reform of higher architecture education in Morocco. She is part of the doctoral studies center of the ENA in Rabat and she taught for a long time at the doctoral school of the National Institute of Planning and Urban Planning. She is also a Member of the “Habitat, Architecture and Urbanization of Territories” Laboratory of the National School of Architecture of Rabat and an active member of the Euormed doctoral studies center. At EMADU, she teaches in an architecture workshop and supervises several doctoral theses.
2022: Director of the Euromed School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning
From 2018 to 2022: Professor of higher education (HDR: authorized to direct research) at the National School of Architecture of Rabat (ENA).
Training engineering consultant since 2017, training engineering for the benefit of architects and construction companies, as well as consulting firms.
Head of the scientific commission of the National Council of the Order of Architects (training, continuing education, internships and training engineering for the kingdom's architects)
From 2012 to 2018: Assistant higher education professor at ENA.
From 1999 to 2012: Architect-Geographer assigned to teaching at ENA,
- Its main missions since 2012:
At the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez: professor in architecture workshop
- At ENA: Professor in the Urban Planning Workshop, also providing lectures on the social practices of public space, typo-morphologies and urban forms, as well as the urban sociology course.
- At INAU: Part-time professor of urban sociology at the National Institute of Planning and Development in the master's cycle and the doctoral cycle of urban governance.
At the Jean Monet University of Saint-Etienne: Visiting professor at the Triangle Laboratory, political science department.
Member of the “Habitat, Architecture and Urbanization of Territories” Laboratory of the National School of Architecture of Rabat.
Vice president of the National Council of the Order of Architects of Morocco (2021-2024)
Head of the CNOA scientific commission
Member of the Architecture training commission at the UIA (International Union of Architects)
As a researcher, she works on questions of the socio-spatial dynamics of urban peripheries in the countries of the South.
She has participated in several research programs, including: - “Social justice and spatial justice”.
Development and Research Institute (IRD). France. - “Collective mobilizations, associative movement and procedures for implementing the INDH in target neighborhoods”, INAU/ONDH.
- “Margins and cities, between exclusion and integration”, François Rabellais University.
Towers. EMAM research laboratory. 2016 - “Building and Rebuilding the periphery”, York University, Sinan Mimar University.
2017 - GELULE research program “Geopolitics of the fight against urban sprawl”. National Research Agency. France. 2017. Work in progress entitled “urban sprawl and ethnicity in the Stéphanoise agglomeration”. 2019.
His main publications:
2023Coordinator of the issue of the Moroccan journal of political and social sciences entitled “Social Classes in Morocco”, to be published
2019WafaeBelarbi and Max Rousseau, 2019, “Morocco’s “Pirate Suburbs” from Punishment to ControlledIntegration. Neoliberalizing the Regulation of Casablanca's “Chechnya”. In Massive Suburbanization: (Re) Building the global Periphery. The University of Toronto.
2019 Communication and participation in the research program: “comparative urbanism: global perspectives” Georgia State University. USA. Communication from WafaeBelarbi and RaffaelBeier on the outskirts of Casablanca. Panel: global urbanisms on the edge: displacement and struggles for the city.
2015 Article entitled “Social mobilizations in the peripheral territories of Casablanca during the 1990s”, L’Année du Maghreb, 12 | 2015, 137-153.
2014 Participation in the collective publication, in “Spatial justice and the city: views from the South” under dir.Philippe Gervais-Lambony,Claire Bénit-Gbaffou,AlainMusset,Jean-LucPiermay,Sabine Plane. Karthala Editions. 2014.
2010Article entitled “Access to water, local governance and participatory dynamics in Morocco: between discourse and practices. The case of the rural commune of Lahraouiyine, southern outskirts of Casablanca", in collaboration with Baron Catherine in Schneier-Madanes G. (under the direction of), Globalized water: governance in question, Éditions La Découverte, 2010.
2011Article entitled: “new city projects in Morocco, between innovation and reproduction of the Medinal model, the case of Tamesna”, in Maghreb architecture between heritage and creation (19th -20th centuries). 2011, Editions IRMC Tunis and François Rabelais Tours University.
2008Communication and article entitled “micro-credits in marginalized areas, action strategies and modes of appropriation – case of Lahraouiyine in Casablanca”, in Cities and Inhabitants: social practices and urban policies. Tribute to FNBouchanine, INAU, Autumn 2008.
Theories and practices of architectural and urban projects
Urban sociology
