Laura P. is a geospatial designer and researcher
combining architecture, cartography, and programming.

Mapa do Mocho Antigo

Cidades Fragmentadas — Frame Colectivo × Mocho+, Quinta do Mocho, Sacavém, Portugal

Artist residency reconstructing an affective cartography of the neighborhood through interviews, walks, and participatory mapping sessions with residents; part of the exhibition Fazer Parte.

Relatórios presidenciais (1850–1930)

Interactive web application

Streamlit application for exploring Brazilian presidential reports, 1850–1930.

Engenharia da colonização (1891–1934)

Historical map overlay — plantas de loteamento, 1881–1939

Interactive timeline overlaying subdivision plans (plantas de loteamento) with the operative chains of São Paulo's Comissão Geográfica e Geológica.

Grounds for Reparations

Research: Laura Pappalardo. Website design: Lukas Eigler-Harding.

Interactive map instrument for the Jaraguá Peak thesis — a year-by-year overlay (1940–2021) of roads, telecommunication towers, and power-line infrastructure against Guarani territory, with linked case studies.

You Are Invited

Paprika! Magazine, Yale School of Architecture — Vol. 5, No. 13

Essay on communicating with objects and materials — concrete, windows, door handles — as a way of surfacing the labor and extraction embedded in the built environment.

Mapping Grounds for Reparations in Jaraguá Peak

M.E.D. Thesis, Yale School of Architecture

Sectional maps and case studies tracing the history of infrastructural expansion (roads, telecommunication towers, power lines) into Jaraguá Peak and its Atlantic Forest, in dialogue with Guarani land-rights activism.

Grounds for Reparations

Research: Laura Pappalardo. Website design: Lukas Eigler-Harding.

Interactive map instrument for the Jaraguá Peak thesis — a year-by-year overlay (1940–2021) of roads, telecommunication towers, and power-line infrastructure against Guarani territory, with linked case studies.

Mapping Grounds for Infrastructural Reparations

Public Culture, vol. 34, no. 3 (98) — Duke University Press

Peer-reviewed article developed from the Jaraguá Peak research.

Humanities in Action: Storytelling, Mapping, and the Arts

Yale Environmental Humanities — panel presentation

Presented "Mapping Grounds for Reparations in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, São Paulo, Brazil" alongside two other Environmental Humanities Grant-funded projects, moderated by Paul Sabin.

Misperforming Road Ecologies

Canadian Centre for Architecture — Figuring Territory, Article 17

Traces multispecies and labourer perspectives in the making of the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes, reading the highway's construction through Guarani cosmology, colonial road-building, and other-than-human infrastructure.

In Conversation: They Talk about Science, but for Us It's Practice

With Maurício Pupo and Zélia Pupo — Perspecta 57, pp. 35–56

A conversation in Quilombo André Lopes, published in Yale School of Architecture's journal Perspecta.

Arquivos Vivos: Memória, Território e Biodiversidade

IABsp — course, with Beatrice Perracini Padovan and Amanda Klajner (online, 10h)

Five-session course on "living archives" as a framework for preserving memories tied to biodiversity and Indigenous and Afro-Latin American cosmopolitics, developed for the 14th São Paulo Architecture Biennial.

Conversa com Beatrice Perracini e Laura Pappalardo

Palestras Ateliê e Debate

Recorded conversation/lecture.

Guest Lecturer — Pós Cidades em Disputa

7º Ciclo Aberto: Urgências e Insurgências — Aquilombamentos: ancestralidade, cultura e projetos para o território