Houda Hissar

Houda Hissar is an urban planner. Born in France, she lives and works in Rabat.

In Cairo, she has worked on the marginalized status of the zabbalines (“ragpickers”) and the precarious housing of informal settlements.
In Algiers, she has worked on urban planning from the colonial period, social stigma and inhabitant practices.
In France, she has been interested in participatory approaches, in the urban planning of so-called “popular” neighborhoods, and in the ways of making sense of the urban project.

Today, from Morocco, she works particularly on the issue of climate change, the diversity of urban realities (in the “North” as in the “South”), the consequences of our lifestyles and the effects of urbanization processes.

As a student in ecopoetics, she also works on narratives and imaginary through writing and literary creation.