We warmly invite our students' and professors' community to the open lecture of professor John Alejandro Dunn Insúa, with the topic of “Human Development in Nature Preserved Areas: not a contradiction but a solution. The case of the Galápagos Islands”. The lecture takes place at the community space of building "C", this Friday (2nd of October). The event is in order to launch the Community and Urban Planning intensive week, which will take place October 5–9 for first-year students in the MSc program, but it is open for everyone as an opportunity discuss the topic and meet with the master students of Architecture. We are looking forward to see you all there, as it is a great honor for our Faculty to greet prof. John Alejandro Dunn Insúa as a guest lecturer.

John Dunn Insua completed his Master's in Urban and Community Planning at Auburn University (United States). He studied Architecture at the College of Architecture at the University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ, Ecuador). He is the Coordinator of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Form (AFORU) at USFQ. John teaches Urban Theory and participates in advanced-level Architectural Design workshops. For ten years, he served as the coordinator of the International Architecture Workshop in Galápagos. He has conducted research in community planning and urban morphology. John focuses on urban economics, particularly in port cities. He has provided advisory services to institutes affiliated with the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito (Ecuador). John has worked on projects such as the Terrestrial Terminal and Samanes Park, both in Guayaquil (Ecuador). He is an architect, urban planner, and writer, also contributing as an opinion columnist for the newspaper "El Universo.