Maîtresse de Conférences en Urbanisme
Etablissement : Institut de Géoarchitecture
Affectation de recherche : EA 7462
Equipe(s) : State equipe
Edna Hernández González is an architect-urban planner and lecturer at the Institute of Geoarchitecture, Brest and assistant director of lab EA 7462. Her work focuses on the urban planning at night-time, particularly the link between the urban lighting and human night activities and their impact on the environment. She takes account of the gender practice of urban space and the experience of walking by night in French and Mexican cities.
Since 2012, she has been an active member of the Transversal Research Group "Pedestrian Urban Mobility" (Labex Urban Futures, GT MU, Gustave Eiffel University). Since 2016, she has been a delegate of the Institute of the Americas in Brest (IDA-Brest). She is a founding member of the Research Network « Estudios sobre la noche » in 2020.
Actually she leads three research projects : Chair person for « Noz Breizh » (scientific consortium 60 K€ budget per year for three years), « Noz Num : Marcher en ville la nuit » (founding by MSBH), « Smart Noz » (founding by Région Bretagne).
Amongst her recent publications, she has collaboratively worked with Alejandro Mercado-Celis on a book, the title of which is : Estudios de la noche urbana y la economía nocturna en las ciudades de México, Estados Unidos y Canada, in 2021.
In addition to this, she has collaboratively worked with Florian Guérin and Alain Montandon on a book, the title of which is : Cohabiter les nuits urbaines. Des significations de l'ombre aux régulations de l'investissement ordinaire des nuits, in 2018.
