Tamara Egger

Background

About Tamara Egger

Tamara Egger is a consultant for the IDB's Housing and Urban Development Division. Since 2017 she is part of the Cities LAB platform. Her areas of interest have been related to the city on a human scale, social urbanism, design of inclusive public spaces, citizen participation, urban cycling, urban activism and bottom-up movements. In many of her projects she works with placemaking tools, urban art and methodologies of co-design. For several years she was part of the Urban Design Lab (UDL), a cooperation between UT Vienna and the Initiative of Emerging and Sustainable Cities of the IDB. She contributed to the development of the participatory design methodology and with the same developed urban projects in Chile, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. She has previously worked in architecture and urban planning offices in Vienna, developing urban projects of different scales. She has a master's degree in architecture and urbanism from the Technical University of Vienna.