Faculty

The Informal Sustainability Lab is an interdisciplinary research group led by Brandon Marc Finn at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Our work focuses on informality and sustainability. We aim to do high-impact and courageous work together.

The Informal Sustainability Lab is a space for intellectual risk-taking, mixed-methods approaches to informality, and collaboration within and beyond our research group. Join us as we work to reshape informality scholarship to focus more on sustainable development outcomes and equally importantly, to reorient sustainability research to take seriously the predominant ongoing global labor and urban transformations of the 21st century.

African urbanization; post-conflict development; urban poverty; informal settlements; political mobilization; labor; informality; democratic governance; youth employment; ethnography and history, climate change and urbanization