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Perla Serfaty (, Perla Serfaty-Garzon and Perla Korosec-Serfaty; born in 1944 in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French and Canadian academic, sociologist, Psychosociology, writer, and essayist, known in particular for her work on home and intimacy. She is a theorist of domestic intimacy, hospitality and the appropriation of inhabited places, and an expert in environmental psychology. Her book Vieillesse et Engendrements. La longévité dans la tradition juive., dedicated to the traditional Jewish view of longevity as transmitted by the Hebrew Bible, was awarded the J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award in 2014. The contribution of Serfaty's work to environmental psychology was distinguished by her induction in 2018 into the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Hall of Fame.
She organized the first international conference devoted to environmental psychology to be held in France: the 3rd International Architectural Psychology Conference (IAPC) (Strasbourg, 1976), ), in Strasbourg, the theme of which was ‘The Appropriation of Space.’ The creation of the IAPS (International Association of People-Environmental Studies) in 1981 consolidated, institutionalized and gave formal recognition to the international character of the IAPC.
Perla Serfaty took an active part in the development of research and theory of Environmental Psychology as well as in its institutional recognition as well as in the conceptualization within the framework of this discipline of the notions of dwelling, ‘chez-soi,’ hospitality, loss of home in migration, as well as of appropriation of space.
Among Perla Serfaty's research interests are also sociability and the modes of appropriation of public urban spaces, the transformation of the meaning of protection of architectural and urban heritage as well as of intangible cultural heritage.
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