Research Research overview Research Groups Research Events Scroope Journal Current PhD Research in the Department Sam Aitkenhead: The unintended consequences of designing out friction from the home of the future Karam Alkatlabe: How can Digital Participatory Planning and Collaborative Urban Design reshape the urban recovery process in post-disaster cities? The case of Damascus Anna Michelle Behr: Understanding the English Country House Hotel: The First Country House Hotel Conversions in the mid-Nineteenth Century until the Second World War Fatma Beyza Celebi: Cosmopolitan Nostalgia: Examining local memory in contemporary Istanbul focusing on spatial and visual representations of the city’s cosmopolitanism in the 1920s and 1930s Mohamed Derbal: Space, Time and Community: German Architectural Discourse and the Search for National Unity, 1890-1914 Joshua Dimasaka: Global Disaster Risk Audit using Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Data Rikke Duus: Connecting to our being: exploring the atmospheric impact on lived experiences in urban spaces Hamideh Farahmandian: An Investigation into the Cinematic Representations of Spatial Poverty Trap in Tehran (1963–2022) Nicholas Frayne: Spaces of Violence and Healing: the material agency of architecture in justice in Kenya Vendela Gambill: Collaborative planning: identifying barriers to housing delivery in London at multiple geographic scales I-Dec Goh: Bias mitigated data-driven façade design of social housing in Singapore using thermal and imaging information Elizabeth Baldwin Gray: Conceptions of the Gothic: Romantic Medievalism in Early Modern German Architecture Charlie Hamilton (FCILT): Mass Transit in Small to Medium Sized Cities Fengyuan (Simon) Han: A New Analytical Model to Support Railway Infrastructure and Urban Development in Low Income Countries Noura Haddad: Measuring Physiological Response to Space: Magnetocardiographic detection of pre-cognitive cardiac inflammatory responses to architectural environments Juliet Harrison-Egan: Spaces of Education: the role of schools in the post-apartheid city Yu Hu: The Evolution of Urban Office Space in The Age of Information and Communication Technology Sean Hughes: The 21st Century Suburb: A Method for Transit Driven Redevelopment in North American Suburbia Tom Joashi: Rethinking Urban Conflict Through the French Wars of Religion (1550-1572) Lingchen Kong: The Cognitive Steppe: Placemaking, Networks, and Cultural Persistence in Urban Hohhot Saitabau Kumary: Adaptability of Buildings and Cities to High Temperature: A Thermal Resilient Assessment of Nairobi City Mohamed Hesham Khalil: Architectural enrichment for hippocampal neurogenesis: Layout spatial complexity and stairs-based physical activity Sophie Lanigan: Between City and Sea: The Design of Coastal Urban Seascapes with Oysters as an Architectural Response to Climate Change Yufei Li: Atlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria through Moving Images Mariana Llano Valencia: Challenging the influence of coloniality, whiteness and patriarchy in urban planning in Cartagena, Colombia Noor Mazhar: Incremental Densification: The production, regularisation, and regulation of rental housing markets in Cape Town, South Africa Fatma Mhmood: Social Narratives and Women’s Spatial Experiences of Parks and Desert Landscapes in the UAE Heather Mitcheltree: Geographies of gendered and domestic violence in Australia Mihaela Mitrovic: On the Interplay of Neuroscience and Architecture, or How Architectural and Urban Spaces Influence Human Cognition, Emotion and Behaviour: The Case of Awe, Affordance, and Urban Wellbeing Ummiye Seyda Mutlu: Urban Rooms: Places of Mediation, Participation, and Urban Change Luka Pajovic: ‘Temples fit for Thee’: Framing the classical church interior in seventeenth-century London Jiayu Pan: Redesigning interior spaces to accommodate social distancing for the rare events Lingzi Pan: The role of social connectedness in quality-of-life measurement and urban modelling Filomena Russo Abdullah Hasan Safir: Designing AI for Epistemic Justice Michael Salka: On the Origin of Buildings: Social-Ecological Networks Provisioning the Built Environment Lei Song: Fountains, Baths, and Urban Water Supply in England, 1400 - 1800 Maoran Sun: Scenario-based strategies for decarbonizing Hard-to-Decarbonize housing Chuheng Tan: Exploring the Integration of Mycelium Biocomposite into Building System Cleo Valentine: Architectural Neuroimmunology: Assessing the Impact of Architectural Form on Human Neuroinflammation Jeroen van Ameijde: Quality of life in high-density urban environments: Data-driven analysis of Hong Kong’s public housing environments and social interaction Eimar Watson: The British Marble Industry 1748-1905 Eduardo Wiegand: The Life Cycle Design of Multi-storey Wood Buildings: opportunities for efficiency across the construction value chain Ruaa Jawdat Yagkhmour: Between Domination and Liberation: Exploring Paradoxes in Urban Planning Practices in the West Bank, Palestine Di Zhao: European Railway Buildings in China 1890-1940: an example of cross-cultural exchange Lingzheng Zhu: Mediating Nature: The Practice of Synthetic Media in the Contemporary Eastern Context Currrent PhD research in the Department NameSupervisorResearch Title Aitkenhead,SamProf Koen SteemersThe unintended consequences of designing out friction from the home of the future Alkaltlabe, KaramDr Nick Simcik-AreseHow can Digital Participatory Planning and Collaborative Urban Design reshape the urban recovery process in post-disaster cities? The case of Damascus Behr, Anna MichelleProf Timothy Brittain-CatlinUnderstanding the English Country House Hotel: The First Country House Hotel Conversions in the mid-Nineteenth Century until the Second World War Celebi, Fatma BeyzaDr Felipe HernandezCosmopolitan Nostalgia: Examining local memory in contemporary Istanbul focusing on spatial and visual representations of the city’s cosmopolitanism in the 1920s and 1930s Derbal, MohamedDr Max SternbergSpace, Time and Community: German Architectural Discourse and the Search for National Unity, 1890-1914 Dimasaka, JoshuaProf Emily SoGlobal Disaster Risk Audit using Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Data Duus, RikkeProf Koen SteemersConnecting to our being: exploring the atmospheric impact on lived experiences in urban spaces Farahmandian, HamidehDr Max Sternberg/ Prof Francois PenzAn Investigation into the Cinematic Representations of Spatial Poverty Trap in Tehran (1963–2022) Frayne, NicholasDr Irit KatzSpaces of Violence and Healing: the material agency of architecture in justice in Kenya Gambill, VendelaProf Ying JinCollaborative planning: identifying barriers to housing delivery in London at multiple geographic scales Goh, I-DecDr Ronita BardhanBias mitigated data-driven façade design generation of social housing in Singapore using thermal imaging information Gray, Elizabeth BaldwinDr Max SternbergConceptions of the Gothic: Romantic Medievalism in Early Modern German Architecture Haddad, NouraProf Koen SteemersMeasuring Physiological Response to Space: Magnetocardiographic detection of pre-cognitive cardiac inflammatory responses to architectural environments Hamilton, Charles Prof Ying JinMass Transit in Small to Medium Sized Cities Han, Fengyuan (Simon)Prof Ying JinA New Analytical Model to Support Railway Infrastructure and Urban Development in Low Income Countries Harrison-Egan, JulietDr Max SternbergSpaces of Education: the role of schools in the post-apartheid city Hu,YuProf Francois PenzThe Evolution of Urban Office Space in the Age of Information and Communication Technology Hughes, SeanProf Ying JinThe 21st Century Suburb: A Method for Transit Driven Redevelopment in North American Suburbia Joashi, TomDr Max SternbergRethinking Urban Conflict Through the French Wars of Religion (1550-1572) Khalil, MohamedProf Koen SteemersArchitectural enrichment for hippocampal neurogenesis: Layout spatial complexity and stairs-based physical activity Kong, LingchenDr Felipe HernandezThe Cognitive Steppe: Placemaking, Networks, and Cultural Persistence in Urban Hohhot Kumary, SaitabauDr Ronita BardhanAdaptability of Buildings and Cities to High Temperature: A Thermal Resilient Assessment of Nairobi City Lanigan, SophieDr Irit KatzBetween City and Sea: The Design of Coastal Urban Seascapes with Oysters as an Architectural Response to Climate Change Li,YufeiProf Francois PenzAtlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria through Moving Images Llano Valencia,MarianaDr Felipe HernandezColoniality, Whiteness and Masculinity in Modern Urban Planning in Latin America using Cartagena, Colombia as a case study Mazhar, NoorProf Minna Sunikka-BlankIncremental Densification: The production, regularisation, and regulation of rental housing markets in Cape Town, South Africa Mhmood, FatmaProf Minna Sunikka-BlankSocial Narratives and Women’s Spatial Experiences of Parks and Desert Landscapes in the UAE Mitcheltree,Heather Prof Minna Sunikka-BlankGeographies of gendered and domestic violence in Australia Mitrovic, MihaelaProf Koen SteemersOn the Interplay of Neuroscience and Architecture, or How Architectural and Urban Spaces Influence Human Cognition, Emotion and Behaviour: The Case of Awe, Affordance, and Urban Wellbeing Mutlu, Ummiye SeydaProf Flora SamuelUrban Rooms: Places of Mediation, Participation, and Urban Change Pajovic, LukaProf James Campbell‘Temples fit for Thee’: Framing the classical church interior in seventeenth-century London Pan,JiayuDr Ronita BardhanRedesigning interior spaces to accommodate social distancing for the rare events Pan, LingziProf Ying JinThe role of social connectedness in quality-of-life measurement and urban modelling Russo, FilomenaProf Koen SteemersRestorative Intermediate Architectural Environments Safir, Abdullah HasanDr Ramit DebnathDesigning AI for Epistemic Justice Salka, MichaelProf Koen SteemersOn the Origin of Buildings: Social-Ecological Networks Provisioning the Built Environment Sun, Maoran Dr Ronita BardhanScenario-based strategies for decarbonizing Hard-to-Decarbonize housing Tan, ChuhengDr Darshil ShahExploring the Integration of Mycelium Biocomposite into Building System Valentine, CleoProf Koen SteemersArchitectural Neuroimmunology: Assessing the Impact of Architectural Form on Human Neuroinflammation van Ameijde, JeroenProf Ying JinQuality of life in high-density urban environments: Data-driven analysis of Hong Kong’s public housing environments and social interaction Watson, EimarDr Adam MenugeThe British Marble Industry 1748-1905 Wiegand, EduardoDr Michael RamageThe Life Cycle Design of Multi-storey Wood Buildings: opportunities for efficiency across the construction value chain Yagkhmour, RuaaDr Irit KatzBetween Domination and Liberation: Exploring Paradoxes in Urban Planning Practices in the West Bank, Palestine Zhao,DiProf James CampbellEuropean Railway Buildings in China 1890-1940: an example of cross-cultural exchange Zhu, LingzhengProf Francois PenzMediating Nature: The Practice of Synthetic Media in the Contemporary Eastern Context
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