RESEARCH TOPICS AND FIELDS OF INTERESTS

IDENTITY, MIGRATION AND THE BUIL ENVIRONEMNT

How does identity change through migration and what role does the built environment play in identity formation?

How does migration change the meaning and perception of architecture?

ARCHITECTURE AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA

Healing collective trauma and reshaping collective memory through architecture.

Should a damaged or destroyed historic building be completely restored to its former appearance or given a contemporary interpretation?

This is a highly controversial subject where the architect's opinion often clashes with public opinion. Can the resurrection of a historically significant structure help to overcome collective trauma?

Can remembering the fragement of destruction, the trauma itself, help in dealing with the trauma? Lest we forget?

PEDAGOGY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ARCHIECTURE (and home students)

What are specific challenges and needs of international students in architecture studying the UK?

Decolonization in architecture education, how can UK and western centred perspective be avoided, how can it become richer and more inclusive for internationals and home students?

Despite scientific evidence, why remain so many traditional less effective teaching methods in architecture?

Is the classical lecture still an appropriate method, how can be adapted and how effectively deployed?