She is the Founding Director of the practice Platforms for sustainable cities and regions with many years of experience from Europe and the Middle East. Educated architect and planner, Roudaina has a strong interest in multidisciplinary approaches bringing together sustainability aims, planning, architecture, urban design, strategic approaches, and design thinking to create opportunities and better places. Affiliate of UN-Habitat’s Planners for Climate Action and a chartered Architect MAA of the Danish Association of Architects. She joined the University of Westminster to work on the research project - “London creative communities toward sustainability”. With an interdisciplinary spirit, her research interests and areas of competence cover urbandesign, sustainableurbanismandenvironmental transition, publicspace, urban identity&memory, urban ecology, landscape, perception, environmental psychology, wellbeing, urban morphogenesis, participative design & grassroots, and Asian studies (Pacific Asia context, Japan, Singapore). Tutors Dr. Roudaina Alkhani FHEA is the Co-Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities and Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design teaching BA and MA modules. Dr. Mireille Tchapi (Ph.D. urban design, MArch, MA-social science) is a licensed architect (Paris) and doctor in urbanism (University of Tokyo). 3
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