Mahsa Alami Fariman Editor

Mahsa Alami Fariman is an urban researcher and educator with a background in architectural and urban studies. She is Lecturer in Just Urbanism, Societal Diversity, and Citizenship at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. Mahsa holds a PhD in Urban Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her research explores the open city, politics of space, the production of everyday urban life in the Middle East, and feminist urbanism.

Chien Lee is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, a role they will take on again this September after concluding their adjunct assistant professorship at National Tsing Hua University. They are also a co-founder and researcher at Gallery Unfold, Kyoto. Their work, rooted in the sociology of art, explores art museums, the experience of arts, photographic mediation, and sensory ethnography. Previous experience includes serving as a commissioned researcher for Theory, Culture & Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ahmadreza Hakiminejad is a researcher and academic with a background in architectural, urban, and planning studies. He is a Lecturer in Architecture based in the Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. Ahmadreza’s research intersects critical urban studies, politics of space, architectural history and theory, and urban sociology.

Asma Mehan is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab) at Texas Tech University. She is the author of The Affective Agency of Public Space: Social Inclusion and Community Cohesion (2024) and has contributed to over 50 peer reviewed publications. Her research spans adaptive reuse, cultural heritage, urban resilience, and placemaking, bridging academia and practice to address contemporary urban challenges.