Quazi Mahtab Zaman (PhD) is an architect, urban designer and academic, currently teaching architecture and urban design theory and practice and the course leader for BSc Construction Management at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He researches ‘children in city’ and has introduced a new participatory pedagogy and practice: ‘community as extended classroom’; researching on ‘urban interface’ and ‘theorizing congestions in cities in developing countries’. He serves on the editorial board of Open House International and Global Built Environment Review. He has been Steering Group member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) since 2012.Igea Troiani (PhD) is an academic and architect-filmmaker. She is founding director of the research film company Caryatid Films and of the Oxford based architectural practice Original Field of Architecture Ltd. She is co-editor of The Politics of Making and is founding editor-in-chief of the international award-winning journal Architecture and Culture: Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA). She was Chair of AHRA from 2009-2012 and has been a Steering Group member since 2006. Her teaching, textual research and film making as research practice center on the positive exchange between disciplinary and trans-disciplinary knowledge in Architecture Humanities.
