Graham Cairns - From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing: Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists

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Georgios Artopoulos, Assistant Professor, works on immersive and performative spaces, virtual environments, and interaction design and digital simulation. Georgios holds a Master of Philosophy in Architecture and the Moving Image (University of Cambridge, UK, 2004) and a PhD, conducted at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge (200510) with a Doctoral Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, where he assisted as Tutor and Research Assistant. Georgios has contributed to 12 international research programmes and received the Best International Short Film award at the Mestre Film Festival, Venice. His work has been presented at the International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Czech National Gallery, Prague; the International Exhibition Computational Turn in Architecture, MAV, Marseille; the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism; the 11th and 12th Biennale of Young Creators of Europe; the 63rd Venice Film Festival; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; the Royal Institute of British Architects, London; the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle; the London Design Festival; the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art; Chicago, the ISEA 2006 and 2008; the British Council, Brussels; and in many international film festivals and art exhibitions. His work has been published in more than 24 peer-reviewed journals and books of architecture, and in 35 international conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.

Lee Azus received a Master of Science in Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation at Eastern Michigan University. He has presented work on Mike Kelleys Mobile Homestead and its relationship to the minimum house at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and at the AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) Mediated City conference in London. His current research examines the history of urban renewal and infrastructure in Ypsilanti, Michigan, as part of an ongoing project on race, private property and United States housing policy in the twentieth century.

Johanna Brugman is an urban development planner with experience working with government, non-government and urban poor communities across South-East Asia, Australia and Latin America in the context of housing, planning and community development. In 2012 she completed an MSc in Urban Development Planning at UCL and is currently finalising a PhD at the University of Queensland. Johannas interests include community-driven practices for land access, housing and upgrading, urban informalities, social and spatial justice, collective action, participatory planning processes and methodologies, and the new ways of thinking about cities and planning practice.

Graham Cairns is an academic and author in the field of architecture who has written extensively on film, advertising and political communication. He has held Visiting Professor positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the USA. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong, and previously founded and ran a performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks, specialising in video installation and performance writing. He is author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct. He developed this book during a two-year period as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University New York. He is currently director of the academic research organisation AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS. He is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Michael Darcy is Adjunct Professor of the Urban Research Program at Western Sydney University. He is a prominent researcher on social housing policy and management, and the connections between social disadvantage and place. His recent work questions orthodox approaches to concentration and de-concentration of disadvantage, and the way in which constructs of social capital and social mix have been deployed in public policy. His research approach reflects a commitment to deep engagement with local communities and organisations.

May East is a sustainability educator and designer, and serves as the CEO of Gaia Education. Designated one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders three years in a row, she currently works in 43 countries with community-based organisations and intergovernmental agencies in the creation of policy guidance for sustainable development and for delivery of projects seeking to strengthen climate resilience, food security and livelihood strategies. A UNITAR Fellow, she has an MSc in Spatial Planning from the University of Dundee with a specialisation on the rehabilitation of abandoned villages. Her passion is to co-develop project-based learning trajectories supporting indigenous and migrant communities and their traditions to survive in rapidly changing environments while enhancing their skills to become the designers of their desired future.