Carin Graminius received her PhD degree in information studies in 2023 from Lund University, Sweden. She joined the MISTRA environmental communication program in 2024 as a postdoc, researching environmental meaning-making through environmental data and affective practices. In 2025 she received independent funding and has since been employed as a researcher at Lund University, as well […]
Deepa Joshi is currently pursuing her PhD at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano (Polimi), Italy. Before joining her PhD program, she had worked for a city planning agency, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), in New Delhi for almost 10 years. Professionally trained as an architect, she was majorly […]
Sofia Leoni is an architect and holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development from Politecnico di Torino. Her work explores the shifting geographies of contemporary China, focusing on how platform economies are transforming rural territories, everyday infrastructures, labor practices, and socio-spatial ecologies. Since 2022, she has been a member of the China Room research […]
Agustín Müller is an urban practitioner, researcher, and consultant working at the intersection of urban resilience, sustainability, and inclusive urban development. He holds an MSc in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen, where he researched how food delivery couriers navigate Copenhagen’s cycling infrastructure during platform-based work. Currently, he works at Safe and Sound Cities, […]
Michelangelo Fusi is an Italian urban planner and researcher. He obtained his doctoral degree from Brescia University, where he focused on the integration between urban and mobility planning. He works as well as a professional consultant in the fields of urban planning, mobility planning, and strategic planning, bridging academic research with real-world practice.
Ruggero Signoroni, an urbanist and researcher, holds a PhD in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy (Polytechnic University of Milan). His doctoral research explores the return of scientism in urban planning and, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘new urban science’, challenges the modes of scientization of urban governance that rely on datafication and technological […]
Dr. Nurhan Abujidi is a professor and chair of the Smart Urban Redesign Research Centre at Zuyd University of Applied Science in the Netherlands. Previously, she was chief architect for the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage (1996 – 2000), the academic coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus UII urban studies module at the VUB Brussels, senior researcher […]
Alessandra Gola is an Italian architect, scholar, and researcher whose work focuses on socio-spatial development, the relationship between the built environment and identity, and urban transformation in contexts of conflict. She is an Adjunct Professor at Birzeit University and a co-founder of the Yalla Project, an interdisciplinary research hub based in Nablus, Palestine. Her practice […]
Abdalrahman Kittana is a Palestinian architect, scholar, and researcher whose work examines urban resilience, architectural history, postwar reconstruction, and the intersections of cities and armed conflict. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tampere University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University in the West Bank. He […]
We are a group of academics based at Malmö University and/or in Malmö who stand with the Palestinian people and work to amplify Palestinian voices at Malmö University.