Iman is a social scientist with a special interest in user-generated neighbourhoods and planning processes.
Iman is a designer and an urban planner who sees cities through the prism of daily human activities and behaviours. Passionate about how people can shape their own living environements, she is a specialist in participatory planning and has worked in North America, Africa and Europe.
Articles
Delta V: Neighbourhood project
This innovative plan for a new neighbourhood in the town of Versoix in Geneva will be presented at
the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel (S AM).
Delta V : Introduction
Un projet de quartier participatif à Versoix!
A participatory urban planning project in Geneva, Switzerland!
From Public Consultation to Community Land Trust
How the city of Ottawa’s participatory neighbourhood revitalization project has inspired the community to take the lead in choosing their future
Cairo: User-Driven Housing Construction
Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.
Works
No Future
As part of the Future Architecture Platform, urbz was part of a series of exhibitions and lectures at the MAXXI in Rome, the House of Architecture in Graz, Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb and the Future of Architecture symposium in Ljubljana.
Cultura Fertilis, étoile
Programmation urbaine pour un îlot de 60’000 m2 à l’Etoile, PAV
Urban planning for a 60,000 m2 block at l'Etoile, PAV
Une plage de rêve
Vision et programme pour la future plage des Eaux-Vives
Vision and programme for the future Eaux-Vives beach