Full Name

Masoumeh Mirsafa

Company

Lund university

Department

center for middle eastern studies

Position

project assistant

Company Website

http://cmes.lu.se/

City

Lund

Country

Sweden

Professional Background

An architect by profession, I have a master's degree in Urban Design and Planning from Azad University in Iran and another master’s in Sustainable Urban Design from Lund University. Mythesis, an empirical study conducted in historical cities and old urban fabrics with a focus on old city of Yazd in Iran, is a scholarly endeavor to explore, understand and improve the grassroots' perceptions of older fabrics. I also conducted a project to enhance the design of "ecological based development". The project is an effort to map out patterns which define the urban growth, among other factors, through identification and planning of ecological infrastructure and potentials of local community as essential components for sustaining human society.
At CMES, I work as a project assistant with professor Reza Arjmand in a project on "Women in Public Space in Iran". As a cross-disciplinary comparative study in collaboration between CMES and School of Architecture and Environmental Design of Lund University, it endeavors to address and compare a wider array of perspectives on gendered urban spaces with the foci on women-only parks in Iran.

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