Gareth Doherty's dissertation is an ethnography of contemporary landscape and urbanism in Bahrain and is supervised by Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, Charles Waldheim and Steven Caton. He spent the 2007–2008 academic year in the Persian Gulf on a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. He has worked with Chora in London and taught at design schools in Europe, North America and Australia.

At Harvard, he has been an Instructor in Landscape Architecture, leading a seminar on “Curating Ecological Urbanism” (preparing for the spring 2009 exhibition at the GSD), and an Instructor in Urban Planning and Design co-teaching a seminar on “Scalar Urbanism” with Neyran Turan and Stephen Ramos. He has also been a Teaching and Head Teaching Fellow and received a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in 2007. He is a founding editor of “New Geographies”, a journal edited by doctoral candidates at the GSD. In 2008/09 he helped Dean Mohsen Mostafavi coordinate the Ecological Urbanism conference, exhibition and book. He has an M.L.A. and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Agr.Sc. and M.Agr.Sc. from University College Dublin.

[ gdoherty@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Rania Ghosn is an architect, geographer, and currently a third year doctoral candidate working at the intersection of territoriality, large-scale infrastructure, and political ecology. She received her Bachelor in Architecture from the American University of Beirut and a hold a Masters degree in Geography from University College London. Along with her involvement in many interdisciplinary spatial projects, she has repeatedly taught basic and advanced level studio courses at the American University of Beirut. At Harvard, she has been a teaching fellow over the last three years, an editor of the New Geographies Journal, as well as a member of the Graduate Consortium on Energy and the Environment. Her doctoral dissertation engages the triad of energy infrastructure, power, and territory in the object a cross-border pipeline in the Middle East. She is investigating how the infrastructure defined geographies across scales to inscribe the flow of oil through territorial technologies such as urban settlements, water point access, and transport roads. The specificity of the historical case study raises broader questions as to the political ecology of green infrastructures and the power-relations embedded in landscapes of energy.

[rghosn@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Jock Herron will be focusing on the spatial implications of applied biomedical innovations on the built environment. He is also interested in healthcare systems, more generally. Professionally, he has run a troubled Internet security company, co-founded and chaired a more successful firm that developed visual training software and served as a managing director at an investment bank where he was principally involved in new product development, global risk management, strategic planning and capital markets. He lived in Tokyo for 5 years, London for 2 and New York for 18, and has visited 65 or so countries, several of which no longer exist.

He received an MDesS with distinction from the GSD, an MPA from the Kennedy School and decades ago - an MBA in econometrics and finance from the University of Chicago and a BA in philosophy from Hampshire College where he was a member of the first entering class. He chairs the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research (part of UMass Medical School), serves as the Recording Secretary of the American Antiquarian Society (a national research library specializing in pre-1876 printed materials) and is a trustee of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Julia, and their 5 year old son, Levi.

[ jherron@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Li Hou received her master of urban planning degree from Tongji University and Master of design from Harvard. She has worked as a lecturer and a registered planner in Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai since 1997. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the work-unit towns, or in other words, company towns in China. She is now working on a paper named "The Third Spring of Urban Planning in China: The Resurrection of Professional Planning in the Post-Mao Era with Michael Leaf from University of British Columbia, Canada for the journal of China Information this year.

[lhou@gsd.harvard.edu ]

El Hadi Jazairy is an architect and a doctor of design student at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He was born in Algiers, received a Diplome d'Architecte from the Institut Superieur d'Architecture La Cambre in Brussels (1999) and holds a Master of Architecture II from Cornell University (2007). At Cornell, El Hadi conducted an exploratory research on cinematic landscapes. He analyzed, through film, the Sahara desertscape in terms of its structural qualities and designed an interactive virtual space reconstructing, through a 3D architectural layout, the cinematic perceptions experienced while crossing the territory. His thesis is entitled "Sahara Drive, Rest and Walk: an Interactive Journey into a Polarized Territory."

Professionally, he has worked in Belgium for over 6 years, including for Louis de Beauvoir Architects, Gigantes Zenghelis Architects, and as a Lead Project Architect for Xaveer de Geyter. Several of his awarded projects are currently being realized and are featured in publications such as A+U and El Croquis. He is a member of the Belgian National Accreditation Board, the "Ordre des Architectes du Brabant." In 2000, through his independent practice, he won the second best award for the EUROPAN 6 international competition.

Academically, El Hadi has taught advanced level courses such as professional practice as well as design studios at Cornell University. Currently, his research at Harvard focuses on the analysis and representation tools in architecture such as video and interactive media to explore the subjective relationships of the neo-nomad and his territory.

[ ejazairy@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Sanghoon Jung is now studying urban design and planning in DDes program. He received his B.S. in Civil, Urban, Geosystem Engineering (2004) and M.S. in Urban Design (2006) both at Seoul National University in South Korea. After that, he worked in several new town planning projects in Korea and other countries at Han-A urban research institute, Seoul before joining DDes. Currently, a first year doctor of design student, he is interested in why and how the experience of developing cities in one country is transferred to others and its influence on the environment of the countries which adopt the knowledge in their spatial policies. He was born and raised in Masan, South Korea and educated in Seoul since his twenties.

[ sjung@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Jan Jungclaus is a doctoral student at Harvard GSD researching and teaching how digital technology provides new opportunities to create, perceive and enact upon our world. Before joining the DDes program, he worked several years as a researcher in the areas of Multimedia Development and Global Elearning at the Fraunhofer Institut for Computer Graphics. Jan received a master in economics from Cologne University, Germany and graduated from the International Program for New Media from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Next to his doctoral work he is concerned with technological innovation for development, such as the introduction and rollout of OLPC XO laptops to Mongolia with the mission to provide educational means to unprivileged urban, rural and remote areas.

[ jjungcla@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Har-Ye Kan graduated from University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2006 with a B.A. (Hon) in Geography, and completed her A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2007. At Harvard, her Masters thesis on "The Evolving 'Faces' of Chinese Nationalism: Nationalism, Modern Architecture and Urbanism in Shanghai" received an honourable mention for the Joseph Fletcher Award. Prior to the DDes Programme, Har-Ye worked at International and Regional Relations Division of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Through her research, Har-Ye aims to explore the concept of place-making and community building in Chinese cities. In doing so, she hopes to offer approaches in developing meaningful urban landscapes expressive of the country's history, people and cultures.

[ hyk564@mail.harvard.edu ]

Saehoon Kim is a DDes student, studying at Harvard under the sponsorship of the Kwanjeong Foundation since 2007. His study is about the spatial patterns of urban development, focusing on China's urbanizing watersheds, and its impact on regional environmental capacity. He earned his MDesS in 2009, serving as a research assistant for Professor Peter G. Rowe on projects such as “Urbanization and Urban Sustainability in China” and "Evaluation of the Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project and its Environs (ongoing)," and was awarded Penny White Fellowship on his research “Villages in Transition: Water Scarcity and Rural Landscape.” Prior to the DDes program, he worked at cross-regional planning authorities such as Seoul Development Institute (2006-07) and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (Urban Design/Planning Department, 2008), along with his experience as a project designer at BAUM Architects (2003-06). He graduated from Seoul National University with B.S. (Distinction) and M.S. in Architectural Design and Planning.

[ skim5@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Kyung-Sun Lee is an assistant professor at Hongik University, School of Architecture, Seoul, Korea, a registered architect in New York, and a LEED accredited professional. She was born in Korea and received a BA from Hongik University. After she finished an M.Arch1 degree from UCLA, she worked as an architect for 8 years in the architecture firms of Gwathmey Siegel, Moore Ruble Yudell, and HLW international. She was involved in a wide range of projects; from international mega projects to interior design. Some of the projects that she worked on received AIA awards and have been extensively published. With a strong background as a practitioner, she seeks to link the gap between academia and practice.

Her research for the doctoral studies at the GSD is focused on sustainable design approaches for housing. Her research interest is how to minimize a human footprint in architectural practice in order to harmonize with eco-system including energy efficient/ passive architectural design, and sustainable masterplan in a high-density urban environment.

[ klee@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Wanda Katja Liebermann is a California licensed architect and Doctor of Design student at the GSD. She received her BA and Master's of Architecture from UC Berkeley's College of Environment Design. Her fourteen years of professional practice encompasses both lead design, and technical and management roles. From 1996 to 2007 she taught undergraduate design studios as adjunct faculty in the College of Environmental Design. Her interest in teaching and practice lies in the generation of inventive forms and spaces arising out of an engagement with contextual issues and current critical debates.

The focus of her research is the conjunction of the body, technology, the built environment, and subjectivity. She is exploring some practical and theoretical possibilities for architecture through an in-depth examination of embedded 'body' narratives in architecture, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. This method disrupts received taxonomies of people and practices and reformulates the view of bodily variation -shape, size, kinesthetics- as occurring within a manifold terrain, not as poles of a binary structure. In this way, the body reemerges as an important focus for imagining and experimenting with new spatial possibilities.

[ wlieberm@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Jawn Tze-hin Lim's current research is on innovation and invention of visionary architecture within the scope of digital culture, comparative media and philosophy of technology. He is investigating the play of architecture in the age of digital representation by examining architecture done by non-architects. This includes imaginary, unbuilt architecture that has polemical ambitions that may not include construction. He is interested in projects and practices that are at the intersection of media and architecture.

He is currently a Doctor of Design student under the DesignSingapore Council scholarship. He has worked at Arquitectonica, Frank Gehry, Marmol Radziner and Hetzel Design Inc from project design to project management. He served as teaching assistant to Dr Michael Speaks for several graduate seminars including "Design Intelligence" and was the workshop coordinator for Steven Holl's "Porosity" exhibition at SCI-Arc. He holds a Masters of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) with the sponsorship of the SCI-Arc Graduate Studies Scholarship and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the National University of Singapore, School of Architecture (NUS), where his final year project was selected for the Top Projects Exhibition. He has guest lectured at the Singapore Institute of Architects, ArcStudio Singapore, ZArch Singapore, NUS and UCLA Film School. He has published in the 306090 magazine and the Singapore Architect magazine.

He enjoys digital matte painting, basketball, trying new cuisines, acapella music and expositional preaching.

[ jawnlim@gsd.harvard.edu]

Shelagh McCartney is an architect and urbanist who is currently pursuing her Doctor of Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, studying informal settlements in rapidly expanding urban agglomerations and the effect that emerging institutional and redevelopment practices have on those communities. She is a Fulbright Scholar who received her Masters in Design Studies, concentrating in Urban Development and Housing, from Harvard University (2007), and Bachelors of Professional Architecture and Bachelor of Environmental Studies Pre professional Architecture from the University of Waterloo, Canada where she earned her a place on the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Honour Roll, Dean's List, the Rome Prize and a Senate Scholarship.

Since 1994 Shelagh has worked on projects in more than 6 countries including Canada, Finland, Italy and, South Africa. She is a licensed member of the Ontario Association of Architects, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and is a LEED Accredited Professional who provides a multidisciplinary approach in defining and implementing community visions. As part of a team and individually she has secured wins and mentions in four international competitions, and her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications including Canadian Architect, Roma XX and New City.

Shelagh is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, teaching introductory design and option studios, is a thesis advisor in practice at Ryerson University and has been a guest critic and lecturer at universities in the United States, Canada and Australia. Following her belief that architecture is only a small part of what makes a city work, she examines issues of what holds a community together, that messy glue of tolerance, economics, opportunity and planning. Her future plans are to be a professor at a respected university where she will inspire her students to design urbanistic projects that will make a difference in tomorrow's communities.

[ smccartn@gsd.harvard.edu ] [ cv ]

Nashid Nabian was born in 1976, in City of Tehran-Iran, she did a master of Architecture at Shaid-Beheshti University, previously called National University, and started to work as a self employed architect in Design-Built contracts for residential and educational projects of small to medium scale between 1998 and 2002. She became a partner in Arsh Architectural Consulting office in 2002. Since then her partners and herself have been involved in residential and commercial projects at different scales and design competitions at local and national levels. Between 2003 and 2005 Nashid did a Master in Urban Design at University of Toronto where she was awarded "Toronto Society of Architects' Scholarship for the creative design 2004-2005" for her thesis which focused on Utopic redevelopment of Toronto Lakeshore which was an attempt to explore the potentials of Theory of Derive and other situationist's propositions in designing of an urban scale redevelopment.

Currently, a first year doctoral design student, her research interest is focused on integration of responsive networked digital media in design of public spaces, and its impact on spatial experience of the participating public. This concept of the virtual as what unfolds potentials beyond the given identities of form, function and place, escapes from perfecting the convention and realizing the possible, and break into new forms of constructing and proliferating the real towards unexpected directions of conceivable yet provoking unreal, not as the reproduction of the real. But is it possible to have architecture without a place and to affirm a world beyond the constraints of place or time ?as in the essential sense of a complete, independent space?

[ nnabian@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Taro Narahara is currently a Doctor of Design candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Prior to joining the doctoral program at Harvard, he received a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from MIT and has collaborated on research projects in the Design and Computation Group in the Department of Architecture at MIT. He also holds a BS in Mathematics from Waseda University in Tokyo and a Master of Architecture from Washington University. He has won the Peter Rice Prize at the GSD (2009) and a merit-based full tuition fellowship award from MIT. His research interests include the application of distributed systems in architecture, robotics, and generative design. Through these research projects, he published several papers in international journals and conferences.

Professionally, he has worked in the US and Japan for over 7 years as a Project Architect with Skidmore Owings and Merrill, and Gluckman Mayner Architects in New York. Projects include Mori Arts Center in Tokyo, Japan; Hotel Puerta de America in Madrid; and the MoMA Store in New York City.

[ narahara@gsd.harvard.edu ] [ cv ]

Jaewan Park is currently a DDes candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He holds a Master's Degree in Design Studies and was the winner of the Digital Design Prize. In addition, he has been awarded the 2008 Young CAADRIA Award, which acknowledges his contribution in research to the field of design computation. Prior to joining the GSD, he had professional experience as an architectural designer, a researcher, and an interaction designer in Korea. At the same time, he taught digital media classes at several universities.

He is also the author of the book, Architectural Form Making and Digital Model. His recent research deals with finding novel, organic approaches to architectural design (parametric design, algorithmic design), data-driven visualizations, the integration of physical computing into architecture and cities, and more generally, design-centered approaches to human-computer interaction. He received his bachelor's from Ajou and his Master's from Harvard.

[ jpark@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Antonio Petrov's research examines the North American Megachurch phenomenon with the aim to speculate upon alternative roles that architecture might play in (shaping) contemporary society. Focusing on how major cultural shifts have influenced new spatial paradigms in architecture, his dissertation scrutinizes religious architectural expressions of mass-consumerism and analyzes how the postmodern avantgarde and the Megachurch provided radical "extra"-and "super"-ordinary utopian solutions with the ultimate aim to produce ideal alternatives to the city.

Antonio previously taught History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design, Architectural Design, Urban Design, Digital Design and Art History at IIT, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ISU, WIT and Harvard University. Currently he is a Teaching Fellow at GSD and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.

He also serves on the board of directors of Extension Gallery in Chicago and is editor of the Harvard GSD Magazine "New Geographies". He has won numerous international design competitions and is currently finishing a publication on design methodologies "Motion of Matter: Of Disturbed Fundamentals and the Embrace of Strangeness and Indeterminate Dimensions."

[ antonio@wasx.org ] [ web-site ]

Scott Pobiner holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell University’s School of Architecture and a Master’s degree in Design Studies (with distinction) from the GSD. He is the winner of the Dimitris Pikionis Award for academic excellence and has taught workshops and courses on interactive media and interaction design. Scott is also an adjunct faculty member at the Stevens Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in interaction design and digital media.

His research is focused on how environments can incorporate shared access to multiple displays in order to facilitate new methodologies for learning and teaching and to more effectively use the physical environment of the classroom.  He is currently developing and testing a system, which facilitates such interaction.

[ spobiner@gsd.harvard.edu ] [ website ] [ cv ]

Teri Rueb is an Associate Professor in the graduate Department of Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. She was born and raised in Colorado and educated at Carnegie Mellon University (BFA in Art and Literary and Cultural Studies) and New York University (Interactive Telecommunications Program). An early pioneer in creating itinerary works using GPS, Rueb's large-scale site-specific installations explore issues in landscape architecture and urbanism, and sonic and acoustic space. Her research at the GSD explores shifting spatio-temporal meanings and representations that emerge in the context of ubiquitous computing and GIS. Rueb's work has been exhibited and reviewed internationally in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. She has received numerous grants and commissions from institutions including the The Banff Center for the Arts, Boston ICA / Vita Brevis, LEF Foundation, Artslink, Turbulence.org, the Akademie der Kunste, and various State Arts Councils. She is founder of Open Air Studio (Cambridge) and has also worked as an art director and curator of public art exhibitions in San Francisco and New York.

[ trueb@gsd.harvard.edu ] [ web-site ] [ cv ]

Zenovia Toloudi holds a Master of Architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology where she was studying under the Fulbright Program and a professional degree in Architecture Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessalonki. She is a registered architect in Greece since 2004. In Chicago she has been working on high-rise hotels in the city. Her work was part of the Venice Biennale 2006 on the cities, architecture and society. Her research interest has been on flexible structures, systems and strategies of architecture that can fluctuate among the scales of globalization, localization and personalization. In her doctoral thesis she will examine the role of branding in the process of architectural design and production.

[ zenovia@gmail.com ] [ cv ]

Dido Tsigaridi Dido Tsigaridi completed her Master in Design Studies in Building Technology and Advanced Materials at Harvard GSD in 2006. She holds a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Thessaly and is a registered architect in Greece. The projects she has worked on include small residential buildings and outdoor public spaces. She has participated in several architectural surveying research projects of the National Technical University of Athens in Greece.

Her interests include filming and video editing and she has exhibited in video festivals in Athens. Her doctoral research addresses the issue of navigation in an urban context through the prism of spatial perception and visual cognition theories. Innovative designs of prototypical interactive applications emerge in the context of direction giving techniques in the ubiquitous city.

[ dtsigari@gsd.harvard.edu ]

Aylin Brigitte Yildirim received a graduate engineer diploma in architecture in Germany in 2003 and has been working as an architect ever since. She has engaged in public and private projects and has experience in all work phases. Her knowledge also includes green design standards and technology as well as implementation of universal design. In the interdisciplinary course of studies "universal design- architecture, computer science, health and social science" she was able to deepen her experience and received the Master of Science degree in 2007 after researching on informal settlements in Istanbul/ Turkey where she carried out case studies and proposed an alternative design for upgrading and integrating an informal settlement.

As a Doctor of Design Student and Fulbright Scholar, her area of research is inner-city development in Turkey and informal settlements, urban dynamics and informal economies as well as contemporary ways to approach the issues that come with rapid urbanization in order to suggest methods of planning that take into account the socio-cultural context. She considers the processes that will lead to a future-oriented (built) solution not only as interdisciplinary ones, but also including the participants from both sides, formal and informal.

[ yildirim@gsd.harvard.edu ]