Notes on contributors

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1471-3856

Meriem Ben Ammar is a PhD student in Architecture at the University of Cagliari Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture. She obtained both an undergraduate and master’s degree in Architecture from the Tunis National School of Architecture and Urbanism and holds a second master’s degree in Heritage Sciences: Islamic Archaeology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis, where she prepared her master’s thesis on Islamic legal manuscripts.

ORCID ID: 0009-0007-6861-6054

Mouenes Abd Elrrahmane Bouakar is an architect who obtained his master’s degree at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Batna-1, Algeria. He has participated in several projects, such as the elaboration of the Protection and Enhancement Plan of the archaeological site of Zemmouri el Bahri and its area, the study and the follow-up of the restoration of the Sidi Messaoud mosque in Oued Souf and thirty-three lots in the safeguarded sector of the Kasbah of Algiers (lots 03, 04, 06 and 31), and the elaboration of the Permanent Development Plan of the Safeguarded Sector of the old town of Sidi el Houari in Oran.

ORCID ID: 0009-0000-2692-2837

Houda Driss obtained a doctorate in architecture in 2017, graduating from the Doctoral School of Architectural Sciences and Engineering at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis (ENAU). She was university teacher from 2011 to 2015 at ENAU and from 2015 to 2021 at the Private Polytechnic School Ibn Khaldoun. She is a part of the research unit PAE3C (Architectural and Environmental Heritage: Knowledge, Understanding, Conservation) at ENAU, and a member of the Technical Referee Committee for the magazine Sustainable Mediterranean Construction, Land Culture, Research and Technology. She is also a consultant to the Tunisian Mediterranean Association for historical, social and economic studies.

ORCID ID: 0009-0001-9439-8886

Lemya Kacha is associate professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Batna-1, Algeria. She received her PhD in engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. She contributed a chapter about the fractal measurements of morphological identity related to urban fabrics in the book Villes, Réseaux et Transport, le défi fractal, which was edited by Professor Gabriel Dupuy. In 2015, Lemya received the best paper award of the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2527-5356

Heba Khairy is project coordinator at the Grand Egyptian Museum and a PhD candidate specialising in heritage and museum studies. She has participated in many international and national projects and studies focusing on the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, preservation, local community engagement and development. In 2016 she participated in the ‘Memphis site management and Community development project’ supported by the USAID and York University. In 2018 she participated in a study project aiming to safeguard the Syrian dance and musical performance ‘Al A’rada’, hosted in Egypt. In 2019 she participated in a study project aiming to safeguard the Egyptian traditional stitch handcraft known as ‘Al Khayameia’.

ORCID ID: 0009-0000-8090-7945

Ayda Khaleghi is a researcher, architect, and 3D artist, with an interest in contemporary and classic architectural design, cultural heritage valorization, and historical restoration. She has been involved in multiple research projects related to historical renovations and mapping tangible and intangible heritage in the city of Mashhad. She has also been focused on the recent developments in Mashhad’s city center and documentation of its rich historical values.

ORCID ID: 0009-0009-1001-0492

Assia Lamzah is a trained architect and holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA. She is currently a professor at Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (ENA), Rabat, Morocco. She has experience in teaching and research in architecture, urban and regional planning and landscape architecture. Her recent research projects focus on urban and architectural cultural heritage management, smart design, the relationship between architecture, landscape and social culture, and postcolonial theory.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1875-8632

Lilia Makhloufi is an architect and urban planner. She obtained her magister’s degree in urban planning in 2003, and her doctorate of science in territory planning in 2009 and her postdoctoral degree (habilitation) with accreditation to supervise research in 2019. As a teacher and researcher, she worked at the University of Constantine, the University of Jijel and since 2010 at Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme (EPAU) in Algiers. She is also a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), based in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Germany. Her main research experience and international collaborations are related to housing projects, public spaces, cities and sustainability.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8778-5132

Aliye Fatma Mataracı studied at Boğaziçi University, where she earned a PhD in history, an MA in sociology, and a BA in philosophy, as well as Istanbul Bilgi University, where she obtained an MA in film and TV studies. As a representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she actively participated in the project ‘Heritage at War in the Mediterranean Region’ carried out by the Ifpo Urban Observatory between 2015 and 2017. She also held several administrative roles at the International University of Sarajevo during her affiliation with Political Sciences Program from 2011 to 2023. Currently, she is as an associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8289-8763

Nibal Muhesen is a Syrian researcher in the field of archaeology and the protection of Syrian cultural heritage. He obtained a PhD from the University of Lyon II in Syrian archaeology in 2009. Since 2011, he has been involved in documenting the damage to Syrian cultural heritage and has participated in many international lectures and conferences aimed at protecting this heritage. He worked as an expert with the Syrian State Board of Antiquities where he took part in activities focusing on preserving and raising awareness about the importance of Syria’s tangible and intangible heritage and advocating for community-driven reconstruction strategies. He is currently a member of the Department of Tourism Management at the University of Tartous Faculty of Tourism as a researcher in the field of archaeology and tourism.

ORCID ID: 0009-0009-6050-5303

Sasan Norouzi is an Iranian senior researcher at the department of Cultural Heritage at Samen Research Institute. In the past twenty years, Sasan has been teaching and lecturing at various universities and institutions of higher education in Iran. Adopting a humanistic, cultural, and innovative approach, Sasan has been leading projects that aim at conserving cultural heritage and revitalizing historic zones of urban areas including protecting and reusing water structures in ancient cities. His current research interests and activities include using cultural mapping tools and mitigation strategies to study the impact of social behavior, customs, and traditions on the conservation of urban heritage.

ORCID ID: 0009-0003-1401-0517

Joanes Rocha is an architectural historian and graduate research student at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Simultaneously, he holds the position of assistant professor of theory and history of architecture and is a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica, Taipei. His research is centred on the Portuguese presence in East Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, with a primary focus on preserving and safeguarding this historical heritage.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4841-9658

Guillermo Rojas Alfaro is an architect (2012), MSc The Bartlett University College London (2015), and PhD candidate at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD). Before starting his PhD research in Atmospheres, Guillermo was an Assistant Professor of the MArch and Head of the Cultural Heritage Diploma at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). For the past ten years, he has been an educator in architecture, teaching at several universities in Chile, Brazil, Germany, Belgium and Australia. His work as an architect has been awarded, published and presented in different exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale and the Chilean Architecture Biennial. Currently, he teaches at the MSD and is a member of the PUC Heritage and Modernity Research Cluster.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2699-0930

Sepideh Shahamati is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Canada. Her research focuses on identifying and documenting the intangible heritage of cities. With a particular interest in visual representations, she is developing a systematic mapping method to represent the invisible assets of urban areas. She holds an MA in Architecture, Planning and Landscape from Newcastle University and a BSc in Urban Planning from Azad University of Mashhad. Her previous work involves understanding and assessing the public perception of green urban landscapes.

ORCID ID: 0009-0006-1175-8249

Fabiola Solari Irribarra is an architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) and Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage, University of Melbourne (UoM). Between 2013 and 2019, she taught design and research studios at the PUC School of Architecture, where she was coordinator and instructor of three versions of the Cultural Heritage Diploma. She worked as chief architect and coordinator of built heritage projects in the Chilean firm Tándem for four years, where she collaborated in multiple interdisciplinary public projects. She currently works for the Melbourne-based heritage firm Conservation Studio and is a member of the PUC Heritage and Modernity Research Cluster.

ORCID ID: 0009-0004-0799-6338