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Dr Fatemeh Zare
Dr Fatemeh Zare is a researcher and architectural designer specialising in the integration of advanced technology within architecture and construction. Her research centres on data-driven design, novel machine learning approaches, and computational solutions, with a specific emphasis on sustainability.
Fatemeh also investigates co-design strategies through the lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), exploring the complex interconnections between human and non-human actors. She brings her academic work, combined with deep experience as a lecturer in architecture and Building Information Modelling, to higher education and industry practice.
Latest Commentaries
Who is Responsible for Climate Change?
Ian Cooper (Eclipse Research) explores the questions of responsibility raised in the recent Buildings & Cities special issue ‘Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making’. Focusing here on carbon emissions and mitigation, global responses will require grounding in what can work locally. New responsibilities arise for the wide range of built environment decision-makers: clients, professionals and their institutions, central and local governments, product suppliers, financiers, insurers, etc. A framework is needed to manage the complexity of responsibilities especially for variety of actors, the time frames and spatial scales.
Professional Ethics in a Climate Crisis
The climate crisis has progressed into a dangerous phase with tragic consequences often counted in numbers of excess deaths, but also by powerful economic impacts of rising food prices, the increased costs of insurance and lending, costly damage to the built environment. Celia Davies, Director of Impact at the UK’s Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at TCPA, consider the responsibilities of professionals in shaping a built environment which is fit not just for today's climate risks but for the dramatic increase in severe and unpredictable weather which is now locked into our climate systems.