The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities

Amira Osman is a Sudanese/South African architect, researcher, academic, activist, public speaker, and author. She is a professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and holds the position of SARChI: DST/ NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment). Amira obtained a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pretoria in 2004. She was a convener for the World Congress on Housing (2005) and the Sustainable Human(e) Settlements: the urban challenge (2012); she served the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) as UIA 2014 Durban General Reporter and Head of the Scientific Committee for the event tilted ARCHITECTURE OTHERWHERE. More recently, she was a chair of the Local Organising Committee for the 9th International Conference on Appropriate Technology (9th ICAT 2020). Amira is currently a joint coordinator for the international CIB W104 Open Building Implementation network and the president of the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA). She is the director of the organisation PLATFORM100 which is a thinktank and a collaborative vehicle for promoting change in conversations and practice around architecture, space, and cities. Amira is a registered professional architect (SACAP 7267) and the editor of the Built Environment in Emerging Economies (BEinEE) Book Series. Amira has extensive experience curating international events, coordinating complex programmes and exhibitions in terms of design, conceptualising content and managing diverse teams.

Professor John Nagle is a chair of Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. He is a fellow and member of the advisory board for SEPAD (Sectarianism, Proxies & Desectarianisation), a project hosted at the Richardson Institute, Lancaster University, and a fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. His research focuses on non-sectarian social movement activism in divided societies, particularly Northern Ireland and Lebanon. He has published six books and over 50 chapters and articles in leading international journals.

Dr. Sabyasachi Tripathi teaches Economics at Adamas University, Kolkata. Currently, he is on leave from September 2019 for his postdoctoral studies at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He completed Ph.D. in Economics from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, in 2013. He has earned a Master of Arts degree in Economics from Jadavpur University. Before joining Adamas University, he has worked as a fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and as a research fellow at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi, India. He has also taught at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. He is working in different areas of development-related issues such as regional economics, poverty, inequality, and international trade from both Indian and cross-country perspectives. His research outputs have received meritorious attention from the global community by publication in international journals and presentations in various international conferences held in different countries in the world. He has published 36 articles in various internationally reputed journals such as Habitat International (Elsevier), International Journal of Urban Sciences (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Business and Globalisation (Inderscience), Journal of Income Distribution (Ad Libros Publications Ltd.), Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Springer Nature Switzerland), and Journal of Applied Economics Research (Sage). He has participated in more than 20 international conferences and visited 17 countries in the world. He has also participated as a Young Economist in the 4th LindauMeeting of the Winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel held in Lindau, Germany. He has received Shri T R Satishchandra Memorial Best Thesis Prize in Economics from Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. He acted as a reviewer for more than 50 research papers from interracially reputed journals such as PLOS One, World Development, Urban Research and Practice, China Economic Review, and Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies. He is also an associate editor for the Journal of Public Affairs (Wiley-Blackwell).

阿米拉·奧斯曼（Amira Osman）是一位蘇丹/南非的建築師、研究者、學者、活動家、公共演講者及作家。她是茨瓦內科技大學（Tshwane University of Technology）的建築學教授，並擔任SARChI：DST/NRF/SACN空間轉型研究主席（建築環境中的正向變革）。阿米拉於2004年在比勒陀利亞大學獲得建築學博士學位。她曾擔任2005年世界住房大會及2012年可持續人居環境：城市挑戰的召集人；並在國際建築師聯合會（UIA）及南非建築師協會（SAIA）擔任2014年杜班大會的總報告人及ARCHITECTURE OTHERWHERE活動的科學委員會主席。最近，她擔任第九屆國際適當技術會議（9th ICAT 2020）當地組織委員會的主席。阿米拉目前是國際CIB W104開放建築實施網絡的聯合協調人，並擔任南非建築師協會（SAIA）的會長。她是PLATFORM100組織的主任，該組織是一個智庫，旨在促進有關建築、空間和城市的對話與實踐變革。阿米拉是一名註冊專業建築師（SACAP 7267），並擔任新興經濟體建築環境（BEinEE）書系的編輯。她在策劃國際活動、協調複雜的設計計劃和展覽、內容概念化及管理多元團隊方面擁有豐富的經驗。

約翰·納格爾教授（Professor John Nagle）是貝爾法斯特女王大學（Queen's University Belfast）的社會學主席。他是SEPAD（宗派主義、代理人及去宗派化）項目的研究員及顧問委員會成員，該項目由蘭卡斯特大學的理查森研究所主辦，並且是喬治·米切爾全球和平、安全與正義研究所的研究員。他的研究重點是分裂社會中的非宗派社會運動行動，特別是北愛爾蘭和黎巴嫩。他已出版六本書及在國際知名期刊上發表超過50篇章節和文章。

薩比亞薩奇·特里帕提博士（Dr. Sabyasachi Tripathi）在印度加爾各答的阿達馬斯大學（Adamas University）教授經濟學。目前，他自2019年9月起休假，進行在俄羅斯莫斯科國立研究大學高等經濟學院的博士後研究。他於2013年在班加羅爾的社會與經濟變革研究所獲得經濟學博士學位，並在賈達夫普爾大學獲得經濟學碩士學位。在加入阿達馬斯大學之前，他曾在印度國際經濟關係研究委員會（ICRIER）擔任研究員，並在印度新德里的國家城市事務研究所（NIUA）擔任研究員。他還曾在印度旁遮普的Lovely Professional University任教。他在區域經濟學、貧困、不平等及國際貿易等發展相關議題上進行研究，並從印度及跨國的視角進行探討。他的研究成果在國際期刊上發表，並在世界各地的各種國際會議上進行報告，受到全球社群的高度關注。他在多個國際知名期刊上發表了36篇文章，包括《Habitat International》（Elsevier）、《International Journal of Urban Sciences》（Taylor & Francis）、《Journal of Business and Globalisation》（Inderscience）、《Journal of Income Distribution》（Ad Libros Publications Ltd.）、《Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies》（Wiley-Blackwell）、《Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science》（Springer Nature Switzerland）及《Journal of Applied Economics Research》（Sage）。他參加了超過20場國際會議，並訪問了17個國家。他還作為年輕經濟學家參加了瑞典國家銀行獎獲得者的第四屆林道會議（Lindau Meeting）。