Srijon Barua

  Srijon Barua , coming from Bangladesh, is a student of Architecture and Urbanism. He has been part of multiple social development design projects in Japan and Bangladesh. His research and work are focused on under-flyover spatial use and area management under the term “post infrastructural adaptation”. Besides working for various NGOs and NPOs, Srijon has worked as lecturer in the University of Asia Pacific Dhaka for several years. Currently he is a MEXT , PhD candidate at Kyoto University.

Dr Debapriya Chakrabarti is Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. She was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the department of Architecture, University of Manchester. She is the author of 'Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation' (Routledge, 2023). Her research expertise is in informal practices, livelihoods, the human-infrastructure interface and sustainable urban transitions, focusing on marginalised communities in the Global South.

 Rati Sandeep Choudhari is a SEED doctoral scholar at the University of Manchester. Her PhD research explores the role of modular and generative planning and how incorporating Artificial Intelligence in the design process can help in creating adaptable and resilient urban infrastructure. Before joining The University of Manchester, Rati was a Freelance Urban Designer and Researcher at BUSarchitektur, Vienna, where she explored the potential of parametric urban research to enhance the decision making process in Smart Urban Design in India and Europe. Rati has a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism from Manchester School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Dr. B.N College of Architecture (Pune, India). 

Xin Li is a SEED-funded postgraduate researcher at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on infrastructure of care, challenging infrastructural design to confront the systemic discriminatory structures of racial, gender, and class profiling through care ethics. Before her doctoral study at the University of Manchester, Xin studied at the University of Michigan (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning) and participated in research/design projects related to disability studies in architecture, mental health infrastructure, and narrative representations and technologies. Xin obtained a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan (2023) and a master’s degree in Building Construction from Auburn University (2016).

Dr Qi Liu holds a PhD in Human Geography from The University of Manchester. Her PhD project focused on how tourist practices and their interactions with hotel infrastructures escalate resource demand in a Chinese hot spring town. She is interested in applying social practice theories to understand the dynamics of sustainable consumption in tourism and everyday life in China, covering topics relating to energy and water demand, sustainable tourism, lifestyle mobility, and lived experiences of sustainability. She obtained a Mater degree from Renmin University of China (2017) and a Bachelor degree from Xiamen University (2015), both in Sociology.

Dongyang Mi is a President's Doctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester, where he is completing a PhD examining emerging and dynamic socio-material patterns of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation across Bejing and Tianji. Mi is an architect, researcher and urban geographer based in the UK, China, and Australia. Before joining the University of Manchester, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Healthy Cities (IHC) affiliated with Hunan University, China. Dongyang holds an MA degree from RCA (Royal College of Art, UK), BA and BEng from HUST (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China). 

Dr Subham Mukherjee is currently a Joint Berlin-Jerusalem Post-Doctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, working on comparative study of water sensitive catchment management between Israel and Germany for mitigating flood risks in the costal urban areas.

Subham pursued his PhD on Urban Water Security at the Freie University of Berlin, for which he was awarded the DAAD full scholarship. He holds three Masters of Science degrees in Ecohydrology (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany), GIS for Catchment Dynamics and Management (University of Leeds, UK) and Remote Sensing and GIS (University of Burdwan, India). 

Qiwei Peng is a doctoral student supported by CSC (China Scholarship Council) at The University of Manchester. Qiwei’s PhD project aims to provide a better understanding: how elevated roads as a kind of both physical and social infrastructure produce or coexist with the various socio-spatial assemblages. Before joining the University of Manchester, she worked as a researcher and volunteer to implement related design projects in Shanghai and Chongqing, China. Peng obtained a Master degree from The Manchester School of Architecture (2020) and a Bachelor degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2018).

Ziqiu Ren is a doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester. Before starting her PhD, she studied Architecture at Southeast University, China and Università Iuav Di Venezia, Italy, participating in research and practical projects on transportation infrastructure and urban/rural regeneration. Currently, her research is concerned with the timespace regime of everyday practices in the context of food marketplaces as infrastructure nodes, situated in broader food circulation networks and social agencies. 

 Rujin Wang is pursuing her PhD at the University of Manchester, concentrating on developing design strategies for age-friendly outdoor environments in urban settings. Her research dives into the perceptions, interactions, and residential satisfaction of older people with the aim of enhancing their quality of life and engagement within the community. She embraces a multi-faceted approach in her research, blending quantitative and qualitative research methods, to gain a well-rounded understanding of the issues at hand. Before embarking on her PhD study,  Rujin obtained her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pécs, Hungary (2022).