Members

 

Mehdi Alyari

 

EMAIL: 

Mehdialyari1983@gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Urban risk management
  • Strategic development
  • Sustainable development
  • Urban design and planning
  • Urban morphology
  • Environmental psychology and mental health
  • Fine arts and spatial environmental design

 

Faezeh Behnamifard

 

EMAIL: 

f_behnami@yahoo.com

 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Smart citizenship, e-participation, m-participation
  • Smart city, e-government, m-government
  • Urban morphology
  • Form based codes (FBCs)
  • Urban form and physical activity
  • Urban space design
  • Child/Adolescent-friendly cities

 RESEARCH:

  • Application of form-based codes in regional design: Proposing a conceptual model
  • Application of form-based code approach in land development plans
  • Persian translation of the book titled: “Urban Morphology: An introduction to the study of the physical form of cities” (ISBN: 978-600-6513-25-6)
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental factors on increasing the activity of adolescent girls and boys in urban spaces

 

Parastoo Eslami

 

EMAIL: 

parastoo.eslamy@yahoo.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Web GIS & Mobile GIS
  • Regeneration and renovation
  • Resilient Urban Fabric
  • Social analysis
  • Marketing and branding

 

Amir Ehsan Faramarzi

 

EMAIL:

amirehsan.faramarzi@gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Historic Urban Fabric
  • Historic City Structure
  • Bazaars
  • Urban Morphology
  • Urban Landscape and The Image of cities
  • Linguistics, Pattern Language & Patterns

RESEARCH:

  • Extraction and Analyzing of Historic Bazaar’s Constitutive Patterns by a Linguistic Approach in order to regenerate them (Article in Press).

 

Zahra Haghshenas

 

EMAIL:

haghshenas.zahra94@gmail.com

z.haghshenas@student.art.ac.ir

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Smart Data
  • Digital Urban Space
  • Smart City
  • Cyber Parks
  • Smart Platforms
  • Smart Government
  • Virtual Platforms
  • IOT, ICT.

RESEARCH:

  • Regulating the smart management model for urban spaces with the aim of qualifying them for users, based on virtual platforms (Case study: Area in Tehran)

 

Hamed Karami

 

EMAIL: 

h.karami94@yahoo.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Urban spaces
  • Pattern Language
  • Historical Spaces
  • Redesign
  • Historical Patterns
  • New Urbanism

RESEARCH:

  • Defining the Principles of Urban Squares Design through the Pattern Language of Yazd’s Historical Squares (Paper in Progress)

 

Mohammad Ali Mofidi

 

EMAIL: 

SiyavashMofidi69@Gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Low Carbon City (Urban Neighborhoods)
  • Climate Change & Environmental Crises
  • City Information Modeling
  • Energy Analysis & Model Optimization
  • GIS & Envi-Met
  • Energy and Pollution Tracking &Virtual Reality

 

 

 

Aynaz Momtazi

 

EMAIL: 

aymzzii@yahoo.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Smart waste management
  • Urban agricultural system
  • Mobile application modules
  • Startup

RESEARCH:

  • Defining  an evaluation framework for waste management startups with emphasis on citizenship education and urban agriculture

 

Najmeh Moosavi

 

EMAIL:

najmemosavi137575@gmail.com

n.mousavi@student.art.ac.ir

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning  
  • Python and MATLAB programming and coding 
  • Image Processing
  • The Environment For Visualizing Images

RESEARCH:

  • Analyzing urban space users Visual preference of street façade based on Image processing technique (from Valiasr intersection to Taleqani street, Tehran) (in Progress).

 

Mahsa Mostafaie

 

EMAIL:

mahsamostafaee92@gmail.com

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Urban Morphology
  • Health-oriented urban planning & Urban design
  • Public spaces & urban quality
  • Urban landscape

RESEARCH:

  • Defining Design Solutions of Physical Form For Increasing Physical Activity, with Emphasis on Resident`s Walking. Case Study: Narmak and Bagh-e-Feiz Neighborhoods in Tehran (Article under review)

 

Negin Nouri Tajer

 

EMAIL: 

neginruby@yahoo.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Urban change
  • Urban space
  • Social media and social behavior
  • Redesign
  • ….

RESEARCH:

  • Identifying influential factors on space changes in urban neighborhoods and its impact on identity (in Progress).

 

Faezeh Rahmani

 

EMAIL: 

Faeze.r72@gmal.com

F.RahmaniJami@student.art.ac.ir

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Crowd Sourcing Approach
  • Urban Emotional mapping
  • Emotional Analysis
  • Social Media and Social behavior

RESEARCH:

Identification of physical and non-physical factors affecting pedestrians' emotional response in urban streets and presenting a solution (in Progress): A number of studies in the field of environmental psychology show that humans perceive and evaluate their surroundings affectively. Experiences from daily life show that many of our daily behaviors and decision-making are often influenced by this kind of affective responses towards environments.

 

Ahmad Taghizadeh

 

EMAIL: 

Ahmad.taqizade@gmal.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Pattern Language
  • Urban Morphology
  • Urban Fabric
  • Residential Sectors Planning & Design

 

 

 

Omid Veisi

 

EMAIL: 

Omid.veisi.ov@gmal.com

o.veisi@student.art.ac.ir

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Big Data
  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • City Information Modeling
  • Energy Analysis & Model Optimization
  • Web GIS & Mobile GIS
  • Energy Tracking &Virtual Reality

 

 

Helia Zargari Marandi

 

EMAIL: 

Helia.zrg2098@gmail.com

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Tourism & Ecotourism
  • Local Knowledge & Local economy
  • Startups
  • Smart city
  • New Urbanism

RESEARCH:

  • Developing a framework assessment of the smart ecotourism startups, based on the local knowledge to thrive local economy and providing its business model
  • Reviewing the ecotourism startups for achieving insights

 

Mahdie Zeinali

 

EMAIL: 

mahdie13.zeinali76@gmal.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Smart City
  • Smart Urban Design
  • Smart Waste Management
  • Social Behavior in Urban Spaces
  • Virtual Reality

RESEARCH:

  • Assessment of waste management startup; focusing on citizen education and waste sorting.