Honorary Visiting Professor - Lectures and Seminars at the Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), November 2019.

December 01, 2019

Honorary Visiting Professor - Lectures and Seminars at the Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), November 2019.

Following long collaboration with the Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Professor Salama is appointed as an honorary visiting professor (2018-2021). This involves annual visits to discuss curriculum development, research projects and deliver series of seminars. Earlier Professor Salama has been an external examiner for Bachelor and Master professional programmes from 2013 to 2017) and has been external examiner for PhDs since 2008. The latest visit in November 2019 included two seminars:

Integrationist Agendas for Urban Research: Between Urban Sustainability and Architectural Identity
Professor Ashraf M. Salama
Professor of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow United Kingdom
Honorary Visiting Professor, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

This lecture captures key issues relevant to urban studies as they related to sustainability and identity as two key concepts that characterise recent urban discourse. The presentation builds on a recent article entitled “integrationist triadic agenda for city research: cases from recent urban studies” The lecture is based on a paper published in 2019:

Salama, A. M. (2019). Integrationist triadic agendas for city research: cases from recent urban studies. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 43(2), 148-157. https://doi.org/10.3846/jau.2019.11220

Research Approaches and Publication Strategies
Professor Ashraf M. Salama
Professor of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow United Kingdom
Honorary Visiting Professor, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

This lecture provides an inclusive insight into methodological research in architecture and allied disciplines and unravel aspects that include philosophical positions, frames of reference and spheres of inquiry. It demonstrates the glaring dearth of cognisance and a reaction to a growing but confusing body of knowledge that does not offer a clear picture of what research in architecture is. By identifying key characteristics, philosophical positions and frames of reference that pertain to the research in architecture and associated disciplines, the findings represent a scholastic endeavour in its field. The seminar is based on a paper published in 2019:

Salama, A. M. (2019), Methodological research in architecture and allied disciplines: Philosophical positions, frames of reference, and spheres of inquiry, Archnet-IJAR, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 8-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-01-2019-0012

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).