Keynote speakers
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Becky Tunstall is the Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York. The Centre carries out a wide range of projects on current housing issues for government departments, housing associations, third sector organisations and academic research councils. Becky's current major studies include Co-Motion, a study of the built environment, mobility and wellbeing for older people, a study of the interaction between housing circumstances and poverty over time, a project on barriers to employment for women housing association tenants in London, and an investigation of the long-term impact of housing quality on health in Scotland. She teaches on social enterprise and on global urban social policy. For many years she was the course leader for the MSC/Dip Housing at the London School of Economics, where she was a member of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion. She has also worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. She has studied politics, urban design and fine art.
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Aseem Inam Ph.D. is Director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation and Associate Professor of Urbanism at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. He is also Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Affiliate of the Civitas Atheneum Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is the author of two books, “Designing Urban Transformation” and “Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities”, as well as of several journal articles and book chapters, including in the recent book “Companion to Urban Design”. He has also practiced as an architect, urban designer and planner in Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Haiti, India and the United States. His teaching, research and practice have received awards from the American Planning Association, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the SOM Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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