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ISTP Colloquium with Dr Deljana Iossifova, School of Environment, Education and Development of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester.
About Dr. Deljana Iossifova
Deljana Iossifova is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the School of Environment, Education and Development and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester. She trained as an architect at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and has a PhD in Public Policy Design from Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is the incoming Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation. She is International Lead and PI on two projects examining sustainability and urban infrastructure transitions in China, India and Brazil. Iossifova is lead editor of 'Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and professional perspectives' (Routledge, 2017).
Although her research is well aligned with postcolonial urban political ecology perspectives, she uses transition theories, systems theory and complexity theory in combination with practice theory to unravel complex socio-eco-technical entanglements. Her work is particularly concerned with the triggers and consequences of urban transformation in their context-specific expressions.
Iossifova has many years of experience as a practicing architect and led on a number of award-winning master planning and architectural projects, including ‘Beijing Daxing New Media City’ and ‘DressCode Flagship Store’ in Tokyo.