Idrees Rasouli

Design and Urban Innovation


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Practice
Projects
  1. SSE HQ
  2. Tate II
  3. Jebel al-Jais
  4. CCTV HQ
  5. Qatar Library
  6. The C
  7. Rotana
  8. Aspire Zone
  9. Eton Finish Line
  10. Hucknall Links
  11. Inner Harbour
  12. Lusail Marine
  13. River Soar


Research
Projects
  1. GATEway 2030
  2. Child’s Playground
  3. World of Hope
  4. Ford Autonomous
  5. Peace Garden
  6. Celebrating Life
  7. Mangai
  8. Ghost
  9. Seoul Social Software
  10. Tokyo Social Software
  11. Microkinetics
  12. Beyond Grey
  13. Future Mill Road
  14. Digital Preparation
  15. Decolonised Innovation


Start-ups
Ventures/Enterprises
  1. Qaf 1.0
  2. Sealeaf 1.0
  3. Create Cambridge


Teaching
Learning/Activities
  1. Artefacts
  2. Healthy Cities
  3. Future of Work
  4. Urban Interventions
  5. Care & Resilience
  6. Smart Workplace
  7. Design Ethics
  8. Critical Thinking + Doing
  9. Urban Justice
  10. Urban Innovation


Pedagogy
Education/Scholarship
  1. Rethinking Creativity
  2. Repositioning the Art School
  3. Multi-course Structure
  4. Cross-cultural Pedagogy & Practice


Publications
Articles/Reports
  1. Post-Disaster Social Regeneration
  2. Disaster Recovery by Design
  3. Human-Connected Leadership
  4. Decolonised Innovation
  5. Rethinking Urban Partnership
  6. Designing Under Extreme Resource Constraints


Presentations
Talks/Workshops
  1. The Architecture of Money
  2. The Six Realities
  3. Reduced Inequalities
  4. Resilience Through Design
  5. Is the Future Inclusive?
  6. The Thinking City
  7. AI and Creativity
  8. Technology for Social Good
  9. Tradition vs. Innovation
  10. Rethinking Civic Engagement



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Pedagogy


︎Practice-led and research-informed, my pedagogy focuses on pioneering new methods and models for partnering professional bodies and employers, as well as public and private sector organisations with academia to shape programmes, connect students and staff to future agendas, and to inform and influence the industry, impact the economy and contribute to the well-being of people and society.

︎My main interest and strengths are in developing future designers who seek to work globally; beyond our traditional sectors and borders with the ability to engage with new audiences and industry partners. I have taught and trained individuals with diverse backgrounds who have won national and international bursaries and awards from the public and private sectors, including the Royal Institute of British Architecture︎︎︎New Designers︎︎︎, the Royal Society of Arts︎︎︎, the American Institute of Archiects, UK︎︎︎, and the James Dyson Award︎︎︎. They have gone to apply and evolve in cross-and multidisciplinary teams through their ability to think critically and act practically, challenge paradigms, speculate on futures, influence policy, prototype propositions and subsequently play a key role in designing resolutions to seemingly unique and complex urban problems.




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