About
I work on decisions where a territory's needs outrun the institutions that hold them, on where to build and where to stop, on what farmland is for, on how a city keeps its say over the partners who deliver its climate investment. My part usually comes at the beginning, framing the question, building the evidence and bringing the people who must decide into one room.
I trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London and worked in Arup's Foresight, Research and Innovation team before joining 51N4E in Brussels in 2017. There I led the C-Mine masterplan in Genk and a nine-site portfolio in Albania taken to permit. In 2021 I founded Territories in Transition, the practice's climate and territorial strategy service, working for Luxembourg's Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning, the Métropole de Lyon, municipalities and companies. Alongside that work I co-founded Critical Practice, co-created Ruderal Acts with Love Di Marco, and designed and built a building with an experimental garden in Iran.
Since January 2025 I have worked at Eurocities on NetZeroCities, the EU Cities Mission platform, where I lead two work packages and sit on the Executive Committee. In 2026 I completed a Master of Studies in Climate, Environmental and Urban Policy at the University of Cambridge, with research on how Bristol, Angers and Stockholm keep usable oversight of the vehicles that deliver their climate investment.
How I work
The work moves between spatial analysis, field inquiry, design and public communication. An early study can set an agenda and name the questions that later, more situated projects test.
Read the context
Spatial data and systems analysis to see what a place depends on and what presses on it, from soils and cooling to the development rights already granted.
Ground the picture
Field sessions, interviews and walks with the people who know and manage a place, so that the map carries their knowledge as well as the data.
Lay out the options
Scenarios and instruments set out as a palette of choices with their consequences, leaving the decision with those who own it.
Make it discussable
Maps, films, exhibitions and workshops that give a complex choice a shared form. At 51N4E I led around fifty workshops with residents, authorities, specialists and companies.
Record
Experience
Eurocities, Brussels, 2025 to present. Programme Lead and Executive Committee member, NetZeroCities, previously Strategy Advisor (Data).
51N4E, Brussels, 2017 to 2025. Programme Manager, Territories in Transition (2022 to 2025), previously Senior Project Lead, Project Lead and Architectural Designer.
Independent practice, Isfahan and Tehran, 2017 to 2022. Industrial reuse proposals and a self-initiated building, alongside 51N4E.
Arup, London, 2016 to 2017. Foresight Industrial Trainee, Foresight, Research and Innovation.
Education
University of Cambridge, 2024 to 2026. Master of Studies in Climate, Environmental and Urban Policy.
Architectural Association, London, 2013 to 2016. Honours-degree in Architecture, ARB/RIBA Part 1.
Iran University of Science and Technology, 2010 to 2013. Associate Degree in Architectural Engineering.
Talks and sessions
Curated and chaired a session on the credibility of city climate data, EU Cities Mission Conference, Turin, 2026.
Keynote and the Count it, Change it, Scale it workshops, Utopian Hours, Turin, 2022.
Guest lectures at Politecnico di Torino and at the SEIAA Academy of Hasselt University, 2022.
Juries
Guest juries at the Architectural Association, KU Leuven, the University of Antwerp and Hasselt University.
Exhibitions
IABR, Rotterdam, 2022. BOZAR, Brussels, and Aaran Projects, Tehran, 2021. Work also shown at the Architectural Association, MAO Ljubljana and New London Architecture.
Editorial
Editor of Critical Pages, issues 1 to 5, 2019. Co-curated contribution to Archifutures Volume 6: Agency, 2020. Critical Practice was selected for Future Architecture's 2020 programme.
Languages
English and Farsi, native. French, B1.
Contact
[email address to confirm]
Based in Brussels. LinkedIn