Prof. Dr. Lindsay Blair Howe
Primary Investigator and Group Leader
Lindsay Blair Howe is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Society at the University of Liechtenstein and PI of the Urbanism and Society Research Group. With an interdisciplinary background in architecture, urban design, and geography, her research cuts across disciplinary boundaries in conducting ethnographic investigations of sociological transformations. From places as diverse as Johannesburg, South Africa to Rankweil, Austria she pursues a range of issues, from the production of social and spatial peripheries to the politics of housing and urban development, and even imagines a more sustainable process of crafting architecture with earth. She is Assistant Dean of the School of Architecture, co-founder of urban publics Zurich (upZ), and author of numerous highly-ranked scientific articles and publications.