Dr Tanzil Shafique
B.Arch, M.Arch, PhD, FHEA
School of Architecture and Landscape
Director of Postgraduate (Taught) Programmes
Full contact details
School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Profile
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Tanzil Shafique is a Lecturer of Urban Design and Director of the Postgraduate Programmes at The University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is also an Associate of the Urban Institute. Previously, he taught at the University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of Arkansas, USA. Tanzil’s research looks at southern urbanism, pluriversal architectural practice and informal planning, mainly focusing on the ongoing adaptation and transformation due to climate change led by the local citizens. He received a British Academy grant in 2021 to convene Decolonial Cities Collective, a transdisciplinary knowledge commons. Additionally, Tanzil co-convenes the Platform for Just Housing (Najjyo Abashon Moncho or NAM) and Bangladesh Climate Alliance, which work towards housing and climate justice with local activists and citizens. Tanzil recently co-authored Off-Grid Toilets (2022), Atlas of Informal Settlements (2023) and his upcoming monograph is titled: City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh (Bloomsbury, 2024).
- Qualifications
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- Bachelor of Architecutre (BRAC University, Bangladesh)
- Master of Architecture in Ecological Urbanism (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York)
- PhD in Urban Design (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Research interests
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Ongoing research projects
- Socio-spatiality of shitting well: Exploring sanitation dynamics and futures in informal settlements (in collaboration with University of Liverpool and Brac University Center for Inclusive Architecture and Urbanism)
- Morphogenesis of Informal Settlements (in collaboration with Informal Urbanism Research Hub, University of Melbourne)
- Wala urbanism: ecology of street vending (in development)
- Minority cities: towards an urbanism of diversity (in development)
Research Interest and PhD supervision areas
Theme 1: Practice-oriented Keywords: Informal settlements, informal housing, urban informality, slum upgrading practices, international development and urban design
Theme 2: Theory-oriented Assemblage thinking in architecture and urban design, Deleuze studies, ontological design, pluriversality and decolonization,
Theme 3: Methodology-oriented Keywords: Social dynamics of urban morphology, urban mapping at the scale of lived reality, spatial ethnography, social-spatial linkages
Theme 4: Area-oriented Keywords: Dhaka/Bangladesh, East London/UK
- Publications
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Books
- City of Desire An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh.
- Atlas of Informal Settlement Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- OFF-GRID TOILETS.
Journal articles
- Speculation from below: how temporal market sustains local heritage in Indonesia’s desakota region. International Planning Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Regulating informal settlement ‘from within’: the case for plurality in applying building regulation to slum upgrading. International Development Planning Review, 45(3), 235-248.
- Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Reimagining (informal) housing futures in uncertain times. International Journal of Housing Policy.
- Re-thinking housing through assemblages: Lessons from a Deleuzean visit to an informal settlement in Dhaka. Housing Studies.
- Towards a morphogenesis of informal settlements. Habitat International, 104, 102240-102240.
- The Socio-pol-ethical Confluence of the Architect: The Idiot, the Activist and the Dreamer. sITA(6).
- Dirty research: a call towards decolonial urban knowledge production. City, 1-14.
- Epistemic Justice and the University: Reclaiming the Academy for Emancipatory Urban Praxis?. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
- Book review forum podcast: The Surrounds. Urban Studies, 004209802311725-004209802311725.
- People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization, 095624782211498-095624782211498.
Chapters
- Urban design pedagogies for staying with a broken planet In Leite Viana D, da Cruz Brandão E, Morais F, Carvalho IC, Duarte JP & Brandão N (Ed.), Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. View this article in WRRO
- “Back on the Map”: Developing a Multi-scalar Informal Settlement Mapping Framework Based on a Case Study in Dhaka, Sustainable Development Goals Series (pp. 607-617). Springer International Publishing
- City of Desire An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh.
- Research group
- Grants
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Academic Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- (2018) Sessional Teaching Excellence Award, University of Melbourne
- (2017) AU$ 200,000+ Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne for doctoral research
- (2017) Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) / AIA Housing Design Education Award (for ‘Housing for Aging in Community’)
- (2017) $250,000 Grant by Walmart Family Foundation for Affordable Housing Programme, University of Arkansas Architecture School Dean’s Office
- (2014) Dean’s Graduate Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
- (2013) Postgraduate Scholarship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
- (2012) Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Highest Academic Achievement, BRAC University
- (2007-2011) Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, BRAC University
- Teaching activities
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PGT Urban Design Project
PGT Urban Design Thesis
PGT Trajetories in Urban Design
PGT Tools and Methods in Urban Design
PGT Participation in Urban Design
UG Communications
UG CAAD
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Associate Member, American Institute of Architects
- Affiliate Member, Royal Institute of British Architects
- Associate Member, Institute of Architects Bangladesh
- Member, Urban Design Group