Jakleen Al-Dalal'a
School of Architecture
PhD Research Student
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School of Architecture
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
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Jakleen is an architect and urban planner who graduated from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Jordan, where she holds MSc in Architectural Engineering (Jordan, 2017). Prior to starting her Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield, she had worked as an urban planner and architect-designer in Amman (2013-2018) and has taught in multiple Urban design studios (2018). Jakleen pursued her practical experience as a project architect and planner at (Creative Urban Designs studio) where she worked on high-end commercial and residential projects in the context of Amman on the latest Plan for the city ‘Amman 2025’. Motivated by her experience on neo-liberal projects, she investigated and looked into the ‘Others’, namely, the marginalised and disadvantaged communities by class, gender, and race for their ways in approaching/Planning the city. Which motivated her current research to focus on participatory design practices that explore the grassroots organisational networks and the bottom-up planning practices in conceiving and making of the city, and how institutional arrangements by the state facilitate and frustrate provision and access. Jakleen’s research is situated at the intersection of city-making, globalisation, activism, feminist studies, and decolonisation, using ethnographic and participatory methodologies.
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Project title:
Rethinking Public Participation in Amman, JordanProject outline:
My research investigates public participation processes in planning in the newly democratised context of Amman, in which repercussions of the Arab Spring continue. Public participation is a concept that has been widening across the world as a means for democratic spatial production, in which publics are invited to participate in arenas created by the government and/or donors’ interventions (NGOs). Cities of the Middle East and the global South more generally are affected with planning efforts which are often transplanted from liberal democratic global North contexts, including participatory planning as a form of such ‘invited’ spaces. My study argues for more attention to be given to the emergence of new forms of engagements that are being created to engage with the city, within and beyond formal participation mechanisms, in newly democratising contexts. These ‘invented’ spaces of participation, a term borrowed from Miraftab’s (2004) work, are occupied by grassroots and civic organisations, in which people join together in collective action; driven by hope for change, they seek to confront the status quo and challenge dominant urban planning approaches to advocate for a more just planning outcomes.Primary supervisor:
Professor Doina PetrescuCo-supervisor:
Dr Melanie LombardDate started: 01/10/2019
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