Golnaz Jamshidi

Golnaz Jamshidi is a graduate of University of Waterloo master in architecture program, with a passion for working on the intersection of architecture, urban design and public spaces designs, how architects can be influencing the everyday life of public rather than a specific user. During her academic and professional practice she gained a variety of inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural experiences. She has previously worked as Architectural Designer for BNS architecture studio and Shift Process Practice architecture studio in Tehran, where she focused on developing multi-scale architecture and urban design projects, including a number of award-wining competitions. During last couple of years, her research and projects has been focused on architecture design projects as well as urban design projects with concentrating on designing public spaces in cities, alternate public spaces with investigating citizens as part of the project. Two of her recent group project being tested in city of Toronto, where she was part of the design and building team, focused on this concern of public spaces in modern cities. Her recent research-based design Master’s thesis focused on alternate public spaces and redesigning leftover spaces of the city of Tehran. Her project must respond to the vast number of social, political questions in the city as well as focusing on the big question of public spaces in the city as well as looking in to detail and context for designing the projects, as well as answering the question of the role of the architect in the new era and the position of public in building their own spaces