who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Stuart Munro
Bartlett School of Architecture,
University College of London, Wates
House, 22 Gordon Street, London,
WC1H 0QB, United Kingdom
Keywords visual arts, architecture,
music, new media
Sana Murrani
University of Plymouth, School of
Archirecture, Room 401 Roland
Levinsky Building, Drake circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United
Kingdom
Keywords behavioural spaces,
collectivity, complex systems,
conceptual architecture, architectural
theory
› Textual and visual interfaces in art and design education, Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 3.2, 75-80.
› Textual and visual interfaces in art and design education, Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 3.3, 139-140.
His work is a mixture of sculpture and photography and is a continuing
exploration of architecture and the visual arts and has been published,
most notably in Digital Architecture Now (Thames and Hudson, 2009).
Recent talks and workshops have also been held in Japan and Norway.
Professionally, he has worked for a number of award-winning design
studios, working with visionary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver on
several projects for architecture, print and music. Currently he is a
teaching fellow for the Masters Architectural Design programme at the
Bartlett School of Architecture, and a member of Advanced Virtual and
Technological Architectural Research, a group directed by Professor
Neil Spiller. As part of the editorial board for Design Ecologies
(Intellect Books) he participated in an accompanying lecture series and
exhibition in early 2011.
› Ecological Design Vision: Dreaming tongues: Journeys and observations
through a sensitive and tempered landscape, Design Ecologies, 1.1, 33-56.
Sana Murrani (b. 1977, British-Iraqi) is an experimental architect, and
currently holds the position of Lecturer in Architecture at the
University of Plymouth, UK. She studied Architecture in Baghdad
University School of Architecture, graduating in 2000, and obtained
her masters degree from the same school in 2003. Her thesis dealt with
the emergence of architectural form and formulation by drawing an
analogy between architecture and genetics. Murrani started working as
a professional architect in 2000 in Iraq. She is presently exploring
aspects of the emergence of biological/artificial systems and
perception, and the behaviour of architectural situations of in-between
representation and experience. Sana Murrani is a member of the
Planetary Collegium’s CAiiA-Hub in Plymouth, UK where she
undertook her PhD under the supervision of Roy Ascott (President of
Planetary Collegium), Mike Phillips (Director of i-DAT), and computer
scientist Steve Grand.
› The behaviour of architectural forms, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 5.3, 133-150.
› Third way architecture: Between cybernetics and phenomenology,