The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape welcomes Nour Necib, an architect who joins the Chair as a Master’s student in planning (City, Territory and Landscape option) at Université de Montréal.
Her background has led her to take an interest in urban transformations and in digital tools applied to the city. She is particularly interested in new forms of citizen participation and in the possibilities digital tools offer to better understand, represent and co-design urban territories.
Her research explores the potential of a participatory digital twin at the neighbourhood scale as a space for representing, discussing and co-designing the territory. It asks how a neighbourhood can move from a territory that is simply represented to one that can be collectively explored, discussed and co-designed through digital tools, and how such tools can support dialogue between residents, local stakeholders and planning professionals in the Montreal context.
“Discovering the Montreal context, with its diversity of neighbourhoods, landscapes and urban practices, is an opportunity for me to broaden my perspective on contemporary planning issues and on the different ways of thinking about and making the city,” says Nour.
We wish her a warm welcome and look forward to following her work at the Chair.
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