Dr Mina Tahsiri

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Dr Tahsiri has a broad interest in how people interact with their surrounding environment, be it with other people, their tools or the built environment, in order to propose design strategies that can realise effective and meaningful human-environment interactions. She obtained a PhD in Architecture with a focus on design cognition from the University of Nottingham. Grounded in the theory of Distributed Cognition, this research examined designer-tool interactions and their influence on the decision-making processes during architectural conceptualisation. Upon this, she joined the Imagine-D team at the University of Strathclyde, where she was involved in an EPSRC-funded project investigating the neural and cognitive basis of design ideation. Her most current research investigates human interactions within post-digital and hybrid spaces. This research funded by the UWE Vice-Chancellor Early Career Research grant explores architectural strategies for the design of next-generation workplaces suitable for hybrid collaborative work.