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RESEARCH

green DnA has a strong interest and has been involved in projects supporting humanitarian, development and environmental research in collaboration with academic institutions and non-governmental organisations. We have developed in-depth understanding of impacts of climate change on people, and humanitarian, development and conflict scenarios, and vice versa, impacts of developmental and humanitarian projects on the environment. We are also interested in understanding impacts of architecture and the built environment on people and their surrounding natural environment. 

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green DnA excels in project management, desktop and field-based research, interviews, focus group discussions, data collection and analysis, creating and launching on-line surveys, outreach and social media engagement activities, maintaining databases, and report writing. We extensively use quantitative, qualitative, visual and digital ethnography methodologies, and support and promote participatory research methods. We are experts in developing visual research methodologies and data visualisation through narratives, illustration, graphics and photography to better understand influences, impacts and interventions.

Research Projects

  • Understanding the global impact of past wars and ongoing conflicts on the natural environment, people and climate change (0ngoing)

  • Social and environmental frameworks for shelter in flux in conflict scenarios (CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University, ongoing)

  • Precarious housing and impacts on young adults in the U.K. (Oxford Brookes University, 2019)

  • Illustration of research data, findings and results for World Bank funded research on ‘Informal protection systems in the Central African Republic’ with Caritas Centrafrique (2019)

  • Understanding links between sanitation and sexual violence against women, East Africa (Habitat for Humanity GB, 2018)

  • Designing illustrative reporting cue cards for local NGO staff of Caritas Centrafrique in Central African Republic (2018)

  • Understanding the role of murals in conflict, occupation & forced displacement: Arterial Walls of West Bank (MA DEP dissertation, CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University, 2017)

  • Development of in-house integrated Shelter & WASH Environmental Risk Register and mitigation planning tool aimed to provide rapid overview of the environmental risks and concerns existing on-site (Catholic Relief Services, Shelter & Settlement Team, 2017)

  • The Ark: Oil tanker to Eco-Community - Sustainable Construction Team's research team member and illustrator to design an off-the-grid, self-sufficient community from decommissioned oil tankers (Scott Wilson (now AECOM), 2007)

  • Design for a Transitional Post Disaster Shelter (MA EE Dissertation, Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, 2004)

  • Adaptive Skins and Microclimates – Adaptable Skin for the Human Body (MA EE - Term 1&2 Team Work, Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, 2004)

  • Human Body and its Psychological Responses (MA EE - Term 1 Paper, Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London, 2004)

  • Design of a residential school for children with disabilities, Mangalore, India (B.Arch, S.P.S.M.B.H's College of Architecture, Kolhapur, 1999)

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