Majd Al-Shihabi
First Name:
Majd
Last Name:
Al-Shihabi
Email :
majd.al@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Student, (he/him/هو)
Biography :
Majd Al-Shihabi is a technologist and urban planner, interested in using participatory methods for exploring policy pathways for climate action. He uses participatory modelling to build agent-based simulations.
Publications
Infrastructure and the maintenance of the commons 2022 ([society + space](https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/broken-world-thinking-and-maint...))
Open data against erasure (ARABORAMA, forthcoming)
Sidewalks of Beirut, 2022 ([The Derivative](https://thederivative.org/sidewalks-of-beirut-2/))
Which Digital Instruments for the Revolution? 2019 ([funambulist](https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/27-learning-with-palestine/which-dig...))
Education:
MUP, Masters of Urban Planning and Policy, American University of Beirut
BASc, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo
Personal Website:
https://majdal.cc
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
Agent-based modelling, participatory methods, urban sustainability, housing.
Program:
Cohort:
Dissertation Title:
Grounding models: co-creating agent-based models to understand TransformTO goals
Dissertation Supervisors:
Heather Dorries
John B Robinson
Other Website:
Mastodon:
https://indieweb.social/@majdal
