Majd Al-Shihabi

PhD Student, (he/him/هو)
majd.al@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Environment & Climate
  • GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
  • Policy & Planning
  • Social & Political Geography

Areas of Interest

Agent-based modelling, participatory methods, urban sustainability, housing.

Working Dissertation

Title

Grounding models: co-creating agent-based models to understand TransformTO goals

Supervisors

Heather Dorries
John B Robinson

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

Cohort

  • 2020-2021