Niloufar Tajeri

Niloufar Tajeri is an architect, researcher and activist based in Berlin. She teaches at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture and City (GTAS) at the Technical University Braunschweig. Her PhD thesis is concerned with structural racism permeating planning processes and architectural practice. Focusing on a planned large-scale project in Berlin-Neukölln she is particularly interested in how societal discourse and normative architectural practice inform and reproduce spatial injustice. As a research fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2015/16) she looked into urban uprisings and memory conflicts in relation to neoliberal urban development. Her exhibition “Thinking a Monument to (Sub)Urban Riots” was first shown at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and travelled to Ljubljana and Goricia. She co-edited the volumes “Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound” (New York, 2021), “Small Interventions. New Ways of Living in Post-War Modernism” (Basel, 2016) and “Kabul: Secure City, Public City” (Volume Magazine, 2008).