Suzanne Ewing holds a Personal Chair of Architectural Criticism at the University of Edinburgh. She is an established leader in the field of architectural education and design culture and has much granular experience from over 20 years of teaching and research in Architecture programmes across a range of European Higher Education institutions. For the past 10 years, she has been co-editor in chief of Architecture and Culture, the international award-winning Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association. Material and spatial alteration, practices of critical imagination, and approaches to timely, tactical urbanisms, are recurring themes of the design studios she leads. Publications include Architecture and Field/Work (Routledge, 2010), Spaces of Tolerance (Routledge, 2021) and Visual Research Methods in Architecture (Intellect, University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Having entered academia from professional practice, Suzanne sees the interchanges to and from curriculum content and orientation, external design activity, diversity in networks, and collaborative partnerships in the (built) environment more broadly, as essential to a thriving and relevant architectural education oriented towards transformative practice. Much of her research, project work and public engagement aim to advocate and influence as much as to inform and add insight. Since 2015 she has contributed to augmenting knowledge of women’s contribution to architecture and the built environment in Scotland, through the collaborative Voices of Experience project. She was awarded RSE funding in 2021 to establish an interdisciplinary research network, Women Make Cities [https://www.ed.ac.uk/women-make-cities]. ‘Assembling: Women and the Built Environment’ is the most recent Voices of Experience public event, staged in the Fruitmarket Gallery as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival. [https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/assembly-women-and-the-built-environment/]
