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Dr. Josephine Malonza is an enthusiastic and curious architect and urban designer keen on the dialectical relations between Architecture, urban design and Society. The empathic engagement with communities, through participatory processes, makes her particularly passionate about quality of life in urban areas. She is involved in international and transdisciplinary research projects crosscutting Architecture, urbanism, education and gender. Engagement with action-oriented research and multi-stakeholder engagement has seen her work widely published. She is a mentor to women in STEM in the East Africa Community (EAC) region.
She is the founding dean (current acting Dean), of the School of Architecture and Built Environment (SABE), College of Science and Technology (CST) in the University of Rwanda (UR), where she has been substantially involved in teaching, research and community engagement for the last fourteen years. She teaches courses in Architectural design iii&iv (year 3 studio), Human Settlements and Urban Anthropology.
Josephine holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Nairobi (2018), MSc in Human settlements from KU-Leuven (2012) and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Nairobi (2005). Her doctoral research focused on public space under the research topic: ‘Bringing life into Urban Public Open Space: lessons from the Rwandese akarubanda concept’.
Contacts: josemwongeli.malonza@gmail.com Office: SABE Building, Area 5 Room14.