Dr. Anahita Rashidfarokhi, Ph.D.

Researcher in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki

Research Expertise

sustainability
resilince
futures studies
built environment & urban planning
GBI

About

Anahita’s work is focused on exploring the transformative pathways toward sustainability in the built environment, particularly through the lens of social-ecological resilience. Her approach to built environment and urban planning centers on how actors in this space—whether individuals, institutions, or communities—organise and act in response to the complex challenges posed by future crises. This organising process involves creating practical tools and frameworks that help practitioners and policymakers within the built environment adapt and evolve amidst growing uncertainties.  Although the built environment is a physical and tangible space, Anahita's work visualises how sustainability perceptions, motivations, and actions interconnect to create broader systemic change. In this way, she is painting conceptual landscapes that reveal alternative approaches to resilience and sustainability. By collaborating with both academic and non-academic partners, Anahita co-creates knowledge that bridges theory and practice, ultimately leading to innovative solutions that can be integrated into urban environments and planning processes.

Publications

Social sustainability tool for assessing land use planning processes
European Planning Studies
2018
Resilience in the built environment: Key characteristics for solutions to multiple crises
Sustainable Cities and Society
2022
SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING IN THE NORDIC REAL ESTATE COMPANIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM FINLAND
International Journal of Strategic Property Management
2018
Empowering upcoming city developers with futures literacy
Futures
2021
Looking at retail planning policy through a sustainability lens: Evidence from policy discourse in Finland
Land Use Policy
2018
Managing crises ‘together’: how can the built environment contribute to social resilience?
Building Research & Information
2023
A Mindshift Towards Futures Resilience and Anticipatory Urban Governance
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
2024
Landscape and domains of possible future threats from a societal point of view
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
2024
EVADING DANGER: THE CRISIS IMPACT FRAMEWORK FOR REAL ESTATE
International Journal of Strategic Property Management
2023
Resilience by Whom and for Whom? Empowering Local Communities for Community-led Resilience-building
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
2024
An investigation of semi-outdoor learning spaces in the tropics: Spatial settings, thermal environments and user perceptions
Indoor and Built Environment
2019
The perspective of Sustainability Reporting Phenomena in the Real Estate Markets
25th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference
2016

Education

Aalto-yliopisto Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu

Doctorate Degree - Sustainability in the Built Environment, Built Environment / February, 2019

Aalto

Aalto-yliopisto Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu

MSc Creative Sustainability - Real Estate, Built Environment / November, 2014

Espoo

Coventry University

MSc Climate and Environmental Change / May, 2011

Coventry

Coventry University

BSc Climate change / May, 2011

Coventry

Experience

Aalto-yliopisto Taiteen laitos

Postdoc researcher and Programme coordinator / March, 2023Present

University of Technology Sydney

Adjunct Fellow / January, 2021December, 2023

Aalto-yliopisto Insinööritieteiden korkeakoulu

Postdoc researcher and Project coordinator / August, 2020March, 2023

University Teacher / January, 2019August, 2020

Academic Coordinator / May, 2016December, 2018

Doctoral candidate / November, 2014December, 2018

Teacher / April, 2018July, 2018

Coventry University

Admission officer / June, 2009September, 2011

University of Helsinki

Postdoctoral Researcher / January, 2024Present

Postdoctoral researcher in EU Horizon UNPplus Project

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