Katharine Willis

Associate Professor
Art, Design and Architecture
Plymouth University
United Kingdom

Professor Engineering
Biography

My work is concerned with exploring the many ways through which we perceive and interact with our spatial environment. A key aim of the work is to propose approaches for creating legible environments when urban space is experienced through new technologies. I take an interdiscplinary approach to my work and undertake research, teaching and projects.

Research Intrest

Research Projects PI - 2016-2018 AHRC International Research Network: Whose Right to the Smart City? AH/N004264/1 Value £35,276K The network examines how and why cities and people are shaping technologies to suit their needs and the role of civic inclusiveness in this process, and draws on knowledge and perspectives from marginalised city contexts at a range of geographical levels including UK, Brazil and India. It involves academics working at the boundary between the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, urban studies and ubiquitous computing and comprises partners from Plymouth University (UK), University College London (UK), Universidade Federale de Minais Gerais (Brazil) and Transparent Chennai (India). The AHRC Network will run through four meetings hosted by the network partners in India, Brazil and UK in 2016 and 2017.

List of Publications
Melagaco, L., Willis, K (2015 in press). Mobilizing change in marginalised communities: ICTs and technical agency. Foth, M., Brynskov, M., Ojala, T. Citizen’s Right to the Digital City. Springer.
Willis, K (2016). Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World, Ashgate Press, Abingdon/ Routledge
Willis, K, Aurigi, A (2017 in progress). Digital and Smart Cities. Oxford: Routledge

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