Rachel Sara

Dr Professor Rachel Sara is the Oscar Naddermier Professor of Architecture. Her personal research expertise is in co-design, community participation and agency in the built environment, the way in which health and wellbeing can be affected by architecture; live project practice and pedagogy; and transdisciplinary architecture collaborations particularly between architecture and dance. She is an experienced research project lead and collaborator around community participation and co-creation, spatial agency, sustainable and restorative design and bio-materials innovation. Rachel is co-founder and editorial committee member for Charrette the journal of the association of architecture educators and has published in international journals such as Co-Design, Architectural Design (AD), ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research and Journal of Health Promotion International.