Taraneh Meshkani

Taraneh Meshkani is an architect, urbanist, and educator. She is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Design, a doctoral fellow at the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment at Harvard, and an editor of the New Geographies journal. Her research examines the linkage of new information and communication technologies and their spatialities to the social and political processes of contemporary societies. She is currently writing her dissertation on the impact of social media on physical urban spaces as the issue relates to recent socio-political movements. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Meshkani has worked in different architectural firms, including Morphosis Architects, organized many conferences and exhibitions, and taught as an instructor and a teaching fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work has been published and presented in Canadian Architect Magazine, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, MediaCities, and ACADIA, among other publications.