Dr Sana Murrani
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Dr Sana Murrani

Associate Professor (Spatial Practice)

School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Dr Sana Murrani can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
  • Migration
  • Displacement
  • Refugees
  • Asylum seeker housing
  • Post-war and post-conflict spatial practice
  • Spatial justice
  • Participatory co-design and architecture
  • Urban and city marginalisation and ghettoisation
Biography

Biography

Sana Murrani is an Associate Professor in Spatial Practice with a background in Architecture and Urban Design. She is the Arts/Health Research Lead at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Qualifications

PhD Architecture
MSc Architecture and Urban Studies
BSc (Hons) Architecture
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy [FHEA]
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice.

Roles on external bodies

Commissioning Panel for the Local Policy Innovation Partnerships (LPIPs) – a collaboration between ESRC, AHRC and Innovate UK (UKRI) - 2023
ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund Peer Review College Member
External Examiner for MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD), The Bartlett, Development and Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL) (2021-2025). 
Member of the Board of Trustees for the Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS). 
Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

I lead the Master of Architecture Dissertation and co-teach Design Studio for the Master of Architecture programme. My teaching is research informed. I utilise experimentation in Architecture and Urban Design through the exploration of different tools of representation and mapping technologies. I focus on the design process and the creation of narratives through people's lived experiences through the process of co-design, communication as well as representation (storytelling and mapping narratives, memories and experiences). I emphasise on the integration of theory and practice in my teaching across the Masters and into the PhD.
I lead the Doctoral Research Training programme across the across all Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE) disciplines within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. 

Staff serving as external examiners

External examiner for MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) at The Bartlett, Development Planning Unit (DPU), UCL. 
April 2020: External examination for a PhD at Bartlett School of architecture, UCL.
I welcome research projects to supervise at PhD and Post-Doc levels that focus on the spatial practice of displacement, migration, and diaspora studies. This can be approached from an architectural, urban or anthropological point of view. I would specifically be interested in projects that utilise participatory action research and mapping (GIS and/or cognitive) methodologies. 
Research

Research

Research interests

Sana Murrani is an Associate Professor in Spatial Practice with a background in Architecture and Urban Design. She is the Arts/Health Research Lead at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of Plymouth, UK. Sana’s main research falls within the field of architecture in particular, the imaginative negotiations of spatial practices and social justice. She focuses on highlighting the impact of transient conditions of war, conflict, and displacement on people's creative spatial responses to sudden changes in their built environment and the making (or re-making) of the concept of home and collective imaginary housing for the future.
Sana's research methods are embedded in participatory action research approaches and creative mapping techniques that rely on spatial thinking, memory mapping, and speculative and imaginative drawing and layering.
She studied architecture at Baghdad University School of Architecture at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Sana completed her PhD in the UK on the theoretical encounters and the critique of architectural representation and material culture under the influence of technology. She is an alumna of the International School in Forced Migration (cohort 2021) at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Sana is also the founder of the Displacement Studies Research Network and co-founder of the Justice and Imagination in Global Displacement research collective, working at the intersection between displacement, design, imagination and justice to research, share, and enhance the impact and power of the creative agencies of displaced peoples, their identity, memory and the spaces and places they create and inhabit. She is the principal investigator for Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home, as Heritage funded by the European Cultural Foundation. The project is in partnership with British Red Cross, and is based on co-produced creative research with refugees and asylum seekers in the Southwest of England. She recently completed a collaborative research project with Dr Rachael Kiddey from the University of Oxford, mapping the material culture of displacement with a group of Refugees in the UK, Sweden and Greece. Sana is the co-investigator for Forced to Flee project funded (2022-2025) by the NIHR. She is currently writing a monograph contracted by Bloomsbury to be published in 2024 titled: Ruptured Architecture: spatial practices of refuge in response to war and violence in Iraq. Alongside the book, she has secured funding as PI for the fieldwork part with the British Institute for the Study of Iraq on a project titled: Ruptured Domesticity: A visual narrative of domestic responses to war in Iraq. Exhibition of the maps and visuals produced as part of this project have been exhibited at the LSE Middle East Centre between 3rd of April and 12th of May and appear online as an archive.
Sana is an Advising Editor for Leonardo Reviews: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, a guest reviewer for Routledge Architecture section and a member of the ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund Peer Review College. Sana is on the Advisory Board for an Office for Student (OfS) funded project called Generation Delta (2022-2026) nurturing the future of female BAME professors. She is an advisor for the Global Doctoral Program in Spatial Arts, part of the O. P. Jindal Global University, Delhi - India. 

Research groups

Other research

Founder of Displacement Studies Research Network.Co-founder of Justice and Imagination in Global Displacement.
Alumna of theInternational School in Forced Migration (2021 cohort),at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
Collaborator with i-DAT, University of Plymouth.
Collaborator with Transtechnology research group, University of Plymouth.
Member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA).
Member of the Planetary Collegium research group, University of Plymouth. 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

PGR supervision:

The informal settlement named Gangare: a space of refuge, extraction or infringement? By Olasumbo Olaniyi, Fully-funded Faculty Studentship in Architecture [expected completion October 2026 – DoS].
Making a new world: Evaluating colonial thinking in reference to displacement of refugees, how curatorial methodologies can support spatial justice by Merrydith Russell, DTA candidate in Architecture [expected completion October 2026 - DoS].
Revival Strategies in Architecture to Achieve Sustainability in Mosul Post ISIS by Raad Sultan [expected completion October 2024 - 2nd].
Post Social Realism Art Practice by Cameron Williamson [expected completion October 2024 - 2nd].
The Quotidian Future: Contemporary Art from Artistic and De-colonial Curatorial Perspectives by Flounder Lee [expected completion October 2023 - 2nd].
Re-Imagine Your Town: Co created archives of community urban visions by Becalelis Brodskis, 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training [expected completion October 2023 - 2nd].


PGR completions:


Integrating transnationalism into a transmedia practice by Cândida Luiza Borges da Silva [Completion February 2023].
Radical Rivers: Blue Spaces for the 21st Century by Sally Sutton [Completed December 2021].
Play Dynamics: participatory/ dynamic architecture as an instrument for social activism by Alejandro Quinteros, Planetary Collegium [Completed November 2021].
Arhitectura 1950 – 1989. Interstitial Spaces of Communist Romanian Architecture by Ioana Popovici [completed March 2019].
In and out of memory: exploring the tension between remembering and forgetting when recalling 9/11, a traumatic event by Anna Walker [completed PhD December 2017].
Post-structural and Post Colonial Critique of Utopian Ideas by Richard Bower [completed PhD January 2015].
Participatory Design in Spatial Practice by Alex Lorimer [completed ResM March 2016].


MRes completions:


A Play between Interactive Architecture, Social Space and Participation by Chrysa Petrou [completed MRes August 2013].
The Use of Technology and the Representation of Contemporary Architecture by Jessica Westmacott [completed MRes August 2011].


PhD chairing and internal examinations:


A revolution within: Islamic tradition and feminist innovation in contemporary Kuwait painting by Shaikha Almehana [PhD in Art and Media, July 2022]. Internal examination. 
Visual Anthropological Methods in Earthquake Risk Communication: A Transdisciplinary Approach by Johanna Ickert [PhD Earth and Environmental Sciences, June 2021]. Chairing examination. 
Saltram House: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Country Estate by Katherine Norley [ ResM Art History, September 2020]. Charing examination.
Ideas Exchange: Design and the post bio-tech-body by Agatha Haines [PhD Transtechnology Research, July 2020]. Charing examination.
Creative Caprice: Intrinsic Interest; States of Consciousness; Emotion & Practice-led Phenomenological Inquiry by Steven Evans [PhD Art and Media, July 2020]. Chairing examination.
Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict by Diane Derr [PhD Art and Media, June 2020]. Internal examination.
Analysis of the Ludic Dream State through Artistic Practice: A Technoetic Approach by Pamela Payne [PhD Art and Media, June 2020]. Charing examination.
Vibrating Existence: Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity by Guy Edmonds [PhD Transtechnology Research, May 2020]. Charing examination.
Doppelkopf Neuroarchitecture. A Wicked Threshold Space by Fiona Zisch [PhD Architectural Design, UCL, April 2020]. External examination.
The Liminal Event and Its Symbols: On the Interaction of Human and Technology by Blanka Domaglski [PhD Art and Media, January 2020]. Internal examination.
Space-Time Aesthetics in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotic Analysis by Claudia Ferreira Jacques de Moraes Cardoso [PhD Art and Media, July 2018]. Internal examination.
University must be safe: Genealogy as a knowledge approach by Patrizia Moschella [PhD Art and Media, June 2018]. Chairing examination.
Post African Futures: Decoloniality and Actional Methodologies in Art and Cultural Practices in African Cultures of Technology by Tegan Bristow [PhD Art and Media, December 2017]. Chairing examination.
The (Not so) Intelligent House: User Perception in an Interactive Architectural Environment by Alexander Ćetković [PhD Art & Media, September 2017]. Internal examination.
In Search Of The Domonovus: Speculative Designs For The Computationally-Enhanced Domestic Environment by Stavros Didakis [PhD Art & Media, August 2016]. Chairing examination.
Theroia: The Veneration of Icons via the Technoetic Process by Katerina Karoussos [PhD Art & Media, June 2016]. Internal examination.
Museum and Technology: aspects of multimediality and multimodality in the cultural assets field by Simona Caraceni, Plymouth University [PhD Art & Media, September 2014]. Internal examination.

Grants & contracts

Principal Investigator and Fellow for Ruptured Atlas: Creative Mapping of Yazidi Odyssey of Home, Displacement, Migration and Return. Funded through the AHRC Impact Fellowship. A project in partnership with IOM Iraq, the LSE Middle East Centre, Yazda Foundation and Sinjar Academy. Grant award: £20K, 2023-2024.
Principal Investigator for Innovative deep mapping approach to trauma ridden place-making. Funded through the AHRC Impact Accelerator Account. A project with LSE Middle East Centre – April to December 2023. Grant award: £5.290, 2023.
Principal Investigator for Ruptured Domesticity: A visual narrative of domestic responses to war in Iraq(2022-2023). Funded by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and LSE Middle East Centre. Grant award £4K (BISI), £3.5K (LSE) and £3K (UoP), 2022-2023. The research project forms part of the fieldwork for a monograph contracted to be published by Bloomsbury in 2024 titled: Rupturing architecture: spatial practices of refuge in response to war and violence in Iraq.Outputs: BISI funded: Online archive of drawings and maps (from fieldwork) in March 2023; LSE funded: Exhibition and Public talk in London in April 2023; Bloomsbury: A Research Monograph of 90K words out in April 2024. https://ruptureddomesticity.org/
Co-Investigator for Forced to Flee: Co-designing a peer-led community approach to support the mental health of refugees (also known as Roots to Wellness), (2022-2024) funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, in partnership with Universities of Exeter, East London and King’s College London and the following charities: Livewell Southwest, Colebrook SW, Students and Refugees Together (START), and Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS). Together we will look at Experience Based Co-Design (EBCD) as a main method of storytelling in research with people with lived experiences to help support mental health provision for refugees in the UK. Grant award: £750K.
Advisory Board member for Generation Delta (2022-2026) nurturing the future of female BAME professors, project funded by the Office for Students (OfS), UK. Grant award £800K.
Principal Investigator for Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home, as Heritage funded by the European Cultural Foundation, Courageous Citizens 2018. The project is in partnership with British Red Cross, Plymouth – Devon. Grant award: €10K, August 2018-October 2019. https://mappingcreativerecovery.org/
Internal research funding from UoP up to the value of £40K between 2016-2021.
Internal UoP Research Funding - R1 process (2018-2023): £15.5K

Creative practice & artistic projects

Conferences, workshops and invited talks

August 2023 - Invited panellist at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference, 31st of August, London at the main RGS building, Home and migration: a conversation across geographies of place-making. Talk: Mapmaking as Homing. 
June 2023 - Invited speaker at the Make Maps, Not War: Cartography on the frontline series organised by the Livingmaps Network, 21st of June, Pushkin House, London. Talk: Seeking Refuge in the Folds of Maps.
June 2023 - Invited speaker and convener at the Generation Delta workshops (OfS funding), University of Plymouth, 27th and 29th of June. Talk: From Gen X to Gen Delta, with Love. 
April 2023 - Ruptured Domesticity Exhibition launch, hosted and funded by the LSE Middle East Centre and accompanied by a Public Talk on the opening night of the exhibition, 3rd of April to 12th of May 2023. Recorded talk on the Sound Cloud.
June 2022 - Invited Panelist for the Eastside Projects Birmingham Conversation on Vulnerable Futures with Rajni Perera.
November 2021 - Invited Keynote part of the Eila Campbell lecture series at the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London. Title: Home and memory in forced displacement: spatial ruptures in the folds of maps.
May 2021 - Invited Speaker at Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, Border Criminologies, Conference title: Landscapes of Border Control and Immigration Detention in Europe. Talk: Mapping home in displacement after detention.
November 2020 - Speaker at Housing and the City at Nottingham University, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) in collaboration with Routledge. Title of talk: “I map, therefore, I am”: Deep mapping and making home in displacement.
October 2020 - Invited speaker at Contemporary and Historic Archaeology in Theory Festival CHAT20. Made in Migrationcollaborative.
March 2020 - Invited speaker at Human Rights Festival, Oxford Brookes University (theme of resilience).
November 2019 - Invited speaker (and selected funded project) at the European Foundations Centre for Arts and Culture in their annual event, theme for this year is: “Cultural Welfare: what role arts play in the health and wellbeing of citizens?”which will take place in Turin, Italy on 21-22 November 2019.
November 2019 - Invited speaker at the Global Health Café, University of Plymouth.
October 2019 - Invited speaker at Oxford Brookes in the School of Architecture’s Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP).
October 2019 - Speaker at Bitesize Talks, the Arts Institute, Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon A Painted Ocean, The Levinsky Gallery.
June 2018 - Invited speaker at the Sustainable Earth Institute Annual Conference, talk title: Displacement, Disaster and Destruction, University of Plymouth – UK, 28th – 29th June 2018.
June 2018 - Co-organiser and chair of Q&A for The Shroud Maker, a performance for Refugee Week 2018, play by Ahmed Masoud. Plymouth Barbican Theatre.
March 2018 - Speaker at the UK Alliance for Disaster Research Annual Conference, talk title: Displacement and emplacement of spatial heritage, hosted by the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol – UK, 27-28 March 2018.
January 2018 - Director of the Displacement Studies Research Network, launch event symposium: Human and Urban Displacement: From Crises to Creativity, title of talk: Rudimentary design, architecture, and urban integration: Getting out of context and moving from ‘for’ to ‘with’ the displaced, at the University of Plymouth’s Research Festival 2018, hosted by the Arts Institute, the Responsible Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Research Group within the Institute for Social, Political and Enterprise Research (iSPER), the Sustainable Earth Institute, and Research and Innovation. University of Plymouth – UK, 25-26 January 2018.
September 2017 - Co-Director and Chair of the DRHA 2017: Data Ache, The 21st International Conference on Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts, hosted by the Arts Institute, University of Plymouth – UK 10-13 September 2017.
August 2017 - Speaker at the Off the Lip 2017: Cognitive Innovation Conference, led by CogNovo, University of Plymouth – UK 16-18 August 2017.
June 2015 - 12th AHRA Research Student Symposium, Syncretic Architectures: new approaches between theory & practice, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of Plymouth, Plymouth - UK 11-13 June 2015. Symposium chair, member of the internal reviewing panel, main organiser and mentor for PhD students.
December 2014 - COGTALK: An evening of talks organised for the Cognition Institute on the social and cultural construct of Architecture. An evening with artist Tim Knowles, academic and architect Dr. Sana Murrani and Dr. Mathew Emmett.
September 2011 - Panel discussion at ISEA2011 Istanbul: The Volatility and Stability of World Making as Téchne, Inter Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA2011) conference in Istanbul, September 14th-21st 2011. Workshop panelist.
Publications

Publications

Journals
Murrani, S. 2023. Mapping the Unseen: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge through Participatory Mapping to Address Displacement and Housing Challenges in Post Invasion Iraq. LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series, 78. LSE Middle East Centre, London, UK. 
Murrani, S. Lloyd, H. and Popovici, I. 2022. Mapping Home, Memory and Spatial Recovery in Forced Displacement. Journal of Social and Cultural Geography. Online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055777
Murrani, S. 2020. 'Review of Refugia: Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement', Journal of Refugee Studies, feaa077, Online: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa077

Murrani, S. 2019. ‘Contingency and Plasticity: The Dialectical Re-construction of the Concept of Home in Displacement’. Journal of Culture and Psychology. Online.

Murrani, S. 2016. ‘Baghdad’s thirdspace: between liminality, anti-structures and territorial mappings’. The Journal of Cultural Dynamics, 28 (2), pp. 189-220.

Murrani, S. 2012. The Socio-Temporary in Architecture: Territories of Second-Order Cybernetics. The International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies2 (1), 44-56.

Murrani, S. 2011. Third Way Architecture: Between Cybernetics and Phenomenology. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research8 (3), 267-281.



Books
Murrani, S. (forthcoming 2024). Ruptured Architecture: Spatial Practices of War and Protection in Iraq 2003-2020. Bloomsbury. Hosale, MD., Murrani, S. and de Campo, A. 2018. ‘Introduction from the Editors’ to Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, and Music. Cambridge, Ontario: Riverside Architectural Press, pp. iv-xxvi. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Worldmaking-As-Techné-Participatory-Architecture/dp/1988366097

Chapters
Murrani, S. 2019. ‘Urban creativity through displacement and spatial disruption’. In: Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society, Leary-Owhin, M. and McCarthy, J. (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 402-410.

Murrani, S. 2018. ‘Estranged Space Appropriated’, In: Hosale, MD., Murrani, S., and de Campo, A., Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, and Music. Cambridge, Ontario: Riverside Architectural Press, pp. 296-319.

Murrani, S. 2009. Instability and Incompleteness in Architecture. In: ASCOTT, R., BAST, G., FIEL, W., JAHRMANN, M. & amp; SCHNELL, R. (eds.) New Realities: Being Syncretic. Wien: Springer. 202-206.


Conference Papers
August 2023 Invited panellist at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference, 31st of August, London at the main RGS building, Home and migration: a conversation across geographies of place-making. Talk: Mapmaking as Homing.  

June 2023 Invited speaker at the Make Maps, Not War: Cartography on the frontline series organised by the Livingmaps Network, 21st of June, Pushkin House, London. Talk: Seeking Refuge in the Folds of Maps.

June 2023 Invited speaker and convener at the Generation Delta workshops (OfS funding), University of Plymouth, 27th and 29th of June. Talk: From Gen X to Gen Delta, with Love.  

April 2023 Ruptured Domesticity Exhibition launch, hosted and funded by the LSE Middle East Centre and accompanied by a Public Talk on the opening night of the exhibition, 3rd of April to 12th of May 2023.

June 2022 Invited Panelist for the Eastside Projects Birmingham Conversation on Vulnerable Futures with Rajni Perera.

November 2021 Invited Keynote part of the Eila Campbell lecture series at the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London.

May 2021 Invited Speaker at Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, Border Criminologies, Conference title: Immigration Detention in Italy and Greece: Safeguarding Human Rights at Europe’s Southern Frontier. Talk: Mapping home in displacement after detention.

November 2020 Speaker at Housing and the City at Nottingham University, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) in collaboration with Routledge. Title of talk: “I map, therefore, I am”: Deep mapping and making home in displacement.

October 2020 Invited speaker at Contemporary and Historic Archaeology in Theory Festival CHAT20. Made in Migration collaborative.

March 2020 Invited speaker at Human Rights Festival, Oxford Brookes University (theme of resilience).

November 2019 Invited speaker (and selected funded project) at the European Foundations Centre for Arts and Culture in their annual event, theme for this year is: “Cultural Welfare: what role arts play in the health and wellbeing of citizens?” which will take place in Turin, Italy on 21-22 November 2019.

November 2019 Invited speaker at the Global Health Café, University of Plymouth.

October 2019 Invited speaker at Oxford Brookes in the School of Architecture’s Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP).

October 2019 Speaker at Bitesize Talks, the Arts Institute, Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon A Painted Ocean, The Levinsky Gallery.

June 2018 Invited speaker at the Sustainable Earth Institute Annual Conference, talk title: Displacement, Disaster and Destruction, University of Plymouth – UK, 28th – 29th June 2018.

June 2018 Co-organiser and chair of Q&A for The Shroud Maker, a performance for Refugee Week 2018, play by Ahmed Masoud. Plymouth Barbican Theatre.

March 2018 Speaker at the UK Alliance for Disaster Research Annual Conference, talk title: Displacement and emplacement of spatial heritage, hosted by the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol – UK, 27-28 March 2018.

January 2018 Director of the Displacement Studies Research Network, launch event symposium: Human and Urban Displacement: From Crises to Creativity, title of talk: Rudimentary design, architecture, and urban integration: Getting out of context and moving from ‘for’ to ‘with’ the displaced, at the University of Plymouth’s Research Festival 2018, hosted by the Arts Institute, the Responsible Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Research Group within the Institute for Social, Political and Enterprise Research (iSPER), the Sustainable Earth Institute, and Research and Innovation. University of Plymouth – UK, 25-26 January 2018.

September 2017 Co-Director and Chair of the DRHA 2017: Data Ache, The 21st International Conference on Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts, hosted by the Arts Institute, University of Plymouth – UK 10-13 September 2017.

August 2017 Speaker at the Off the Lip 2017: Cognitive Innovation Conference, led by CogNovo, University of Plymouth – UK 16-18 August 2017.

June 2015 12th AHRA Research Student Symposium, Syncretic Architectures: new approaches between theory & practice, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of Plymouth, Plymouth - UK 11-13 June 2015. Symposium chair, member of the internal reviewing panel, main organiser and mentor for PhD students.

Murrani, S. 2014. To Cognise a Liminal Reality: on constructing a spatial and social assemblage of peripheral sites and situations in England. In: Architecture and Writing: ARCHTHEO ’14 / Theory of Architecture Conference Proceeding Book, 6th-8th of November 2014, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. DAKAM: Istanbul, 217-226.

Murrani, S & EMMETT, M. 2011. Overlaid Realities. In: Cabinet: Changing Perceptions Catalogue, University of Plymouth Press, UK. 16-17 & 26-27.

Murrani, S. 2010. Architecture of Generative Situations. In: 13th Generative Art Conference. Milan – Italy, Domus Argenia Publisher.Murrani, S. 2005. Re-thinking Architectural Form: The Emergence of Self-organized Architectural Form. In: Altered States Conference: Transformations of Perception, Place and PerformancePlymouth – UK. Liquid Reader.


Compositions
Murrani, S. 2016. The Right to a Parking Space: The Spatial State of Marginality, blogpost for the Arts Institute.
Murrani, S. 2011. Unstable Territories of Representation: Architectural Experience and the Behaviour of Forms, Spaces and the Collective Dynamic Environment (PhD thesis abstract). LEA – LABS: Leonardo ABstracts Service, UK. Leonardo Online: Unstable Territories of Representation.

Exhibitions
April-May 2023 Ruptured Domesticity: mapping spaces of refuge in Iraq, LSE Middle East Centre, London: https://ruptureddomesticity.org/the-exhibition/ 

June 2019 Refugees mapping memories: an exhibition of creative recovery, Refugee Week, Plymouth KARST/Under: https://mappingcreativerecovery.org/2019/06/21/exhibition-catalogue/April-May 2023 Ruptured Domesticity: mapping spaces of refuge in Iraq, LSE Middle East Centre, London: https://ruptureddomesticity.org/the-exhibition/


Other Publications
Media appearances:
May 2023, Sana Murrani's intimate archive 'Ruptured Domesticity' maps memories of Iraqi refuge, interview in the New Arab: https://www.newarab.com/features/ruptured-domesticity-maps-intimate-memories-iraqi-refuge?amp 
March 2023, Iraq 20 years on: Researchers assess how US invasion shapes lives today – podcast for The Conversation (focused on my project Ruptured Domesticity)
March 2023, interview with PBS Newshour on: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion (focused on my project Ruptured Domesticity)
June 2019, BBC Southwest Spotlight with Arts correspondent, speaking about Refugees mapping memories: an exhibition of creative recovery, Refugee Week, Plymouth KARST/Under: https://mappingcreativerecovery.org/2019/06/21/exhibition-catalogue/ 
June 2019, Plymouth Radio Station, speaking about Refugees mapping memories: an exhibition of creative recovery, Refugee Week, Plymouth KARST/Under: https://mappingcreativerecovery.org/2019/06/21/exhibition-catalogue/
August 2018, BBC Radio Devon breakfast hour, speaking about Creative Recovery project:  https://mappingcreativerecovery.org/
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