Dr Jhono Bennett

Room 4.35, Centlivres Building, Upper Campus

Qualification:

• PhD, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (2024)

• PGCTLHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education), University of Cambridge

• MArchProf, University of Pretoria (2011)

• BAS, University of KwaZulu-Natal (2007)

Professional Affiliations:

• Co-founder and former Director, 1to1 – Agency of Engagement

• Technical Affiliate, Architecture Sans Frontières UK

• PrArch (Professional Architect), The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP)

Undergraduate teaching:

Post Graduate teaching:

• APG4049S (Aspects of History & Theory I)

• APG4043S (Honours Design Studio II)

• APG8000W Doctor of Philosophy: Thesis (Architecture & Planning)

Research Affiliations:

• Centre for Urbanisation & Peripheralization (CUSP), TUM – collaborator

• Research Associate, Urban Lab (University College London)

• 1to1 – Agency of Engagement – socio-technical and participatory research collaborator

• Partner on IJURR-funded Co-Writing Southern Architectural Repair & Maintenance project

Publication Profile:

• Google Scholar

• ORCID

• Website

Research Interests:

• Reparative and relational design methodologies

• Housing justice and informally occupied buildings in Johannesburg

• Urban maintenance, community repair, and socio-technical infrastructures

• Decolonial and Southern approaches to architectural pedagogy

• Climate justice, coastal ecologies, and urban adaptation

• Doctoral methodology in Southern urban research contexts