Ali Mozaffari
Resume
Ali Mozaffari obtained his MArch (Master of Architecture) from Tehran University’s Faculty of the Fine Arts and his PhD (2010) from the University of Western Australia specifically. Ali’s research is across a number of disciplines and utilizes methodologies from the disciplines of anthropology, heritage studies and museology, architecture and visual studies. Ali has conducted extensive research on the development of collective identity and its relationships with processes of place making (Inscription) and their official representations in Iran.
Ali’s current and developing research interests include: the anthropology of place, Traditionalism and Islamism in ideology and place, ambiguity in ritual and place, urban aesthetics, Illuminationism (a philosophical school) and the Islamic city, contested world heritage sites, museums and war memorials.
Ali is also an accomplished designer with over a decade and a half experience in architecture and design.