Yasmine Abbas
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Chair of Design Management
French Certified Architect.
Education
DPLG (1997), ENSAParis-Val de Marne; Master of Science in Architecture Studies SMArchS (2001), Massachusetts Institut of Technology; DDes, Doctor of Design (2006), Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Teaching/Research
Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris France; ENSA Paris – La Villette; University of Geneva, Switzerland; Zayed University, UAE.
Professional Experience/Clients
Steelcase, France; Masdar City, UAE; ReD Associates, Danmark; Moshe Safdie & Associates, USA; Gulf Commercial Group, Interiors, UAE.
Publications
Le néo-nomadisme: Mobilités. Partage. Transformations identitaires et urbaines (FYP, 2011); Co-editor with Fred Dervin (Eds.) Digital Technologies of the Self (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Awards
Received Rockefeller Centennial Innovation Award for AMP Project in Ghana.
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