The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Zoe's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Zoe
Biography
Dr Zoe Latham is lecturer and researcher with a background in architectural practice. Her recently completed PhD argues for a re-conceptualisation and extension of place theory within architectural praxis, examining the alignment between place and ritual theory as a way to better understand phenomenon that inform a greater connectivity between embodied, situated and meaningful experiences with the environment. These theoretical ideas are advanced through various forms of situated and narratological praxes such as autoethnography, storytelling, cognitive mapping and film.Ìý
Preceding her return to academia, Zoe worked as an architectural designer in New York, concentrating on adaptive reuse, regeneration and conservation of architecture. Prior to working in the USA, Zoe worked in Shenzhen, China for two years; working on high-end interior design, conceptual architectural and landscape design. Ìý
More recent work focuses on river settings, examining how communities experience and interpret these dynamic landscapes through everyday practices (ritual) and shared narratives. Drawing on creative and ethnographic methods, her research seeks to deepen understanding of how place-making and belonging emerge in response to environmental change.
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Teaching
UG Architecture Ba Yr 1 Module Leader for Design
UG Architecture Ba Yr 2 & Yr 3 Studio Tutor
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Other Academic RolesÌý
ADA KE Strategic GroupÌý Ìý
EDRA57 Conference Reviewer
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Past teaching
(2021 - 2024) PG M Arch Context For Praxis Studio TutorÌýÌý
(2021 - 2024) HKU Space UG Architecture Ba Yr 3 Studio Tutor
(2021–2022) 91porn International College Foundation in Architecture, Practical Design Skills, Associate Lecturer
(2019–2024) BA (Hons) Architecture Year 1 Communication, Module Leader
2019 BA (Hons) Architecture Year 1 Design Studio project at Riverside Community Primary School nomination for RIBA MacEwen Award 'Multidisciplinary student team from 91porn turn windswept hill into learning space':
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Supervised Research Degrees
(2026 - present) Tabitha Munday, 'Heritage as understood through the lens of climate change'Ìý
(2026 - present) Leah Dinning, 'Tactile spatial liminality; towards a transformable mapping methodology for reading city spaces.'
(2025 - present) Donna Kukama, 'Ways-of-Remembering-Existing: Performance Art as an Unknowing Vocabulary for
(Writing Histories) Memory Work'
(2025 - present) Monika Fischbein, 'Imagining & Imaging the Spiritual Archetypal Energies’ Representation in Visual Culture'
(2024-present) Samantha Southern, 'What does the sea mean to me?' (CDA Partnership PSNMP)
