Dr. Tanzil Shafique

Tanzil Shafique is an Associate Professor at Sheffield School of Architecture. He holds a Ph.D. from the Melbourne School of Design where he taught graduate planning and design studios. He is also a Honorary Member at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at University of Melbourne. Tanzil co-founded and is now Chief Mission Steward at Next50, an independent research-to-action platform for the Majority Worlds. Working across disciplines and sectors, Next50 bridges research, policy, and practice through collaborative research, strategic advisory, publications, innovation partnerships, and capacity-building. Previously he was a Research Fellow and Studio Instructor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design as well as Project Designer at the Community Design Center, both at the University of Arkansas. His work has garnered numerous AIA National Award for Urban and Regional Planning, as well as his writing on design philosophy and urbanism, has been published internationally. His latest book is City of Desire (Bloomsbury, 2024). He holds an M.Arch in Ecological Urbanism from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.