Tika Hasan

Profile

I am a School of Civil Engineering PhD Studentship recipient at the Architecture and Urbanism Research Group. My background is urban planning with interest in urban design, design guidelines, and management. Prior to Leeds, I worked in the public sector in Auckland, New Zealand, within the resource consent department at the Auckland Council and for a fixed-term in the urban design panels at a central government agency focusing on housing, Kainga Ora. My previous experience in Indonesia started in research, then I moved on to a private consultancy following my postgraduate study. Afterward, I returned to academia at School of Architecture, Planning, and Policy Development (SAPPD) Institut Teknologi Bandung as a research associate, working on topics such as housing, creative cities, land banking, and sustainable urban heritage. My time as academics also allowed me to work with local and national governments preparing multiple spatial plans and urban design guidelines. I got involved in teaching assistantship to the following graduate courses: Advanced Urban Planning (a joint studio between SAPPD ITB and University of Sydney), Urban Design Control, Urban Planning and Development Studio; and the following undergraduate courses: Site Planning Studio, Urban Planning Studio, and Introduction to Urban Design.

Research interests

My PhD research stems from my interest in the public sector’s intervention in design. It investigates the complexity of power dimension of design governance through systems approach. For this, I am taking on public spaces in a large-scale development area as a case study. The main question guiding my research is how the power dynamics shape the decision-making process and how the decision manifests in physical form.

Qualifications

• MA in Sustainable Placemaking and Urban Design, Kingston University London
• B.Sc in Urban and Regional Planning, Institut Teknologi Bandung