Biographical note

Dr. Tarek Teba is an associate professor in Architectural Heritage in School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, and the Chair for ICOMOS UK Digital Technology National Committee. Tarek is the course leader of MA Architecture: Building and Heritage Conservation and the co-chair of the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub. Tarek’s research concerns the conservation of tangible and intangible heritage through creating the balance between contemporary values via community engagement and historic, aesthetic, and cultural values. Tarek explores methodological approaches to preserve the cultural and contemporary social values embedded in heritage assets and cities in order to inform heritage conservation and regeneration. Tarek uses community engagement and cultural mapping as an informing tool and virtual modelling and digital heritage approaches as a vehicle to deliver heritage identification, valuation, adaptation, and development strategies.

Antonino Di Raimo, PhD, FEA, is an associate professor in Architecture at the PSoA—Portsmouth School of Architecture where he is also the Research and Innovation Lead. Prior to moving to Portsmouth School of Architecture, he served as the dean of the Faculty of Architecture Design and Engineering (2012–2017) at Polis University—Tirana, where he also established the Innovation Factory Unit. He was the curator of the Albanian Pavilion at the XXI Triennale in Milan, Design after Design. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture Composition and Theory (University of Rome, La Sapienza). Antonino is the author of the books ‘François Roche Heretical Machinism and Living Architecture of New Territories.com’ (Edilstampa, 2014, Italian and English edition) and ‘Mente, corpo, informazione. Per un’agenda dell’Embodiment in architettura’(Quodlibet, 2016).