Professor Tigran Haas’s research explores how cities are shaped, not just by their physical form, but by the social, temporal, and psychological dimensions of urban life. At the intersection of urban planning & design, architecture, and social science, his interdisciplinary work investigates how public space, housing, and urban form influence well-being, inclusion, and spatial justice. He has led and participated in numerous externally funded research projects tackling key urban challenges such as loneliness, ageing city, feminist planning, segregation, and placemaking. Dr. Haas has developed innovative concepts such as temporal urbanism, emergent placemaking, and post-spatial segregation. These original theoretical contributions reframe the city, not simply as a physical environment, but as a living system of time, urban memory, and human connection.

Professor Haas is the former Director of the Ax:son Johnson Foundation’s Centre for the Future of Places (CFP), one of KTH’s most successful research centers and former head of the Urban Form and Human Behavior Laboratory (CAL). He currently directs a Research Lab focused on urban–rural dynamics, spatial justice, sustainability, & digital innovation, the Urban Rural Lab (URL) and is affiliated with MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). With over 25 years of teaching experience in Sweden and internationally, he has authored and edited more than ten books and published over 125 scholarly works. Recognized as one of the leading international voices in contemporary urbanism, he has built influential global academic and policy networks that promote critical, human centered, and future oriented approaches to city-making.

Dr. Tigran Haas, Tenured University Professor, Academic, Scholar, Researcher, Writer, Architect and Urban Designer, Urbanist, Public Speaker, Urbanism Networker, Mentor and Supervisor

Current New Lab Director: Halcyon Athenaeum Laboratory (HAL) - Urbanism, Cities, People at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Former Director of the Center for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Director of the Post Graduate (PhD) Program in Urban and Regional Planning at the ABE School, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, ABE School

Faculty Member of Urban and Regional Studies Division and KTH's Cross-Disciplinary Research Centre, DF -Digital Futures

Affiliate at the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SA+P, DUSP

Senior Research Fellow, CLG - Centre for Local Governance Think Tank, The Kingdom and The Gulf States

International Board Team Member of RÊVE Research INSTITUTE - Defining the Sustainable Future of Humanity Today, UAE

Member of the Urban Coalition "ROZKVIT" to Rebuild Ukraine (Urbanism professionals rebuilding Ukraine’s (physical) infrastructure and cities - architecture and urban design)

Director of International Making Cities Livable (IMCL)

Recipient of 15 CEO and Leadership-Management International Awards and 10 Centre for Future of Places CFP International Accolades, Recognitions and Awards (as the Director)

Former Founding Director of the First Ever Graduate Studies in Urbanism on Public Spaces (MUSE), KTH, Sweden

Former Post-Doc Fellowship Recipient and Resident of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, University of California, Berkele,y and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Former Founding Co-Director of the First Scandinavian Masters Program in Urban Planning + Urban Design (UPD), KT,H Sweden
Former Guest Professor of Project and Strategic Management and Leadership at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management, ZSEM Zagreb, Croatia

Former Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Urban Design (Tenured) at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, ABE School

Former Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Urban Design (Tenured) at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, ABE School

Former Research Scholar at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), SA+P School

Former Member of the School Faculty Assembly Architecture & The Built Environment (Skolkollegium ABE, KTH)

Tigran Haas, BArch/MArch, MSc., Ph.D. (former member of SAR/MSA, UHA/DAZ, APA, CNU, ULI, AAG, ERSA, AESOP, IMCL, ENHR, and RSA) is the Associate Professor, Reader - Tenured (Docent, Lektor - Biträdande professor) of Urban Planning + Urban Design. Tigran Haas was formerly the Director of the NEW Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) - Centra för framtida stadsrum, at KTH, ABE School, and the Former Director of the Graduate Program in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH. He has studied in the US, Former Yugoslavia (BiH and Croatia) and Sweden and also done Post-Doc Fellowships at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (Host: Late Prof. William J Mitchell, Media/Design Lab), UC Berkeley (Host: Prof. Robert Cervero, Institute of Urban and Regional Development) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Host: Prof. Douglas Kelbaugh, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning). He has been a guest professor at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM). He has been the Former Director and Chair of Civitas Athenaeum Laboratory (CAL) and the co-founder and director of the first ever Scandinavian Master's in Urban Planning & Design, as well as the founder of the first ever Scandinavian one-year international Master's in Urbanism Studies (MUSE).

Tigran Haas holds advanced degrees in Architecture, Urban Planning and Urban Design, Environmental Science and Regional Planning. Dr. Haas has served as Sweden-America Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan 2005-2006, Formas Swedish Research Council and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley 2007 and 2010 and Axel and Margaret Jonsson Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Boston 2008 and 2010. He has written over 125 scholarly articles, 50 Conference Papers, 10 books, 4 Research Anthologies, and has been involved in teaching in International educational programs such as: Real Estate Management, Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure, Spatial Planning, Strategic Management, Urban Planning and Design and Sustainable Urban Planning & Design (SUPD) and the current One Year Advanced Masters Program in Urbanism Studies (MUSE). He is also the recipient of four awards for leadership from CEO Europe Magazine, ACQ Global Awards, CV Magazine Award, CIO Views Award, CIO Look, and Silicon Review.

Tigran Haas’ expertise, current research, and teaching focus on contemporary trends and paradigms in urban planning & design, new urbanism, sustainable urbanism, social housing and urban transformations, and city development, ageing society, desig,n and medialization of urban form. His Key works are: New Urbanism & Beyond - Designing Cities for the Future, Rizzoli, New York 2008 (ed.) and Sustainable Urbanism & Beyond - Rethinking Cities for the Future, New York 2012, Rizzoli (ed.) and the award winning book (2018) “IN THE POST-URBAN WORLD” - EMERGENT TRANSFORMATIONS OF CITIES AND REGIONS IN THE INNOVATIVE GLOBAL ECONOMY with Hans Westlund - Routledge: London and New York. Tigran Haas and Krister Olsson (eds.) have published and influential anthology on urban planning and design: Emergent Urbanism (London: Ashgate, 2014 and Reissued by Routledge: London). Dr. Tigran Haas has also been the editor of a trilogy onSocial Housing, Ageing Society and Loneliness for Riksbyggen as a part of the Trilogy of Research Project that he has led on these three intercconected subjects.

Tigran Haas is also working on 5 new books for 2020, 2022 and 2022/23 (Atheneum Scholars Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, Rizzoli, Gondolier/Sustasis Press and Edwar Elgar). Tigran Haas is involved in three major research projects, one on Urban Form and Human Behavior, and the other one on Authenticity - Contextual Cities and the third on Synchronicity; he has also coordinated and participated in 15 research projects in the Centre for the Future of Places. He teaches two graduate courses (MSc), two post-graduate course (PhD), currently supervises 3 PhD Students (As main and co-supervisor; total PhD 18 students), as well as 5 Masters of Science Students (total 125 MSc. Students).

Dr. Tigran Haas sits on the editorial boards of South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Urban Design International (Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Science), Journal of Urbanism and Place Making (Routledge - Taylor & Francis), Open House International Journal (UIP), Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Elsevier, Journal of Architecture and Journal Urban Science, both of MDPI Basel Switzerland, Architecture of Israel Journal Quarterly, Tel Aviv, International Journal Urban Challenges (Urbani Izzivi), The Journal of Public Space, City, Space Architecture & UN Habitat, Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press (Lisbon, Portugal) as well as on International Journal of Architectural Design and Management, International Journal of Urban Design and International Journal of Architectural Heritage (Journal's Pub Global Network) and Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress, Urban Development Scientific Publishing Pte Ltd., Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress, UDS, Journal of Urban and Regional Planning, Science Publishing Group, Journal of Urban Research and Development (JURD), Journal of Geography and Regional Planning, AJ, Journal of Regional Economics Development, Universal Wiser Publisher Pte.Ltd. and Journal of Global Economics Science (Wiserpub), Advances in Urban and Regional (AUR), Opast International Publishers, USA, Australian Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (UniversePG), Current Urban Studies (CUS), Social Science and Humanities Journal (SSHJ), International Journal of Rural and Regional Development (IJRRD), Regional Economic Development Research (REDR), International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies, (IJRHSS), Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP), Science Publishing Group, and Global Journal of Cultural Studies and IJMC International Journal of Mass Communication, both of Life Science Global. Tigran Haas is also the Associate Editor in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities - Sustainable infrastructures, Frontiers Media S.A, Lausanne Switzerland, and the Thematic Editor in Journal of Sustainability and Urban Science, MDPI Basel Switzerland, Journal of Regional Science and Environmental Economics, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland and Discover Cities Journal, Springer Nature, Nanjing |China.

Tigran Haas is also an expert evaluator for The Israeli Science Foundation, The Research Council of Norway, The Research Council of Ireland, The Slovenian Research Agency, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), and is on the Sapienza Reviewer Research Board ("Sapienza" Università di Roma). Dr. Haas is the Postgraduate Planning Programmes Board Evaluator at UCL Bartlett, University College London. Tigran Haas was the special representative of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment in the former KTH President Peter Gudmunsson International Advisory Group (IAG) at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology. Currently Dr. Haas is on the board of faculty representatives for the ABE School ("kollegium"). Tigran Haas is also the Senior Research Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board to the Cluster for Sustainable Cities, University of Portsmouth. Tigran Haas also sits on the Board of Stewards for the International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) network. Dr. Tigran Haas has been the member of the New York Academy of Sciences, American Planning Association, Urban Land Institute, Congress for the New Urbanism, Regional Studies Association, American Association of Geographers, Swedish Association of Architects and Planners and Croatian Association of Architects.

Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund are out with a new award winning book for Routledge Cities & Regions Series (2018) entitled “IN THE POST-URBAN WORLD: INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS IN GLOBAL CITY REGIONS”, an anthology which includes some of the leading urban scholars of today such as Richard Florida, Saskia Sassen, Robert Putnam, Paul Knox, Emily Talen, Richard Sennett, Manuel Castells, Rahul Mehrotra, Edward Glaeser and many others. The book has been awarded the first prize by Regional Studies Association in UK as the book of the year 2018. It has been translated to Japanese and is considered by experts one of the best antholgies ever done in (regional science) urban and regional studies.

Tigran Haas has been involved and incrimental in the five nominations and awards for top urban scholars of the honorary doctorate at KTH, Professor Manuel Castells (with Yngve Sundblad and Björn Hårsman), Professor Saskia Sassen (With Katja Grillner), Professor Edward Glaeser (With Hans Westlund), Professor Richard Florida (Tigran Haas) and Professor Julian Agyeman (With Karin Bradley). Tigran Haas has 10 years of experience of teaching Sustainable Project Management: Strategic Deign and Implemenatition of Projects (SUPREME Course) and has been during that time involved with leading Swedish and International Corporations and Industry Leaders, CEO's, Vice presidents, Project Managers. The course was one of the most popular courses at KTH. Dr. Tigran Haas was teaching Project Management, Strategic management and Project leadership during those ten years at KTH in EESI MSc. This has also brought him to ZSEM, Zagreb Croatia as a guest professor on strategic project management where he helped shaped course in the MBA program.

TIGRAN HAAS at the GLOBAL FUTURE OF PLACES CONFERENCE 2015

Interview on the Future of Placemaking and Current Research at KTH