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 a Lecturer in Architecture whose research explores the relationships between place, community, and environment. Drawing on a background in architectural practice, including work in New York, Shenzhen, and across the UK, her research is grounded in place and ritual theory, and in the conviction that embodied, situated experience is central to how people form meaningful connections with the environments they inhabit.
Her work is developed through creative and ethnographic methods including autoethnography, storytelling, cognitive mapping, and film, and is concerned with how place-making and ecological belonging emerge through everyday practices and shared narratives.
This thinking has been developed in particular through river landscapes and the communities that live alongside them. Portrait of a Place: The River Dart Anglers (AHRC, 2022–23) worked in collaboration with the Dart Angling Association to surface over 130 years of stories, memories, and ecological stewardship, using film, photography, and archival research to illuminate how deep-rooted place relationships can inform conservation thinking and bridge divides between community interest groups. This project has since grown into Immersive Places: Digital Storytelling for Ecologically Informed Behaviour Change Across Dartmoor National Park (AHRC 2026-2027), which extends the creative and community-centred approach into immersive digital formats, exploring how narrative tools can foster ecological awareness and support meaningful behaviour change in sensitive landscapes.
Place Theory | Landscape Thinking | Embodied & Spatial Practice | Architecture Lecturer & ResearcherÌý
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Teaching
UG Architecture Yr 1 Module Leader for ARCH4002 Design Studio, Studio Tutor for ARCH4004 Integrated Design and ARCH4001 Communications in Architecture
UG Architecture Yr 2 Module Leader for ARCH5004 Advanced Histories, Theories and Critical Contexts and Studio Tutor for ARCH5003 Design Studio and Advancing Media
UG Architecture Yr 3 Studio tutor for ARCH6001 Strategic Design Studio and Communication
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Other Academic RolesÌý
ADA KE Strategic Group (2023-24)
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Past teaching
(2021 - 2024) PG M Arch Context For Praxis Studio TutorÌýÌý
(2021 - 2024) HKU Space UG Architecture DSCM611HKU, DSCMHKU612 Ba Yr 3 Studio Tutor
(2021–2022) Â鶹Æƽâ°æ International College Foundation in Architecture, Practical Design Skills, Associate Lecturer
(2019–2024) BA (Hons) Architecture Year 1 Communication, Module Leader
(2019 - 2023) filmmaking talks and workshops for Ba (Hons) Architecture Year 2, HTCC501_history, theory and critical context 5.1Ìý
2019 BA (Hons) Architecture Year 1 Design Studio project at Riverside Community Primary School nomination for RIBA MacEwen Award 'Multidisciplinary student team from Â鶹Æƽâ°æ 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)
