Laleh is a PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Lund University.

An architect by training, she holds an MA in Sustainable Urban Design. Her PhD project ethnographically explores immigrants’ socio-spatial practices in Malmö, Sweden, focusing how grassroots’ engagement aspires to (re)appropriate public spaces through creativity, collaboration and/or resistance.

Public space, territoriality, everyday life, marginalization and spatial segregation, migration.