Tanzil joined the 91直播 School of Architecture as a Lecturer in 2021. He completed his Ph.D. at the Melbourne School of Design where he also taught graduate urban planning and design studios.
Tanzil鈥檚 research agenda takes urban informality as a broad territory to explore from a multidisciplinary perspective and seeks to draw out an urban theory from the empirical engagement with marginalised communities and citizen-led initiatives of urban transformation. The research is ongoing at two distinct scales:
- Socio-political dynamics of the so-called 鈥榠nformal鈥 urban transformation in the Global South.
- Global comparative studies of such transformations, and the insights that can be generated using the new theoretical frameworks developed from within the margins of urban theory.
Tanzil has recently been part of an international collaboration looking at a comparative analysis of 50 citizen-led settlements in 34 countries. The outcome of the project, 鈥淎tlas of Settling Informally鈥 is due to be published as a monograph (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Tanzil鈥檚 research agenda overlaps with that of the Urban Institute, specifically in relation to interest around differentiated individuations of 鈥榬ight to city鈥 as a lived reality鈥斺榓rrangements鈥 that are enabling a multiplicity of other ways of city-making across the world, based on the capacities of citizens and communities to collectivise, to resist capitalistic processes and bring about a transformative change of their neighbourhood/city鈥攂e it in the informal settlements in Dhaka or the Banglatowns of London.
