Amal al Balushi

Aachen

Amal al Balushi is a Candidate for the European Masters: Transforming City Regions at RWTH-Aachen University in Germany. Previous to this, she had completed her bachelors in The German University of Technology (a sister university of RWTH-Aachen) in her native country of Oman, where she studied Urban Planning and Architectural Design. She has authored papers while working as a researcher for GUtech; in which she has compiled research on improving walkability and open spaces in Arabian cities, with a focus on female pedestrians and the cultural perspective on this (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-3383). Her later work included community activation schemes and collaborative designs, including the creation of a city game that was deployed in 11 neighbourhoods of Muscat. Her work has come alive in the real world, with the first of the gaming results and design changes to be implemented by the Muscat Municipality in the neighbourhood of Al Hail by 2022 (pre-corona estimates). Her current research focuses on the northern European country’s intergenerational cohesion across borders.