Professor Quentin Stevens
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Professor Quentin Stevens is a researcher in urban design, with a professional background in both architecture and urban planning in Australia and the United States. His core expertise is people’s perceptions and uses of urban open spaces and public artworks, particularly memorials, and policies and practices for procuring and managing them.
His research has a geographical focus on urbanism in Melbourne, East Asia, and Europe. He has supervised 9 completed PhDs on related topics. His research involves methodologies including analytical mapping, site analysis, field observation of public activity in urban spaces, interviews and archival research. His findings have been published in a series of books, including Temporary and Tactical Urbanism (2022, with Kim Dovey), Memorials as Spaces of Engagement (2016, with Karen Franck), The Ludic City (2007) and Loose Space (2007, with Karen Franck). He has also published in a range of leading journals including Journal of Urban Design, Cities, Environment & Planning C, and Space & Culture. His research has been funded by numerous major fellowships from the Australian Research Council, Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and by foundations in South Korea, Taiwan and the UK.
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