Dr. Hamza Bashandy

Assistant Professor

• MC3078 Minto Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering , Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Hamza is an assistant professor in the School of Information Technology at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Liège, Belgium. His PhD was funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). In 2021, Hamza received the Civil Society Scholar award from the Open Society Foundation to pursue a research-creation fellowship at the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Research Centre, Concordia University. His research sits at the intersection of urban issues and playful simulations, particularly examining the implications of playful interventions and computer simulations in participatory design and social movements. His ongoing research engages with the datafication of crowd behaviour. It investigates the impact of implementing agent-based modelling and crowd simulation techniques on the behaviour of Non-player characters (NPCs) in video games when coded in large masses with a particular focus on digital environments depicting political protests.

Research Areas

• Participatory Design
• Data-Driven Cities and Digital Domesticity
• Crowd Simulation for Virtual Environments
• Computational Design
• Geospatial Data for Game Design
• Platform Studies
• Geography of Social Movements and Urban Surveillance

Research Topics

• Game Design, Development, & Interactions
• Animation, Virtual Environments, and Simulation