Team

Metadel Sileshi Belihu

DAAD Fellow and PhD candidat at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (since 10.2019)
Scientific coordinator of ECL-AA, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (since 12. 2019)
Scientific coordinator of ECL-AA, EiABC (01.2017 - 04.2019)
IN3 research project coordinator, EiABC (01.2017 - 04.2019)

Metadel is the scientific coordinator of ECL-AA (Emerging City Lab – Addis Ababa), a collaborative research and teaching center between Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and EiABC (Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building construction and City development, AAU). She is also a PhD candidate at the chair of InfAR of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 10.2019.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning and a Masters in Housing and Sustainable Development from EiABC. Before moving to Germany, she was working as a research associate at ECL-AA, EiABC; involving herself in different research projects and teaching the masters Design studio in Architectural Engineering with a lecturer capacity. Prior to that she was a part-time assistant lecturer at the Chair of Housing at EiABC for the course in Housing and Inner-City Redevelopment. She also has ample practical experience in the field of Architecture mainly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her research interest lies in the socio-spatial dimension of urban spaces, largely related to common spaces and housing.

Contact

Phone: +49 3643 / 58 4207
e-Mail: m.belihu[at]uni-weimar.de

Research Projects

01.2017 – 04.2019: IN3 (Integrated Infrastructure), as research coordinator and researcher

Project link here
en/architecture-and-urbanism/international/international-projects-at-our-faculty/integrated-infrastructure/people/

02.2018 – 03.2019: LUP (Living the Urban Periphery), as researcher

Link to the research project
https://www.wits.ac.za/urbanperiphery/researchers/

05.2016: The State of Addis Ababa 2017:, data collection and analysis

Link to the e-book 

02.2014 – 11.2014 Urban Housing and Poverty: Coping mechanism of youth and women in poor neighborhood of kebele housing, as research assistant

Teaching

10.2017 – 04.2019 Masters studio class in Architectural Engineering at EiABC, ECL-AA

03.2014 – 03.2017 Undergraduate course in Housing and Sustainable Development at EiABC Chair of Housing