About Speaker

Thireshen Govender is an architect, urbanist and researcher practicing in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was awarded the Chevening Scholarship for a Masters in Urban Design at The Bartlett (UCL). He founded UrbanWorks in 2008, a design-research studio concerning itself with the design and implementation of transformative infrastructures in post-traumatic sites. He is the co-author of Township Economies: People, Spaces, Practices (2020) - which brings new insights into how frontier territories are being established through rampant informal practices. Thireshen has taught and lectured at various international schools of architecture and has been a tutor at the inaugural Venice Biennale College in 2023.