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Ian Wroot

Liverpool School of Art and Design

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: I.Wroot@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 1181

Ian is the Architecture Subject Head at Liverpool John Moores University.
His research is centred on the analysis of cognition in the creative process. In particular he is interested in cognitive bias, judgment heuristics, and the validity of commonly used design quality indicators.This has previously explored the enhancement of processes and practices in the briefing, conceptual design, and post occupancy evaluation stages of building design through the role of Clients Design Advisor (CDA) on a wide range of education buildings projects. In recent years his research and practice has focused on the repurposing and adaptation of existing buildings, innovations in new build residential, offsite manufacture and modular design.
Ian has taught architecture in Austria, Slovenia, Malaysia and Turkey and with collaborative partners from Sweden, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Greece and Sri Lanka.
In his practice, as a Registered and Chartered Architect, over the last 35 years Ian has worked in a range of multidisciplinary practices before forming his own design company, with partner Fiona, in 2001. His back catalogue of completed projects ranges from the large-scale reclamation and master planning of post-industrial landscapes to the industrial design of transport infrastructure.
Ian has acted as Clients Design Advisor (CDA) for Liverpool’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme. He has also been commissioned as CDA on the number of Higher Education capital projects. He has sat on a number of local community group boards and has chaired steering groups for a range of design led community projects.
Ian is currently a Visiting Panels Chair for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and past President of the Liverpool Architectural Society and Chair of the Merseyside Branch of the RIBA.

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