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Alan Penn
Professor of Architectural & Urban Computing, UCL
Alan Penn is Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he served as Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment from 2009 to 2019. His research examines how the design of the built environment shapes the social and economic behaviour of organisations and communities; the methods and software he developed for this work are known as “space syntax,” and he is a founding director of the UCL spin-out Space Syntax Ltd. From 2019 to 2023 he served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK ministry responsible for housing and communities.