With the title of professor in the field of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana
Davisi Boontharm
PhD
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Consultation hoursBy prior notice via email.
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First-Cycle University Study Programme Urbanism (UŠU)
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Duties and responsibilitiesHigher education teacher with the title of professor in the field of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana.
Davisi Boontharm is an academic and artist whose work focuses on the synergies between the built environment and artistic sensibility. She earned her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from ENSA Paris-Belleville and Université Paris VIII, respectively. Her international career includes teaching and research contributions to architecture and urban design programs in Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Italy, and Japan. Her current positions include Global Professor, Keio University, Tokyo, and Professor of Architecture, University of Ljubljana.
Her interdisciplinary research emphasizes the nexus of environmental and cultural sustainability, with a focus on resource approaches to urban requalification and the creative milieu in Asian cities. Beyond her academic contributions, Davisi’s creative practice mediates her research methods, offering a visual dialogue on the complexities of the built and lived environment. Her work has been exhibited at prestigious venues including the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb, and Shinkenchiku-sha in Tokyo. Davisi is also co-founder of co+re.platform for strategic thinking, making and living better cities, operating from Tokyo, Bangkok, Milano, Ljubljana.
2024–2026: Global Professor, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, contribution to PhD supervision and examination
2025–2026: External examiner, PhD candidate, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
Scientific research activity
Boontharm D., On sketch & script: artistic sensibility in urban investigation in Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielsen, Aina Landsverk Hagen, Madlen Kobi, Ying Zhou (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field, pp. 34-45.
Boontharm D., Tokyo Requalified: artistic sensibility and cultural sustainability in Tokyo Urbanism: from hinterland to kaiwai, edited by Masami Kobayashi, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 296-343.
Radović D., Boontharm D., Positive Arrogance Hypothesis, in Mirages of the Future, the book of exhibition of National Pavilion of Montenegro, curated by Zoran Lazović, La Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice, Italy, pp. 146-169.
Boontharm, D., The creative acts of requalification: art in the (re)making of architectural identities, Tokyo in SAJ volume 15 issue 1, Architectural Identities: Japan, pp. 199-216.
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Sano, S., Saito, N., & Boontharm, D. The potential of small wooden-frame building in aging Japan. Sustainability, 15(4), 3602, pp. 1–19.
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Boontharm D., Tokyo Requalified: The Narratives of Recovery, in Special issue of a+u (Architecture and Urbanism), infraordinary Tokyo – The right to the city, edited by Darko Radović, A+U Publishing Co., Ltd., November 2021, pp. 120-127.
Boontharm D., Sketch and Script in Cultural Mapping, in Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing, edited by Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, and Alys Longley, Routledge, pp. 65-74.
Boontharm, D. Urban Design for Super-mature Society, The Journal of Public Space, 4(4), pp. 137-154. https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v4i4.1238
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Boontharm, D. (2016). Mapping the lived experiences of Bangkok’s soi, The Journal of Public Space, 1(1), 43-52, DOI: 10.5204/jps.v1i1.9
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In the search of urban quality : 100 maps of Kuhonbutsugawa Street, Jiyugaoka / [authors Darko Radović with Davisi Boontharm]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2014, pp. 120. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 8)
Boontharm D., Tokyo | Bangkok | Singapore : Intensities, Reuse and Creative Milieu, Tokyo: Flick Studio and IKI, pp. 136
Small Tokyo / edited by Darko Radović and Davisi Boontharm. Tokyo : Flick studio, pp 114. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 1)
Cross-cultural urban design : global or local practice? / edited by Catherin Bull, Davisi Boontharm, Claire Parin, Darko Radović. London ; New York : Routledge, pp. 241.
Bangkok : formes du commerce et évolution urbaine / Davisi Boontharm. Paris : édition Recherche and IPRAUS, pp. 381 (séries archithèse)
Artistic activity
“Beyond the fold” at Play Art House, Bangkok, 28 March–22 April 2026
“Places & Traces: the palimpsest books” at Design Festa Gallery Harajuku, Tokyo, 9–15 January 2026
“Mjesta i emocije” at Društvo arhitekata Rijeka, 19. 9.–03.10. 2025
“Skice I slike Dalmacije” at Marko Marulić City Library, Split, 24 June–11 July 2025
“From journeys and from home” at shinkenchiku sha Aoyama, Tokyo, 21–26 February 2025
“Palimpsest” at the small format gallery, Bol, Brač island, Croatia, 16 July–11 August 2024
“Orihon” at Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia, 21–31 May 2024
“The essence” at Pavarotti Center, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2023
“Positive Arrogance Hypothesis” in Mirages of the Future, the exhibition of National Pavilion of Montenegro, curated by Zoran Lazović, The Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice, (with Darko Radović and co+re team) May–November 2023