Kamyar Salavati

I wish to be an intellectual flâneur, someone who wanders between disciplines and media, discovering new worlds. My training began in architecture, while I was simultaneously learning Iranian classical music. For my master’s degree at the University of Tehran, I switched to architectural theory, while writing about music in magazines and academic journals. I co-founded Dalan, a widely circulated cultural and creative magazine, which offered multidisciplinary readings of one street per issue. I was drawn towards Medical Humanities as I started my PhD at the University of Exeter, since my research explores how modern architecture was defined and justified through modern health, and how it affected existing notions of the body, gender, time, religion, and politics.

In parallel with writing and researching on medical humanities and architecture, I also write about sound studies, music, and cinema in academic journals, and work as an assistant editor for the international music bibliography Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), as well as writing reviews for music magazines in the UK and Iran. My teaching includes Southern Urbanisms (2024–2025) and An Introduction to Persian Culture (2023–2026) as a PTA, and I have published creative texts, including a short story in The City at Night (2022), published by the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. I have also worked with architectural and music publications as an editorial member, including Koubeh, which I co-founded, Architectural Events, Noise Reviews, and Harmonytalk.

My publications have appeared in academic journals and edited volumes such as Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema, Music, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Le Regards, Mahoor Ethnomusicology Quarterly, Journal of Fine Arts: Architecture and Urbanism, and The Journal of Iranian Architectural Studies.

I am open to collaborations involving editorial and creative roles, peer reviewing, writing, musical projects, and interdisciplinary work.