Professional Experience 2018/01 – LIRA for 2030 >Researcher Present (ISC - LIRA grantee) CST, , 2018/01 – Africa >Team Leader of Multi-disciplinary Team 2020/04 (IRESEN) Team Mahali, Benguerir, 2016/01 – C7 Architects & >Project Architect 2018/01 Grenblum UK, South Africa, Botswana & Namibia 2015/04 – Work Away >Project Architect (Volunteer) 2016/01 Greenland, Croatia, Luxembourg, & Sweden Sharné Bloem 2008/06 – Faircape Developers & >Architectural Designer 2015/04 M Architects & , South Africa Urbanist 2006/04 – SOM, PRP & Rolf Judd >Architectural Designer Sharné is an MPhil graduate from the 2008/04 Architects London, UK & Moscow, Russia Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, with a focus on green Education architecture, sustainable communities, 2018 MPhil in (NRF Scholarship) energy access, experimentation and Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa socio-technical systems in the peri-urban Title: Assessing The Sustainable Infrastructure Of A Low Carbon and urban landscapes. She has over seven Community years experience of consulting for private Supervisors: Prof Mark Swilling, Marjorie Naidoo & Prof Ben Sebitosi practice and research for academia in 2018 Student Exchange (Stichting Studiefonds Scholarship) (Cum Laude) and urban design projects, in both developed and Urban Future Studio, Utrecht University, Netherlands developing countries. Modules: Techniques of Futuring, Mobility 2017 PGDip in Sustainable Development (Cum Laude) Personal Info: Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Phone +27 76 432 0721 Modules: Systems, Bio-Energy, Complexity Theory and E-mail [email protected] Systems Thinking, Renewable Energy Finance, Sustainable Cities, Eco- Design, Sustainable Enterprise, Sustainable Development Professional Travel: 2015 and Design (Cum Laude) Fieldwork and/ or project experience in Centre for Creative Ecology, Israel Luxembourg, Italy, Sweden, UAE, UK, 2013 Architectural Professional Practise Exam (Cum Laude) Netherlands and Israel, developing South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) countries including Albania, Botswana, 2005 Diploma in Interior Architecture and Design (Cum Laude) Croatia, Ethiopia, Greenland, Montenegro, Inscape Design College, Houghton, South Africa Morocco, Ghana, Namibia and Russia 2002 Bachelor of Arts (major: Psychology and Sport Science) Languages: Stellenbosch University, South Africa English/Afrikaans Additional Activities Ongoing Research - Two book chapters on Community-based Mini-grid Systems in Bilingual S.Africa and Bio-Climatic Design Principles of Net-zero Energy Buildings in S.Africa and Dutch Morocco with Prof Mark Swilling - submitted for publication - 2020 Upper Intermediate Research paper - Socio-technical Learning, Institutional Dynamism, and Integration in German South African Community Energy Projects - submitted for publication - 2020 Research paper - Emerging Meaning of Energy Democracy in Informal Urban Energy Intermediate System in Ghana - submitted for publication - 2020 French/Hebrew/Arabic Conferences - Abstract title: ‘The Social Process of Technological Change in S.Africa’, Elementary under the theme ‘Energy and Sustainability’, is accepted for an oral presentation at the 7th International Conference of Business and Social Science 2020 (ICBASS 2020), References: Osaka, Japan during November 18-20, 2020 Abstract title: ‘Technological change as a Social Process’ was accepted for an oral LIRA - International Science Council (ISC) Katsia Paulavets presentation at the conference 2020 Asia Conference on Renewable Energy and [email protected] Environmental Engineering (AREEE 2020), Bangkok, Thailand during April 14-16, 2020 Shortlisted - Mahali house, for an International award, Architectural Award Building Solar Decathlon Africa - IRESEN Integrated Solar Technology 2020 by Solarenergieförderverein Bayern e. V. Samir Idrissi Kaitouni Award - Mahali House made use of upcycled building materials and was awarded with [email protected] the second place for Architecture and Design for this regenerative approach at an Complex Systems in Transition (CST) International net-zero energy competition, Solar Decathlon Africa 2019 Prof Mark Swilling - [email protected] Lecturing - Guest lecturer at Biomimicry Module for first year students – 2020 (CC Merin Jacob – [email protected]) Reviewer for Energy Research and Social Science Journal - 2020 C7 Architects Guest lecturer and educational tours of Intentional Living; Alternative Building Allan Macmillan Materials; and Integrated Mini-grid Systems for Sustainability Institute - 2017-2019 [email protected] Guest lecturer at Renewable Energy Policy Module for post graduate students – 2018