Research

Research

My scholarship reflects many years of academic research experience in sustainable architecture, I am passionate about creating sustainable buildings and care about both the intention and actuality in sustainable design. I have worked in the fields of post-occupancy evaluation, and participatory design methods, as an academic fellow in policy research at the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in Westminster, London, in their sustainable behaviors unit. I have been funded in my research by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the UK Energy Research Council, the Economics and Social Sciences Research Council, and by TRADA the Timber Trade Association. My current projects include an examination of regenerative architecture and engagement with intentional communities. In April 2019 I took up a research fellowship at the Centre for Research in Advanced Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge to explore the value of aesthetic concern in the actuality of sustainable architecture. 

Highlights

  1. Wheeler, Andrea (2024) Roundtable presentation on the forthcoming work: “Inner and Outer Potentialities: A Spiritual Approach to the Problem of Regenerative Design” in the Special Edition of Body and Religion with editor, 14th Meeting of the Irigaray Circle conference at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik 6-10th June
  2. Wheeler, Andrea (2024) “Pillars of Positive Peace. The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray and Peaceful Coexistence” (On work with the Iowa State University Faculty Learning Community: Building Positive Peace.) 14th Meeting of the Irigaray Circle conference at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik 6-10th June
  3. Wheeler, Andrea (2024) “A Sensory Exploration of Green and Sustainable Community Living” In Eighteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Cultures of Transformative Design, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain 11th -13th March. Virtual.
  4. Wheeler, Andrea (2023) “Positive Peace and Coexistence In Difference” Panel Host and Presenter. Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Association, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. 13-15th September.
  5. Wheeler, Andrea (2023) “Love, Energy and the Heart in Architecture” Seminar with Luce Irigaray. Enclos Rey, Paris.
  6. Wheeler, A. (2022) “Earthships and Spaceships”. In Building Positive Peace, edited by Christina Campbell and Simon Cordery (Eds.), Bournemouth, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023 p, 222-240
  7. Wheeler, A. (2020). “Kites: Ecological Aesthetics” In Critical Practices in Architecture: The Unexamined (pp. 209-228). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 209–228)
  8. Wheeler, A (2018) “Heidegger, the Four-Fold and Luce Irigaray’s Two Be Born” In Towards a New Human Being, edited by Luce Irigaray with Mahon O’ Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, Springer, London.
  9. Wheeler, A. (2017). An Interview with Luce Irigaray on Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives and Sexuate Difference. Angelaki, 22(4), 177–181