Caroline Newton is an urban planner, an architect, and a political scientist. Her work and research focus on the social and political dimensions of design. She is the Van Eesteren Fellow at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment's Department of Urbanism.
Caroline's research interests encompass the complexity of architecture and planning in post-colonial contexts, intersectionality in/for design and planning, participatory planning, and designerly approaches to knowledge production.
Caroline advocates for revitalised urban professional participation and the reintroduction of advocacy to the forefront of planning and spatial practices. She advances a critical and involved approach to strategic planning, presenting planning techniques as acts of resistance, as enablers of alternative spatial possibilities and imaginations.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment and a socio-spatial planning specialist in the GECORO (urban planning advisory committee) of Mechelen in Belgium.
