Susannah Hagan

She studied English and French literature at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, receiving a Bachelor of Arts with Honors degree in 1973.

In 2002 and 2003, she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, completing the Master of Philosophy Program in Environmental Design and Architecture.

Her work with R_E_D includes EMPTYing CITIES,[4] Wuppertal, Germany, 2004–05, research-by-design into the problem of "shrinking cities," post-industrial cities losing population; EnLUDe 1 (Environmentally Led Urban DEsign), São Paulo, Brazil, 2005–07, a pilot research project with the LCAEE, University of São Paulo, involving environmentally led urban design on a large brownfield site earmarked for development by the city of São Paulo; and EnLUDe 2, Royal Docks, London, 2007–08, research-by-design into an environmentally led spatial planning on a high risk floodplain in the Thames Gateway.

She has lectured internationally, including the Union of Baltic Cities Commission on Urban Planning, the annual NUTAU conference, São Paulo, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Hagan is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, New York, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), and a member of the International Development Network, the Royal Town Planning Institute, and the Newham Borough Design Review Panel.