Anastasia Ignatova is an architect by training and an international urban planning and design practitioner. She has global experience working across diverse contexts, including Central and Southeast Asia, East Africa, the MENA region, and Europe, in collaboration with UN-Habitat and other international partners.
Her work includes projects in both humanitarian and development sectors, addressing systemic challenges manifested in the built environment through interdisciplinary and multi-scalar planning methods. Anastasia specialises in urban resilience, development of transformative urban strategies for cities and targeted pilot interventions that demonstrate how “big ideas” can be brought to real life. She has co-developed a range of tools that synthesise global knowledge into practical guidance, such as the UN-Habitat “My Neighbourhood”. In each project, she applies a participatory approach, placing a particular emphasis on women, children, and youth.
In 2025, after a decade of practical experience around the world, Anastasia founded an initiative to explore unconventional and artistic approaches aimed to methodologically integrate more-than-human participation into decision-making processes and citizen dialogues to support systemic shifts through co-created interventions and contribute to the broader effort to move from a human-centric to an eco-centric paradigm.
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