Meriem Allani

Meriem Allani is a PhD Candidate in Architecture at Adelaide University and the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, in collaboration with Grieve Gillett Architects. Her research explores how design can support people living or working in isolated, confined, and extreme environments, including future space habitats, Antarctic and space analogue settings, prisons, detention centres, and other secure facilities. Drawing on architecture, environmental psychology, and human-centred design, her work focuses on how environmental monotony can affect people’s experience of time, space, and self, and how design can create more humane, psychologically supportive places.

Trained as an architect in Tunisia, Meriem brings a background in architecture and space habitat design to her current PhD research. Her work connects future space environments with Earth-based questions about wellbeing, dignity, agency, and care in restricted environments.