Living Continuity, the first instalment of SAT Research, is an invitation to begin a collective, multiscalar and contextualized inquiry on the challenges and potentialities of working towards socially and ecologically just neighbourhoods. It is motivated by observations on two key emerging issues: homogenized urban zones and dormitory towns that are expanding the city's footprint at an exponential rate and the erosion of social cohesion, inclusion and lived continuity.

Session III focuses on how macro-forces and neoliberal urbanism have increased the risk of community expulsion and resulted in varying forms of community exclusion. Juan Roldan presents his research agenda on urban interiors, offering a commentary on re-appropriating city spaces. Roldan seeks to understand how cities are used and appropriated by unsolicited designers and unexpected residents, analyzing the codes, protocols, and liturgies that create a citizen's inalienable sense of belonging on inhabited land. His work highlights the current challenges around access to amenities and an increasingly regulated landscape where possibilities of social infrastructure that ought to be facilitated and provided for are increasingly under threat.

Juan Roldan is a Spanish architect and educator. With architecture studies in Madrid (ETSAM M.Arch 2004) and London (Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London 1999). Roldan is an Associate Professor of Interior Design at the American University of Sharjah. Roldan was appointed curator of the first edition of the d3 Architectural Festival 2020 (d3 in partnership with RIBA Gulf). In 2019, he was awarded the International Charles Correa Chair by the Charles Correa Foundation at Goa College of Architecture (India). His latest written research, "Outdoor Rooms and Domesticated Landscapes in the UAE," was published in Interior Provocations (Routledge, 2020).