I’m Islam Al shafie, a 33 years old architect from Jordan, but Originally from Palestine. Since childhood I have been raised within a mixed cultural city which made me interested with all the different identities each culture brings to their context from the social scale to the architectural and urban scale. After studying architecture, I got engaged within the academic field where I firstly worked as a teacher assistant then resumed as a lecturer at a private university after the accomplishment of my masters degree. My masters thesis focused on the study of urban spaces and the social impact upon their successfulness, taking the urban spaces of the city of Amman, Jordan as my main case study. Continuing in this line, I have decided to seek the doctoral degree at eastern Mediterranean university in Famagusta TRNC in the field of urbanism. Due to my interest in environmental planning and sustainability I have decided to focus my research within the social impact on achieving resiliency by engaging green infrastructure within the urban open space system in the city center of my home city, Amman.