Ahmad Minaoui is currently completing his master degree in Architecture at the Lebanese University – Tripoli. He developed a graduation thesis that focuses on the paradigme shifts in managerial systems, also looking at architecture as a system thinking manifestation. His field of research includes urban management, policy-making and the introduction of Bigdata tools to architecture, city planning and management. Ahmad is also a freelance visual artist, mainly producing visual effects and collages for presentations and art installations, very interested in Systems, Globalization, and international movement’s impact on the identity of societies and individuals within the different typologies of the built environment.