Muntazar Monsur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Dr. Muntazar Monsur is an Associate professor of Landscape Architecture at Texas Tech University and a prominent early-career scholar in environment-behavior research focusing on early childhood environments and design. His recent scholarly works (20 journal articles and grants totaling $2.7 million) are concentrated on advancing children’s health, well-being, happiness, and learning by creating environments that support play, interactions, curiosity, and creativity. Dr. Monsur is an engaged scholar, and his teaching, research, and outreach activities often overlap in engaging students with community partners for action research and design-built projects to improve children’s everyday experiences.
At Texas Tech, Dr. Monsur spearheads the XR Lab (Extended Reality Lab), a cutting-edge center that explores the intersection of technology and design. The lab specializes in immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), leveraging these tools to revolutionize landscape architecture education and research. Under Dr. Monsur’s leadership, the XR Lab has become a hub for multidisciplinary collaborations, with ongoing projects aimed at advancing health, well-being, and educational outcomes through innovative XR applications. He created and taught a new graduate design studio course at Tech titled Landscape for Learning, where students work hands-on with communities to design, build, and research effective landscapes for advancing learning environments for children. Dr. Monsur published and presented these engaged works with students in Landscape for Learning in prominent journals and conferences.