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Rituals of Resistance: Narratives of critical inhabitation

Arinjoy Sen's project addresses the contested inhabitation of fragile ecosystems in the Sundarbans, situated in the borderlands of Bangladesh and India

Embedding justice in the 1.5°C transition: A transdisciplinary research agenda

Nick Hughes shares 'Embedding justice in the 1.5°C transition: A transdisciplinary research agenda'.

Helping secure Asmara’s UNESCO World Heritage status

Decades of research and consultancy by Professor Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren helped in achieving UNESCO World Heritage Site status for Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

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Working Towards a Pluriversity: progressive conversations, NOT solutions

In light of recent events, such as George Floyd’s death, we have granted ourselves the liberation of being able to address the idea of race and thus the realisation of how evident it is that change needs to happen. Shaunee Lyn Tan explores further.

Radical Pedagogies

"Radical Pedagogies" by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio Gonzalez Galan, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister, published in 2022, explores the transformative experiments in architectural education following World War II.

Value Engineering – Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry

Blanche Cameron shares "Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry" which focuses on testimony from individuals responsible for the tower's disastrous renovation.

"The Role Of Ephemerality In The Queer Nightclub"

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"It’s always varying degrees of terror"

Isaac Nanabeyin Simpson on an architecture between cultures.

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“Asmara’s inscription has also challenged international perceptions of Eritrea, where it is often misrepresented as being in perpetual conflict”

Helping secure Asmara’s UNESCO World Heritage status

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