Laboratory

MoHoA: A Global Collective on Modern Heritage of Africa, Modern Heritage of Anthropocene

Guang yu Ren introduces MoHoA as a global collaborative focusing on modern heritage in all its forms, presenting the paradox of being of modernity and yet threatened by its consequences.

LGBTQ+ nightlife in London

Initiated in 2016 by Dr Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall, in collaboration with community groups the Raze Collective and the Queer Spaces Network, this research project focuses on nightlife spaces important to London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) communities since 1986.

The Woodland Street Manifesto

Toby Prest's design research investigates how London's street trees can become a sustainable source of timber, empowering local communities.

The Fyfield School of Land

The Fyfield School of Land is a project that is the outcome of a year of collaboration between Kaye Song and Negar Taatizadeh.

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Online lecture: Decolonial and Restorative Policy in the rise of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI)

In this online Inclusive Spaces event Nai Lee Kalema and Felicity Atekpe explore the importance of decolonial, intersectional, and other social justice frameworks in the rise of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

Navigating Space Under Lockdown, the young Black and Minority Ethnic experience

Dr. Barbara Lipietz shares the Navigating Space Under Lockdown project, exploring how young people’s experiences of home, work, mobility, community and well-being have been affected by the pandemic and by prolonged periods of lockdown.

Just Space community-led recovery plan for London

In order to create a future that differs from the past, sixty diverse London groups have worked together to construct a post-pandemic recovery plan. Students at Bartlett have played a key role in encouraging this process and are now supporting its execution.

Finding Artefacts

Giles Nartey investigates how the reading of a city and ways to disguise architecture and communities to help preserve them.

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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

Everyday Stories of Climate Change

Dr Lakshmi Priya Rajendran shares Everyday Stories of Climate Change Comic, which offers a nuanced exploration of the real-life impact of climate change on families around the world.

Anansi And The Reincarnation of Achilles Street Estate

Tabatha Crook shares her research project exploring folklore, religious belief and fiction as a direct response to the harshly pragmatic, uninventive strategies being applied to social housing estates

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.

The Seres Museum

Mufeng Shi introduces the Seres Museum which is located in an alternative reality of Athens. In this museum the historical influence of Athena has been replaced by an Eastern goddess of silk.

Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK): Disrupting risk accumulation through enhanced local capacities across the Global South.

How can cities in the global south alleviate the effects of urban risks? Professor Adriana Allen, Professor Cassidy Johnson, Dr. Emmauel Osuteye and Dr Rita Lambert investigate what can be done.

Staging London’s Modern Housing Estates for Diversity and Inclusion

Eva Branscombe introduces SPID (‘Social, Progressive, Interconnected, Diverse’) Theatre Companies multidisciplinary programmes.

The Anatomy of Being Chinese

Engaging the typology of an embassy to navigate and expose western perceptions and prejudices associated with China, the project aims to provide a counter-argument in response to the misconception of the country, the community and myself, a second generation Chinese-British immigrant.

Populist Imaginaries in Pakistan

Using populism theories and extensive ethnographic data, Dr. Sumrin Kalia investigates populist narratives in networks and their impact on citizen subjectivities.

Collective Jewellery Landscapes

Xan Goetzee-Barral explores how Jewellery can provide a beguiling opportunity to explore the relationship between the site of the body and of the landscape, through its socio-cultural, material and tactile qualities.

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The Role Of Ephemerality In The Queer Nightclub

Xan Xacobo Goetzee-Barral presents the ephemerality of the queer nightclub as a means for survival (at the scale of the city), a means for queer intimacy (the nightclub) and a means for promoting inclusivity (the body).

Urban Housing Affordability Problem in Africa: A Search for Pragmatic Solution?

Dr Kwame Addae-Dapaah's paper takes a holistic view of the housing affordability problem to discuss the multifaceted nature of the problem vis-à-vis the political, social, institutional, economic and financial milieu of Africa.

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'.

Degree’s of Exchange: Exploring Community, Culture and Place through the lens of Materiality

Through an architectural and material intervention this programme aims to explore multiplicity within identity and culture by developing a language of architecture that helps Tyler Ebanja to investigate and reveal ‘who I am’...

An Architecture between Cultures: The Highland’s Council

Isaac Nanabeyin Simpson looks at the dominant history that has always been the British gaze mapped onto the African landscape.

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Citizens’ Assembly Lebanon

Ala’a Shehabi looks at an innovative method to integrate and democratise research whilst transforming the role of a university into a key facilitator for social and material change.

Women, Life, Freedom: Animating The Revolution

Lecturer Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami presents "Women, Life, Freedom: Animating the Revolution" exhibition showcased at UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.

Mr Dennis Scrivens this one is for you

Mahika Gautam’s project began as an exploration of the performative nature of the food-giving ritual in Indian culture.

Cabildo de Pacha (Council of Earth)

Alex Kolar investigates the reintegration of Spanish Colonial architecture in the context of an indigenous society called the Muisca.

Whose Right to the Smart City: AHRC International Network 2016-2018

Ava Fatah Gen Schieck introduces 'Whose Right to the (Smart) City?,' a network of interdisciplinary academics and stakeholders that critically examine the use of ICTs by marginalised populations around the world.

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