Current Research
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Climate Crimes, Adrian Lahoud
Video installation (V&A, 2018)Climate Crimes, Adrian Lahoud
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Excision, David Burns
Montage, 2018Excision, David Burns
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Cooking Sections: CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
Installation-performance (Isle of Skye, 2015)Cooking Sections: CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
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Collective Forms in China. The Service Centre for Party Members and the Masses, Geguang Community, Wuhan, PR China, 2018, Sam Jacoby
Photographer: Jingru ChengCollective Forms in China. The Service Centre for Party Members and the Masses, Geguang Community, Wuhan, PR China, 2018, Sam Jacoby
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Leros, migrant camp, Beth Hughes and Platon Issaias 2018
Leros, migrant camp, Beth Hughes and Platon Issaias 2018
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A meeting of the La Borda cooperative at Can Batlló, Barcelona, Cristina Gamboa/La Borda
A meeting of the La Borda cooperative at Can Batlló, Barcelona, Cristina Gamboa/La Borda
Research in the School of Architecture centres on themes critical to contemporary social and spatial design challenges.
In keeping with an institution that highly values innovative practice and academic research, design-led research in the School of Architecture is integrated with more conventional text-based enquiry. We especially support practice-led and interdisciplinary design research with tangible public and social impact.
Research activity is currently focussed around the following themes:
Architecture & Social Movements examines the practical, conceptual, and disciplinary questions that social movements present to architecture and urban design.
Climate Justice posits that there are no social questions that do not enfold ecological relations and no ecological relations that do not enfold social and political forces.
Intergenerational Cities asks where are the new collectivities of intimacy and care for the intergenerational city if the single-family dwelling and the nuclear and extended family are no longer fit for purpose?
Institutional Forms & Practices studies the diverse spatial forms and social practices of architecture and urban design in relationship or resistance to the institutions and institutionalisations that shape them.
In addition to the research themes, the School of Architecture created the Laboratory for Design & Machine Learning to conduct research into new interdisciplinary forms of designing, evaluation, and policymaking.
We especially invite applications from MPhil/PhD applicants or Visiting Researchers whose research can make a clear contribution to our strategic areas of research.
School of Architecture Research Groups and Labs
School of Architecture Research Projects: Case Studies
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CERFI: Collective Equipment and Institutional Programming
Architecture & Social Movements Research Group
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Collective Forms: Neighbourhood Transformations, Spatialised Governmentality and New Communities in China
Institutional Forms & Practices Research Group
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Architecture Pedagogies for Professional Advancement, Mobility and Exchange
Institutional Forms & Practices Research Group
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Learning Environments
Institutional Forms & Practices Research Group
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Architecture's Afterlife
Institutional Forms & Practices Research Group
Contact
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School of Architecture Research
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