Critical AND UCL Urban creative Laboratory urban research, teaching, practice and activities participation report 2015 2018 UCL Urban Laboratory

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Welcome, UCL Urban Laboratory is a crossdisciplinary centre for critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research and practice, which has made a vital contribution to the research culture at University College London for more than a decade. This new edition of our Activities Report provides an overview of the key areas of activity and engagement which we have programmed over the last three years (2015—18), in collaboration with a wide range of committed academics from across departments. We are indebted to the Faculties which continue to support our work: the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, Engineering, Social and Historical Sciences, and Arts and Humanities—as well as to UCL Grand Challenges, Global Engagement Office and Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, which have provided support for specific projects. We would also like to thank all our partners from different sectors outside UCL who have worked with us to develop and deliver our vision of an ‘engaged urbanism’ which offers new approaches to urban problems, grounded in an understanding of everyday realities. The first part of this report contains details of selected highlights from the last three years followed by an update on our recent activities. The next section presents key areas of our research and engagement, the programming we are developing around the new Urban Room to be located at the university’s new campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (UCL East), and our Artists’ residencies and Visiting Researchers. The report also summarises our teaching activities, through the MSc Urban Studies, PhD affiliation scheme, and Urban Lab Exchange short course programme, as well as presenting our updated survey of urban expertise at UCL. Finally, we present snapshots of all the people who constitute the UCL Urban Laboratory, through our Co-Director, Steering Committee, International Advisory Board network, and core office team, as well as the partners we have been privileged to work with in the last three years. Thank you for your commitment, creativity, and contribution, without which none of this could have been achieved. We look forward to taking forward with you new projects, initiatives and ambitions in the coming years. 4 content 5

Director Haidy Geismar Department of Anthropology Clare Melhuish Fore word 7 Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou UCL Urban Laboratory Department of Social Science / IOE urba n lab timeline 9 Susanne Kuechler Co-Directors Department of Anthropology H ighlights 10 Barbara Lipietz Pushpa Arabindoo The Bartlett Development Department of Geography Planning Unit E vents And Activities 20 Matthew Beaumont Susan Moore Department of English The Bartlett School of Planning R esearch and Engagement 32 Camillo Boano Michał Murawski The Bartlett Development School of Slavonic and T eaching 44 Planning Unit East European Studies Ben Campkin Florian Mussgnug P eople and Publications 50 The Bartlett School of School of European Languages, Architecture Culture and Society L inks and Partners 60 Ellie Cosgrave James O’Leary Department of Science, The Bartlett School of Technology, Engineering Fi nancial Summary 60 Architecture and Public Policy Kieren Reed Andrew Harris The Slade School of Fine Art Department of Geography Rafael Schacter Jennifer Robinson Department of Anthropology Department of Geography Ava Fatah gen Schieck The Bartlett School of Steering Committee Architecture Helena Titheridge Yasminah Beebeejaun Department of Civil, The Bartlett School of Planning Environmental and Geomatic Sarah Bell Engineering The Bartlett Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering Claire Colomb The Bartlett School of Planning Alexandre Apsan Frediani The Bartlett Development Planning Unit Kalliopi Fouseki The Bartlett Institute for Sustainable Heritage List correct as of December 2018 6 Forewor d 7

It has been an exciting journey to be UCL Urban Laboratory has become one of involved with the Urban Laboratory UCL’s best known and longest-established since 2008, first as Co-Director, and from cross-disciplinary research centres, at the 2011—2018 as Director. I’m delighted that forefront of experimentation with methods Dr Clare Melhuish, whose outstanding of critical, creative, interdisciplinary, record of interdisciplinary research speaks and outward-facing urban research. for itself, was appointed to the role in May Bringing together expertise from across 2018, and I look forward to working with the arts, sciences, and humanities, it has her. The landscape of higher education made a major contribution to modelling has shifted massively since 2011, and the new modes of research, teaching and urgency to work towards more ethical and engagement across the urban field, which people-centred modes of urbanisation has been recognised nationally and intensifies and is widely recognised in internationally. international urban policy agendas. As the Urban Laboratory’s incoming The increasing energy around the director, I believe we can become still Urban Lab, as a cross-faculty initiative more visible, diverse and dynamic in the that works outside the comfort zones of theoretical and empirical contribution established disciplines, demonstrates the we make to the development and growing commitment of the university to dissemination of cutting-edge urban radical, transdisciplinary, public-facing knowledge. We are fortunate to be academic work. Over the last three years based in London, a laboratory in itself for we have worked hard to develop a model studying rapid urban change and rich for how things can be done differently cultural pluralism within international at UCL East when it opens its doors in networks of mobility and exchange. a few years. At this new site, the Urban Yet our capital is also a site of stark Lab will work with partners to set up a social and spatial inequalities, urban new Urban Room and Memory Workshop, deprivation, and ecological failure, which providing a physical space that represents are reproduced across cities around the commitment to publicly-engaged research globe. In the coming years we will seize and teaching on cities and urbanisation, the opportunities which London offers, as a local and global concern. The new particularly in the context of the new campus will offer a place to continue facilities at UCL East, to develop our the work of the Urban Lab in promoting profile as a leading authority in the urban knowledge that works across field of urban research, embracing an the qualitative and quantitative, anthropological and holistic vision of the articulates overlooked urban cultures and city as social and material habitat, not experiences, and in parallel with formal simply technical milieu. urban education, curates and widely circulates this knowledge in accessible Filippo Minelli, The only and impactful ways. Clare Melhuish emergency is the absence Director, 2018— of emergency. Smoke performance as part of the series Bold Statements, Ben Campkin Somerset House, London, Director, 2011—2018 March 2, 2016. Part of the exhibition Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street, produced by Approved by Pablo and curated by Rafael Schacter. 8 Ur ban Lab Timeline 9

Urban Lab illustrates a key characteristic Urban Laboratory has been an important 2005 Inspired by discussions between 2013 Launch of the first Urban of UCL’s culture; its ability to invent platform for UCL’s cross-disciplinary geography and architecture, Pamphleteer, containing a range and support structures to overcome urban research, teaching and practice the UCL Urban Laboratory was of articles on Future & Smart conventional disciplinary boundaries. This for almost 15 years. During that time, it established by geographer Cities. The seventh issue was is something at which UCL excels and has grown its public profile significantly, Matthew Gandy, quickly drawing published in summer 2018. where it has on several occasions in the positioning UCL as a leading centre in this in colleagues from other First full-time researcher last two hundred years generated entirely area. The breadth and interconnections fields such as anthropology, appointed with funding from UCL new areas of study and knowledge. Urban of its activities embody the core principles engineering, film studies and Estates to work on university-led Lab may be the latest example in this of our research strategy, particularly urban sociology. urban regeneration case studies, history, recognising that the issues raised our commitment to fostering highly 2005 The Urban Laboratory continues published in 2015. by cities are completely transdisciplinary interdisciplinary research that engages —08 to grow, launching a dedicated in nature; that they require the whole directly with public discourse and creates We become a partner in the Urban website, and creating the range of physical, social and cultural the conditions necessary for positive Lab+ international network of Urban Salon seminar series in approaches provided by every department environmental change. urban laboratories, funded by partnership with several London in UCL if they are to be effectively I have been delighted that we the European Union’s Erasmus universities. addressed. have been able to draw on the expertise Mundus programme Cities are now the dominant form of Urban Lab to support the physical 2008 The Urban Laboratory is awarded 2015 The City Centre in UCL’s of human habitation on the planet and and conceptual development of our —11 £ 250,000 by the Provost’s Department of English merges generate the largest part of our impact new campus, UCL East. The Urban Lab Strategic Development Fund with the Urban Lab to form Cities as a species on our planet and its future. team has co-ordinated a set of urban (PSDF). Imaginaries, a new strand of work Urban Lab works in the interstices programmes for Pool Street West around 2008 Interdisciplinary Urban on the cultural representation of between faculties and departments in the Urban Room and Memory Workshop Studies MSc launched and cities, led by Matthew Beaumont. UCL and the communities with which they public-facing space, designed to facilitate now recognised as a flagship engage, curating different disciplinary community engagement as a core part of Dr Rodrigo Firmino joins Urban programme in the field. approaches around a number of thematics, the activities of the Future Living Institute Laboratory from Curitiba, Brazil, each selected to require debate in East London. Its work is a truly excellent 2009 Inaugural Cities Methodologies as a visiting researcher on and discussion across conventional example of how interdisciplinary expertise exhibition—‘a marketplace of surveillance and security. boundaries. This is an active and creative can drive innovation on a local, as well as urbanism’—initiated with the 2016 Launch of Cities Methodologies process of spotting promising themes, a national and international scale. Slade School of Fine Art. anthology Engaged Urbanism with nourishing discussion and providing an We begin hosting PhD students, Free Word Centre. environment for experimentation. Over the and continue to have a wide range last ten years as Dean I don’t think that I Professor Michael Arthur LGBTQ+ nightlife spaces research of ‘affiliated’ research students have seen a more effective investment in UCL President & Provost initiated by Ben Campkin and from across the university. new intellectual activity. Lo Marshall, in collaboration 2011 Urbanist and architectural with community groups Raze historian Ben Campkin becomes Collective and the Queer Spaces Professor Alan Penn director. Network. A comprehensive report Dean, Bartlett Faculty of the Built commissioned by the Greater 2011 Ongoing institutional commitment Environment 2009—19 London Authority is published and funding for the Urban in 2017. Laboratory is provided by a pioneering collaboration between 2017 Urban Lab Exchange launches to UCL faculties. deliver professional short courses.

2018 Anthropologist Dr Clare Melhuish becomes Director. URBAN LAB HIGHLIGHTS

2015 urban Lab + 12 2016 uNiversity-led urban regeneration 14 2017 eDge—Situated Practice in Art, Architecture and Urbanism 16 2018 uNMoored Cities 18

Audience at Edge: Periphery, Here East, October 2017. Credit: Jacob Fairless Nicholson. Ur ban Lab + 12 2015 13

Eight international urban laboratories convened in WORLDWIDE URBANISATION AND CITIES ON AND TEACHING, RESEARCH, PRACTICE THINKING, CRITICAL CREATIVE, A LABORATORY FOR

London in 2015 for a major international forum on urban UCL URBAN LABORATORY ENGAGED, ACCESSIBLE, COMPARATIVE URBANISM

We host and support transdisciplinary approaches We build on traditions established by pioneering higher education to understanding cities and urbanism: experimentation urbanists at UCL such as Ruth Glass, Peter Hall, at the interface of architecture and planning, the arts Otto Königsberger and Reyner Banham, who and humanities, and science and technology; public spoke accessibly across disciplines to a wide collaboration and participatory research; and audience, from a perspective rooted in empiricism, dissemination and impact beyond the academy, to local engagement, and international comparison. address societal challenges. ‘LONDON CAN NEVER BE TAKEN We work across faculties, and with a diverse spectrum of external partners, including arts organisations, FOR GRANTED, THE CITY IS TOO Between 2014 and 2016 we worked with our international counterparts to address community groups and stakeholders, local city councils, VAST, TOO COMPLEX, TOO CONTRARY architects and urban practitioners, we host visiting AND TOO MOODY TO BECOME researchers and artists in residence each year, and critical questions around built environment education. Working in partnership the UCL’s large community of urban masters and doctoral ENTIRELY FAMILIAR’ students shape our vibrant community of scholars. Ruth Glass, 1964: London: Aspects of Change labs engaged in conversations focused on how interdisciplinary, practice-oriented and international approaches could engage with issues of urban social inclusion and exclusion. The Urban Lab+ London Symposium hosted at UCL on 16 and 17 September 2015 was a major international forum on global approaches to urban higher

education. It comprised a public presentation of collaborative projects by the eight urban laboratories; a public panel discussion, reception and exhibition with contributions from academics, practitioners, policy makers and activists; and

peer-reviewed papers and presentations. Keynote speakers included Susan Parnell (African Centre for Cities), Adrian Lahoud (RCA), and symposium respondent Jane M Jacobs (Yale-NUS College). It also provided the occasion for the launch of Urban Pamphleteer #5, Global Education for Urban Futures. In 2016 the Urban Laboratory also participated in a collaborative installation with the network as part of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. ‘Turning Tables: Reporting from the Education Front’ was exhibited at Palazzo Mora, one of three participating venues in the collateral event UCL.AC.UK/URBANLAB @UCLURBANLAB #URBANPAMPHLETEER UCL.AC.UK/URBANLAB/RESEARCH/URBAN-PAMPHLETEER ‘Time Space Existence’. The exhibit comprised a round table, with a place for each

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Urban Lab+ partner and a spare place for guests, in which to present installations TURNING TABLES investigating critical urban issues such as the commons, climate change and ‘IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND UNIVERSITY-LED social relations. HOW IDEAS ABOUT DECLINE AND ETHICAL REGENERATION REGENERATION OPERATE IN DIFFERENT We cross university frontiers within London and CULTURAL FORMS BECAUSE OF THE internationally to explore new methods and realities. CRUCIAL ROLE THEY PLAY IN JUSTIFYING We are leading a proposal for new, shared AND FACILITATING PARTICULAR MODES programmes of collaborative urban research, teaching Partner universities of the Urban Lab+ International Network were Technische and co-production between scholars, practitioners OF TRANSFORMATION’ and citizens, at UCL East, the university’s planned Universität Berlin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Università della Ben Campkin, 2013, Remaking London: Decline and new campus in east London. Regeneration in Urban Culture. London: IB Tauris Calabria, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, University of the Witwatersrand ‘EVERY CITY, EVERY URBAN SITE, EVERY WWW.TURNING-TABLES.IT Johannesburg, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute Mumbai, Chinese University of EMERGING URBAN CONDITION OR ISSUE, NEEDS ITS OWN DISTINCTIVE METHOD Hong Kong, University College London. OF EXPLORATION’ Ben Campkin and Ger Duijzings, 2016, Engaged Urbanism: Cities, Methodologies. London: IB Tauris BACK FRONT Clare Melhuish 2012. bandiera.co.uk Bandiera, Graphic design: Right UCL Urban Laboratory drawing by Howard Read 2013; photo Clare Melhuish 2013. Lees 2013;photo Loretta photo Ali Al Alraouf 2014; , top: drawing by Ben Barbour 2014; Barbour drawing by Ben , top: photo bottom right: ‘place-mat’, part of Turning 2014; Bell , from top clockwise: photo Sarah Tables exhibition, Palazzo Mora, Venice Biennale 2016. Designed by Guglielmo Rossi.

Left Mapping relationscapes, a workshop

with CLUSTER Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training, and Environmental Research. Image courtesy Cristina Cerulli/ Beatrice De Carli/ Florian Kossak.

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Set of five case studies The following extract is taken from an article published in The Class of 2020 Foundation’s Annual Trend Report 2019. published in 2016, analysing the processes and impacts ‘In 2014, a five-point framework for a university-wide renewal of of prin- of urban regeneration ciples around place-making and social engagement was announced by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). Failing to antic- initiatives led by universities ipate the European Referendum of 2016, it declared the arrival of the 39 LEPs and European Structural Funds for regional development as ‘the in the UK and US only secure source of funding for universities over the coming years’ (Melhuish 2014), due to cuts in public funding for higher education and increased competition for students. Universities were urged to address five specific areas: engagement with local schools; local skills agendas; social innovation and social enterprise; cultural engagement; and local economic growth. As in the UK, universities across Europe are being promoted as agents of urban regeneration both because they can generate economic activity and produce skilled localised workforces to power the knowledge economy, and offer stability and ‘sticky capital’ (to use the term coined

Left Case study report, by Maurrasse 2001) as anchors for development with a long-term com- published September mitment to place and community participation. They are being asked to 2015, London: UCL Urban invest in widening participation programmes locally and increase access Laboratory. Designed by Guglielmo Rossi. to students from non-traditional backgrounds, but at the same time many are under pressure also to ‘internationalise’, by attracting more students Bottom New York and staff from overseas, teaching some courses in English, and maintaining University, approved Core Plan by Grimshaw their institutional rankings in the international league tables. This presents for Washington Square a challenge to universities to balance local, place-based demands and consolidation. Image global reach equitably. courtesy NYU/ Grimshaw/ Michael van Vakenburgh As Wiewel and Perry have indicated: ‘The urban location and cen- Associates. trality of universities to the nature and well-being of cities means that cities and countries can be expected to turn to their universities as part Case Studies in university-led regeneration was published online in 2015 and in of strategies to respond to the new challenges and opportunities that print in 2016, marking the culmination of two years of research and analysis by global economic competitition poses for urban regions’ (Wiewel and Perry Clare Melhuish, funded by UCL Estates. The report has informed the vision and 2008: 304; see also Perry and Wiewel 2005). implementation of the UCL East project. It examines the key drivers for university If this is indeed the case, then universities need to grasp the ca- development, the governance structures and narratives which universities pacity and potential which they have as power-houses of critical thinking mobilise to move development forward and the strategies for engagement with and influence, as well as urban landowners and developers, and embrace communities and other urban actors which universities are constructing in the a role as agents of inclusive, equitable, cosmopolitan urbanism. As so- context of spatial expansion projects. The print edition was launched with a called anchor institutions, collaboratories, living laboratories, ‘planning dissemination event at UCL in January 2016, which provided a public platform animateurs’ (Benneworth and Hospers 2007), and ‘non-campus campuses’ for eight key research informants to speak about the projects. Between 2015 (Hayward 2001), universities as institutions, working in partnership with and 2018 the research has been widely circulated at national and international other urban actors, are well-positioned to develop new kinds of social and academic conferences, public and industry events, including The Urban University spatial resources that can help to make cities better places’. Conference (Northampton) 2015, Association of American Geographers (San Francisco) 2016, Loughborough RADAR 2016, CoreNet One Big Day (London) 2017, York Festival of Ideas 2018, and The Class Conference (Milan) 2018. It Melhuish, C., 2018, ‘From ivory tower to the non-campus campus: has also generated new research funded by the UCL/ University of Gothenburg university interventions in the urban landscape’, in Beijer, J. (ed) Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, to be published in an edited volume (2020), Annual Trend Report, Amsterdam: The Class of 2020 Foundation, and contributed to the formation of the Bartlett Global Centre for Learning pp. 26—29. Environments launched in 2018. e dge — Situated Practice in Art, 16 2017 17 Architecture and Urbanism

A collaboration with the 2017 Folkestone Triennial which To programme this ambitious series—convened by Kieren Reed (Slade brought together architecture, public contemporary art School of Fine Art), James O’Leary (Bartlett School of Architecture) and Lewis Biggs (Folkestone Triennial)—day tickets were sold at a range from £5—£15, and urban ‘placemaking’ with discounts for those joining us at all three events. With over 600 attendants, feedback collated from the series was incredibly positive—with an average score of 8.4 out of 10. Each event was preceded by a film screening that broadened out the themes emerging from each symposium, organised with the Open City Documentary Festival and students from the Bartlett’s Film + Place + Architecture Doctoral Network. A sold-out screening at Bloomsbury’s Horse Hospital of essay film Finisterre, alongside Rosa Barba’s Disseminate and Hold, and William Raban’s About Now MMX, led into a screening of Foreign Parts and artist films at Here East, and an intimate evening at The Waiting Room on Folkestone’s Harbour Arm for a showing of Marc Isaacs’ Calais: The Last Border. The cohesive design identity for edge produced by Matthew Chrislip successfully brought together the complex programming elements of the series.

Jordan Rowe, Urban Laboratory Centre Manager, writes: A multi-disciplinary range of speakers, performers and creative masterclass leads, drew on their own individual approaches and fields of operation to generate a wider conversation on the creative use of interstitial spaces, inspired by the notion of a ‘situated practice’ (and the simultaneous launch of the Bartlett’s new Situated Practice MA). Discussions considered the multi-layered and complex situations artists and the arts find themselves in during processes of urban change. Held across three months, the trio of symposia were situated in three ‘edge’ locations brought together by the High Speed 1 rail link as a launchpad for exchange: the first event at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus considered the area’s historic and newly developed gateway sites for knowledge and transport (‘Gateway’—September); the second event held at the Here East ‘maker space’ considered the transformation of Stratford from edge location to emerging destination (‘Periphery’—October); and the ambitious culture-led regeneration of Folkestone, a seaside town on the littoral edge of England, was the focus of the final event (‘Border’—November). Keynote speakers were drawn from the world of practice, including the Top left Calling Time: A acclaimed artists Jeremy Deller, Jill Magid and Do Ho Suh, and architect Friedrich Logistics and Performance Ludewig, director of ACME Studio who are proposing a new integrated project Workshop led by artist Leah Top right Do Ho Suh, Edge: on Folkestone’s seafront. Yet the depth of knowledge ran much deeper, with Lovett, Edge: Gateway, Periphery, October 2017. September 2017. Credit: Jacob Fairless interventions from lauded multi-disciplinary collectives Assemble, MUF and Nicholson. The Decorators, arts organisations Stroom Den Haag, SPACE, and Edinburgh Art Second left Terra Cruda– Festival, curators and critics Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, JJ Charlesworth, Terra Secca masterclass Bottom right Kreider + led by artist Florian O’Leary, Edge: Periphery, and Diane Dever, alongside a range of critical thinkers, architects, poets, Roithmayr, Edge: Gateway, October 2017. Credit: Jacob and historians. September 2017. Fairless Nicholson. Un moored Cities 18 2018 19

One-day symposium in 2018 foregrounding that are entirely powered by the energy of the sun. As earlier, all three speakers creative responses to the challenges of climate emphasised that radical change can only come about through participation, and that a bottom-up approach should form the bedrock of the urbanism of the future. change for cities The final panel returned to a London flooded by its tidal river. Designer Matthew Butcher’s projects demonstrated how we’ll need to develop a completely new relationship with water in the future, one that accepts its hostility. Architect Shaun Murray presented a series of extraordinary drawings which map ecologies Cities will have to confront the as-yet unknown effects of climate change, whether of erosion, flows of fluid and friction of materials related to two abandoned piers that’s a rise in sea levels, more frequent and severe storms, or increasingly on the River Thames. He argued for an immersive urbanism that designs the extreme heat. Convened by writer and architectural historian Paul Dobraszczyk, relationship between things and not the things themselves. Finally, historian Robin Unmoored Cities centered the notion that the creative imagination has a vital role Wilson took us back to 1864 when the Thames was filled with commercial ships, to play in considering these challenges. through a utopian analysis of James Whistler’s painting Wapping. Displaying an intimate relationship between people and the river, this reading of an unmoored Paul Dobraszczyk writes: city reminded us of how history always informs future imagining and how utopian We began by imagining a London overtaken by the sea. One of Professor CJ desires of the past might be recovered today. Lim’s speculative proposals had small central enclaves in the city protected by The diversity of the day’s papers was summed up by sociologist Jennifer immensely high walls, whilst another saw arks disassemble into self-sufficient Gabrys who saw in the bewildering variety of projects an unmooring not just of floating habitats. Drawing on the example of the polders in the Netherlands, the cities, but of politics, the social and the architectural. In all of the papers, the act paper was an embrace of new ways of living in the face of the inevitable. of imagining was not about providing solutions to problems but rather of working Whilst not directly connected with climate change, the case of Kiruna in with them—an acceptance that doesn’t paralyse but rather invigorates and northern Sweden was laid out by anthropologist Viktoria Walldin. Working as part excites. In all the papers, adaptation to climate change was not seen as a form of of White Arkitekter, her practice has the daunting engineering task of moving an resignation or defeat, but rather a dynamic way of making new kinds of cities and entire city two miles away in order to avoid collapse into an adjacent iron-ore mine. new ways of being in the world that are more just, equitable and responsive to Her presentation demonstrated how such a project may not be as outlandish as whatever comes. it sounds, but that the pragmatics require a thoroughly participatory approach to design, embracing the needs and desires of all citizens. Unmoored Cities was organised with financial support from the Architecture In the ‘Airborne’ panel, PhD student Thandi Loewenson used her imagined Projects Fund of the Bartlett School of Architecture. This text is adapted from a cities of Mailo and Melencolia—where structures lift off from the ground—to Medium article published in August 2018. Recordings of the day can be found on interact with the very real plight of those forced to scavenge the landfill sites on the Urban Laboratory’s Soundcloud page. the edge of Lusaka, Zambia. Curator Rob La Frenais presented a range of transport devices he’s co-developed that provide radical alternatives to fossil fuel-powered vehicles. This led neatly into Royal Holloway’s Sasha Englemann whose work with artist Tomás Saraceno aims to create aerial forms of transport and habitation Top Tomas Saraceno, Observatory, Air-port City (2008). Psycho Buildings, Hayward Gallery June 2008.

Far left Living Infrastructure. Drawing courtesy Simone Ferracina.

Left ‘Blocker BaRachel in her workshop’: A performance at Chunga Landfill featuringR achel Mwanza, Chunga Waste Recyclers Association, Mailo/Lusaka, April 2018. Credit: Thandi Loewenson.

Right IJburg floating houses, Amsterdam. Credit: Paul Dobraszczyk. Events and Activities

Cities Imaginaries 22 S tadtklang 23 U rban Lab Films 24 Cou nterspeculations 25 P ower to the Citizen! 26 En gaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies 27 U rban Lab Lecture Series 28 U rban Pamphleteer 29 E vents Appendix 30

P anel at Stadtklang: Sonic Utopias, March 2016, Somerset House, London. Credit: Jacob Fairless Nicholson. C ities Imaginaries 22 S tadtklang 23

Activity strand encompassing the curation and Sunday evening get-together and music event exploring creation of cultural representations of cities the sounds of the city, in collaboration with the Department and urban life, featuring an annual lecture of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London

Led by Urban Lab Co-Director Matthew Launched in 2013 and generally hosted Beaumont, Professor of English Literature in the Arcola Theatre Bar in east London, at UCL, since 2014 this broad public events have included artist, writer and programme of screenings, salons, psychogeographer Laura Grace Ford and exhibitions, performances, workshops musician, sound engineer and producer and other events explores the aesthetics Jack Latham, presenting and discussing and semiotics of cities past, present and sound work using field recordings from to come. Cities Imaginaries is the the Church Street area in Edgware; the successor to the UCL Department of late writer, theorist and k-punk blogger English’s City Centre, which from its Mark Fisher presenting his audio essay launch in June 2010 was an attempt to ‘London Dreaming’ in 2015; and writer Dan co-ordinate a range of different research Hancox in conversation with Dr Richard projects on aspects of the cultural and Bramwell from Loughborough University literary history of the metropolis from the to discuss Hancox’s critically acclaimed Middle Ages to the present. Through the book Inner City Pressure: The Story of Cities Imaginaries activity strand, artists, Grime (William Collins, 2018). critics and scholars based in the Special events have taken us further Humanities can interact with UCL and afield. ‘Sounds of Urgent Utopia’ was other communities in producing and The historian, broadcaster and film-maker, hosted at The Africa Centre as part of the debating historically-informed radical who had previously collaborated #FutureTrends exhibition, with architects, urban imaginaries for the future. It was extensively with academics in UCL History curators, theorists, musicians and writers launched in October 2014 with an researching the legacies of British exploring the influence of African cities, inaugural lecture by the prize-winning slave‑ownership, offered an impassioned culture and sound on the way the future novelist, musician and composer Amit and thought-provoking historical journey is imagined today. And as part of the Chaudhuri. Since then, several other through periods of housing crisis in the UK. celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary high-profile cultural figures have delivered of Thomas More’s book Utopia, we hosted the annual Cities Imaginaries lecture, (See Multimedia Appendix p. 58, for details ‘Sonic Utopias’ at Somerset House in including Urvashi Butalia, Linton Kwesi of online review by Jordan Rowe) 2016, screening afrofuturist documentary Johnson, and in 2018, David Olusoga. The Last Angel of History (John Akomfrah, 1996), alongside live sets from NTS Radio DJs and discussion with writer and theorists Kodwo Eshun and Top David Olusoga, Cities Ayesha Hameed. Imaginaries Lecture 2018. Credit: Jacob Fairless Nicholson.

Left ‘Mona’. Image courtesy of Urvashi Butalia/ Granta.

Right Stadtklang: Sonic Utopias, March 2016, Somerset House, London. Credit: Jacob Fairless Nicholson. Ur ban Lab Films 24 C ounterspeculations 25

Screening programme engaging audiences with Audio tour of the City of London mapping the contours the work of filmmakers depicting cities, the urban of financialisation, launched inO ctober 2018 landscape, and life in urban societies

Originally set up in 2011 as a successor affected by transformative architectural In a series of podcasts, fifteen activists, Komporozos-Athanasiou with Max Haiven to The Bartlett’s Urban Film Society, Urban change. As part of this, the acclaimed Oslo, artists and interdisciplinary academics of the ReImagining Value Action Lab at Lab Films introduces participants to a August 31st (dir. Joachim Trier, 2011) was navigate the historic streets of the Lakehead University, Canada. diverse, wide range of filmmaking and screened at the Institute of Contemporary Square Mile, exploring the intersections Accompanying the audio tour are a viewing across the globe. Arts, for which we secured funding from of finance and the imagination. Topics series of short articles published in Public Since 2016 we have established the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London range from algorithms to architecture, Seminar, the online platform of The New a screening partnership with Bertha to invite the film’s director Joachim Trier, colonial legacies to anarchist histories, School for Social Research in New York. DocHouse, the UK’s first dedicated and writer Eskil Vogt, to participate in a and yoga to children’s play, as a way for us documentary cinema, based at Curzon post-show discussion. to understand the speculative powers at Visit the interactive map to listen to the Bloomsbury. Through this collaboration Over this period we have also work both for and against financialisation. audio tour: bit.ly/counterspeculations-map a series of sold-out screenings have continued to work closely with the annual The tour was recorded from an included the UK premieres of Natura Open City Documentary Festival, and in earlier walking event held in the City Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (dir. 2015 we hosted a London on Film study in April 2018, organised by Urban Lab Matthew Gandy, 2018) and The day with the British Film Institute, which Steering Committee member Aris Experimental City (dir. Chad Freidrichs, considered film’s pertinence as a medium 2017), alongside new releases and special for evaluating urban change in the city. one-offs, such as Cities of Sleep (dir. Other new locations for screenings Shaunak Sen, 2015), New Town Utopia since 2015 include the Omnibus Theatre, (dir. Christopher Ian Smith, 2017), and Oxo Tower Bargehouse, Bloomsbury Equal by Design (dir. Peg Rawes and Beth Studio, and The Horse Hospital. A full list Lord, 2016). of films screened over the period can In 2017 we were a founding partner be found in the events appendix of of ArchFilmFest London, a new biennial this publication. launched during the London Festival of Architecture. Urban Lab Films’ line-up Urban Lab Films is curated by Jordan Rowe. explored sensory interactions with the built environment as a means to provoke a deeper understanding of how people are

Left The Experimental City, dir. Chad Freidrichs, 2017.

Right Vertical Horizons: The Shard, a Spectacle of Capital in the City? Image courtesy Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou/ Public Seminar. Power to the Citizen! 26 E ngaged Urbanism: 27 C ities and Methodologies

A manifesto for the public authoring of our cities, Anthology curating work from eight editions of our Cities produced across UCL, policy and industry Methodologies exhibition

A call-to-action for academics, digital This volume published in 2016 The edited volume includes framing practitioners and citizens, Power to the explores innovative and experimental chapters by Urban Laboratory Co-Director Citizen! outlines key ideas emerging from methodologies designed by academics, Jennifer Robinson and founding director a 2017 debate on data co-creation in the artists, activists and others to produce Matthew Gandy. The book was launched digital city. Challenging the rhetoric of new knowledge about cities, working in December 2016 at London’s Free Word unimaginable convenience, efficiency, across academic disciplines. What Centre with presentations from Guardian predictability and connectivity pushed binds them together is a commitment to journalist Aditya Chakrabortty and Public by the narrow smart city agenda, the understanding the social, cultural and Works co-founder Andreas Lang, editors manifesto contests that the ‘smartness’ material realities of the contemporary Ben Campkin and Ger Duijzings, and a of cities is in fact the product of an metropolis. Through the creative number of contributors to the book. intricate knowledge and insight borne juxtaposition of methodological by its citizens. statements and experiments the volume Bottom Campkin, B., The project was made possible and G. Duijzings (eds), as a whole, edited by Ben Campkin and through funding received from the UCL 2016, Engaged Urbanism: Ger Duijzings, capures something of the Grand Challenge of Transformative Cities and Methodologies. dynamic experiences, discourses and London: I.B. Tauris. Technologies, which was secured in other realities that constitute today’s collaboration with UCL’s Engineering Right Henrietta Williams cities worldwide. Going beyond the Exchange for work exploring the concept presents her contribution immediate research context, it also to the publication at the of smart cities and its impact on book launch, Free Word questions which methods of presentation London’s communities. Centre, December 2016. and communication are being used to The project was led by Claire disseminate research findings, and who Left Power to the Citizen! McAndrew in The Bartlett School of pamphlet, November 2018. the findings of the research are being Architecture, with Sarah Bell and Charlotte Designed by Unlimited. shared with. Barrow at Engineering Exchange, and Jordan Rowe at UCL Urban Laboratory. Participants in the panel included curator and author Lucy Bullivant, researcher Nicolas Fonty, the GLA’s Smart London Strategy and Delivery Officer Stephen Lorimer, Adam Dennett from The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and Ava Fatah gen. Schieck from The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Read the manifesto at powertothecitizen.com Ur ban Laboratory Lecture 28 Ur ban Pamphleteer 29 S eries 2018

Series of six lectures exploring the meaning of the term Publication series edited by Ben Campkin and Rebecca ‘urban laboratory’ Ross confronting key contemporary urban questions

Clare Melhuish, curator of the series, writes: and lived experience in the city. Written in a direct and accessible perspectives, provocations and vignettes The term ‘urban laboratory’ has been Andy Pratt (City, University of tone, and designed by Bandiera, the on London’s LGBTQ+ night-time spaces, extensively applied in urban innovation London) identified typologies from pamphlets are intended to engage past, present and future, with a focus on discourse, and has acquired currency in the creative industries—the recording multiple audiences, drawing on the the different tactics being used to queer urban studies where ‘a very loose usage studio, incubator, and ‘crit’—as more history of radical pamphleteering to night-space. It features examples that of “laboratory” and “experiment” seems progressive models for the shaping of stimulate debate and instigate urban suggest how and why different venues, to be the norm rather than the exception’ urban laboratories. In Sarah-Marie Hall’s change. Between 2015 and 2018 we have events and clusters are produced; how, (Karvonen and van Heur 2014: 383). As (University of Manchester) lecture, we published three issues in the series: when and why they have opened or described by Andrew Karvonen (KTH gained insights into the importance of the Urban Pamphleteer #5: Global closed; the scenes that have recently Stockholm) in his opening lecture, urban smart phone as part of everyday urban Education for Urban Futures (September emerged, or are imagined, and how these laboratories may often be characterised infrastructures, and the significance of 2015), edited by P. Alfaro d’Alençon, connect with historical ones, and with as low-carbon districts, platforms, living everyday settings in which to study the B. Campkin, R. Gupte, S. Mkhabela, J. other places. laboratories, innovation zones or testbeds impact of personalised technologies on Novy and M. Savela. This issue brings This issue was featured in an online in specific city contexts, where they patterns of urban living. Finally, Pat Noxolo together contributions from members review by It’s Nice That, a platform for are designed to be change-oriented (Birmingham University) drew attention to of the Urban Lab+ network to stimulate ‘championing the most exciting, and in addressing a range of sustainability the need to recognise the differentiated a critical discussion about the future of engaging work online, in print … to the challenges. Cynthia Myntti’s (New York ways in which embodied knowledge filters higher education focused on cities and widest possible audience’: ‘In contrast University Abu Dhabi) lecture focused and defines social dynamics and lived urbanisation. Contributions engaged with to the previous six issues of Urban on the human dynamics involved in experience in the ‘urban vortex’. Noxolo live projects or taught through approaches Pamphleteer, the team chose to involve mobilising change through different brought the series to a provocative close. defined as practice-oriented or colour in the seventh issue. “When we kinds of partnership, in the case of Her talk highlighted the dynamic and laboratorial. Yet it is not always clear how first started thinking about the theme the American University of Beirut’s unpredictable nature of the energy flows these ambitions can best be achieved. of LGBTQ+ night-time spaces, we set Neighbourhood Initiative. Valeria Ribeiro which direct urban processes, as a focus Urban Pamphleteer #6: Open-source ourselves the challenge to involve colour Corossacz’s (University of Modena and for investigation, in counterpoint to the Housing Crisis (November 2016) without referencing cliches of the rainbow Reggio Emilia) talk provided insights into characterisation of urban experimentation This issue interrogates new ways of flag”, explains Rebecca. Deciding on race, class and gender dynamics in a within urban innovation zones as approaching London’s rapidly escalating yellow, pink and purple, the creatives wealthy neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, fragmented and relatively static which housing crisis, through open-source agreed that this colour scheme serves “as considering the power relations which opened the series. methods. Originally inspired by Stewart a loud, but also quite subtle, visual wink shape the production of urban geographies Brand’s 1968 whole Earth Catalog: toward solidarity against rigid or binary Access to Tools, it presents the notion categorical thinking.”’ of thinking in alternative, communal, (www.itsnicethat.com/articles/urban- tech savvy and creative yet practical pamphleteer-issue-7-publication-061218) Left Cover image from (even if idealistic) ways about society’s The Experimental City, 2018, problems. These seemed well-matched to Karvonen and Evans (eds), London: Routledge. All rights our contemporary urgent need to invent reserved for De Ceuvel. new ways to approach London’s rapidly Credit: Niko Cutugno. escalating housing crisis and engage

Right Issues of Urban critically with its underlying logics. Pamphleteer are distributed Urban Pamphleteer #7: LGBTQ+ for free in print and online. Night-time Spaces: Past, Present & Future PDF issues can be accessed via donations on the Urban (July 2018). Guest editor L. Marshall Pamphleteer website. with B. Campkin and R. Ross. #7 gathers Events Appendix 30 31

2018 Past, Present and Future Launch 07 Oct. EDGE: Periphery Symposium 20 jan. Surplus in Neoliberal Urban 27 APR. Shaping the Digital City: London Dreaming with Mark Space Seminar Visualising the City with Data and Fisher Performance 11 Dec. Flat Out! Dancing the City at 14 JULY Centre Pieces: a Public, 06 Oct. EDGE Film Series: Periphery Light Lecture a Time of Austerity Lecture Documented Conversation on Film screening 12 jan. The Shard—Vertical 26 SPET. Photography and the London Lesbian and Gay Horizons Exhibition 21 APR. Urban Development Manipulation: Documenting Virtual 06 Dec. From Postcolonial 22 SEPT. University Urbanism: Centre Roundtable by Project: Comparative Control Seminar Critique to Decolonizing Urban Campus Development and Urban 2016 Perspectives Seminar Studies Seminar 05 JULY Bareback Regeneration Short course 17 SEPT. Urban Pamphleteer #5 Museum Performance 09 dec. Engaged Urbanism: Cities 12 APR. Utopia Discourse with Launch: Global Education for Urban 30 Nov. (Re)financing London’s 14 SEPT. EDGE: Gateway Symposium and Methodologies Launch Matthew Beaumont Lecture Futures Launch Future: Building Collective 25 may Unmoored Cities: Radical 08 SEPT. Edge Film Series: Gateway Knowledge on Alternatives to Urban Futures and Climate 29 nov. Timescapes of Urban 05 APR. Utopia Discourse with 16 SEPT. Urban Lab+ London Film screening Housing and Transport Infrastructure Catastrophes Symposium Change: London — Barcelona, a Ruth Austin Lecture Symposium 2015 Symposium Delivery Symposium 25 july Power to the Citizen! Regeneration Comparison Symposium 24 may Urban Lab Films: New Town 20 MAR. Stadtklang: Sonic 18 AUG. Exploring Virtual Data and Co-Creation in the Digital 27 Nov. Towards Vital, Vibrant and Utopia Film screening 17 nov. Urban Pamphleteer #6 Utopias Performance Control Workshop City Seminar Material Geographies of the Mobile Launch: Open-source Housing 22 may David Olusoga: Cities 08 MAR. Urban Lab Films: Guarded 11 JULY. Defining Forms of Control Phone in Austerity Lecture 15 june Lessons from Crisis Launch Imaginaries Lecture Lecture Elites and Paranoia in the City Film in the Contemporary City Seminar Lavani Performance 13 NOV. Knowledge Curation as 11 nov. Cities in the BRICS: screening 08 may Urban Rooms, Civic Schools 09 JULY. Virtual Control - Security a Relational and an Embedded 10 june Black Shirts: the What are We Comparing? Seminar & City Learning Symposium, Exhibition 20 FEB. Soho Spirit: Our Space or and the Urban Imagination Exhibition Process Lecture 18b Testimony of Flora Poole, 07 nov. Street Art World Launch a Space in Our Minds? Symposium 03 may Writing the City [Into the Spinner Performance 04 JULY. The Malleable Spectacle: 08 NOV. Urban Lab Films: The Urban] Symposium 20 sept. Refuge, The Subaltern 02 FEB. Differentiated Mobilities London on Film Symposium Experimental City Film screening 10 june Vertical Horizons: In the & Urban Space Seminar in Contested Cities: Towards 22 mar. Queer(y)ing London Seminar Shadow of the Shard Film screening 02 JULY. ‘Placing’ Culture in Urban 30 OCT. White Middle-Class Comparative Approaches Workshop 19 july. Night Scenes Workshop China Symposium Households: Race, Class and Sex 12 mar. Bank Job Exhibition 08 june Urban Lab Films: Oslo, 26 JAN. Beyond the Red Line: Inequalities in the Urban Landscape August 31st Film screening 29 june. The Storm: A Utopian 22 JUNE. The Case of Robin Hood 19 mar. Cross-disciplinary How are Universities Re-imagining of Rio de Janeiro Lecture Forecast for London? Performance Gardens Seminar Conversations on Sexualities, 25 may Urban Lab Films: Cities of Cities and Urban Communities 17 OCT. UCL Urban Laboratory Open Queerness and Space Symposium Sleep Film screening 22 june. Community Mapping through their Spatial Development 18 MAY. Reactivating the Social House Reception and Citizen Social Science Seminar Plans? Seminar Condenser! Architecture against 07 MA r. Urban Lab Films: Natura 15 may Urvashi Butalia: Cities Privation Symposium 16 OCT. The Neighborhood Initiative Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin Film Imaginaries Lecture Lecture 15 june. Urban Lab Films: 20 JAN. The Engineer and the at the American University of screening Equal by Design Film screening Plumber: Mediating Mumbai’s 13 MAY. Urban Lab Films: 07 may Stadtklang: Savage Beirut: Reflections on the FirstT en Conflicting Infrastructural Cities After Hours Film screening 23 FEB. Queering the London Messiah Performance 14 june. Global Undergrounds Launch Years Lecture Imaginaries Seminar Plan: Preparing an LGBTQ+ 13 MAY. Cities After Hours Symposium 27 mar. Towards a New Vocabulary 10 june. The Centre Cannot Hold? 07 OCT. Stadtklang: Inner City Community Response to the Mayor’s of Urbanisation Lecture Symposium 2015 30 APR. Urban Lab Films: Nights Pressure Performance Consultation Workshop in the Electric City Film screening 26 mar. New London Vernacular/ 28 MAY. Turning Tables: Reporting 09 DEC. Invisible Surplus Space: 03 OCT. Comparing and 13 FEB. The London Salon: Queer Urban Qualities Symposium from the Education Front, La Art in Urban Settings Seminar 26 MAR. Nightwalking Lecture Contrasting Sustainable Urban Night Scenes Performance Biennale di Venezia Exhibition Developments Workshop 02 mar. Urban Lab Films / Bartlett 09 DEC. Socio-Technical Design in 11 MAR. Un-Learning from Lynch: 2017 Film Exchange: The Seven Sisters 25 MAY. Urban Lab Films: I, Anna Post-apartheid South Africa Lecture Cinema and Architecture in the Alley 02 OCT. Laboratories as a New Mode Indoor Market Film screening Film screening Behind the Marketplace Lecture of Urban Governance Lecture 20 NOV. Urban Geopolitics: 07 DEC. Splintering Surveillance as a Rethinking Planning in Contested 24 feb. Urban Lab Films: Committed 25 MAY. Cities After Hours Symposium New Territorial Layer? Lecture 24 FEB. Urban Revolution 09 SEPT. Open City Documentary Cities Launch Ethnographies Film screening Now Launch Festival: Home of the Resistance + 19 MAY. Linton Kwesi Johnson: 02 DEC. Writing Uppland Film screening 04 NOV. EDGE: Border Symposium 23 feb. Anti-eviction Mapping and Cities Imaginaries Lecture Lecture Comparisons Workshop 29 JAN. The Fabric of Space Launch the Housing Crisis Seminar 07 SEPT. Open City Documentary 03 NOV. EDGE Film Series: Border 16 MAY. Global Urbanisms, Regional 30 NOV. Change by Design Report Festival: Film in Place Panel Film screening 11 feb. #Haters Performance Specificities Symposium Launch: Euston’s Contested Sites Launch 14 JULY Urban Pamphleteer #7 07 Oct. Stadtklang: Sounds of 26 jan. Undead Promenade: 03 MAY. Urban Lab Films: Brixton Launch: LGBTQ+ Night-time Spaces, Urgent Utopia Performance Deconstructing the High Line Lecture Conversations Film screening 08 NOV. Stadtklang: Research and Engagement

LGBT Q+ Nightlife in London 34 Curati ng the City 36 Cha nge by Design 37 Cultural Infrasructure Mapping 38 U CL East 39 A rtists in Residence 40 V isiting Researchers 42

P anel at Stadtklang Sonic Utopias, Somerset House, March 2016. Photo by Jacob Fairless Nicholson. L GBTQ+ Nightlife in London 34 35

Research charting the changing profile and loss of LGBTQ+ night-spaces in London since 1986

Since 2016 research led by Ben Campkin cited in the Mayor of London’s Cultural with Urban Lab Research Assistant Lo Infrastructure Strategy, Culture and the Marshall has used surveys, statistical Night-time Economy Supplementary data, mapping, interviews, archival study, Planning Guidance and Draft London Plan; case studies, public workshops and and contributed to the establishment of performance to investigate London’s an LGBTQ+ Venues Charter by the Greater Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and London Authority. Recent publications Queer spaces. A pilot phase, gathering include an edited issue of Urban data from 1986 to the present, was Pamphleteer and an article co-authored by initiated in collaboration with Raze Campkin and Marshall in Soundings. Collective, a performers’ network, and The research informs Campkin’s Queer Spaces Network, a campaign monograph in progress on the history of responding to the loss of queer spaces queer night-spaces in London from the and heritage. 1980s to the present, and collaboration The second phase saw the with Whitechapel Gallery on an exhibition construction of a dataset of licensed (Queer Spaces: London, 1980s—Today, premises focusing on the period 2006— April—August 2019). The researchers have 2017. This was supported by and provided also won a UCL Public Policy grant to work evidence for the Mayor of London and with Camden Council on social isolation Night Czar. The research has shown that within the LGBTQ+ community. the number of LGBTQ+ venues fell by 58% in the period, with closures often prompted by development. It has pointed Left Fabulous Facades to disparities in access to formal, licensed performance, 2018. Credit: premises within the LGBTQ+ community. Rafael Pereira do Rego. The project has been reported in the print Below The London Salon: and broadcast media internationally (e.g. queer night scenes, The Economist, BBC News, The Telegraph, February 2018, Museum of London. Credit: Ivan Denia Time Out, The New York Times, and Photography. LGBTQ+ media). The research has been Cu rating the City 36 C HANGE BY DESIGN 37

Urban heritage research cluster in the UCL-University Workshops in London and Cape Town in 2015 brought of Gothenburg Centre for Critical Heritage Studies together a range of local stakeholders to discuss the impacts of urban regeneration

The Urban Laboratory played a key role institutions, focusing in particular on Collective imaginations for Re-imagining regeneration through in the successful bid to fund a new the development projects led by UCL contested sites in Euston participatory design in Cape Town Centre for Critical Heritage Studies at (UCL East) and University of Gothenburg UCL. The partnership with the University (Project Nackrosen). We presented Urban Laboratory hosted an event This two-week workshop was organised of Gothenburg (UGOT) was launched findings from the workshops in the attended by various speakers from by Architecture Sans Frontières-UK in in 2016. Clare Melhuish is UCL lead in conference ‘Universities: space, place different organisations and institutions, partnership with Development Action the Curating the City research cluster, and community’, organised by the including Camden Council, HS2 Euston Group and supported by the DPU, Urban working with Dean Sully (UCL Institute Research Group on University History Action Group, CitizensUK and Architects Laboratory and the Sheffield School of of Archaeology), Henric Benesch (UGOT at the University of Manchester in for Social Housing, to discuss the Architecture. It focused on conducting School of Design and Crafts) and Ingrid September 2017, and are currently co- findings from the 2014 Architecture Sans a series of participatory design activities Martins Holmberg (UGOT Department of editing a volume for publication in 2020, Frontières-UK London workshop with local to support the re-imagination of the Conservation). The cluster has developed Universities and Urban Heritage. people from the Euston area. This was objectives and processes of urban a programme of research activities and In 2018 we organised two workshops implemented in partnership with Citizens- regeneration taking place in the publications exploring the dilemmas faced with heritage experts and creative UK, UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU), neighbourhood of Woodstock. The by academics and practitioners, policy- practitioners at the ‘Hidden Sites’ of Urban Laboratory and the University workshop involved international built makers and citizens, when it comes to House Mill in east London, a Grade I listed of Sheffield School of Architecture to environment professionals, academics negotiating the relationship between the tidal mill, and Äskhults by, a deserted produce a Citizens Charter capturing local and students as well as local activists urban past, present and future. farming hamlet south of Gothenburg needs and aspirations for the planned and practitioners. We are interested in questioning which has been restored as a visitors’ large-scale development around Euston the ways in which heritage can be destination. We explored the potential for Station linked to the construction of HS2. used to generate particular, often intervention in heritage sites by creative exclusionary, narratives of urban identity, practitioners, as a means of disclosing the and to legitimise certain kinds of urban ‘latency’ of historic sites and activating intervention. them in the present as a field of dynamic The work of the cluster is encounter between contemporary and transdisciplinary, across the overlapping past city dwellers. fields of urban anthropology, archaeology, architecture and design, conservation, The outcomes from both of these research and cultural studies, and their associated strands will be presented in a joint methods. During the first three years centre conference at the University of of funding we have focused on two key Gothenburg in November 2019. themes: universities and urban heritage, and heritage and creative practice. We organised two closed The Centre for Critical Heritage Studies workshops in London (November 2016) operates as an inter-faculty research and Gothenburg (April 2017), to discuss centre led by the Institute of Archaeology and critique university development and supported by the Institute of Advanced initiatives within a framework of heritage Studies UCL in partnership with the discourse. The workshops were attended University of Gothenburg. ‘HIdden Sites’ of heritage by a mix of academics, artists, curators workshop, with artist Cecilie Gravesen, held at House Change by design workshop and community stakeholders from UCL, Mill, Bromley-by-Bow, 2018. in Cape Town. Credit University of Gothenburg, and other Credit: Dean Sully. Alexandre Apsan Frediani. Cul tural Infrastructure Mapping 38 U CL East 39

Research to measure the future impact of UCL East on local We are playing a leading role in developing the university’s cultural infrastructure new campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

In 2017 we produced a report identifying New spaces for transdisciplinary research and presenting existing and new data and local/global engagement focused on cultural infrastructure in the environs on the urban will form part of the new of UCL East. The new data revealed a Future Living Institute at UCL East. Ben substantial network of community-based Campkin was appointed as joint Academic cultural organisations which either pre- Lead for the Bartlett Faculty of the Built date the Olympics, or owe their existence Environment to co-ordinate the new cross- to Olympic legacy funding which has disciplinary urban programmes which will since been withdrawn. They perform an be housed at Pool Street West (Phase 1). important role in sustaining resilience Urban Lab is developing two programmes, across the area’s diverse populations, the MASc Global Urban Lab (led by Jennifer but face significant challenges in the Robinson) and MRes London Lab (led by post-Olympic landscape. The report Ben Campkin) which will be co-located affirms the importance of UCL East in with a public-facing Urban Room and providing explicit support for existing Memory Workshop, a space for events, social and cultural infrastructure, and acts workshops and engagement with local as a baseline to evaluate the university’s stakeholders, professional audiences, and impact on these communities once the wider public. The Memory Workshop in operation. will be a digital resource centre run by Culture Lab, forming a vital resource for UCL urban researchers and their partners.

Top Cultural infrastructure around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: report by Clare Melhuish and Ben Campkin.

Left Hub67 community centre in Hackney Wick. Credit: Clare Melhuish.

Right Visualisation of UCL East buildings © Stanton Williams. ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 40 41

Our Leverhulme Trust-funded artist residencies Max Colson 2014—15 Tom Wolseley 2015—16 have supported collaborations between academics Hide and Seek: The Dubious Nature Vertical Horizons: In the Shadow of High Security Spaces of the Shard and practitioners

This residency, supervised by Ben Artist-filmmaker Tom Wolseley collaborated Campkin, extended the photographic with Andrew Harris to make Vertical investigations of artist Max Colson’s Horizons, a meditative essay film about photojournalist persona (the paranoid Western Europe’s tallest building, The Adam Walker-Smith) and his enquiries Shard. This feature length film, Wolseley’s into the hidden infrastructure of security most ambitious yet, asks questions about design and control embedded in the UK the relationship between the individual built environment. and the larger global dynamics that appear Colson’s performative photographic to be manifesting themselves in the practice dramatises the use of security changing contemporary landscapes of features in public space, questioning how capital cities such as London. design engenders feelings of safety or a The interdisciplinary nature of sense of individual or collective distrust. the Urban Lab and its diverse range of The project aimed to heighten viewers’ practitioners enabled Vertical Horizons awareness of the way that security design, to have a deeply researched knowledge surveillance and paranoia interact within base and a wide scope of direction. This the urban environment. The photos also created access to a variety of significant use humour to emphasise the limits of stakeholders related to the planning and the medium as documentary evidence construction of the finished building, and suggest the influence of human alongside conversations with researchers bias on photojournalistic investigation, in the area, particularly Martine Drodz of questioning issues around surveillance the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires and security design in relation to the et Sociétés in Paris. credibility of the investigation itself. Urban Lab, and Harris specifically, In reflection, Max has said that helped with research methodology, residencies such as those offered by the clarification of the project, and informative Urban Lab provide great opportunities discussion with other staff, students, and for artists to engage with cutting edge the public. research outputs and methodologies, and The film has been screened for the academy to present and interrogate as part of a solo exhibition at ROOM research ideas using unconventional and Gallery; ArchFilmFest London at the OXO ‘un-academic’ means. Tower Wharf Gallery; La Ville Vertical The residency culminated with Max’s conference in Lyon; The Centre Cannot first solo British exhibition at the Royal Hold symposium at Calvert 22; Edge: Institute of British Architects from 9 July— Situated Practice in Art, Architecture and 27 September 2015, titled Virtual Control— Urbanism at UCL and the UCL Festival of Security and the Urban Imagination. Culture. Essays on the work have been published in Public Seminar, and in the forthcoming book Re-Centering the City: Above Virtual Control— Security and the Urban Urban Mutations, Socialist Afterlives and Imagination. Credit: the Global East (Murawski, M. and Bach, J. Max Colson. (eds), London: UCL Press, 2020).

Left Vertical Horizons. Credit: Tom Wolseley. V isiting Researchers 42 43

Our research community is Felipe Lanuza Anita Burth Kurka enhanced by residencies Postdoctoral Research Fellow Visiting Researcher 2017—19 2018 for a mix of early career and established scholars ‘I investigate and represent the multi- ‘The objective of the visit from my home layered dimensions of absence in the institution, the Federal University of São changing environment of Burgess Park Paulo (UNIFESP), was to spend some and the neighbouring Aylesbury Estate, time at UCL’s Urban Laboratory studying in the context of urban regeneration in strategies used in research into the South London. These range from the contribution made by universities to urban disappearance of traces and fragments of regeneration in London. Meetings were the industrial past and the dense urban conducted with professionals from UCL fabric that has given way to the park, and Public Engagement, and included a visit the on-going demolition of the Aylesbury’s to the university’s new campus site in Rodrigo Firmino Rebecca Ross housing blocks leading to displacement East London. Honorary Senior Research Associate Honorary Senior Research Associate and dispossession.The multidisciplinary The visit expanded my 2015—16 2016—19 academic environment of the UCL Urban understanding of the university’s Laboratory has provided generous support presence in the city and how it relates ‘My year at the Urban Lab allowed ‘In this role I am well-positioned to work and a fertile ground for this research to land values, gentrification and the me to conduct fieldwork in London, on projects and facilitate interactions to develop, furthering my methods to desirability of economic “convergence”. and develop research ideas on the between UCL and Central Saint analyse how the changes of both sites The studies will contribute to my research relationship between “the digital” and Martins, where I run the MA in Graphic are connected, which I further represent in Brazil, leading to an International cities, and practices of securitisation and Communication Design. and criticise by combining architecture, seminar at UNIFESP with the participation surveillance in Latin America. Being hosted I have been preparing a manuscript photography and film.’ of UCL’s Urban Lab.’ in a multidisciplinary hub meant I could about the history of London’s postcodes go beyond the original research agenda, and developing some broader arguments and my interactions with colleagues about addresses and pointers to across UCL included speaking at the location. London’s postcodes have Situating Architecture lecture series, in been transmuted over their 150-year the Bartlett School of Architecture, and history through multiple successive and the Ephemeral Cities seminar series at intertwined cultural, spatial, economic, and Birkbeck; I also curated an Urban Lab technological iterations. Today they hold Films screening called ‘Guarded elites the distinct status of being concurrently and paranoia in the (Latin American) city’; machine precise and culturally resonant. whilst an unexpected by-product of this In addition to exploring this history, my period was an experimental project with research explores these implications as the Jeremy Bentham Auto-icon at UCL, new schemas for encoding and decoding ‘Watching Jeremy, Watching Me, Watching location, with new associated forms of Jeremy’. The insights and support I had subjectivity which are rapidly proliferating. from the Lab and its academic staff I am also one of the founding editors assisted in the completion of relevant of Urban Pamphleteer. Given my interest projects and publications, including the in interactions between graphic design book Unplugging the City: The Urban and urban studies, I have begun to reflect Phenomenon and its Sociotechnical on the series, as it develops and matures, Still of postcode being Controversies (Routledge, 2017), a book in relation to certain conventions of translated into phosphor chapter on the hyperconnected city in academic publication on the one hand, marks to enable mechanical Documents of Urban the book The Routledge Companion to and on the other to broader concepts of mail sorting by 1960s postal Change: Experiences of worker. James Ritchie (dir.), absence in Burgess Park Urban Imaginaries (Routledge, 2018), and publication and public audiences.­­’ Thirty Million Letters, British and the Aylesbury Estate. a number of journal papers.’ Transport Films: 1963. Credit: Felipe Lanuza. teaching

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Winning photograph in MSc Urban Studies photography competition, ‘Commuters at Westminster station’, 2018. Credit Jessica Chan. Ur banism across ucl 46 m sc Urban studies 47

We sit at the heart of an expanding network of urban Strategic Review Internationally recognised MSc launched by the

expertise at UCL 2018 evaluation of our Urban Laboratory in 2008 impact both within and outside the academy. Researched and produced by Joseph Cook.

Urban Laboratory was in the vanguard We updated information in 2018 on the In order to provide evidence Administered by UCL Geography, the strong critical foundation in urban studies to inform and support of initiatives to create cross-Faculty large and diverse network of urban the Urban Laboratory’s course has greatly benefited from its while developing a range of skills that will platforms at UCL. In 2009 it informed researchers across the university, building strategic planning process ongoing relationship with the Urban Lab’s enhance their future personal and career the creation, launch and progression of on a previous survey by Jennifer Robinson over the next three interdisciplinary agenda and pedagogical ambitions. years, we completed an UCL’s second Grand Challenges strand, in 2014, funded by UCL’s Grand Challenge evaluation of our reach programme. The course engages with During 2017—18, the programme Sustainable Cities (GCSC), and Urban of Sustainable Cities. The data provides and impact. The data and staff across UCL departments, including focused on the theme of the ‘urban Lab member academics and researchers insights into the range, depth and location information gathered Architecture, Planning, Anthropology, DPU, night’. This offered a means of exploring presented an objective have provided the levels of sustained of urban research at UCL and represents a survey of the audiences our School of Slavonic and East European cross-disciplinary differences and leadership and collegial commitment valuable resource for building connections work is currently reaching, Studies, English, and Science,Technology, connections across a topic that is of needed to ensure GCSC’s effectiveness within and beyond the institution. the areas and activities Engineering and Public Policy. The considerable current interest within policy, our various stakeholders in benefitting UCL and wider society believe we should be programme is run by Andrew Harris and practitioner and academic circles. It was since then. tackling, and valuable co-convened with Ben Campkin, Pushpa also an opportunity to showcase the GCSC provided financial support at 230+ insights into how we Arabindoo and Clare Melhuish. broad array of exciting research around compare with other urban the start of the Urban Lab’s now much UCL staff identified as being labs and centres for urban Notable strengths include the this theme currently being undertaken respected and widely appreciated Urban engaged in urban teaching research, both in London recruitment of high-calibre students by staff and students associated with Pamphleteer series in 2013, and Urban Lab and/or research. and across the globe. from widely varying academic and the Urban Lab. An end-of-year event members have continued to deliver Grand professional backgrounds. Through a organised by students featured two short Challenges-supported activities in the 30+ 95.1% of survey varied instructional programme that presentations: from Amy Lamé who talked intervening years. The Urban Lab has also UCL Schools/Institutes respondents consider includes classroom teaching, field visits, about her role as London’s first Night ‘Urban Inequalities & Social provided a great institutional exemplar producing work overlapping Justice’ to be relevant to essays and project-based assessment Czar, and from Urban Lab Co-Director in its response both to UCL’s Research with the interests of the UCL their work and interests. activities, and a range of additional Matthew Beaumont who spoke about the Strategy (emphasising Leadership, Cross- Urban Laboratory. learning supports, students are given a importance of the night for urban thinking. 92.9% of survey Disciplinarity and Impact) and to UCL’s respondents consider institutional development strategy, UCL 60+ ‘Community Engagement & 2034. It has demonstrated commitment Number of countries that UCL Participation’ to be relevant to their work and interests. both to 2034’s London strategy and its staff are producing urban- global engagement priority. related research on/within. 86% of survey respondents agreed that the UCL Urban Laboratory ‘hosts events 50+ that are relevant to their Ian Scott Urbanism-related courses work and interests. Director, Grand Challenges and across UCL at undergraduate 81.5% of survey Cross-Disciplinary Development and postgraduate levels. respondents agreed that Office of the UCL Vice-Provost the UCL Urban Laboratory is ‘on the cutting edge of urban research and discussion’.

70% of the UCL Urban Laboratory’s Facebook followers are located outside the UK. Poster for end-of-year 25000 people follow student event on the the UCL Urban Laboratory urban night. Designed by on Twitter. Daniel Cooper. PH d affiliation 48 Ur ban Lab Exchange 49

Our affiliation scheme provides opportunities forU CL This new initiative offers opportunities for urban doctoral students to engage in urban-focused events knowledge exchange between academics, and activities professionals, practitioners and communities

[The UCL Urban Laboratory] has been discussions, during which I met some of We launched Urban Lab Exchange in useful in communicating the sheer range my closest collaborators. More recently, 2017, following receipt of a Bartlett of activities available at UCL, and showing the Urban Lab helped me organise a Enterprise Development grant. It has been me what else is happening. Very exciting. workshop bringing together activists, designed as a platform to bring together I’ve loved being involved. communities and researchers to think academics specialising in urban research, PhD Affiliate through new solutions for the provision professionals working in architecture, of affordable housing and the financing planning, development, and urban policy, The Urban Lab is an everyday inspiration of sustainable transport solutions. arts practitioners and community and when it comes to thinking about Without the Urban Lab’s financial support, neighbourhood interest groups, including engaged research and creative forms this event would not have taken place, organisers and activists, to address key of dissemination. and I could not be more thankful to an global and local urban challenges. One- PhD Affiliate organization that continually seeks to and two-day short courses and bespoke I started engaging with the Urban Lab spark intellectual and political debates sessions provide strategic and fine- in the early stages of my PhD back in and activities that push disciplinary grained perspectives on themes such 2015. Over the past three years, I have boundaries, and that are relevant to the as ethical regeneration, gentrification, attended various Urban Lab events, such (urban) world, beyond the Ivory Tower. housing, security and design, public and as screenings, workshops and panel PhD Affiliate, Enora Robin UCL( STEaPP) private space, urban heritage, nightlife and the night economy, smart cities, and university-led urban development. Our pilot course, ‘University Urbanism: Campus Development and Urban Regeneration’ Stadtkolloquium ran in September 2017, attracting a mix of enthusiastic participants from university estates teams, local authorities, and architectural and urban design practice. Interdisciplinary academic forum for doctoral students working on urban research

Stadtkolloquium aims to provide ways is affiliated with the Urban Laboratory, for doctoral students to air theoretical, but also works independently with practical and methodological questions other institutions to encourage the and issues amongst peers in a friendly dissemination and discussion of PhD and constructive environment. Our past research. Stadtkolloquium warmly activities include annual workshops welcomes the involvement of doctoral organised for and by PhD students at research students based at institutions Academics and different stages, a series of monthly elsewhere in London and the United practitioners visit the Queen Elizabeth Olympic colloquia, reading and writing groups Kingdom as well as those studying in Park development site and informal meet-ups. Stadtkolloquium other countries. in east London. people and publications

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Audience at Edge: Periphery, Here East, October 2017. Credit: Jacob Fairless Nicholson. Biographies 53

Director Beaumont is the author, among Ellie Cosgrave other books, of Nightwalking: A Dr Ellie Cosgrave is Lecturer in Clare Melhuish Nocturnal History of London (2015) Urban Innovation within the City An anthropologist specialising and the editor of Restless Cities Leadership Laboratory at the UCL in architecture and the built (2010). He is currently completing a Department of Science, Technology, environment, Dr Melhuish was book on walking and metropolitan Engineering and Public Policy. Her appointed Director of UCL Urban modernity and commencing one work focuses on the ways in which Laboratory in 2018. Her work focuses on insomnia and metropolitan engineering design and leadership on the design and social impact modernity. He is responsible for of cities may be re-thought to create of large-scale interventions in the the Urban Lab’s Cities Imaginaries more inclusive and sustainable urban environment in the post-war strand, which organises an annual urban environments. She convenes period, and she has conducted lecture whose speakers have a Masters of Public Administration comparative research on university- included Amit Chaudhuri, Linton with a particular focus on urban led urban regeneration to inform Kwesi Johnson, Urvashi Butalia and innovation, and is the director of the UCL’s plans for the development David Olusoga. City Leadership Lab. of a new campus in east London (UCL East). Camillo Boano Andrew Harris Professor of Urban Design and Dr Andrew Harris is convenor of the Centre Manager Critical Theory in the Bartlett MSc Urban Studies and Associate Development Planning Unit (DPU), Professor in the Department of Jordan Rowe Prof. Boano’s interests centred on Geography. Dr Harris has worked Jordan project manages the the complex encounters between extensively on the role of culture communications, programming and critical theory, radical philosophy and the visual arts in urban- administration of the Lab in close and urban design processes, regeneration strategies as well as on coordination with our academics. A engaging with informal the three-dimensional geographies UCL graduate with a background in urbanisations, urban collective of cities, with expertise in London History and Urban Studies, he has actions, and camp urbanisms. and Mumbai. presented, chaired panels and been He is working on a series of an invited contributor to events and interconnected research projects Jennifer Robinson workshops on a range of themes, in Latin America, South East Asia Jennifer Robinson is based in the most recently on his research topic and Middle East on habitability department of Geography. Her of city museums. and city-wide upgrade. new book, Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Co-Directors Ben Campkin takes forward her post-colonial Previously Director of UCL Urban critique of urban studies to develop Pushpa Arabindoo Laboratory (2011—2018), Ben methodological foundations for Associate Professor in Geography Campkin is Professor of History a more global urban studies. Her and Urban Design, Dr Arabindoo’s and Theory of Architecture and current collaborative research research focuses on documenting Urbanism at the Bartlett School investigates the politics of large- the urban transformations in the of Architecture. With cross- scale urban developments and city- Indian city of Chennai, emphasising disciplinary research focussing on wide strategic planning, especially in its specificity as she investigates urban decline and ‘regeneration’ London, Shanghai and Johannesburg. middle class activism, subaltern in London, housing, and London’s politics, ecological citizenship and LGBTQI nightlife spaces, Prof. Steering Committee urban sustainability, tying them to Campkin is co-series editor of Urban wider debates within urban studies. Pamphleteer, a founding member of Yasminah Beebeejaun qUCL, co-convenor of the MSc Urban An Associate Professor in the Bartlett Matthew Beaumont Studies, and Chair of the UCL Grand School of Planning, Dr Beebeejaun’s Professor of English Literature at Challenge of Sustainable Cities research focuses on the relationship the UCL Department of English, Prof. Executive Group. between spatial planning and ethnic 54 International 55 Advisory Board and gendered identites; community Alexandre Apsan Frediani of the Royal Anthropological architecture and planning of Eastern working on issues related to public Michele Acuto engagement in decision-making; Dr Alexandre Apsan Frediani is Institute, Member of the Scientific European communism. art, global art, and socially engaged University of Melbourne, Australia and exploration of the creation of an Associate Professor in UCL’s Committee of the Fyssen art practice. A lecturer in the Ipek Akpinar inequalities both within historical Development Planning Unit. Foundation, and Co-Editor of the Florian Mussgnug Department of Anthropology, he has Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and contemporary debates about He is a development planner Journal of Material Culture. Her Reader in Italian and Comparative published several books including nationhood, colonialism, and specialising in squatter settlement current research is on image-based Literature and convenor of the the award-winning World Atlas of Stephen Barber postcolonial society in post-war upgrading policies and participatory modelling of complexity. BA Comparative Literature, Dr Street Art and Graffiti (2013) and Kingston University, UK Britain and North America approaches to development. Mussgnug’s research examines most recently Street to Studio (2018). Neil Brenner Areas of expertise include human Barbara Lipietz world literature from diverse Harvard University, United States Sarah Bell development, housing, urban Lecturer and Course Director for geographical and cultural angles. Ava Fatah gen Schieck Director of the Engineering development, participation and MSc Urban Development Planning He has recently been appointed Reader in Media Architecture and Mustafa Dikeç Exchange and Professor of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach. at UCL’s Development Planning Unit, Academic Director for Rome of the Urban Digital Interaction, teaches Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris Environment Engineering at UCL’s Dr Lipietz’s research work focuses Cities partnerships Programme, on MSc Architectural Computation Paul Dobraszczyk Institute for Environmental Design Haidy Geismar on the politics of urban development a cross-UCL initiative supporting, —Bartlett School of Architecture. Independent researcher, UK and Engineering, Prof. Bell’s research Professor of Anthropology and planning policies and practices. She funding and promoting the work UCL Ava’s research is practice based and investigates the sustainability of co-convener of the MSc Digital convenes the DPU’s research cluster academics carry out with partners focuses on Architecture, Interaction Michael Edwards urban water systems, particularly Anthropology, Prof. Geismar’s on Urban Transformations and is in global cities. Design, and ubiquitous computing University College London, UK social and policy factors as they research interests include Secretary of the Urban Planning (MR, AR and VR). Through urban Adrian Forty relate to engineering. Her work intellectual and cultural property; Advisory Group to the UNISDR’s James O’Leary play, action research and working University College London, UK also addresses community indigenous rights; new forms Secretary General. Associate Professor in Architecture with local communities, she leads a engagement with engineering of cultural representation; and and Situated Practice at the Bartlett unique Living ‘Media Architecture’ Bas Van Heur and infrastructure provision. the anthropology of art, critical Susan Moore School of Architecture, James Lab since 2011. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium museology and the South Pacific. Dr Susan Moore is Associate directs the Situated Practice MA. Jane Jacobs Claire Colomb She is also faculty lead for the Professor in Urban Development He is also a partner in Kreider + Helena Titheridge Yale-NUS College, Singapore Dr Colomb is a Reader in Planning development of UCL’s new campus and Planning and Programme O’Leary—a collaborative pairing Joining our Steering Committee in and Urban Sociology at the Bartlett in East London, heading up the Director for MSc International who make performance, installation 2018, Prof. Titheridge is based in the Roger Keil School of Planning, and Academic Culture Lab initiative. Planning in the Bartlett School of and time-based media work in Department of Civil, Environmental York University, Canada Director for Paris in the new UCL Planning. Her research deals with relation to sites of architectural and and Geomatic Engineering at UCL. Julia Lossau Cities partnerships Programme. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou the relational geographies of urban cultural interest. His current research Her current research focuses on the Bremen University, Germany As a sociologist and urban planner, Joining our Steering Committee (and suburban) development and explores the contested spaces of social dimensions of sustainability, her research interests span urban in autumn 2018, Dr Komporozos- built form, specifically the formation the ‘peacewalls’ in Belfast, in particular the links between social Ayodeji Olukoju governance, policies and politics, Athanasiou’s research centres on of development cultures and the Northern Ireland. exclusion, transport provision and Caleb University, Lagos, Nigeria European spatial planning, and the emergence of new social and normalisation of ‘best practice’ other urban systems. Vyjayanthi Rao urban sociology. political morphologies in finance in planning and development. Kieren Reed The New School, United States capitalism. Current projects include Most recently her work is explores Senior Lecturer and Head of Kalliopi Fouseki a collaboration with Judith Butler platform urbanism, and the use of Department at the Slade School Rebecca Ross Associate Professor at UCL’s and Chiara Bottici exploring the social media in localised participation of Art, Kieren Reed’s practice Central Saint Martins, University Institute for Sustainable Heritage, intersection of financialisation and practices in East London. encompasses sculpture, of the Arts London, UK Dr Fouseki’s research interests new forms of global fascism. He performance and installation, from AbdouMaliq Simone fall within the field of heritage leads the UCL Sociology & Social Michał Murawski studies in form to the production of University of Sheffield, UK management, including heritage Theory Research Group. An anthropologist of architecture architectural structures. He has co- values; heritage, conflict and and cities based at the UCL School led Urban Lab’s Cities Methodologies cultural diplomacy; urban and rural Susanne Kuechler of Slavonic and East European exhibition programme and the regeneration; and energy efficiency Head of Department at UCL Studies, Dr Murawski is a Leverhulme recent Edge symposium series, in in historic neighbourhoods. Dr Anthropology, Prof. Kuechler has Trust Early Career Fellow and collaboration with the Folkestone Fouseki is also Course Director of conducted fieldwork in island Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Triennial 2017. the MSc Sustainable Heritage and Melanesia and Eastern Polynesia. Critical Area Studies. His work, the Lead for the Heritage Risk and She is an elected fellow of the British focusing on Warsaw and Moscow, Rafael Schacter Resilience research strand at ISH. Academy and Academy of Social examines the complex social lives Dr Rafael Schacter is an Sciences, Member of the Council of monumental buildings and on the anthropologist, author, and curator, All listings correct as of December 2018 Selected Publications 56 57

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ARENA and planning as cultural heritage in Caldwell, L. and Camilletti, F., (eds), Rigon, A., Koroma, B., Macarthy, J., of the Visor: Looking at Buildings (UCL Urban Lab publication). Journal of Architectural Research, 1 Martinique, Planning Perspectives, Rome: modernity, postmodernity and & Apsan Frediani, A. (2018). The Looking at Us, CITY: Analysis of urban (1), 1. 34:2, 265–283 (published online beyond. Cambridge: Legenda/MHRA, politics of urban management and trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Colomb, C. (2015). Culture and 2017). pp. 37–52. planning in African cities. In T. Binns, 22:1, pp. 1–15. Urban Development: Revisiting the Geismar, H. L. (2018). Museum Object K. Lynch, E. Nel (Eds.), The Routledge Legacy of Harvey’s Condition of Lessons for the Digital Age. London: Melhuish, C., Degen, M., and Rose, Nerini, F. F., Hughes, N., Cozzi, L., Handbook of African Development. Beaumont, M., 2017, ‘Modernism and Postmodernity on Urban Studies. UCL Press. G., (2016), ‘The real modernity Cosgrave, E., Howells, M., Sovacool, New York: Routledge. the Urban Imaginary: Spectacle and Built Environment, 41 (3), 366–378. that is here’: understanding the B., Milligan, B. M. (2018). Shore up Introspection,’ in The Cambridge Harris, A., 2015: Vertical urbanisms: role of digital visualisations in the support for climate action using Robinson, J., 2017. Starting from History of Modernism, ed. Vincent Colomb, C., Novy, J. (Eds.) (2016). opening up geographies of the production of a new urban imaginary SDGs. Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586- anywhere, making connections: Sherry (Cambridge: Cambridge Protest and Resistance in the Tourist three-dimensional city. Progress in at Msheireb Downtown, Doha; City 018-05007 globalizing urban theory, Eurasian University Press, pp. 220–34. City. London: Routledge. Human Geography 39 (5). and Society 28:2, 222–245. “Yearly Geography and Economics Vol. 57, Prize for Best Published Paper in City Ortiz, C., & Lipietz, B. 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Local Development Cultures: Using Javornik A, Kostopoulou E, Rogers Y, Research, 39, 4: 1468–2427. Series (1st ed.). Switzerland: Open city: poetry, architecture and the Qualitative Interview as an Fatah gen Schieck A, Koutsolampros Springer International. Dragouni, M., Fouseki, K., & the production of not-knowing, Interpretive Lens, International P, Moutinho AM, and Julier S (2018) Robinson, J., 2016, Cities Georgantzis, N. (2018). Community In J. Charley (Ed.) Architecture, Planning Studies, 20:4, 390–406, DOI: An experimental study on the role of Methodologies Matter: Comparative Bell, S. (2018) Urban Water participation in heritage tourism Literature & The City, London/New 10.1080/13563475.2015.1034253 augmented reality content type in an urbanism, urban theory and theory Sustainability: Constructing planning: is it too much to ask? York, NY: Routledge. outdoor site exploration. Behaviour cultures, in B. Campkin and G. 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2018 Fringe of the ‘Creative City’ Blog between’ Blog https://medium. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ 16 Apr. In Urban Development, 15 May Ben Campkin on https://medium.com/@uclurbanlab/ com/@uclurbanlab/folkestone-on- review/2016/themes/equality/night- Universities Can Be Better Regeneration and ‘Imaginaries Autumn 2018 animating-the-interstice-protest-as- the-border-a-dislocated-city-living- time-politics Neighbours Article https://www. of Decline’ Podcast https:// Urban Laboratory Lecture Series a-creative-act-on-the-fringe-of-the- in-between-b083a425ce31 timeshighereducation.com/blog/ soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/ben- Podcast https://soundcloud.com/ creative-city-ce6902a06962 2016 urban-development-universities- campkin-regeneration-decline uclurbanlab/sets/urban-laboratory- 12 OCT. Lessons from Lavani Blog can-be-better-neighbours lecture 24 MAY New Town Utopia panel https://medium.com/@uclurbanlab/ 16 DEC. Timescapes of Urban 30 APR. Urban Lab Films: Nights in discussion Video http://dochouse. lessons-from-lavani-bdf5289b942e Change: Postcards from 16 Feb. Soho Spirit: Our Space the Electric City Programme Article 08 nov. Urban Lab Films: org/online/video/filmed-qna/new- Regeneration in Barcelona and or a Space in Our Minds? Podcast https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/ The Experimental City panel town-utopia-panel-discussion 25 JULY POWER TO THE CITIZEN! London Blog https://medium. https://soundcloud.com/ docs/NITEC-programme.pdf discussion Video https://youtu.be/ Data and Co-Creation in the Digital com/@uclurbanlab/timescapes- uclurbanlab/sets/soho-spirit SC6DaeZOzUw 24 MAY Historian and broadcaster City Video https://mediacentral.ucl. of-urban-change-postcards-from- 15 Mar. Matthew Beaumont On David Olusoga delivers 2018 Cities ac.uk/Play/7625 regeneration-in-barcelona-and- 26 JAN. Beyond the Red Line: Nightwalking Podcast https:// 08 nov. Urban Lab Films: Imaginaries Lecture on the UK’s london-e9601bd172f6 How Are Universities Re-imagining soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/ The Experimental City programme ‘Orwellian’ housing situation Blog 06 JULY LGBTQ+ Cultural Cities? Podcast https://soundcloud. nightwalking Article https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ Infrastructure in London: Night 01 DEC. Engaged Urbanism: com/uclurbanlab/beyond-the- urbanlab/docs/urban-lab-films-the- events/2018/05/25/david-olusogas- Venues, 2006-present Publication Cities and Methodologies Publication red-line-how-are-universities-re- experimental-city-programme-notes 2018-cities-imaginaries-lecture-on- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/ imagining-cities the-uks-orwellian-housing-situation urbanlab/docs/LGBTQ_cultural_ research/cities-methodologies/ 17 oct. Power to the Citizen! infrastructure_in_London_nightlife_ layout-components/engaged- 2015 Publication https://powertothecitizen. 18 FEB. Queer London Night Scenes venues_2006_to_the_present.pdf urbanism-cities-and-methodologies com Twitter Moment https://twitter.com/i/ 15 SEPT. Urban Pamphleteer #5: moments/963401405900914688 25 MAY Cities of Sleep Panel 17 NOV. Urban Pamphleteer #6: Global Education for Urban 17 oct. Counterspeculations: Discussion Video http://dochouse. Open-source Housing Crisis Futures Publication http:// Audio Tour of the City of 17 JAN. Night Vision Article org/online/video/filmed-qna/cities- Publication http://urbanpamphleteer. urbanpamphleteer.org/global- London Podcast https:// https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ sleep-panel-discussion org/open-source-housing-crisis education-for-urban-futures soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/sets/ about-us/bartlett-review-2017/ counterspeculations essays/night-vision 27 APR. Towards a New Vocabulary 08 NOV. LGBTQI Nightlife in London: 15 SEPT. Case Studies in University- of Urbanisation Podcast https:// From 1986 to the Present Publication Led Urban Regeneration Publication 07 sept. Film in Place Podcast 17 JAN. Life on the Edge Article soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/ https://soundcloud.com/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ christian-schmid-towards-a-new- docs/LGBTQI_nightlife_in_London_ research/university-regeneration uclurbanlab/film-in-place about-us/bartlett-review-2017/ vocabulary-of-urbanisation from_1986_to_the_present_-_ short-stories/life-edge interim_findings.pdf 01 JULY Virtual Control: Security 15 aug. Unmoored Cities: What 25 APR. New London Vernacular— and the Urban Imagination Blog Speculative Futures Exist for Cities 17 JAN. Space for Education Article Pioneering Urbanity in an Expanding 15 sept. What’s happening to http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ in the Face of Climate Change? Blog https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ Capital Video https://vimeo. 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We work with a wide range The Urban Laboratory receives core of organisations beyond the funding for its operations from: academy. Key partnerships over this period include: UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment ArchFilmFest London UCL Engineering Bertha DocHouse UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Creative Folkestone / Folkestone Sciences Triennial UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London Economic and Social Research Council Some of our activities and Free Word collaborations are funded through Institut d’études avancées de Paris competitive UCL awards including: Museum of London Open City Documentary Festival UCL Bartlett Visiting Fellowships Radar at Loughborough University UCL Beacon Bursaries ReImagining Value Action Lab at UCL Global Engagement Fund Lakehead University UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Somerset House University of Gothenburg

In addition, we have received funding in the period 2015—18 from The Museum of London was the following sources to support delighted to partner with UCL Urban specific projects: Laboratory during our City Now City Future season (2017—18). This Arts Council England partnership encompassed a range of British International Studies activities that brought a diversity of Association voices, critical research, and activist CONICYT attitudes into our public programmes Creative Folkestone around LGBTQ+ Night time spaces Economic and Social Research —from queer night salons and oral Council history roundtables to the opportunity Erasmus Mundus Programme Action 3 to support Urban Pamphleteer #7. Greater London Authority Thank you for working with us! Royal Norwegian Embassy in London © UCL Urban Laboratory Editors: Joseph Cook, The Bartlett Enterprise Development Published in July 2019 Clare Melhuish Lauren Parker Fund ISBN 978-0-9956637-1-8 and Jordan Rowe Head of Creative Partnerships, The Leverhulme Trust Museum of London UCL ChangeMakers UCL Urban Laboratory Design: Bandiera UCL Cities partnerships Programme Gordon House UCL Grand Challenge of Cultural 29 Gordon Square Printed in Great Britain by Understanding London WC1H 0PP Park Communications Ltd UCL Grand Challenge of United Kingdom Transformative Technology UCL Institute of Advanced Studies ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab [email protected] +44 (0)20 3108 9402