introducing UCL Urban Laboratory
• a UCL pla orm for cross- disciplinary urban research, teaching, engagement and impact since 2005
• central role in UCL’s urban research culture
• visible, diverse, dynamic
• crea ve, cri cal, experimental, site specific, compara ve
‘I wish we had such a thing at Harvard. We urgently need something like this and it’s fabulous that UCL has invested in such an ini a ve’ Prof Neil Brenner, Harvard GSD
core team 2018-20
• Clare Melhuish, Director and Principal Research Fellow • Jordan Rowe, Centre Manager
as and when: • Administra ve Assistants • Research Assistants • Student event assistants
29 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PP our network: departmental and faculty contacts Co-Directors 2019 Steering Commi ee 2019 Pushpa Arabindoo Anthropology: Haidy Geismar, Suzanne Kuechler, Rafael Geography (SHS) Schacter Bartle School of Architecture (BSA): James O’Leary, Ava Fatah Ma hew Beaumont gen. Schieck English (A&H) Bartle School of Planning (BSP): Yasminah Beebeejaun, Claire Camillo Boano Colomb, Susan Moore, Pablo Sendra DPU (Bartle ) Development Planning Unit (DPU): Barbara Lipietz Ben Campkin Ins tute of the Americas: Katherine Has ngs-Saunders Architecture (Bartle ) Ins tute of Archaeology: Rodney Harrison Ins tute of Sustainable Heritage (ISH): Kalliopi Fouseki Ellie Cosgrave School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS): STEaPP (Engineering) Florian Mussgnug Andrew Harris School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES): Michal Geography (SHS) Murawski Jenny Robinson Slade School of Art: Kieren Reed, Patrick White Geography (SHS) Civil Environmental and Geoma c Engineering (CEGE): Helena Titheridge, Gabriele Manoli History: Mark Frost our research
priority areas 2019
Queer infrastructures Housing urbanism Globalising urbanisms Urban ver cality Wasteland Feminist ci es Urban heritage Urban nights visi ng research fellows and ar sts in residence
Urban Lab Research Fellow (Bartle appointment) annual themes 2018 Urban ver cality 2019 Waste
image: Alexander Macfarlane DPU image: Tom Farshi, UCL Computer Science 2020 Emergency
From COVID-19 to the climate emergency, or the fallout from financial crises to authoritarian governance. What are the characteris cs and consequences of ‘emergency urbanism’ in its different forms? intellectual agenda 2018 2019 autumn: agenda se ng 2020
Urban Room and Memory Workshop (UCLE) showcase: 179 speakers from 92 lecture by Gus Casely- different ins tu ons from 27 Hayford, Director V&A East, different countries around Nov 26th the world
programming: theory, prac ce, policy, culture spring: policy Urban Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals: exploring opportuni es for synergies, 2019 workshop for academics and policy-makers
Urban Prac ces module, working with West Trees and the new urban ecology End Partnership on waste, 2020 19 May 2020, live webinar discussion student projects on the place of trees in the urban Night Scenes: HERA conference, 2020 ecosystem as part of the Urban Tree (moved online due to COVID-19) Fes val (CPRE London) with Prof Kate policy and prac ce around nigh me Jones & Dr Gabriele Manoli cultures and migrant communi es in Europe summer: culture
City Essay Film 2019
Museums, Ci es and Power Ci es Imaginaries lecture Symposium and Performance Lab 2019 (postponed from 2020)
• urban programmes across UCL • MSc Urban Studies (Geography) • Histories of Global London 1900 to the present (op onal Masters module)
• PhD affilia on and supervision across departments
• cross-disciplinary Masters/PhD workshops • support for events and proposals • Stadtkolloquium doctoral network [email protected] • student exchange
Caribbean School of Architecture London study visit Nov 2019 our publica ons
Urban Pamphleteer: urban issues from diverse perspec ves UCL East UCL East: Urban Room and Memory Workshop Urban Room and Memory Workshop
Casa della Ci à, Rome
City York New Architecture, for Storefront
curated and designed by Sol Perez de Mar nez
crea ng spaces for public engagement Aedes Gallery, Berlin and par cipa on in - a public space urban decision - a space for workshops making a er - a space for making lockdown - a space for debate - a space for exhibi onss - a social space a UCL Urban Laboratory + Culture Lab collabora on at UCL East social media
comments from our 2018 survey:
‘the coming together of crea ve and inspiring works and events that intellectually feed us’ ‘transforma ve, with real world impact’
‘a challenge to conven onal urban design silos’
‘the most ac ve and interes ng urban lab in Europe’
• Urban Lab website: h p://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab • subscribe to Urban Circular for newsle er by email • join us on Twi er and Facebook: @UCLurbanlab • h ps://www.facebook.com/UCLUrbanLab/
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To find out more about the UCL Urban Laboratory, WHO WE ARE attend an event, make a proposal, ask for advice, or access our network of urban researchers across the university. A cross-disciplinary platform at UCL for critical and creative urban research, UCL Urban Laboratory ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab teaching, practice, and participation Gordon House, [email protected] 29 Gordon Square, +44(0)20 3108 9402 URBANLondon WC1H 0PP @UCLurbanlab
We create opportunities for urban researchers, practitioners and students from across disciplines to meet, PRACTICE AND PARTICIPATION TEACHING, exchange ideas and expertise, and collaborate on projects which critically address the real and emerging urban URBAN AND CRITICAL RESEARCH, CREATIVE challenges of our times.
We share our analysis and outputs with industry and the UCL Urban Laboratory is supported and co-funded UCL general public through events, reports, blogs, publications, by four UCL faculties: The Bartlett, Engineering, Social and podcasts to develop a dialogue on urban issues. LABand Historical Sciences, and Arts and Humanities URBAN LABORATORY