introducing UCL Urban Laboratory

• a UCL plaorm for cross- disciplinary urban research, teaching, engagement and impact since 2005

• central role in UCL’s urban research culture

• visible, diverse, dynamic

• creave, crical, experimental, site specific, comparave

‘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 iniave’ Prof Neil Brenner, Harvard GSD

core team 2018-20

• Clare Melhuish, Director and Principal Research Fellow • Jordan Rowe, Centre Manager

as and when: • Administrave Assistants • Research Assistants • Student event assistants

29 , WC1H 0PP our network: departmental and faculty contacts Co-Directors 2019 Steering Commiee 2019 Pushpa Arabindoo Anthropology: Haidy Geismar, Suzanne Kuechler, Rafael Geography (SHS) Schacter Bartle School of (BSA): James O’Leary, Ava Fatah Mahew 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 Instute of the Americas: Katherine Hasngs-Saunders Architecture (Bartle) Instute of Archaeology: Rodney Harrison Instute 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 Geomac Engineering (CEGE): Helena Titheridge, Gabriele Manoli History: Mark Frost our research

priority areas 2019

Queer infrastructures Housing urbanism Globalising urbanisms Urban vercality Wasteland Feminist cies Urban heritage Urban nights vising research fellows and arsts in residence

Urban Lab Research Fellow (Bartle appointment) annual themes 2018 Urban vercality 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 characteriscs and consequences of ‘emergency urbanism’ in its different forms? intellectual agenda 2018 2019 autumn: agenda seng 2020

Urban Room and Memory Workshop (UCLE) showcase: 179 speakers from 92 lecture by Gus Casely- different instuons from 27 Hayford, Director V&A East, different countries around Nov 26th the world

programming: theory, pracce, policy, culture spring: policy Urban Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals: exploring opportunies for synergies, 2019 workshop for academics and policy-makers

Urban Pracces 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) Fesval (CPRE ) with Prof Kate policy and pracce around nighme Jones & Dr Gabriele Manoli cultures and migrant communies in Europe summer: culture

City Essay Film 2019

Museums, Cies and Power Cies 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 (oponal Masters module)

• PhD affiliaon 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 publicaons

Urban Pamphleteer: urban issues from diverse perspecves UCL East UCL East: Urban Room and Memory Workshop Urban Room and Memory Workshop

Casa della Cià, Rome

City York New Architecture, for Storefront

curated and designed by Sol Perez de Marnez

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comments from our 2018 survey:

‘the coming together of creave and inspiring works and events that intellectually feed us’ ‘transformave, with real world impact’

‘a challenge to convenonal urban design silos’

‘the most acve and interesng urban lab in Europe’

• Urban Lab website: hp://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab • subscribe to Urban Circular for newsleer by email • join us on Twier and Facebook: @UCLurbanlab • hps://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