The buildings and cities we create can empower people and improve lives 鈥� or they can exclude and disempower us.听
In this bi-monthly event series, we inspired听conversations about how we can think differently to create more equitable spaces, inclusive experiences and diverse cities and societies.
In each event, we delved into the latest ideas and research from The Bartlett鈥檚 leading thinkers in the built environment field. We explored disability, race, gender, LGBTQ+ and many other dimensions of diversity and discover how they intersect with built environments around the world.
- Decolonial and Restorative Policy
This online Inclusive Spaces event explored the importance of decolonial, intersectional, and other social justice frameworks in the rise of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI), and explored restorative futures to champion change.
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Nai Lee Kalema is a PhD student at 果冻影院 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Felicity Atekpe is an Associate Professor in Professional Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture
- LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories
In this online event, the editors of 鈥楺ueer Spaces鈥� explored the past and present life of LGBTQIA+ spaces from around the world 鈥� and their worthy place in history.
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Joshua Mardell is an architectural historian, and is currently Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art
Adam Nathaniel Furman is an artist and designer who trained in architecture
Jordana Ramalho is a听Lecturer in Development Planning for Diversity, Co-Programme Leader MSc Urban Development Planning, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU)
Lo Marshall (they/them) is a Senior Research Fellow in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the Built Environment, The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment
- Environments for Mental Health
This online Inclusive Spaces event explored听the architecture of psychiatric buildings and the importance of involving end users in the design and planning of mental health care environments.
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Dr Evangelia Chrysikou is an Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, 果冻影院 (果冻影院)
Prof Helen Killaspy is a听Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry at 果冻影院 (果冻影院) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Katherine Barrett is听Co-Chair of the Service User Research Fora at 果冻影院 (果冻影院)
- Deafening Architecture
This online Inclusive Spaces event explores the voices, experiences and designs of D/deaf creatives within architectural practice, pedagogy and research.
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Dr Stylianos (Stelios) Giamarelos is an Associate Professor in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, 果冻影院 (果冻影院)
Richard Dougherty is an听Architect RIBA ARB and Director at Richard Lyndon Design
Prof Ann Heylighen is a Design Researcher at KU Leuven, Dept. of Architecture, Research[x]Design
Dr Nina Vollenbr枚ker is an Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, 果冻影院 (果冻影院)
- Trans Visibility and the City
This online Inclusive Spaces event explores trans people鈥檚 experiences of in/visibility in urban spaces and city life, and the contradictions that can make them simultaneously hyper-visible and hyper-vulnerable.
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Lo Marshall (they/them) is a Senior Research Fellow and Tutor at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, 果冻影院.
Carmen Abouamra is a PhD candidate, and a graduate teaching assistant at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, the 果冻影院 Institute for Global Prosperity, and听the 果冻影院 Department of Arts and Sciences.
Carla Ecola is a queer homelessness activist, and Founder/Director of The Outside Project, London's LGBTIQ+ Community Centre, Shelter and Domestic Abuse Refuge.
- Housing Inequality and Heritage
In this interactive online discussion, we will explore the role that community engagement can play in addressing housing inequalities, and ask how communities can be better included in shaping and creating their own housing culture and heritage.
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Eva Branscome is an Associate Professor Architectural History and Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Naomi Israel is the Co-Chair at SPID Theatre.听
Priya Aggarwal Shah is the Founder and Director at BAME in Property.听
- Disability-Inclusive Design for Climate Resilient Cities
In this Inclusive Spaces session, our global experts share how the climate crisis is impacting disabled people, and what disability-inclusive and resilient solutions might look like.
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Iain McKinnon,听Director of Inclusive Design at Global Disability Innovation Hub.听
Mikaela Patrick, Senior Inclusive Design Researcher at Global Disability Innovation Hub.听
Shivani Gupta,听Technical Officer at CBM International, India.
Anna Landre, PhD Candidate at 果冻影院 Department of Computer Science.
- Religious Infrastructure in the City
In this thought-provoking discussion, we examine the interconnections between public spaces and personal faith听and explore how Muslim and non-Muslim communities experience the creation of Muslim spaces.
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Ala鈥檃 Shehabi听is a听Senior Research Fellow in Equality Diversity and Inclusion at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and Lecturer in Middle East Politics at EISPS.听
Said Mahathir听is a听PhD Candidate at the Development Planning Unit (DPU), 果冻影院 (果冻影院).听
Hanadi Samhan听is a听PhD Candidate at the Development Planning Unit (DPU) and Seminar Leader/Tutor at The Bartlett School of Planning (BSP) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 果冻影院 (果冻影院).
- Everyday Curriculums / Everyday Pedagogies
Explore how simple, everyday changes in built environment education can create more inclusive educational experiences, and show how simple, everyday tools听can help educators diversify curricula and pedagogies.
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Amy Kulper听is is an architectural educator, administrator and innovator, and the Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Felicity Atekpe听is a practicing architect and the founder of White Table Architects, a practice specialising in sustainable design, interiors, architecture and landscape.
Sara Shafiei is Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment, and Associate Professor (Teaching) at The Bartlett School of Architecture.听听
- Queering Public Space听
In the last episode of Season 2听we explored the relationship between queer communities and public spaces and address the concept of 鈥榙esigning in diversity鈥�.
The session was not recorded, but if you are interested in exploring the event鈥檚 theme further, you can read the听and watch the film听produced by the speakers from Arup and the University of Westminster.听
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Mei-Yee Man听Oram听is a Consultant Member of the National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC), an International Access Consultant under the CPABE certification and is also a WELL Community, Homes and Health Equity advisor for the International WELL Buildings Institute, helping to shape healthier spaces for all.
Dr Ammar Azzouz is a London-based architect and a short-term Research Associate at the University of Oxford, and听an editor at Arab Urbanism.
Pippa Catterall is Professor of History and Policy, Chair of the George Lansbury Memorial Trust, a member of the London Historic Environments Forum, and co-editor of the journal National Identities.
Dr Scott Allan Orr is primarily researching the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage. Scott is also on the committee of the LGBTQ+ STEM @ 果冻影院 Network.听
- Mental Health and Social Justice in the Urban Outdoors
Explore听insights into how park users derive wellbeing from greenspaces,听the crucial role these can play for people鈥檚 mental health,听and the lived experiences of disadvantaged and minority groups who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
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Dr Liza Griffin听is a Lecturer in Environmental Politics at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, 果冻影院. Her research lies within the field of human geography, but her work spans health, spatial politics and development studies more broadly.
听is a Strategic Environmental Planner鈥痺hose work has included many facets of sustainable development planning and urban regeneration working at the interface of spatial research, policy and practice.听
听is a Lecturer in Environmental and Spatial Equity, and Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, 果冻影院.
- CurrenSee - An inclusive attention economy
Explore data representation and the socio-economic inclusivity of non-human vantage points and volatile urban environments.
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Current听is an interdisciplinary, intercultural collective whose digital practice is driven by an interest in the reciprocal relationships between virtual and physical spaces. Through the medium of volumetric cinema, 鈥楥urrent鈥� delineates the multiplicity of futures in the attention economy.
Daniel Fitzpatrick听is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, 果冻影院.听His听research is focussed on social sustainability, governance of social infrastructures and community-led responses to climate change.听
- Exploring gender inequality in the built environment
Bartlett alumna Sherin Aminossehe walks us through her experience in the built environment and the changes that need to be made for gender equality.
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Sherin听Aminossehe is currently听Director听of Infrastructure and Race Champion at the UK Ministry of Defence, and is a Bartlett听alumna.听
Paroj Banerjee听is the co-lead of the EDI unit at the Development Planning Unit. She is an ethnographer by training and her research interest centre on urban dispossession and responses to spatial inequalities.
- Visibility, Inclusivity and Allyship in Built Environment Professions
In our latest Inclusive Spaces lecture,听Dr Sam Chandan, Anna Coltrane, Adrian Silver, and Bartlett alum Tres Seippel explore the importance of being a built environment professional and visible members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Tres Seippel is a real estate strategy and finance executive. He is the Chair of the 果冻影院 New York Alumni Club, a Board Member of the 果冻影院 Friends and Alumni Association (果冻影院FAA), and a young committee member of the Real Estate Pride Council.听
Adrian Silver is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches real estate sustainability.
Anna Coltrane currently serves as the Director of Development at Space Craft where she is responsible for all aspects of new project development from acquisition through lease-up.听
Dr听Sam Chandan听is the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute; Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Chandan Economics; Forbes contributor; and, host of the Urban Lab podcast and Real Estate Hour on SiriusXM
- Decentralising solar economy
This Inclusive Spaces lecture explores insights on how civilization can be redefined in the face of our energy crisis, and the potential of solar energy development in compensating our modest urban capacities in renewable energy.
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Provides Ng is a teacher at the Bartlett School of Architecture, an architect and researcher who studies the emergence of digital tools, their applications, and impacts on urbanism.
Alberto Fernandez is a Professor of Architecture at UCH, a Digital Design Tutor at The Bartlett at MSci Architecture, MEng AD and MArch AD.
David Doria is an architect and urbanist interested in the convergence of digital technologies and architecture, and a technical skills tutor for the Research Cluster 4 in Bartlett's Architectural Design program.
- Crippling educational spaces
This panel discussion explores how we can critique the existing shape of higher education through the richness of our neuro and biodiversity differences, rather than 鈥榓dding鈥� disabled people or merely including them into existing normative higher education practices.
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Dr Jos Boys is Director of the Learning Environments Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre (LEEDIC), and Course Lead for MSc Learning Environments. She is a co-founder of the Matrix Feminist Design Collective, and of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project.
Margaret Price is Associate Professor and Director of the Disability Studies Program at the Ohio State University. She is currently at work on a mixed-methods investigation, the Disabled Faculty Study, which combines survey and interview data to learn more about the experiences of disabled faculty in higher education.
Poppy Levison is a 3rd year UG architecture student at Central Saint Martins, UAL. As a blind person, she speaks about architecture鈥檚 tendency to fixate on the visual rather than the experiential, as well as the politics of inclusive design. She was a founder participant of the Architecture Beyond Sight intensive study course (an ongoing disability-led collaboration between The Bartlett and The DisOrdinary Architecture Project that explores ways to challenge ableist built environment education practices).
- Accelerating Islamophobia and emerging 鈥楳osquephobia鈥�
In this talk, Professor Ali Alraouf discusses Islamophobia, and explains how it is related to inclusivity in the built environment, particularly in mosques. He explores how creativity in a mosque's design, alongside activities, openness, and its relation with the community and the urban context would lead to a better perception of Muslims and Islam.听
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Prof.听Ali听Alraouf听is an architect, urban designer,听and planner interested in research and practice in the domain of theory, criticism,听and creativity in architecture and urbanism.听He听is head听of research and development at the Ministry of Municipality in听Qatar and听is also a professor at HBK University in Qatar Education City.听
Sara Motwani听is a听second-year听student studying Engineering and Architectural Design (MEng) at the Bartlett School of Architecture.听
- Navigating Space Under Lockdown, the young BAME experience
This session examined the key findings of the听Navigating Spaces Under Lockdown听project,听which documented听the experiences of Black and racially听minoritised听young adults in England during the COVID-19 pandemic.听Co-led by the Bartlett听Development Planning Unit, The Ubele Initiative and FOAM20, and听funded by The National Lottery Community Fund,听this project explored how young people鈥檚 experiences of home, work, mobility, community,听and well-being have been affected by the pandemic and by prolonged periods of lockdown.
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Dr. Barbara Lipietz is Associate Professor at the Development Planning Unit where she directs DPU鈥檚 MSc in Urban Development Planning and convenes the DPU Research Cluster on Urban Transformations.
Dr Jordana听Romalho听is a Lecturer in Development Planning for Diversity at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit and co-director of the MSc in Urban Development Planning at 果冻影院. Her research spans the fields of feminist political ecology, gender and development and urban geography, and seeks to promote more socially just urban development.听
- Participatory design and diversity听
This event explored how the co-design of public spaces in areas affected by displacement and conflict can promote inclusivity and redress unequal power relations.
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听- Queer perspectives: cross-cultural experiences in physical and online space
This event explored a variety of cross-cultural perspectives highlighting the physical and online experiences of queer people worldwide, and discussed听the varied relationships that queer folk, especially QPOC (Queer People of Colour), have with the spaces they occupy, move through or are regulated by.听
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- Dr Sharif Mowlabocus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, New York. His research is located at the intersection of digital media studies and sexuality studies.听
- Dr Regner Ramos is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by experimental research methods, shifting between model-making, drawing, and performative writing.
- Professor Ben Campkin is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at The Bartlett School of Architecture, 果冻影院. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture and leads 果冻影院 Urban Laboratory鈥檚 work on Queer Infrastructure.
- Claire Tunnacliffe is a research student at The Bartlett School of Architecture, 果冻影院. Claire's doctoral research focuses on queer practices of placemaking: urban constellations of LGBTQ+ activism in London.听听
- Preventing 鈥榬uins of regeneration鈥� through youth-led co-design
This event explored the role youth-led design can have addressing the听negative consequences regeneration has on young people in East London.
The panel showed how design thinking can be leveraged by young people in the local area to make regeneration work better for young East Londoners, and how their design as part of the Fuse project came from a consideration of what 'prosperity' means to young East Londoners听and how it will support young people to thrive in the careers they want.
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- Hannah Sender听is a Research Fellow in the 果冻影院听Institute for Global Prosperity. Her research focuses on the relationship between adolescence, societal change and mental health.
- David Adesanya听is a sponsored athlete, architecture graduate and social innovation fellow.
- Diana Hysenaj听is an undergraduate student at Queen Mary University, a Young Artist at听NEWYVC Choir听and an ambassador for听听
- Why is cultural heritage under threat in London?
This event examines the nexus between ethnic minority spaces, London heritage policies (both local and city-wide), and the creative industries. It shares recent research findings on what is described as gentrification through 'hipsterfication', and its impact on ethnic minority spaces in London's East End 鈥� notably Brick Lane's Banglatown.
Parallels with听other 'ethnic majority' are also be explored, in collaboration with the , an informal alliance of around 80 community groups, campaigns and concerned independent organisations acting as a voice for Londoners at grass-roots level.
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- Saif Osmani,听a postgraduate research student at The Bartlett School of Architecture, and an interdisciplinary creative practitioner specialising in the fine arts and architectural design.
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- Rethinking disability and built space
This interactive workshop session will start from the work of disabled artists, designers, campaigners and scholars. We will discuss how engaging with disability at the intersections can be both a creative design generator, and a key means to challenge and change what is 鈥榥ormal鈥� in the design of the built environment.
In architecture and related fields in the built environment, disability as a concept 鈥� and disabled people 鈥� continue to be predominantly framed through a set of outdated and functionalist categories (wheelchair user, blind, deaf, etc.).
There is still a widespread assumption that 鈥榙isability鈥� is unable to bring any kind of creativity to the design of human spaces.
Since 2008, the DisOrdinary Architecture Project has been challenging this assumption by promoting new practice for the built environment, led by the creativity and experiences of disabled artists.
By finding innovative and enjoyable ways of bringing together disabled creatives with built environment students, educators, researchers and practitioners, DisOrdinary Architecture is co-developing new forms of valuing, and designing with, the rich bio- and neurodiversity of our many different ways of being in the world.
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- Dr Jos Boys,听Senior Lecturer in Environments for Learning, The Bartlett Real Estate Institute & co-director of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project
- Natasha Trotman,听Artist in Residence at Somerset House, and a designer whose work explores extending the frontiers of knowledge around mental difference, non-typical ways of being and marginalised experiences.听
- Raquel Mesquer,听founder and Artistic Director of Unchartered Collective, where she develops projects and an aesthetic exploring difference as a creative tool, including 'A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (the subversive act of horizontality)'.听听
- Rethinking architecture to create social value
This session will be led by award-winning architect and Bartlett alumna Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows.
In part one, we鈥檒l explore inclusive design methods, and answer key questions: How can architecture enable the voices of underrepresented communities to enable spatial justice? How can architects design for social value creation in places, buildings and neighbourhoods? How can designing inclusive spaces help us respond to the climate injustice? We鈥檒l bring these issues to life with听 case study projects from the practise Our Building Design, which enabled marginalised local voices to be heard through community participation and evidence-based research, tackling complex social and environmental issues faced by the disadvantaged communities.
Part two will expose the urgent issue of diversity in the architecture profession.听听is a research-based platform responding to a lack of understanding of how race and gender affect practitioners, young scholars and students in architecture and the built environment. We鈥檒l explore how these professions need to diversify, in order to reflect the diversity of the local communities they are serving.
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Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows is an award-winning British architect, and Bartlett alumna (果冻影院 Architecture BSc 2005, Grad Dip 2008, MArch 2010, RIBA/ARB - Part 3- Professional Practice 2011). She co-founded the inter-disciplinary practice听, the charity听, and two organisations that promote and support architects from the ethnic minority in the UK: FAME collective and Asian Architects Association. She is also part of the Design Review Panel for the Southwark Council Planning Department.
Currently Tumpa is a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the University of Westminster and a PhD candidate, where her research focuses on community participatory methods on architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices听in the UK and in Bangladesh. She was awarded the RIBA-J Rising Star Award in 2017, and a commendation for the RIBA President鈥檚 Award for Research in 2019.听 听听
- Levelling the playing field
With over 30 million children forcibly displaced across the globe, can play spaces provide places of refuge, equity and inclusion?
Emergencies of forced displacement are prevalent across the globe, as of 2019, 40% of the 79 million people forced out of their homes were children. However, research often ignores the plight of urban refugee children who have limited access to resources and rights within the built environment.
Using Kitengela, a peri-urban town in Kenya as a case study, we鈥檒l explore how play spaces can become significant places of safety, social integration and developmental progress.
Through the process of storytelling and digital mapping, we鈥檒l look at the material and spatial characteristics which promote the naturally occurring play culture 鈥� while also foregrounding the issues that prevent both refugee Congolese children and host Kenyan children from accessing play in an inclusive, equitable manner.
This work has been developed by Marie Williams, based in the 果冻影院 Institute of Global Prosperity, through the process of co-design, in collaboration with local researchers and over 200 participants in 2020.
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Marie Williams is a senior product development engineer, designer and academic who has adopted co-design principles to collaboratively create contextual solutions to a variety of social and environmental challenges our world faces. A finalist to the Institute of Engineering Female engineer of the year, her playful career has seen her collaboratively create innovative solutions within a range of industries, ranging from aerospace to nuclear building design, to corporate social responsibility and most importantly play.
In 2016 she launched听听and began a journey to enable inclusive play4all children through the process of co-design.听She is a PHD student at the听Bartlett Institute of Global Prosperity听and an exchange scholar at Yale School of Architecture. Through her situated, participatory co-design research project, she hopes to generate accessible and tailored play solutions that enable children from the Kenyan and Refugee community in Kitengela thrive through play.听听
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