MORE2019 by Clare Hamman

2019

MORE 2019 ISBN: 978-0-9929657-3-0 Cover image Nauman Bashir Designed & produced Clare Hamman First published September 2019 Printed London ÂŠ University of Westminster

Contents

Introduction

MA Architecture Introduction Theses

Introduction

6 7

MA Interior Design Introduction Theses

Theses

24 26

Introduction Theses

MA Tourism Introduction Theses

Fabrication Laboratory

30 32

Introduction

Research Examples Architectural Research Forum PhD

36 37

60 62 64 68 84 85

Department of Architecture Staff Sponsors

48 52 54 58

Research

Books & Articles

MSc Air Transport Planning & Management Introduction

Latitudes

Architecture, Planning and Tourism Research groups

MA International Planning & Sustainable Development

44 45

Beyond the Studio

Ambika P3

MA Urban Design Introduction

Theses

RIBA Part 3

18 20

MSc Transport Planning & Management Introduction

12 14

MSc Architecture & Environmental Design Introduction

MSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management

90 94

MORE 2019 CELEBRATES the postgraduate and research work of the Westminster School of Architecture + Cities as it develops resilient practice in Strategic Design, Place-making, Mobilities, Making and Fabrication, and Professional Studies. MORE 2019 reveals the increasing dialogue between the disciplines within the School, and our increasing collaboration as we explore the synergies between architecture, urban design, planning, transport, housing, policy, tourism and events. In turn, this allows our postgraduate-level studies students to develop their own specialist responses to wider issues – the climate crisis, social justice, changing technologies – within that greater shared understanding and context.

MORE 2019 reflects the diversity of, and the rich exchanges between, individuals drawn to our School from all over the world. The School’s postgraduate and research community continues to increase, supported by over 100 full- and part-time staff, with another 100 or so part-time Visiting Lecturers from practice – the lifeblood of so much of our pedagogy. We continue to develop our facilities, expanding the Masters’ studios into the roof of the Marylebone campus where top-lit spaces afford panoramic views of London, and in the basement where the Westminster Fabrication Lab accommodates advanced fabrication and prototyping, as well as immersive environmental-testing. Please enjoy the show . Harry Charrington School of Architecture + Cities

Welcome to MORE 2019

MASTERS

Masters | MA Architecture

Nasser Golzari (Course Leader) Davide Deriu, Richard Difford, Jon Goodbun, Kate Jordan, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Dirk Lellau, Samir Pandya, Yara Sharif, Douglas Spencer, Filip Visnjic Nasser Golzari is a senior lecturer and senior partner of Golzari (NG) Architects. His research and build projects have won a number of awards including RIBA Award for Research, Holcim Award and Agha Khan Award. Filip Visnjic is an architect, curator and a media technologist working at the intersections of art, media and technology. He is editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, director at HOLO Magazine and FRAMED*. Krystallia Kamvasinou is a Senior Lecturer, an architect and a landscape architect. Her research on the topic of Interim Spaces and Creative Use has been published widely in academic journals and books.

MA Architecture Students: Weaam Alhabashi, Shaghayegh Arabishirazi, Vittoria Barbirato, Nauman Bashir, Ching Ki Chan, Salomeh Emami, Kyzzhibek Galina, Gamze Goksungur, Yi Lei Gu, Kemal Gundogdu, Omar Javaid, Etulan Joseph,

Prajakta Kalamkar, Ruchita Kanpillewar, Mahsa Khaki, Maisuda Khotpae, Jusik Lee, Akshay Lunawat, Viktor Nadjinsky, Samyuktha Periasamy, Valeria Ricci, Virak Roeun, Vignesh Shekhter, Olmedo Carles Solanilla

THE MA ARCHITECTURE course offers a unique programme of advanced postgraduate study combining a high-level of innovative theoretical and design investigation with critical approaches to contemporary socio-cultural and geo-political discourses in architecture. More specifically, the course promotes conceptual and speculative projects with originality in methods of research and design with high level of spatial, material and formal outcome.

alternative modes of study, including the choice of either a design-based or written thesis, and always seeks to stretch the boundaries and go beyond conventions by using textual, conceptual model-drawing, film, photography and hybrid methods of research and representations.

The specialist modules offered through an engaging twelve-month programme with the dynamic course team encourage interrogation of the specific topics of the modules. Using research and design, themes are critiqued via its three exciting pathways: Cultural Identity and Globalisation; Digital Media; and History and Theory. These involve theoretical debate and practical applications in architecture and design ranging from conceptual design of cities to applied animation and critical issues in architecture. Alternatively, students can also create their own pathway by selecting and combining relevant modules that meet their personal interest and future professional and academic interests through the in-depth study of specific subject areas. The programme facilitates Guest Critics: Abdullah Almuariqeb, Beth Cullen, Lubna Fakhri, Charlotte Khatso, Neil Kiernan, Maja Jović, Clare Melhuish, Mai Sairafi, Benjamin Perrot, Angeliki Sakellariou, Ana Naomi de Sousa 6

Moreover, the course provides students the opportunity to be part of extra curriculum activities in a collective studio culture, such as London Festival of Architecture, Fabrication Festival, Mega Crit, amongst others. The course also presents annual student Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Up-to-date facilities are on offer, providing students with an exposure to endless possibilities including CNC fabrication, 3D printing and robotics. Students this year were actively involved in Live Projects, design and making. They also had the opportunity to work closely with MArch (RIBA PART 2) and PhD researchers and participated in a major international exhibition and conference, ‘Dressing & Undressing the Landscape’ at London’s Rich Mix. Students were actively engaged with community projects and field studies in the context of London as well as internationally as demonstrated by the cross collaboration with Havana, Paris and Lisbon.

Special Thanks: Candelario and Aurélie (Laboratorio Artistico de San Agustin, Cuba), Talia Quesda (CUJYE, Havana, Cuba), Angeliki Sakellariou, Michael Sorkin (City College New York ,CCNY, USA)

MA Architecture | Masters

Etulan Joseph

The Eloquence of Emptiness

HOW DOES ONE design space that articulates the cataclysmic events of the Atlantic Slave Trade whilst letting emptiness and the experience control the narrative? How can the notion of narratives be architecturally expressed through the effect of emptiness? This thesis sets out to answer these questions. It aims to provide a design proposal as well as present possible design strategies in order to articulate the emotional trauma of the Atlantic Slave Trade through space. By looking at the relationship between space, memory, narratives and catastrophe through the specific lens of emptiness, it aims to provide future designs and additional design perspective. The thesis aims to fill a chasm as the topic is under-represented and its exploration can broaden our understanding of the relationship between space, trauma and history. Through

a spectrum of precedents and other methods, the thesis attempts to answer the research questions by a radical design proposal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a series of empty spaces around the city of London, particularly along the River Thames. It proposes the removal of significant spaces and buildings such as The Bank of England which made most of its money through the Atlantic Slave Trade. The proposal in its entirety is the unearthing of a complex legacy of bodies, ideologies and erasure. It takes the hidden layers of history, culture and legacy and brings them to the forefront. The research hopes to be an answer to questions that are not frequently asked yet hold much criticality, not only architecturally, but also socially, culturally and historically.

Masters | MA Architecture

Jusik Lee

The Shoeless City

THIS PROJECT LOOKS at the contemporary reality of Seoul in the light of the rise of single-person housing and the disorganisation of family by focusing on shoeless culture as a starting point for architectural speculation. The culture of being barefoot reflects the comfort of being at home in Korea and refers to the materiality and warmth of the floor surface. Seoul has experienced two aspects of modernisation since its early 20th century colonisation. On the one hand, modernisation as a tool of colonisation and on the other, the free-colonial modernisation from which grew its inventive interpretation of the threshold between the colonized and non-colonised. The former, which is based on the rationalism of modern machine aesthetics, caused disorganisation of the traditional meaning of a family and the rapid increase of single-person housing in contemporary Seoul. Because of this, the kitchen, the spine of traditional housing in Korea, disappeared and kitchenless housing is on the rise. And the latter, which is based on shoeless culture, preserved the traditional meaning of comfort in Korean house. Here, the use of space and the border of private and public is determined by the surface of the floor. The Shoeless City is a new intervention of non-collective kitchenless housing. This House-city, City-house has the hybrid context of those two aspects of Korean modernisation. The heart of the city distributes the energy throughout the metropolis through the heat exchange plates which form the spine of the city. A new meaning of family is formed by the surface of floors which is defining the meaning of space.

MA Architecture | Masters

Ching Ki-Chan

Architecture of Collective (Emotional) Memory

THE THESIS EXPLORES the issues of mental health and data privacy by speculating on how architecture could play a part in a possible future where our collective emotional experience is preserved through collection and analysis of our tears. A series of custom-made electronic and physical prototypes have been created to develop design vehicles that interrogate a number of design scenarios, addressing important issues such as self-harm, depression and privacy both online and in a physical space. Using digital media, the human tear is seen as a data record of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotional state and social activity, where information is stored both biologically (emotion) and digitally (action) as well as being preserved in the form of a ceremony. Research concludes with a proposal for a memorial that is both a monument and a library for preserving collective emotional memory. Simultaneously, the project aims to raise awareness of the current mental health issues resulting from the use of social media and what role architecture plays in facilitating and addressing this condition.

Masters | MA Architecture

MA Architecture theses 2019 contd. Weaam Alhabashi

Shaghayegh Arabishirazi

Vittoria Barbirato

This thesis investigates the status of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, as a collage city – a city filled with diversity, combining traditional and contemporary, local and global, public and private. Does the architecture promote inclusivity or signify discord?

While some sensory elements in our spatial experience are missing in the work of architecture due to the limitations of using traditional tools, this thesis explores the capability of filmmaking to address this issue.

This thesis explores human-machine emotional intelligence in the context of architecture and spatial experience. Through a series of prototypes, the project proposes a collaborative cognitive experience machine where intelligence is entwined with human perception.

Nauman Bashir

Kyzzhibek Galina

Yi Gu

Jeddah the ‘Collage City’

Streets of Nostalgia: The intangible cultural heritage of Lahore

Sensing Soho: The use of film as a medium to explore spatial experience

Space, Technology and Superstition

Human to Machine to Environment: The emotion detector

Designing for Light with Nature

This thesis questions the possible relationship between Lahore has been a harbinger of cultural practices and supernatural beliefs and technology within the context heritage that embody the essence of its historic core. of architecture. It aims to explore various ways that This thesis argues for the significance of living heritage superstition can act as a method to both understand with regards to conservation policies and urbanisation. and navigate our urban environment.

This thesis explores the potential of bioluminescent material, its impermanence, and the relationship between the built environment and bio-rhythms in nature.

Merve Gülener

Prajakta Kalamkar

Social Contribution of Conceptual Architecture

In contemporary architectural discourse, the sociopolitical role of architecture appears less directly engaged with its specific context. This thesis explores the role and capability of architecture as a sociopolemical tool for change and social contribution.

Omar Javaid

Sculpting Slim Cities

With the passage of time, Islamabad is becoming a gated community through land privatisation, resulting in the absence of public spaces and parks. The thesis aims to challenge this trend by sculpting the redundant voids to operate as pockets of mobility and production by becoming part of the city’s infrastructure and life.

The Invisible Placemaking: Investigating digital placemaking in hybrid public places

This thesis explores digital placemaking in public spaces layered with invisible networks of internet communications and digital media technologies to explore how digital architecture engages with public life.

(left-right) Nauman Bashir; Shaghayegh Arabishirazi; Omar Javid; (opposite left-right) Viktor Nadjinski; Mahsa Khaki; Maisuda Khotpae

MA Architecture | Masters

Ruchita Kanpillewar

Architecture in Fiction: Estrangement, naturalisation and social commentary in the architecture of contemporary fiction films

Mahsa Khaki

The (In)visible Shiraz & Her Space

This thesis explores the question of gendered space in cities in Iran. By re-reading Shiraz who suggests that, This thesis explores the architecture in 21st century contrary to conventional opinion, there are spaces speculative fiction films and reveals their communicative controlled by women, this project will explore whether strategies and social commentary to undertake critical the notion of invisibility can be seen as a form of power. thinking about contemporary architecture.

Akshay Lunawat

Inscription of the Intangible

This thesis explores data in an architectural space and the interrelation between architecture and data technologies. As our world becomes increasingly data driven, the project questions whether architectural space has a role to play in the preservation of data flows within it.

Viktor Nadjinski

Activating Skopje After the New ‘Earthquake’: Embracement over destruction

While facing the after-effects of the project ‘Skopje 2014’ (the new ‘earthquake’) that threatened to erase the current and implement a new city identity, this thesis is promoting embracement and protection through small individual changes that will eventually build a functional community.

Maisuda Khotpae

Short Term City: Long Term Collective

This design thesis looks at London’s diverse immigrant community and how to form a collective which offers alternative, sustainable ways to live in the city, creating a holistic space which feeds the mind and heals the body.

Samyuktha Periasamy

Body, Interface and Space

This thesis explores the relationship of body and space through interface and materiality. Considering it as a point where two systems meet, the project proposes a series of digital bio-polymer prototypes that speculate about application of ‘smart’ materials in architecture and their implication.

Virak Roeun

Vignesh Shekher

Olmedo Carles Solanilla

This thesis investigates the role of architects as enablers to improve people’s lives in low-income communities. Focusing on Cambodia’s informal settlement, TmorDa, it explores Nabeel Hamdi’s idea of decentralised development.

This thesis re-imagines the development of the locality of Dharavi by preserving and reinforcing its identity. The design seeks a unique approach to accommodate the live-work paradigm of the inhabitants and propose spatial connections to integrate it to Mumbai.

Over production and consumption endanger the future of communities like Boca La Caja, an informal fishing settlement trapped at the heart of Panama City’s real estate development. This thesis proposes freeing the village of its physical and socio-economical constraints by creating a floating community at sea, challenging the rest of the city at the infrastructure and economic level.

Decentralising Tmor-Da, Phnom Penh

Retaining Dharavi

Boca la Caja Reclaims the Sea

Masters | MA Interior Design

Lara Rettondini (Course Leader), Dusan Decermic, Matt Haycocks, Joe King, Debby Kuypers, Filip Visnjic

MA Interior Design Full-time students: Tobi Agunbiade, Azza Ahmed, Rija Ahmed, Pai-Hui Chien, Jeannette Daaboul, Pinar Erdogan,Yiwen Fang,Tianyang Gu, Maria Karagianni, Meltem Karaoglu, Ashpreet Kaur, Gina Lee, Jingmin Li, Franco Steban Morales, Xiaoyu Ren, Mauli Shah, Pandurang Priyanka Shankar, Shilan Sharifzadeh,

Man Tse, Shulan Wang, Meng Yin, Yifan Zhao.

THE INTERIOR DESIGN MA promotes a conceptual and speculative approach to the design of interior environments. In doing so, it places an emphasis on research that seeks to expand the boundaries of the discipline as well as challenge standardised processes and traditional methodologies. The programme affords multiple avenues of creative engagement giving students the opportunity to pursue their particular issues of interest in interior design, or specialist areas of three-dimensional design, through indepth and focused studies under the guidance of researchactive and industry-experienced staff.

we challenge students to strive for a rich, mature synthesis of their learning from these modules, a process aimed to prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of the complex professional world.

Our course covers a range of specialist areas, both theoretical and practical. The curriculum is delivered through a diverse set of taught core modules including the vocational Retail Design, the theory-based Decoding the Interior, and the student led Thesis Development and Major Thesis Project. We also deliver specialist modules such as Interior Design Case Study and Introduction to Design Computing, both of which support the use of film and digital animation to unlock new dimensions in understanding space as a dynamic field as well as expand the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; skill set. With a critical pedagogical agenda

Guests and Critics: Oscar Brito (Central Saint Martins), Mathew Crawford (MJP Architects), Richard Difford, Tomasz Fiszer (MJP Architects), Clare Hamman, 12

Part-time students: Jeanne Altermath, Huseyin Bicak, April de Alwis, Raimondo Pistis, Raafat Raafat, Priya Yadev.

Our three distinct theory and practice research areas, Domestic, Urban and Expanded Interiors, inform the development of studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thesis topics. By embracing the intellectual, spatial, and material complexities inherent in the subject of interior, students engage with the research areas both by working in collaborative groups, and individually. The following pages document the results of a wide range of thesis projects that our students have developed following a process involving meticulous investigation and detailed design resolution. Some have uncovered traces of history by carefully repurposing buildings and places; others have dealt with social, cultural and political issues through critical spatial proposals. The work produced is rigorous and ambitious; a reflection of the quality of our programme and an indication of the diverse professional careers that our students will progress on to in the years ahead.

Matteo Mastrandrea (Es Devlin Studio), Andrew Peckham, Sue Phillips, Ben Stringer, Machico Weston (Es Devlin Studio)

Tobi Agumbiade: Skate HQ: A Learning Facility for Skateboarders in Hackney Wick

MA Interior Design | Masters

Lara Rettondini is Senior Lecturer, architect, and co-director Studio X Design Group, a London based architecture and interior design practice. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the recipient of the Westminster Teaching Excellence Award 2017. Dusan Decermic is an architect who engages with both theoretical and design practices in architecture and interior design. He set up his own practice, arclab, in 1999 and has worked with numerous clients, including the Royal Theatre and fashion designer Issey Miyake. Matt Haycocks is Senior Lecturer, designer and maker. His research concerns domestic and family photography, the historicisation of public space and the politics of place-making and branding. Joe King is an award-winning artist working across the field of moving image, using innovative techniques and animation to combine and manipulate photography, film and sound. Debby Kuypers is an architect, joint founder/director of RFK Architects, an architecture and design practice based in London that specialises in retail, commercial and art/museum projects. Filip Visnjic is an architect, lecturer, curator and a new media technologist. He works at the intersection of art and technology, directing web, print and event-based projects while also contributing to a number of blogs and magazines.

Masters | MA Interior Design

(top left) Priyanka Shankar Pandurang: The Well-Being Circuit: Physical exercise spaces for Westminster’s Marylebone campus (middle left) Shulan Wang: Intergenerational Community: Social housing for single mothers and the elderly in London (top right) Jingmin Li: Transit in the Grid: Transcribing the hidden underground system (bottom) Jeanne Altermath: Greasy Spoon: An investigation into the disappearance of the working man’s café 14

MA Interior Design | Masters

(top left) Man Tse: The Sublime and the Concrete: A Theatre of material reclamation (top right) Yifan Zhao: Out of Shadow: Light and shadow as a form-generator (bottom) Steban Morales Franco: Little Colombia. A Counter-Proposal for the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre

Masters | MA Interior Design

(top left) Meltem Karaoglu: Integration Hub. Building Blocks for Migrants (top right) Xiaoyu Ren: Shared City. Co-working and Co-living Spaces for Architects in London (middle left) Jeannette Daaboul: Shaping Platforms. Educational Spaces for Sustainable Fashion Production (middle right) Tianyang Gu: Terminal Landscape. At Home in the Airport (bottom) Pinar Erdogan: Slow Space. Urban Interiors in Kings Cross 16

MA Interior Design | Masters

(top left) Azza Ahmed: Bedroom Stories: Community spaces for Sudanese women in London (top right) Shilan Sharifzadeh: Art in Transition. White Cubes in the Airport (bottom) Pai-Hui Chien: Urban Pier. A Seaside Journey in the City

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Rosa Schiano-Phan (Course Leader), Joana Goncalves, Benson Lau, Mehrdad Borna, Jon Goodbun, Amedeo Scofone, Juan Vallejo

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design Full-Time Students: Hamza Alhalabi, Hyab Ariam Amare, Julia Benitez Galves, Carine Berger Woiezechoski, Athiya Bhalla, Tanvi Bobhate, Zeynab Bozorg, Negin Esmailzadehhanjani, Yiran Feng, Michelle Makary, Joao Matos Da Silva, Panchami Pandharikar, Julia Pinheiro Ribeiro, Rofayda Salem, Merve Tasar,

Su Taveras Leong, Berksu Ucarli, Justina Vazquez Caputo, Alexandra Vlazaki, Nadya Wijaya, Chin-Huei Wu, Ting Yu, Zekun Zhu

IN 2018/19 THE Architecture and Environmental Design MSc extended its interest into the investigation of the environmental performance of modernist buildings within semester one’s evaluation projects. The case studies included the Marylebone Building as a late modernist purpose-built educational building, the Marylebone Hall students’ residence within the same Campus, and the impact of new proposed developments around Golden Lane Estate. The brief developed within the Evaluation of Built Environments studio-based module entailed fieldwork studies and environmental evaluations which this year extended to monitoring of air quality and microclimatic analysis as well as a post-occupancy survey of the various spaces. This first study in the rich historic context of London was brought forward in semester two with a new brief on co-working and co-living proposals for three large sites in London: Battersea Power Station, Whiteleys, and Lincoln’s Inn Fields LSE. The projects explored the challenges and opportunities of creating climatically responsive, low energy and healthy living and

working indoor and outdoor environments in the heart of London’s dense urban tissue.

Guest Critics: Mina Hasman (SOM), Ula Bajcer (WSP), Meital Ben-Dayan (Architype), Catherine Harrington (Architype), Mohataz Hossain, Shashank Jain (Studio 4215), Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP) 18

Part-Time Yr 2 students: Noemi Futas, Hrabrina Nikolova

Following a very successful field trip and International Symposium in Seville and Granada, in Semester three the MSc AED students have enjoyed a varied and fertile ground for the development and completion of their final thesis projects. This year the course has once again expanded the portfolio of practices and consultancies taking part in the Collaborative Thesis Project initiative. The industry partnerships have been very successful and have allowed our students to develop their thesis on a topic of mutual interest for the course and the industry partner. These range from urban farming as models of future living, air pollution and densification, façade design, and revisiting examples of vernacular architecture around the world to draw lessons for current practice. These studies are now being developed into joint conference publications. This year the AED course has also introduced the BREEAM Approved Graduate course embedded in the curriculum.

Special Thanks: Urszula Bajcer (WSP), Scott Batty, Christian Dimbleby (Architype), Sarah Ernst (Architype), Nasser Golzari (NG Architects), Susannah Hagan, Catherine Harrington (Architype), Mina Hasman (SOM), Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge), Phil McIlwain (Westminster Council), Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP), Zoe Shattock (Elmbridge Building Control Services)

Tanvi Bobhate: Enhancing comfort in Chawls by promoting activities in communal spaces. (Annual Solar Radiation analysis in the courtyard)

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan is an architect, consultant and academic who has worked in environmental design consultancy and research for the past 20 years. Rosa taught at the Architectural Association and coordinated numerous interdisciplinary EU-funded research projects at Nottingham University. Dr Joana Carla Soares GonĂ§alves is an architect and academic working as a Visiting Lecturer for the MSc AED. She is Associate Professor of Environmental Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of SĂŁo Paulo, and has taught at the AA and Harvard University. She is a Director of the PLEA conference and author of several international publications.

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Rofayda Salem

Evaluating Environmental Performance of Mashrabiya: Generating guidelines for contemporary implementation

EXTREME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS have given birth, through years of evolution and studies, to different passive solutions. One of them, faรงade perforated screens, vary from one place to another according to cultural and climatic factors. Mashrabiya (traditional perforated screens), are found in Middle Eastern countries. They are an element in which passive environmental solutions, traditional art and cultural aspects collide. It is also a faรงade component with various geometrical forms that can combine different screen typologies. Implementation of the traditional perforated screens in vernacular architecture has been conducted by designing a faรงade component that balances the need for shading and allowing air to penetrate the room at certain desired velocities. Reintroducing Mashrabiya in contemporary design can be the starting point towards achieving passive buildings in hot climates.

Nowadays, there is a vast reduction in the use of this powerful traditional shading tool in contemporary buildings, endangering Mashrabiya as an art. So, this thesis aims to illustrate the environmental performance of the existing traditional perforated screens and re-evaluate them in a practical way. With the help of analytical tools, systematic studies and quantification of the environmental performance of these faรงade components can be conducted. This study can portray the implementation of Mashrabiya in a more appropriate way, for a contemporary setting, by providing design recommendations that emphasise the most applicable use for various patterns according to the location, orientation and type of the space. This can facilitate the use of Mashrabiya for a better approach to the different environmental parameters.

Evaluating different Mashrabiya patterns for environmental performance

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Carine Berger Woiezechoski

Indoor Farming in Future Living Models

ACCORDING TO A UN report, by the year 2050 the world’s population will reach around 9.7 billion. Nearly 80% will reside in urban centres. This growth, alongside a changing climate, will strain natural resources, especially the food supply chain. There will also be issues in relation to human health, education and social well-being due to people’s growing distance from and limitations to their food supply. Previous speculative projects have sought a solution to these problems through vertical farming. Situating food production within a building in an urban environment suggests a different world view for the next generation of living and a new urban lifestyle. In collaboration with SOM, this project explores the feasibility of using a network of hybrid farms to densify London for the next generation of urban living. As an example, one

Dynamic south façade for maximisation of farming production

vegetable – the lettuce – was chosen to quantify and compare the production potential, food miles, energy and water consumption between the main farming systems. The supporting evidence-based research includes solar studies of three building geometries to evaluate daylight availability and sun hours reaching the identified farming zones within the building. The thermal analysis, conducted in both the farm areas and the residential and office areas, reveals that the optimum footprint is based on a square geometry. The project proposes a design which maximise daylight and sunlight access in order to produce vegetables using the least amount of energy. In this manner, the hybrid farms minimise greenhouse gas emissions, transportation distances, and land use.

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design theses 2019 contd. Hamza Alhalabi

Tanvi Bobhate

Yiran Feng

This thesis analyses different parameters in highly insulated and airtight buildings with the aim to generalise standards for different orientations and mitigate the risk of overheating in dwellings.

The evolution of Mumbai’s residential chawls over time has affected their occupant’s use and comfort. The thesis analyses the variations in comfort and further evolves the typology to provide better solutions for today.

This study investigates the environmental performance of the Strata building in south London. It proposes improvement strategies against overheating problems experienced all year round.

Zeynab Bozorg

Michelle Makary

This thesis explores the performance of evaporative cooling ceramic screens and proposes different typologies for the new Palestine Natural History Museum in Bethlehem using 1:1 physical models to compliment the overall passive cooling strategy.

This thesis offers ways to reduce CO2 emissions from generators and high rise buildings by respecting the heritage of the typical Lebanese traditional houses using renewable energy sources and by being environmentally-responsible and resource-efficient.

Negin Esmailzadehhanjani

Hrabrina Nikolova

Compact Housing Against the Risk of Overheating in London

Hyab Ariam Amare

Exploring the Applicability of Vernacular Architecture for Contemporary Low Income Housing in Addis Ababa

This thesis aims to highlight and quantify the environmental impact of the housing demand in the city of Addis Ababa. It will then create links between vernacular and contemporary housing as an opportunity to combine and implement their different capacities.

Julia Benitez Galves

Contemporary Translucent Buildings in São Paulo

Environmental Performance and Adaptation of the Chawls of Mumbai

Evaporative Cooling Ceramic Screens

Environmental Retrofit of 1970s House

The Environmental Performance of Strata, SE1 London

A Sustainable Building In Beirut – Lebanon

Improving Public Health through

This thesis try to highlight the costs of adding passive Environmental Urban Design for Informal environmental strategies while doing house renovations Public Spaces This thesis studies the thermal and visual performance in the residential sector. It also aims to compare the Taking San Jose as a case study, this thesis explores of different diffuse materials applied to building façades long term financial and environmental benefits by tropical marginalised informal communities and in São Paulo, in comparison to regular glass. Analytical ambient air pollution to suggest alternative organisation focusing on the thermal comfort of the resident.. studies investigate overheating and glare issues of spaces and climate-specific strategies for improving associated with the various transparent materials. public health. Noemi Futas

Athiya Bhalla

Bioclimatic and Regenerative Building Design: Towards a Circular Construction Industry

Adaptive Envelope and Transitional Spaces to Upgrade Energy Performance in Residential This thesis aims to facilitate the shift to a circular Blocks in Delhi construction industry by developing guidelines and a

Panchami Pandharikar

Rethinking Materials: A New Approach to Natural Materials for Residential Housing in London

Researching analytical and fieldwork studies, this thesis measurable framework for bioclimatic and regenerative This thesis looks at the material choices in construction forms guidelines to upgrade the energy performance of building development on an exemplary case study to achieve sustainability by demonstrating the possibility a high-rise building in Delhi by using various strategies project in Andhra Pradesh, India. of reducing carbon emissions from London’s residential on the envelope of the building. buildings by replacing high carbon-emitting materials with natural wood.

(left) Alexandra Vlazaki; (centre) Nadya Wijaya; (right) Hrabrina Nikolova

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Julia Pinheiro Ribeiro

Berksu Ucarli

Chin-Huei Wu

This thesis investigates timber multi-storey residential buildings in London and their ability to deliver environmental comfort with low-carbon construction. The analysis shows adopting early solar control design strategies in CLT reduces risks of summer overheating.

This thesis examines the thermal comfort and daylight of occupants of office buildings in the subtropical climate zone positioned near glazed façades, and proposes suitable environmental solutions.

João Silva

Justina Vazquez Caputo

This thesis uses the EIM tool with the adaptable parametric filter to customise the environmental indicators to achieve the required living quality. It proves the drawbacks of unintegrated building simulation tools by providing practical strategies at all stages of design.

and urban air quality.

global environmental agenda by quantifying the thermal, ventilation and daylight performance of voids, as well as their potential to add quality to the space by creating multi-storey vegetated transitional zones.

Taiwan was colonised by Japan between 1895 and 1945. This research-based thesis discusses the adaptability of the legacy Japanese-style residential architecture to the current environment in Taipei.

Alexandra Vlazaki

Zekun Zhu

Mass Timber Residential Buildings in London: A Low Carbon Envelope

Environmental Quality and Energy Performance in Contemporary Residential Tall Buildings in Istanbul

Environmental Information Modelling for Building Design: The visualisation of environmental strategy and parametric filter

The Role of Voids in the Overall Performance Ting-yu Yu of Tall Buildings Architectural and Climatic Adaptation of a In the context of London’s densification trend, this thesis With the use of analytical tools, this thesis explores the Japanese Residential House Built during evaluates the impact of vegetation on thermal comfort role of voids in high-rise office buildings to meet the the Occupation Period in Taipei Building Integrated Vegetation for Healthier Urban Environments

Merve Tasar

Housing Model in an Era of Rapid Change: Sustainable housing design guidance in suburb and urban areas of London

This thesis proposes guidelines for new housing models Clean Air Through Evaporation in Athens for London which are sustainable, liveable and adaptable The thesis aims to study the impact of improving the air to the changing climate of Britain and the needs of the quality and microclimate in Athens by transferring fresh next generation. air from above the urban canopy layer to the ground level by inducing a natural downdraught air movement Su Len Taveras Leong through evaporation.

Green Cab Shelters of London

In collaboration with WSP, the thesis investigates the Nadya Gani Wijaya thermal performance of London’s green cab shelters. Environmental Design for High-Rise The study aims to contribute to the conservation of these Residential Buildings in Jakarta Heritage grade II listed structures and help improve the This thesis aims to provide guidance to design sustainable vertical housing to achieve better thermal environmental working conditions for their users. performance and daylight quality at a unit and building scale. This research is specifically analysing the role and efficiency of shading, form and natural ventilation.

(left) Joao Silva; (centre) Negin Esmailzadehhanjani; (right) Merve Tasar

Climate Responsive Façade for High Rise Building in Subtropical Climate

This thesis looks at the impact of glazed façades in office buildings in the subtropical climate zone, examining the thermal comfort and daylight of occupants positioned near the façade and proposes environmentally-adequate façade solutions, including various shading options.

Masters | MA Urban Design

Bill Erickson, Roudaina Alkhani (Course Leaders), Krystallia Kamvasinou, David Mathewson Bill Erickson is a Principal Lecturer and architect with extensive experience in urban design. He has practiced in Australia, Italy and the UK and leads the MA Urban Design. Roudaina Alkhani is an architect and urban and regional planner. She is founder and director of Platforms for Sustainable Cities and Regions.

MA Urban Design Students: Joshua Cameron, Robert Clarke-Jones, Mark Evans, Swetha Gunasekaran, Dorotee Hubsch-Wigginton, Natalie Jones, Lucy Large, Rebecca Mason, Lucy May, Bruna Menegace Varante, Komal Moiz,

THE MA URBAN DESIGN course at Westminster provides a coherent approach to issues that face cities, combining structured academic study with live design projects. Allowing students to develop practical skills, a theoretical understanding and an informed approach to sustainable urban development, it overlaps and incorporates elements of town planning, architecture, landscape design, urban regeneration, transport and infrastructure planning drawing students from all these backgrounds. Cities are at the centre of modern life; they are places where most people make their homes, the sites where economic and social life evolve and where the majority of resources are consumed. They evolve over time with important images that attract investment while serving as cultural assets reflecting the values of their inhabitants, around whom shared experiences revolve and daily activities are shaped. This process is well understood in the West, however in the global context the pace of change is both dramatic and accelerating, creating new challenges for city design and management.

Lucy Nicholson, Kingsley Opara, Victoria Ramez, Todd Strethlow, Vaishnavi Vankataramanujam

Drawing on the cultural and economic forces acting in the city, the Urban Design course focuses on understanding and shaping the physical setting in which these processes take place. The manner in which buildings, streets and urban spaces are combined to create vivid environments that nurture daily life, provide efficient urban systems and form memorable places valued by their inhabitants is carefully considered. The work presented here is based on student dissertations and major design projects, in which particular impacts on the design of cities are identified and how, in the light of these effects, urban form can best be adapted to current and future needs. The practice of urban design has been emerging as a distinct profession since the 1970s and is underpinned by a growing knowledge base informed by research and tested through spatial analysis and design proposals; these studies represent a critique of current responses to urban challenges and make a unique contribution to urbanismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body of knowledge.

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Swetha Gunasekaran

Spatial Analysis of Urban Squares in Global Tourism Cities: A question of identity

WITH INTENSE URBANISATION, cities have become a prime destination for an increasing number of tourists. The link between tourism and urbanism is complex; the city is the physical place where the needs of various user groups intersect. This means that cities have to adhere to suit different requirements by providing adequate facilities for the sustenance of the permanent as well as temporary users. But the tourism-oriented development forms a different layer over the identity of the city and provides a predefined perspective of the city to the tourists and influences their view of the different city spaces. The research explores the definition of urban tourism and examines how the commoditisation of different parts of the

city attract tourists and enhance their experience within. Taking London, a global tourist city as an example, the dissertation focuses on the in-depth analysis of the popular squares that are predominantly used by city dwellers as well as by the tourism industry. The multiple identities challenge the meaning of these spaces and raise questions on the priority of the user groups. The comparison of the squares by correlating the relationship of its identity, spatial usage, and physical and social infrastructure gives an overall insight of the nature of these urban squares and their flexibility to accommodate both tourists and local users simultaneously. The studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summary provides a broad understanding of the impact of urban tourism on local city spaces and concludes whether it is a compromise or a conflict.

A self-illustrated map showing the urban squares within the walking radii of tourism attractions and tourism bus routes

MA Urban Design | Masters

Lucy Large

Autism-Friendly Cities

THE PROVISION OF sustainable, liveable and aesthetically pleasing places is no longer the only primary driver of urban design. The concept of inclusivity, where the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs and desires are at the forefront of design, has become a prominent topic of conversation. Creating safe and accessible places, where all abilities are considered, ensures dignified use and inclusion. For an autistic individual, the city is an overwhelming, unwelcoming and disorienting place. With a profusion of negative elements that prohibit movement within the built environment, autistic individuals often feel isolated and constrained by the city. The urban environment is a place that causes physical pain, increased anxiety and stress, and often leads to absolute segregation, mental health issues and loneliness. Current architectural research surrounding sympathetic design for autism is limited to internal, privatised spaces,

primarily for children. There has been no consideration of the public realm, street networks or green spaces for individuals with autism. In the United Kingdom over 700,000 people have been diagnosed with autism. An increasing population of autistic individuals calls for research to delve into the sympathetic design of cities for autism. Through the recognition of triggers and negative areas within cities, an integrated network of design interventions can develop an accessible environment, where safety, reassurance and independence can flourish for individuals with autism. Through increasing awareness of the condition, within not only the design industry but across the general public, urban designers can work in conjunction with the government, councils and local facilities to establish a set of design guidelines and considerations alongside a network of facilities and services that strive to improve the quality of life for individuals with autism.

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MA Urban Design theses 2019, contd.

Joshua Cameron

Making Waves at the Urban Waterfront

Over the years, waterfront developments have involved some of the most significant developments, attracting a large amount of attention. This thesis explores whether their highly visible position and the emphasis placed upon them to help revitalise and reimagine a city to become a vibrant, balanced and accessible place succeeds.

Robert Clarke-Jones

Mark Evans

Rebecca Mason

This thesis reviews the theoretical underpinnings of Vikas Mehta’s 2013 book, The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space. It fames Mehta’s approach within policy on the sustainability agenda and current design guidance, with a with a particular focus on the UK.

Temporary uses are being recognised within the field of Urban Design and nationally as valuable placemaking tools. This thesis explores contemporary theory and practices regarding the temporary use of urban spaces. Both the benefits and challenges associated with temporary uses will be discussed to understand how and why temporary uses become permanent features in the city.

Towards Indicators of Sociable Space: A review of Mehta’s conception of social public space

Natalie Jones

Learning from Past Mistakes: How good estate regeneration can be fostered through urban design

Refugee integration and urban design: A review of displaced settlement projects within Germany and their societal impacts

Political regulations and economic restraints govern the This thesis explores the benefits of infill development as planning and design of displaced settlements, many of a strategy for regeneration of London’s housing estates, which fail to integrate the displaced into existing urban drawing on a critical examination of recent practice. communities. This thesis will review the implemented refugee integration policies and regulations within regions of Germany to draw conclusions of best practice for the refugees and urban design.

Benefits Of Temporary: Retaining the benefits of temporary use as a permanent feature in the city

Lucy May

Copying One City to Another: Assessing the development and success of Parisian imagery in Tianducheng, China

Examining the success of Copycat Towns in China, in particular Tianducheng, Hangzhou whose design was based on Paris, this thesis explores how literally they have transferred the foreign architecture, function, land uses and aesthetics or if local cultural identity was taken into consideration using a case study methodology.

(left-right): Transplanting Paris to Tianducheng , Hangzhou [© MNXANL]; Bruna Menegace Varante; Titanic Quarter [© William Murphy]

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Lucy Nicholson

Victoria Ramez

This thesis advocates that designing urban spaces for joy can support a series of benefits for an individual’s life which could potentially include long-term happiness. It explores the urban design guidelines that can facilitate joyful moments within cities, using literature review, mind-mapping, observational analysis and case studies to define a set of ingredients within urban environments that can promote feelings of comfort, self-development, surprise and freedom.

Loneliness in cities is a growing social phenomenon, with London being one of the loneliest cities in the world (Loneliness Lab, 2019). This thesis explores the relationship between the built environment and loneliness through qualitative research. The paper highlights a gap in research addressing the ability of urban design to reduce loneliness.

This thesis seeks to understand the origins of how the public realm came to be a ‘gendered space’ and addresses historic, feminist and contemporary theory to ascertain how urban designers can challenge these perceptions and find solutions to create gender equality in public space.

Designing Urban Spaces for Joy

Loneliness in the Built Environment

Spatial Analysis of Urban Squares in Global Tourism Cities: A question of identity

Todd Strethlow

A New Strategy for the River Gipping

Komal Moiz

Defining Multiculturalism and Multi-ethnic Spaces: Harrow in the global city of London

This thesis looks at the impacts and influence of multicultural communities on urban design, strategies and policy through analysis of the London borough of Harrow. It recommends how urban design strategies can capitalise on opportunities, reduce tensions and prompt quality development in culturally diverse areas.

Kingsley Opara

Assessing the Impact of Neighbourhood Form and Qualities on Perceptions of Anti-Social Behaviour

The purpose of this thesis is to offer a critical investigation of recent design initiatives for the regeneration of the River Gripping in Suffolk.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the qualities Vaishnavi Vankataramanujam of the neighbourhood to identify the impact it has on Moving through Slums perception of anti-social behaviour in Haggerston and The thesis explains and discusses the existing Finsbury in London. challenges faced in slums due to the inadequate facilities of movement and transportation. It explains the importance and need for incorporating potential modes of mobility in slums and also explores in detail the crucial role of streets in planning.

(left-right): Refugees queuing to cross the German border [© Mstyslav Chernov]; Urban square analysis [© Victoria Ramez]; Chennai slum [© Milei Vencel]

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

Tony Lloyd-Jones (Course Leader), Roudaina Alkhani, Robin Crompton, Bill Erickson, Ripin Kalra, Krystallia Kamvasinou, David Mathewson, Johannes Novy, David Seex, Johan Woltjer, Giulio Verdini Tony Lloyd-Jones is an architect, urban designer and planner involved in international development research and practice. He is a Reader in International Planning and Sustainable Development and Director of Research and Consultancy at the Max Lock Centre. Krystallia Kamvasinou is a Senior Lecturer and an architect and landscape architect who has published widely and recently completed a Leverhulme Fellowship on ‘Interim Spaces and Creative Use’.

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development Students: Anandha Babu, Kanwal Bhutto, Jenna Boreham, Nicholas Bristow, Nara Cunha, Iris Daphne Dalilis, Calum Hill, Molly Huck, Gayathri Jayasree, Rubbina Karruna, Deborah Keary, Keneingunuo Kelio, Katherine Lamb,

Nathan Leonardi, Beatrice Malama, Laura Martinez de la Osa, Molly Phillips, Zoljargal Sanjmyatav, Marya Shnoudi, Oviyaa Venkateshwaran

THIS COURSE EXPLORES contemporary theories, policy and practice in planning and urban design for sustainable, inclusive and resilient development in cities, regions and communities in a rapidly urbanising world. It spans both developed and developing world contexts, in locations facing a wide range of growing climate change and other environmental, economic and social pressures and risks, reflected in the student project work noted here.

Centre, an international development unit that has been actively involved in action- and policy-focused research across the developing world since 1995.

There are two pathways through the course. The Spatial Planning Pathway has a strong urban design component and an emphasis on development planning. The Urban Resilience Pathway provides a sustainable developmentfocused route with a core emphasis on climate change risks, adaptation planning and natural hazard risk management. The MAIPSD is aimed at those with a relevant background who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of planning and sustainable development, whether to improve career prospects in their country or enter UK or international practice. It is aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda and we are a Habitat Partner University, with several students that have worked as interns with UN-HABITAT. The curriculum draws from the hands-on experience of the Max Lock Guest Critics: Darshana Chauhan, Martyn Clark (Tripleline), Prof. Ian Davis, Tim Edmundson, Dr Sebastian Loew, Dr Peter Newman, Geoff Payne (Geoffrey Payne Associates), Federico Redin, Robert Sadlier 30

The course is aimed at full-time international, UK and EU students, but it is also open to part-time UK-based students who want to explore an international development planning career pathway. The MA course is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a ‘combined planning programme’. Graduates from this course find employment in a variety of industries, including as urban regeneration or environmental management specialists, planners and urban designers in private consultancy, government and non-governmental sectors. The course is structured around written assignments and studio-based projects undertaken in group workshops and supported by seminars, tutorials and site visits and a range of lectures delivered by the teaching staff and visiting speaker from the industry. It is grounded in three core modules: Planning in a Globalising World, International Spatial Planning Practice and Sustainable Neighbourhood Development. Recent international field trips included visits to Brazil, Indonesia and Istanbul, Turkey.

Special Thanks: Dr Judith Allen, Dr Camillo Boano (DPU), Duncan Bowie, Prof. Michael Mutter, Prof. Marion Roberts, Prof. Pat Wakely (DPU Associates), Prof. Ya Ping Wang (University of Glasgow) Gayathree Jayasree: Kumbaran Pottery Community, Kerala

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Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

Nicholas Bristow

OSMuf: A Method for Analysing Urban Form Using OpenStreetMap and Python

The United Nation’s ‘New Urban Agenda’ recommends urban development of appropriate compactness and adequate density. But what is adequate density and how should we measure it? How can we compare it internationally? In London, the Greater London Authority’s response to the housing crisis has been to try to boost supply by scrapping residential density guidelines. It argues that 50% of approved developments already breach the maximum density thresholds and that variations in where a site boundary is drawn hamper meaningful comparisons of site densities. This research looks at the inherent flaws in measuring density against site area and, following Berghauser Pont and Haupt’s ‘SpaceMatrix’, it focuses instead on measuring density against the urban block, revealing the relationship between building density and the street network. To address the issue of international comparison, this study makes use of crowd-sourced open data, proposing an open source software package for quantifying urban form from OpenStreetMap. This new tool, OSMuf, builds on well established Python libraries for geospatial data analysis and was particularly influenced by Geoff Boeing’s work on ‘OSMnx’ a Python package for quantifying street networks. Four small empirical studies, three in England and one in Argentina, test a minimum set of metrics for measuring urban form and suggest that frontage density could be introduced to mediate between the area of a piece of land and its potential building capacity.

Floor Area Ratio in Clerkenwell, plotted against the net area and frontage density of each urban block [© Nick Bristow / OpenStreetMap contributors]

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Laura Martinez de la Osa

The impact and adaptation capacity to flooding in coastal urban environments

THIS RESEARCH AIMS to understand the risks and vulnerabilities that coastal cities surrounding the Mediterranean basin face, considering the impact of floods induced by climate change. To set up the research baseline this work carries out an overall analysis of the Mediterranean Region Ě s context in order to collect the current trends in both the geophysical environment and socio-economic factors of the enclosing coastal major urban agglomerations. The complexity of the region, the uncertain temperature increase and the lack of clear patterns in its projected trends impede the establishment of a robust action plan to address current issues and face future challenges. Likewise, flood hazard and the accelerating climate change effects are manifested differently in each location, varying

Over exploitation of the coast, Lido di Jesolo,Italy [photo ÂŠ Max Bottinger]

from country to country in which a wide array and scale of agents take part in the increasingly problematic issue of flooding. A comparison of two case studies provides a more tangible input to this research. The Spanish and Tunisian scenarios are well-suited to illustrate the different responses and issues posed in both developed and developing countriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; city contexts, in confronting, reducing and minimising damages when dealing with flooding. Evidence of the past events in both regions is collected as well as particular decision-making bodies implicated in the subject. Lastly, a series of complexities and controversies are discussed, highlighting the importance of tangible cooperation, support and effective knowledge exchange.

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MA International Planning and Sustainable Development Theses 2019 contd. Anandha Babu

Dharavi Encounter: Slum Upgrade

Dharavi, Mumbai, is the largest slum in Asia whose vibrant nature makes it stand out from other informal settlements. This thesis investigates the problems of slum living, the process of upgrading them and discusses Dharavi’s unseen potential within the context of failed government policies.

Jenna Boreham

Kanwal Bhutto

Climate Change & Peak Oil: A comprehensive analysis of transition initiatives to address UK Urban Food Security Threats

Regional Development in Pakistan

Regional inequality in Pakistan has steered multidimensional deprivation and disillusionment in its regions and inhabitants. This thesis explores how improving rural-urban links, provision of loans for SMEs, and monitoring education and health indicators can contribute to regional productivity and growth.

This thesis traverses the principles and practical applications of transition Initiatives at a grass-roots level and their potential implementation within national planning policy in order to create greater food security in the UK in the midst of climate change and peak oil.

Nara Cunha

Iris Daphne Dalilis

This thesis investigates the social and physical role of public spaces in the masterplan and their use during the urban regeneration process. The case studies are Elephant and Castle and King’s Cross, two recent urban regeneration projects in London.

The thesis examines how rapid growth affects developing cities’ urban climate and environment and its direct relationship with the metropolis’ health by analysing the physical, social and natural aspects of three major cities within Philippines’ National Capital Region.

Molly Huck

Gayathri Jayasree

Rubbina Karruna

Scholars believe for a house to be truly sustainable, there must be effective housing policy, affordable housing and highly efficient homes. This thesis explores the failures of London’s sustainable housing, drawing on case studies from Heidelberg, Germany and Sønderborg, Copenhagen.

In India, many communities in rural areas are at the stage of extinction and degradation. This thesis looks at Aruvacode, a small village famous for its pottery near Nilambur, Kerala, and considers ways to counteract the effects of globalisation.

The Social and Physical Role of Public Spaces in the Process of Urban Regeneration and Masterplanning: Two London Case Studies

What is the Future of Sustainable Housing in London?

Calum Hill

Urbanisation, Environment, and Health: Assessing urban heat island in the context of a developing country

Sustainable Development of Isolated Island Communities: The case of St Helena’s Airport

For from being individual contexts, all island communities face the challenge of attaining sustainable development. This thesis asks if the creation of a new airport on St Helena in the South Atlantic can assist the island achieve sustainable development?

Community Upliftment: Kumbharan pottery community, Aruvacode, Kerala

Francophone vs Anglophone Cities: Urban form and resilience

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MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Deborah Keary

The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on Sustainability in Regional Canadian Cities

Keneingunuo Kelio

Katherine Lamb

Measuring London’s True Accessibility The Impact of mixed-use Development on Social Sustainability: A case study of Kohima PTAL (Public Transport Accessibility Level) is an important city part of the planning process but the rating is not

This thesis studies how the implementation of transitoriented development has impacted sustainability, A thesis studying mixed-use in Kohima City, India and its inclusive. This thesis aims to create an amended version in both positive and negative ways, in three regional promotion of sustainable development through creating of PTAL to provide a more accurate representation of a vibrant atmosphere where people are connected to the transport accessibility across London. Canadian cities: Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal. each other and the communities around them.

Beatrice Malama

Molly Phillips

The main aim of this thesis is to analyse how using smart technology to manage cities in developing countries will not only create cities that are smart and sustainable, but also address economic growth and improve the quality of life for the citizens.

This thesis explores different approaches to community participation through case-study analysis. Exploring concepts of community and power relations, it is evident that there are conflicting perceptions of community but how does this translate into participation practice?

Zoljargal Sanjmyatav

Marya Shnoudi

Oviyaa Venkateshwaran

The environment continues to exist as a powerful perspective in planning. This thesis explores how a transformative planning process with innovative and effective urban solutions can provide a new urban experimental, developmental pathway in Mongolia.

This thesis aims to understand the challenges of delivering adequate and affordable housing in Amman This thesis explores how to create a sustainable path in the context of neo-liberalism. The research employs a to transform an auto-dependent lifestyle to a walkable, mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative methods pedestrian and transit-oriented development in Chennai. to redefine affordability.

Nathan Santoro Leonardi

Produce Resilience Through the Lens of Sustainability in Caiçara Communities

This thesis examines the coastal communities of Caiçaras, Brazil. It targets processes of resilience and adaptation in an area where the environment is no longer stable as the space undergoes deep eco-geological and economic change.

The Analysis of Spatial Development and Potential of Secondary Cities

Towards A Smart Sustainable City: Smart technology’s contribution to sustainable management of cities in developing countries

Affordable Housing: Addressing neo-liberal challenges in Amman, Jordan

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Whose Town is it Anyway? A case study analysis of community participation in the planning process

Towards Sustainable Urban Development: Potentials for transit-oriented development in Chennai, India

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

Chantal Laws (Course Leader), Dimah Ajeeb, Simon Curtis, Claudia Dolezal, Helen Farrell, Anne Graham, Lindsey Hanford, Clare Inkson, Maja JoviÄ&#x2021;, James Morgan, Chiara Orefice, Ilaria Pappalepore, Andrew Smith MA Event Design and Management MA Tourism Management Students (MAEDM): Shade Adeniji, Naif Alhomoud, Jasmine Bennett, Aaina Beri, Sofia Bongiolatti, Lena Braylock, Christina Burdakova, Priyanka Chatterjee, Romeo Ciarla, Megan Coy, Alexandra De Morais Simoes, Souad El Jisr, Raghda Elbiecy, Liangyu Fan, Miguel Gouveia, Hanna Hirenka, Cady Jessiman, Anastasia Kachkovska, Ivanka Koleva, Alina Ledina, Aleksandra Lewandowska, Jufu Lyu, Pranav Malhotra, Sabine Martinsone, Kate McLeod, Silvia Mehmeti, Dora Muzevic, Soraya Najafi, Evania Navya, Sarah Norwood Knutsson, Jinhee Park, Mingyi Ren, Emeliene Sathanantham, Celine Schuepbach, Alexandra Sinclair, Margana Wood, Diana Zarate Ambriz

Students (MAECM): Foteini Christi, Danai Saloustrou, Georgios Syriopoulos, Tianci Zou

THE MA COURSES in Event Design and Management and Tourism Management are strongly aligned and delivered by a close-knit team who combine established academics, early career researchers and a range of professionals experienced in events and tourism.

The courses provide students with the opportunity to focus their studies through a range of optional modules. These reflect the research interests of the staff team including creative experience design, global festivals and events, the inter-relationships between tourism, culture and society, airport and airline management, and tourism entrepreneurship. In the final phase of their studies students produce a thesis using original primary research.

Our sister courses hold a unique position within the UK higher education sector due to their situation within an architectural school. We take a distinctive position on the spaces and places for tourism and events with a focus on destinations and the urban environment, drawing on our own research and links with industry in London and further afield. We attract a diverse and highly international community of students who come to the courses with a range of education and prior experience. All of this makes for a dynamic and rich study environment for students and staff alike, and well reflects the global nature of professional work in tourism and events. A growing area of specialism is the field of experience design and our MA course was successfully relaunched in September 2018 to focus further on the creative design aspects of event management.

Students (MATM): Mejsun Al-Ghoul, Alexandra Asanache, Adriana Bisceanu, Astrid Carapellotti, Gianpaolo Di Simone, James Gleave, Sanaz Haji Rafiei, Brittany Jones, Ivan Marra, Karol Mosquera, Catherine Nanteza, Hannah Nowicki, Nuria Nunez, Olimpia Pater, Karan Shah, Eliana Spada, Adam Stewart, Elizabeth Wilkie

Each year we hold a showcase exhibition of student dissertations which the students help to organise, and they have been active members of our student Tourism Society, helping to organise a range of events during the annual English Tourism Week festival in March. Our alumni have been recognised for their scholarly and professional achievements, including multiple winners of the Tourism Management Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Postgraduate Dissertation Prize. Sadly, this year we lost our colleague Simon Curtis; his unique contribution both in terms of subject expertise and support of students and colleagues is very much missed. The recent book, Destination London, co-authored by colleagues and published by the University of Westminster Press, is dedicated to his memory.

Guest Speakers: Mark Bannister, Sara Bertie, Peter Bonfield, Paul Cook, Dr. Katie Deverell, Robert Dunsmore, Claire Eason-Bassett, John Ebejer, Max Fellows, Sasha Frieze, Claudio Giambrone, Callum Gill, Tracy Halliwell, Joanne Hedges, Claire Humphreys, Ioana Iliesiu, Jameen Kaur, Frances Kremarik, Cecilia Lavin, Rachel Ley, Tim Manning, Dr Rodrigo Lucena de Mello, Fatemeh Mohamadi, Rory Sloan, Nancy Stevenson, Georgina Warren, Andrea Zunino 36

Special Thanks: To all our visiting lecturers, guest speakers, event participants and field trip contributors; to the University of Westminster Archive for sharing their resources on the Olympic Games; and to the Olympic Park Velodrome for the site visit. Evania Christine Navya

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The Korean Wave movement is the biggest soft power success story of the region, acquiring global — and still growing — adulation over the past decade, with the fevered export of South Korea’s pop culture, from music to drama" (Monocle 49, Dec. 2011 - Jan. 2012: 48) and the rise of Korean Pop music in the global scale is of significance. A striking feature of any Korean band is their concerts and the experience they bring.

Each concert is unique. Every performance, customised. Stages are efficient without compromising on innovation and creativity & the use of new and novel technology effectively packages the show. A performance that brings together 80,000 people but still impacts you on an individual level, they don’t sell an artist, they sell an experience.

The aim of this study is to understand the construction of a co-creative experienscape in Korean Pop Concerts.

- To understand the ways in which the Korean cultural system has a significance or effect on the KPop music industry, and its fans - To extrapolate from case studies/ interviews the participatory and co-creative nature of these concerts, (in connection to 'b.') - To analyse whether Korean Pop concerts are conceptually curated to not just bring about the concept of the artist but also co-create experiences with the audience

- To explore the conceptual and thematic experiencescape from a theoretical point of view, in the context of fan culture and music concerts. This research will focus on Korean Pop concerts as contextual framework.

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This research paper will follow an exploratory approach to derive a qualitative extrapolation of the determinants of Korean Pop Concerts and their relationship with their local as well as global ‘fandoms.’ An ethnographic perspective (via photo elicitation) which aims to also enumerate the components of fan culture that are a catalyst to co-creative experiencescapes will be studied.

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The analysis will be derived from: - A social survey conducted via a questionnaire which aims to systematically gather information from fans from select sample sets of ‘fandoms’ - Data gathered from a relational content analysis of journalistic interviews, and concert transcripts & books, case studies and journal articles

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- Storey, J. (2017). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, AnIntroduction, 7thed. New York: Routledge.

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- Williams, R. (1983). Culture and Society, 2nded. New York: Anchor Books

- Oh, I. (2013). The Globalization of K-pop: Korea's Place in the Global Music Industry, Korea Observer 44(3), 389-409. Available from https:// www.researchgate.net/publication/296774877_The_Globalization_of_K-pop_Korea%27s_Place_in_the_Global_Music_Industry[Accessed 4 February 2019]

- Barry, P. (2002).Beginning theory: An introduction to literary and cultural theory, 2nded. Manchester: Manchester University Press

- Pine, J.B. and Gilmore, J.H. (1999). The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. Boston: Harvard Business School Press

- Keydara (2011).SHINee World 1ST Concert DVD Cut.[image]. Available from http://myshawolsjjang.blogspot.com/2012/01/videoshinee-world-1stconcert-dvd-cut.html[Accessed 21 March 2019]

- Mahesh, C. and Neena, S. Social Research Methods. Available from http://www.universityofcalicut.info/SDE/

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

THE RISE OF SOLO WOMEN TRAVEL Its causes and effects on the tourism industry Research Aim To understand what has caused the solo women travel trend and how this trend will affect the tourism industry.

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To analyse what has caused the rise of solo women travel in recent years. To understand women’s motivations for travelling solo. To draw conclusions on how this trend will change the tourism industry. To make recommendations to the tourism industry about how to accommodate the growing female market.

Topic Background and Rationale

In the past there was somewhat of a stigma attached to going on holiday alone, however, times have changed. Solo travel in general is on the rise. Hostelworld revealed a 42% increase in solo bookings between 2015 and 2017 with male bookings up 40% compared to the 45% increase by females (Karantzavelou, 2018). In addition, searches for “solo female travel” grew by 52% between 2016 and 2017 (Fuggle et al., 2018). This research focuses on women in particular as they are leading the solo traveler trend. The topic was chosen based on the author’s personal connection to the topic and their passion for traveling.

(Drillinger, 2018)

Methodology

For the purpose of this research qualitative research methods will be used and a deductive approach will be taken. The author will employ thematic analysis to analyse the primary data. Data and findings from primary research will be compared and contrasted with existing theories and findings from the field with the purpose of making profound conclusions and recommendations to the tourism industry. v Pilot study of 2-3 interviews. Following the pilot study, necessary changes to interview questions will be made. v Since these interviews will be about participants’ personal experiences, 20 semi-structured interviews will be conducted to allow for more dynamic and open-ended answers. This may need to be changed based on results of the pilot study. v To gain a large scope of opinions and experiences, the sample population will include well-travelled women with a wide range of ages and backgrounds. 38

Data source: Google Trends

Market Preferences & Trends Although an objective of this research is to conclude how this trend will change the tourism industry, changes have already begun. Mintel, famous for its market research, found that 52% of solo travelers were interested in escorted tours, while price and security are the most important factors for solo travelers.”(Waugh, 2019). Women are also interested in cleanliness, security, easy access, and style and ambience of space (Marzuki, Chin and Razak, 2012). Studying preferences of female travelers will aid in determining recommendations for the tourism and hospitality industry. Brittany Jones

MA Tourism & Events | Masters

UNDERSTANDING MILLENIAL LGBTQ TOURISM MOTIVATION Case Study: London Aim

to provide an understanding of Millennial LGBTQ tourist motivations using the case study of London

Objectives A Critically review relevant literature in relation to Millennial LGBTQ tourist motivation

B Establish the main motivations of Millennial LGBTQ tourists using primary qualitative and quantitative research

C Investigate the main strengths of London as a destination for LGBTQ tourism

D To provide recommendations for London to improve its current Millennial LGBTQ tourism offering

‘UNWTO Global Report on LGBTQ Tourism’ findings highlighted the huge potential of this niche tourism as a tool for economic and social change, with the millennial generation “set to alter the tourism sector like no other generation has before” (UNWTO, 2017) Evident gap in research around millennial motives and existing literature/studies exploring more general LGBTQ motives now dated (early 2000’s). Need for academic insight

Thematic areas

Investigate empirical (LGBTQ) LGBTQ and Millennial see literature review research to establish Gay spaces , Gay identity , Safe spaces possible motives Maslow (1943)

Using inductive, Millennial motivation exploratory

and positivism Personlised experiences framework Technology influences Hierarchy of Gay acceptance , Sexual freedom , Normative travel Needs Authentic products factors , Gay infrastructure/events , Escaping Investigate tourism motivationheteronormativity theory and synthesize with Tourism motivation theory empirical themed research findings

Push

Push & Pull Theory (Dann, 1997)

Motivators Two-Factor Theory (Herzberg, 1959)

Pull Source: Smartdraw, 2009 Push & Pull Theory (Dann, 1997) factors Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1943) Investigate Two-Factor Theory 1959) The (Herzberg, use of a conceptual framework represents a way

Rationale & Background

LGBTQ tourism a relatively new concept, studies originating in late 90’s (Pritchard, 2006). 2006 onwards studies appear limited. Need for further insight as no longer contemporary

Literatureframework review Conceptual

Millennials set to be the highest spending power market in UK by 2020 (FT, 2019). Estimated 7-10% of millennial population in the UK identify as LGBTQ (Stonewall, 2018). Significant need for insight due to sizable market

Hygiene

London's of thinking about a study and ways of representing LGBTQ how complex things work (Bordage, 2009). Given the Current offering literature relating to LGBTQ centres the varying complex, subjectivemotives nature of tourismaround motivation, established academic themes many nowidentified, dated and studyabove, variableswith and the gapsstudies in research this focusing around traditional historicframework motives, the question of conceptually a ‘Millennialappropriate generational shift in is deemed most Strategically motivational changes remains unanswered?’. Early research literature (Clift, et al, research 1999;create Phillip, 1999) argued that the basics of safety and acceptance were most tools based on influential for LGBTQ tourists, subsequent later studies identified destination empirical specific factorsandsuch asseegay infrastructure (Weems, 2004) and escaping proposed theoretical (Johnson,methodology heteronormativity 2005). Gay space and identify (Hughes, 2005) were later findings established to be of significance, but a further conflicting study found that normative ‘non-gay’ factors (Pritchard. 2006) motives were also notable. A conclusive review of LGBTQConduct literature shows progressive behavioral changes in motives over the past Recommendations Conclusion Analysis twenty years, further highlighting altering tourist motivations, arguably partly due to research for London of findings of findings generational shifts (Hughes, 2006). In the last large study, conducted in 2006, Hughes aptly points out a need for “differentiation between specific LGBT generational consumption” (Hughes, 2006 ,p.93). With millennials reported to be the most influential generation in history (White, 2018), demanding more personalisation and authenticity (Roscow, 2019; Poggi, 2017), the literature indicates a change in motivation & behaviours, which this study endeavors to attempt to uncover further

Proposed methodology

James Gleave

Expert interview

Focus Group

• 3-6 interviews; expert knowledge of LGBTQ tourism in London; • Madeleine Prenner – VisitBritain (Marketing). Lead in ‘LOVE IS

• 7-10 participants to optimise validity (Hay, 2000) sample representative of LGBT groups to achieve best inclusivity • Valuable qualitative data on which to

Masters | MA Tourism & Events

MA Event Design Management Theses 2019 Shade Adeniji

Nigerian Weddings

Naif Alhomoud

Liangyu Fan

Events and Communication Between Major/ Minor Community Segments Focusing on LGBTQ

Event Management Education in Saudi Arabia Miguel Gouveia Popular Culture in Events

Jasmine Bennett

Food Design for Events

Aaina Beri

Volunteer Motivations at Mega Events

Sofia Bongiolatti

Examining Customer to Customer Cocreation at Corporate Events

Lena Braylock

Social Inclusion in Festival Events

Christina Burdakova

Pop-up Events as Alternative Experiential Marketing

Priyanka Chatterjee

How Have Mega Sports Affected Development in Africa?

Romeo Ciarla

Relation Between Extreme Sport and Festivals

Megan Coy

Communitas and Leisure Events

Alexandra De Morais Simoes

Challenges For Running Conferences in Mozambique

Souad El Jisr

Role of Social Media in Modern Lebanese Weddings

Raghda Elbiecy

Use of Event Portfolios to Address Social/ Economic Issues in Egypt

Hanna Hirenka

Augmenting Engagement: How augmented reality can increase the level of engagement and learning at conferences

Cady Jessiman

Motivating Corporate Employees through Events

Anastasia Kachkovska

Value Creation in Events: The role of location, design and catering

Ivanka Koleva

Attendee Expectations at Music/Sports Events

Alina Ledina

Venue/Location Choice in Event Design

Aleksandra Lewandowska

Motivations to Attend Music Festivals

Jufu Lyu

Development and Impact of e-Sports Events

Silvia Mehmeti

Cultural Festivals and Poverty Alleviation in Albania

Dora Muzevic

Exploring the Influence of Multi-sensory Engagement in Designing Memorable Event Experiences

Soraya Najafi

Volunteer Motivations at ComicCon Events

Evania Navya

Co-creating Experience in K-pop Concerts*

Sarah Norwood Knutsson

Events as a Tool to Promote Veganism

Jinhee Park

Revitalising City Areas through Eventification of Venues

Mingyi Ren

Visual Technology and Audience Engagement in Exhibitions

Emeliene Sathanantham

ComiCon and Attendee Experience

Celine Schuepbach

City Branding through Trade Fairs: A case study of the exhibition Art Basel in Switzerland

Pranav Malhotra

Alexandra Sinclair

Sabine Martinsone

Margana Wood

Consumer Motivations and Event Typology The Use of Winter Olympic Venues During/ After the Event

Kate McLeod

Event Marketing vs Experiential Marketing: The value of co-creation

Brand Name: Jesus-Christian events

Sustainable Event Venues in the US*

Diana Zarate Ambriz

Food Festivals: Impact of gastronomy culture on events

MA Tourism & Events | Masters

MA Events and Conference Management Theses 2019 Foteini Christi

Georgios Syriopoulos

Danai Saloustrou

Tianci Zou

Socio-cultural Meanings of the ‘Pangyri’ Events on Sifnos

After-hours Events in London Museums

Consumer Behaviour and Experience Selling in UK Luxury Brand Events

How Sustainable Events Build Community: The case study of Honduras

MA Tourism Management Theses 2019 Mejsun Al-Ghoul

Sanaz Haji Rafiei

Nuria Nunez

Alexandra Asanache

Brittany Jones

Olimpia Pater

Interactive Technology in Museum

Socio-cultural Impacts of Tourism on the Mayan Community in Tulum, Mexico

Adriana Bisceanu

Tourist Motivation and Choice of Destination: The case study of Bucharest

Astrid Carapellotti 100 years of Hilton

Gianpaolo Di Simone

Tour Operator Distribution Channels: Implications of ICTs for UK market

James Gleave

Millennial LGBTQ Tourism*

Undiscovered Britain

War Tourism/Dark Tourism in Dunkirk

The Rise of Solo Women Travel: Its causes and effects*

Karan Shah

Ivan Marra

VR and Heritage Attractions in Rome

Jet Airways Finances and Reputation

Eliana Spada

Karol Mosquera

Sustainable Tourism in Developing Countries

Eno-gastronomy Tourism Marketing in Sicily

Adam Stewart

Catherine Nanteza

Slum Tourism in Dharavi, India – Social and Economic Benefits

Hannah Nowicki

Anxiety and Traveller Motivations

The Impact of Mobile Application Technology on Leisure Travellers

Elizabeth Wilkie

Travel Marketing to American Baby Boomers

Airline Loyalty Programmes in UK

*awarded the prize for best dissertation poster on their programme, March 2019.

Masters | MSc Air Transport Planning and Management

Nigel Dennis (Course Leader), Anne Graham, Andrew Cook, Frances Kremarik Nigel Dennis is the course leader and a specialist in airline economics, forecasting, scheduling and marketing; he has served on international committees including those of the Transportation Research Board in the US and the Association for European Transport. Anne Graham is a specialist in airport economics, finance, management and aviation issues related to tourism; author of the book Managing Airports published by Butterworth-Heinemann. Andrew Cook leads the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s air traffic management research and sits on national and international ATM committees; also lectures on air transport market research and data analysis. Frances Kremarik assists with the day to day running of the course and specialises in airline networks and the North Atlantic market as well as air travel statistics and surveys.

MSc Air Transport Planning and Management

THE MSC AIR Transport Planning and Management is a very practical course that brings together academic content with a large number of specialist contributors from the aviation industry. It is uniquely taught in block mode where students attend for modules of five daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; duration, making it very accessible to part-time students working in the aviation industry both in the UK and internationally. Additional activities are arranged for fulltime students in-between the module blocks including tutorial and discussion sessions, guest lectures and visits to airport facilities and outside events. Students come from a range of disciplines (first degrees have included Economics, Geography, Engineering, Languages and Music). No prior knowledge of the air transport industry is assumed but a passion for aviation is one of the best qualifications taken in conjunction with a formal academic background or equivalent appropriate work experience. Students take three taught core modules: Air Transport Economics; Air Transport Management and Operations; Air Transport Forecasting and Market Research; and

three taught option modules, currently from a choice of four: Airport Finance and Strategy; Air Transport Policy and Planning; Airline Marketing and Business Models; Air Traffic Management, Scheduling and Network Planning. Students also have the possibility of a free choice module from another suitable programme in place of one of the three options. Most modules include a group workshop or business game in which students apply their knowledge to work as a team in a competitive environment. The Research Dissertation is also a core module undertaken in the second half of the study period. A wide range of aspects of the aviation business can be studied and previous dissertations have covered subjects as specialised as the future of airline catering, demand for commercial space travel, flight booking and payment systems and the potential for a new supersonic aircraft as well as more mainstream topics such as a business plan for a new start up airline, choice of a new hub for a cargo operator, scope for night time flights on short-haul routes, evaluation of rival commercial aircraft and environmental implications of airport development.

Guest Speakers: Carole Blackshaw (Aviation Lawyer), Maarten ter Bogt (Singapore Airlines), David Bowen (SESAR Joint Undertaking), Guillaume Burghouwt (Schiphol Group), Beth Corbould (Civil Aviation Authority), Nick Fadugba (African Airlines Association), Jerry Foran (British Airways), Laura Faucon (Aeroport de Paris), Kelly Ison (Pilot Integration Committee, American Airlines), John Twigg (Manchester Airports Group) 42

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management | Masters

Marzena Piotrowska (Course Leader), Julian Allen, Jacques Leonardi, Maja Piecyk, Allan Woodburn Marzena Piotrowska is Research Associate whose primary research interests focus on city logistics, urban freight consolidation and transport policy. Her current research centres on the role of urban freight consolidation facilities in supporting sustainable city logistics. Julian Allen is Senior Research Fellow. His research interests include the role of transport policy in reducing the negative impacts of logistics operations, developments in retailing and their relationship with logistics and transportation systems, and the history of freight transport. Jacques Leonardi is Senior Research Fellow with 19 years’ experience in developing, testing and evaluating sustainable logistics solutions. His research focuses on supply chain energy and global logistics, applying survey methods to evaluate new technologies and policy impacts. Maja Piecyk is Reader in Logistics. Her research interests focus on the optimisation of supply chain networks, GHG auditing of businesses and the sustainability of freight transport operations. Maja is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK). Allan Woodburn is Principal Lecturer in Freight Transport and Logistics, with 25 years’ experience. His research focuses mainly on different aspects of rail freight including policy, operations, sustainability and efficiency.

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Students (Full time): Naif Algahtani, Anas Azmi, Abubakr Babiker, Rohitkumar Bhandari, Shubham Biyani, Leonardo Costa, Eleftheria Kotsou, Shiyan Li, Roberto Loo Wen, Konstantin Lunev, Meerim Momunzhanova, Marie Niwemahoro, Martin Osengor, Nermin Ozpekel,

Sirichaporn Piriyametheekul, Juan Trell Chueca Students (Part time): Andrius Gedvilas, Anuradha Ramalingasiva

THE MSC LOGISTICS and Supply Chain Management was introduced in 1998 and is one of the longest established logistics postgraduate courses in the United Kingdom. The course has been designed to combine logistics concepts and principles with ‘real world’ experience, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to freight transport (i.e. product flow) within the supply chain. The course delivery encourages reflective and critical thinking in helping students to extend existing skills and competencies. In particular, students are given guidance on developing their skills for undertaking personal research, and a considerable amount of time is spent by the student on personal study for the Research Dissertation.

that focuses strongly on international logistics and supply chains. Over the years, students on the course have come from all parts of the world and have brought a huge variety of educational and professional experience.

Each taught module occupies a three hour slot per week. Modules use a variety of teaching and learning methods including academic lectures, seminars, tutorials, case studies, guest speakers, site visits, small group exercises, and group and individual presentations.

The course has a strong graduate employment record and we are very proud of our diverse course alumni who work in logistics-related positions around the world. Examples of companies that have recruited our graduates in recent years are: Honda, DHL, Procter and Gamble, Maersk Logistics, Glaxo Smith Klein, Volvo Logistics, Kuehne + Nagel, Norbert Dentressangle and IKEA.

The course attracts a diverse, international group of students, which is of a particular benefit to a programme

The course team is highly active in freight-related research and consultancy projects, with a particular focus on freight transport efficiency and sustainability. The curriculum is updated regularly based upon our research which ensures that the course content and overall strategy reflect current issues in logistics practice, preparing students for careers in this area. We work closely with clients and project partners in both the private and public sectors.

Masters | MSc Transport Planning and Management

Enrica Papa (Course leader), Rachel Aldred, Mengqiu Cao Enrica Papa is Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning. Her research is positioned at the intersection of urban, transport and economic geography. She is a board member of the Association for European Transport and leads the Association of European School of Planning research group. Rachel Aldred is a Reader in Transport having joined Westminster in September 2012. Her research interest is in sustainable mobilities, especially active transport, and has been funded by ESRC, AHRC, Blaze, TfL, DfT, British Cycling, CILT and others. Mengqiu (Matthew) Cao is Senior Lecturer in Transport and Urban Planning at the University of Westminster. He has worked in both academia and industry, specialising in an interdisciplinary research field, which is primarily a mixture of transport analysis and urban planning.

MSc Transport Planning and Management THE MSC TRANSPORT Planning and Management course aims to develop the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abilities to initiate and undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis and research in the areas of transport policy, planning and operational management. In the process the course seeks to enable students to develop a thorough, critical awareness of current transport policies and practices. The course intake draws students from a diverse background and sector experience. Students without experience in the sector are enabled to equip themselves with knowledge, techniques and methodologies required to take policy decisions or to provide the necessary information/knowledge for others to take such decisions. They benefit from learning from the experiences and knowledge of part-time professional students, who in turn benefit from the opportunity to critically reflect on their own practice and examine transport, policy and planning issues from a wider perspective than their present employment. The overall objectives are to provide all students with a stimulating academic environment within which to study transport issues, to ensure students are aware of current transport policy and planning issues, and to prepare them for a wide range of potential employment within the

transport sector by developing relevant transferable skills. The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and graduates are exempt from the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exams. The Course also forms part of the pathway to the Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification. Students following this course develop a critical, in-depth understanding of key transport issues, as well as skills that will help them progress careers within the sector. The course team is in regular contact with key employers, many of whom regularly both sponsor current employees and employ our recent graduates. Some offer to partner with full-time students on key dissertation topics of interest, bringing research and industry together in important and beneficial ways. Many of our graduates have progressed to senior levels in management and policy-making within transport operators, public bodies, consultancy companies and nongovernmental organisations. We often welcome alumni to the University to give guest lectures and attend networking events. Students are encouraged to participate in such opportunities, which provide networking opportunities in addition to the wide range of relevant events taking place both at the University and across London.

MSc Transport Planning and Management | Masters

MSc Transport Planning and Management Theses 2019

Alexander Baldwin-Smith

What key service features and customer preferences are needed to create a viable, attractive transit service for orbital trips in outer south London to deliver mode shift?

Jonathan Bryer

Trams in the United Kingdom: An investigation into the past, present and future of trams in London

Guisy Cerreto

The Evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Applied to Transport: The impact of the Citymapper app on travel habits

Sarah Crane

Stereotypical Bus Users in England: Perception vs reality

Dorina-Mihaela Cristea

The Sustainability of Public Transport in Bucharest

Thomas Desmond

Thames Valley Train Performance: An analysis of challenges to address this in the context of high frequency, mixed-use railway

Hannah Godfrey

Improving Sustainable Staff Travel at Gatwick Airport: The potential of ondemand transport services

Andrew Haylen

Paria Sareh

Alexander Henderson

Joanna Thornton

Philip Howard

Alicia Wallis

Cost-benefit Analysis and its Association with Decision Making for Transport Megaprojects in the UK

Access-Based Transportation: Exploring the role technology is having in facilitating the growing demand for car sharing schemes in London

Parking Price Demand Elasticity in Stevenage

Glenn Josy

How can access to air travel be improved to passengers with disabilities?

Robin Kaenzig

The Benefits of Transport Sector Modernisation to Informal Public Transport Operators: A case study of jeepney operators in the Philippines

Godfrey Masara

Measuring the Social Return on Investment for Cycling Infrastructure Investment in Leicester City

Daniel McCrory

Investigation into the Relationship between Public Charge Point Network Expansion on EV Adoption in LB Hammersmith and Fulham

George Petre

Sustainability of the European Union Transport Sector Emissions Mitigation Plans: London, a case study

Link and Place Approach: The case study of King Street in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

How can highway infrastructure increase childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active, independent travel to school in new development areas? A case study of Berryfields MDA, Aylesbury

Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: The opportunities and challenges facing local authorities in Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic Heartland, UK

Jacob Wing

Quality Bus Transit: Punctuality, performance and congestion

Radoslaw Witecki

The Impact of Cycling Schemes and Cycling Clubs in London with Implementation of Behavioural Approaches to Cycling: The case study of cycling patterns in Sutton

Samuel Yates

Managing Freight Traffic Disruptions at the Channel Ports: Operation stack or operation brock?

Monika Zamojska

The Role of Cycling Retailers in Promoting Modal Shift Towards Cycling in London

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & CITIES

School of Architecture & Cities | RIBA Part 3

RIBA Part 3 Wilfred Achille, Alastair Blyth, Elantha Evans, Samir Pandya

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER runs the largest Part 3 course in the UK with over 400 students this year working in a broad range of architectural practices – more than 230 practices based in London and the south-east.

a design competition for a parklet that will ‘transform a kerbside area into a place to rest, relax and admire the City’ which will be installed across the City of London in June 2019.

The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds including overseas schools of architecture. Often architects who are registered but trained outside the UK attend the course to gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities of UK practice.

The course was validated by the RIBA for a further five years in November 2017 and the Visiting Board gave it a Commendation citing its scope and delivery, dedicated Chair of Professional practice, and dedicated administrative support.

The course follows the requirements of the ARB/RIBA Professional Criteria and is structured as a series of building blocks with clear assessment points throughout the year.

This year, as in previous years, the course reached its target number of students in early May, an indication of the value that architectural practice attribute to it.

The lecture courses are repeated twice a week to allow students to balance attendance with work commitments. Lectures are delivered by industry experts – including former students – and are recorded for easy future access.

Alastair Blyth

Students’ professional development in the workplace is supported by a team of 38 professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide one-to-one tutorial guidance on project-based coursework. Professional examiners consistently comment on the high, critical standard of the coursework which we attribute to the structured tutoring system where students are challenged to think about practice differently. The different student backgrounds, as well as the types and number of practices represented on the course, combined with the tutors and examiners gives an unprecedented reach into the architectural profession. This enables the course to both draw from the breadth of practice experience as well as contribute to it. One of our students, Patrick McEvoy, was one of three winning entrants to the London Festival of Architecture and Corporation of London City Parklets competition – 48

Patrick McEvoy: Parklet [photos ©: Agnese Sanvito]

RIBA Part 3 | School of Architecture & Cities

Wilfred Achille is Module Leader for Professional Development and Experience. Wilfred completed a major study on Broadwater Farm, Tottenham after the eighties riots. Founder of Mode 1 Architects specialising in estate remodelling projects and urban regeneration, he is developing new Turn-key solution business models for architectural practice. Alastair Blyth is Course Leader. He joined the department following ten years in the Directorate for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development developing a research programme on learning environments. He collaborates with architectural practices in Sydney and Mexico on school building projects; consultant with the OECD, World Bank and Council of Europe Development Bank. Elantha Evans is an architect and educator. Her practice work with Serrano Evans Partnership included architectural, interior and object design, balanced with site-specific performance and installations. Samir Pandya is a regular visiting critic and examiner at architecture schools, both in the UK and internationally. Following a career in architectural practice, his involvement in profession-related research has included projects for the RIBA, CABE, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the UK Government Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills.

Lecture-based Modules The two lecture-based modules are delivered during the first semester. The lecture programmes are delivered by differing industry experts, including construction lawyers, construction managers, architects and surveyors, and are

repeated to allow students to balance attendance with work commitments. Lectures are video recorded for easy future access. Each series concludes with an open book written exam.

Architectural Practice Management

English Law, Regulations, Construction Procurement and Contracts

This module is delivered as an intensive short course in January with a written examination held in May. The 12 lectures cover general management, marketing, and practice management as well as managing health and safety, different forms of architectural practice and the role of the professional and regulatory bodies.

This module is delivered as a programme of evening lectures from September to December with a written examination held in January. The module starts with an overview of the English legal system, the regulatory framework that architectural practitioners work with, the procurement of construction projects, the range of contracts used in practice and dispute resolution. Throughout the course students are encouraged to place the issues covered in the context of their practice as well as other experience they will have had. 2018

2017

NOVEMBER

Stage 1A

DECEMBER

Understanding the Brief, Site & ‘Lessons Learnt’

Stage 1B

Stage 2

Stage 3

Abdul Munie: Programme phases 3&4 King’s Crescent Estate

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Developing the Masterplan options for Phases 3 & 4 Developing the Preferred Masterplan Option

JULY

School of Architecture & Cities | RIBA Part 3

RIBA Part 3 Work-based Modules These are supported by a team of 38 professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide one-to-one tutorial guidance and act as the students’ professional studies advisors for the year. Tutors arrange a mix of group and individual tutorials as well as provide individual advice

by email where needed. The work-based modules are also supported by a lecture programme. Students may defer submission of the coursework for the work-based modules for either six or twelve months to enable them to respond to their workplace context

Professional Development and Experience

Oral Examinations

This work-based module tracks and supports the student’s professional development in the workplace. A student’s professional development is discussed with their Professional Tutor who provides guidance on the professional Curriculum Vitae and the Career Evaluation as well as guidance on preparing for the oral examination. Coursework, comprising the CV, Career Evaluation and PEDR sheets, is submitted in June and assessed in July. Students are required to complete PEDRs for the duration of the course and the PEDR sheets are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Oral examinations for both modules take place in early September, with interviews generally lasting 45 minutes. Professional Examiners are paired and will see six students over a day. Their role is to assess the candidate’s performance at oral only and the interviews are based on the Professional Case Study and the Professional Development coursework submitted. The written coursework will have been marked already and the examiners will see the feedback given to students.

Niralee Casson / Assael Architecture: Site photographs

RIBA Part 3 | School of Architecture & Cities

RIBA Part 3 Work-based Modules contd

The Professional Case Study The aim of the module is to bring together studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge of practice including management, legal frameworks, procurement and critically analysis in the context of a construction project drawing substantially on their own experience. It aims to build on the theory studied in the lecture-based modules, and provide an opportunity to make professional judgements. The case study covers the practice, the design team, appointment, regulatory framework, procurement, and the construction stage. Students are asked

Rhiain Bower: Thames Street, Windsor

to analyse their project against best practice, and make recommendations for future practice based on their analysis. Students submit a draft case study in March and receive formative assessment and feedback in April. The final coursework is submitted in June and assessed in July. Guidance is given on preparing for the oral examination which takes place in September.

School of Architecture & Cities | Latitudes

Latitudes

LATITUDES IS A global educational network that engages future generations with the challenges of designing for climate change.

and sustainable rural areas. The structure needed to create an open meeting place, shelter visitors from the elements and be accessible for all.

The agenda is simple: that environmental change is best experienced if it is to be understood. The Latitudes network offers an opportunity to open doors into diverse climates, both real and virtual, for students and staff to engage in inter-disciplinary design research and learning by working across different latitudes and climatic regions. In this way our changing climate will become more tangible. Students and researchers have the opportunity to think across boundaries, to create new ideas for living and working in an age of unpredictable climate. The Latitudes programme creates memories about how important our climate is to the places we build and inhabit.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the medieval town of Toruń, Poland was the setting for the most recent Global Studio where the brief was to produce a mini documentary to be entered into the United Nations Climate Change’s annual ‘Global Youth Video Competition’ with the chance to present the ideas conveyed in the video at the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Chile.

During the last academic year, the Latitudes Global Studio has led itinerant learning collaborations that engaged undergraduate and postgraduate students with multidisciplinary backgrounds within The College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries in a comparative exploration of design and climate change. Known for its museums and architectural landmarks, Paris was chosen to inspire students in their venture to succeed in a live design brief set by Virserums Konsthall Art Gallery, Sweden. Viserums Konsthall asked students to work in teams to design a pavilion which focused on wooden architecture

Around five hundred students from Westminster and their peers from our international university partners have engaged with Latitudes. They have taken part in mud workshops in Nagpur, snow seminars in the Arctic, and taken creative learning journeys to Indonesia, Brazil and Ahmedabad. Latitudes workshops compliment and add value to a student’s degree course and learning journey. They are an opportunity for students to practice what their lectures preach and enable them to see and feel the impact. We take them to the local level rather than the global one, connecting students to industry experts and like-minded people of the Latitudes ethos. Later this year, the book Latitudes – Design, Climate Change and Resilience will be published.. Lucy Anne McWeeney Project Manager

Shaheer Ahmed, Caroline Dew, Ernesta Jovarauskaite, Katherine Stewart: Virserums Konsthall Proposal

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Latitudes | School of Architecture & Cities

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School of Architecture & Cities | Fabrication Lab

Fabrication Lab

THE FABRICATION LAB has evolved steadily over the past six years and now offers both a wide range of short-burst teaching workshops as well as a growing research programme. Our research agenda is practiceled, designed to feed into our training and teaching, and builds on the diverse technologies and opportunities for exploring innovative architectural media now available in the Lab. We have also continued to develop the scale at which we are working. A highlight of the year was a collaboration with the acclaimed Finnish architect Sami Rintala and Aalto University. A one-week design workshop with students from Westminster and Aalto produced a design for a Tea House, celebrating 100 years of collaboration between Finland and Britain. With the support of the Design Museum and British Embassy in Helsinki, we secured a prime location outside the Finnish Design Museum, and our summer pavilion has been enjoyed and greatly appreciated by visitors to the City since. We hope to build on this collaboration with Sami and Aalto University next year, perhaps with a project in London for next summer. The year has also seen the launch of three new projects generously funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust, each designed to contribute to teaching as well as foster our research programme. The XR Lab, a collaboration with Jeff Ferguson from the School of Computing and Engineering, has centres in the Marylebone and Cavendish Campuses and offers access to cutting-edge technology in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. The XR Lab allows us to combine and share resources and expertise,

and has brought invaluable expertise from Computer Science to bear on an area of rapidly growing importance for Architecture and the Built Environment. Realising Sustainability, a project developed with Rosa Schiano-Phan, has allowed us to explore the use of digital technologies to better understand how buildings perform environmentally, appreciate how they are used, and to help visualise and present the resulting knowledge in a way that might influence behaviour and so have an impact on the sustainability of our built environment. Along with a number workshops and a comprehensive postoccupancy evaluation of our Marylebone campus, it has allowed us to launch an innovative LoRaWan network in the Lab, which through a further grant from Jisc we hope to roll out across the University in the coming months. The Materials and Building Systems Research Centre, coled by Franรงois Girardin, has established a new library of materials and a space in which to experiment with new fabrication processes. It marks a shift in our emphasis in the Fabrication Lab as we move from growing our range of equipment and machines, to a more intense focus on materiality, and how we can use the manufacturing and digital technologies at our disposal to work with an increasing number of materials, as well as to develop new and innovative materials with properties specific to our designs and imagination. We look forward to seeing projects new and old flourish and build our research findings in the year ahead.

Dr David Scott Director

Helsinki Tea House with Aalto University and Sami Rintala

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School of Architecture & Cities | Fabrication Lab

(top) Helsinki Tea House project design; (centre and bottom) Helsinki Tea House construction

Fabrication Lab | School of Architecture & Cities

Helsinki Tea House with Aalto University and Sami Rintala

Beyond the Studio | Ambika P3

Ambika P3

FOR TWELVE YEARS Ambika P3 has provided an exciting venue. It is host to external and internal events, a laboratory to develop new work, and share the outcome. Encouraged by VC Peter Bonfield’s keen interest, Ambika P3 has started to shift its focus, with more events generated by all parts of the University and enhanced links with external partners. 2018/19 hosted Bass Culture 70/50 that marked 70 years of Windrush and 50 years of reggae. This major AHRC research project by Mykaell Riley revealed the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture. Built around memories and experiences, the photographs at the heart of the exhibition were animated by a speciallycommissioned film, 70 hours of individual testimony and live events tracing the thread from Jamaican music and sound system culture up to grime. Sunday Art Fair shows in P3 each year at the time of Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park. Twenty small international galleries showed the vibrancy of the art business in London. Once again, the London Contemporary Music Festival was staged in P3 and included collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery and Walmer Yard. For the first time, the BA Fashion was part of London Fashion Week in February, sharing the slot with six high street names including House of Holland. The annual shows for BA Media, Art and Design, and MA

Photography presents student work to the industry and the public, while the regular architecture design studio crits encapsulate the importance of public discussion and presentation of design. A one-day conference in February ‘The Art of the Mimeograph’ convened by the art group Alt Går Bra preceded their installation at the Royal Academy. In March, Blackout celebrated the Kodak carousel slide projector whose last model appeared in 2004. Curated by Julian Ross, the exhibition showcased eleven international artists. An exhibition entitled Hyphen: An Exposition Between Art and Research was held to mark the launch of the new journal Hyphen. It brought together PhD researchers, alumni and staff from creative disciplines. For the first time, Ambika P3 hosted the well-established Supercrit to look afresh at the building known as the Grand Bleu by Will Alsop; the Law School held their degree shows; and several one day events included aspects of well-being and imaginative approaches to designing for and with disability such as DisOrdinary Architecture. The future of Ambika P3 is evolving with the new College of DCDI and with a programme in four strands: External, Internal, Curated, Partners. Niall Carter Venue Manager, Ambika P3 Katharine Heron Director, Ambika P3

(top left) BA Fashion A/W 2019 (2019)

(top right) Supercrit: Will Alsop (2018)

(photographer: Simon Armstrong )

(photographer: Manon Giloux)

(bottom left) Bass Culture 70/50 Exhibition (2018)

(bottom right) Bass Culture 70/50 Exhibition (2018)

(photographer: Clare Hamman)

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(photographer: Clare Hamman)

THE SCHOOL OF Architecture + Cities has a strongly established research culture focusing on the design of environmentally and socially sustainable cities of the future: adapting to challenges, offering choice, access and well-being, transforming urban life and connecting a global community. The unit offers strong and diverse research, scholarship, and research through teaching and practice. The focus is to be at the forefront of urban issues related to strategic design, place, mobilities, and making. The aim is also to encourage innovation and cross-fertilisation of ideas on well-being in cities, and the role of architecture, transport, infrastructure, tourism and urban planning. The School is currently engaged in preparations for REF2021 (Research Excellence Framework 2021). REF

entails processes of assessment regarding the quality of our research over a period between 2014 and 2020. The School has a position in the social-sciences panel, REF Unit of Assessment 13 (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning). About 75 staff members from the school are involved in REF, representing a wide range of funded research projects, publications (books and journal articles), and portfolios. In addition to REF, the emphasis this year is on involvement and leadership for new university research communities, including the Sustainable Cities and Urban Environments Community (SCUE). SCUE is a universitywide interdisciplinary platform focusing on questions around urban environments and strategies for sustainable cities of the future. For further details about our research groups, visit: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research

Johan Woltjer SA+C Research Director

RESEARCH

Research | Groups

PLANNING RESEARCH GROUPS

Air Transport & Air Traffic Management Group

Sustainable Mobility and Cycling

This group specialises in the closely integrated research areas of Air Transport and Air Traffic Management. The former encompasses airline and airport research at the level of route planning, economics of operation and competitive analysis. The latter specifically covers the operational practices and management of Air Traffic Control. The team is working on numerous applied research projects and has â&#x201A;Ź8m of major research in its current portfolio.

Sustainable mobility research covers topics including planning for sustainable accessibility, transitions to lowcarbon mobility, walking, cycling, wheeling, e/micromobilities, reducing car use, and active travel. The group includes the new Active Travel Academy, and a wide range of funded projects.

Freight and Logistics Group Research in Freight, Transport and Logistics is carried out by a leading international research team with the majority of the projects involving national and international collaboration. It features work for a large variety of partners from distribution and logistics firms and industry, predominantly concerned with the sustainability of freight transport and logistics operations both in the UK and internationally.

Centre for Urban Infrastructure This centre concentrates on the theoretical, policy and applied aspects of urban infrastructures. A particular emphasis is to clarify the benefits of sustainable infrastructures (including transport, green and water infrastructures), their governance, and contributions to well-being in cities.

Max Lock Centre The Max Lock Centre focuses on international sustainable development in all parts of the world, including: public policy and professional practice in urban and regional planning, poverty reduction, management and governance in the built environment, community empowerment and building resilience and the creation of sustainable livelihoods at neighbourhood, city and regional levels. Sustainable Urbanism The Sustainable Urbanism Group focuses on issues of planning, engineering, design, and governance for sustainable towns, cities, and regions. The emphasis is on the integration of sustainability, infrastructure and urban development. Tourism and Events Group The Tourism and Events Research Group has a track record in city tourism, mega-events, sport events/tourism, and air transport research, as well as emerging interests in experience design and sustainable tourism/events. Their work is internationally focused, reflecting the cosmopolitan profile of staff and host city.

Groups | Research

ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH GROUPS

Architectural History and Theory

Experimental Practice (EXP)

The group explores the ‘what, why, how and for whom?’ of architectural and building custom and practice, and the various changing meanings and interpretations which have been placed upon them both in the past and in contemporary culture. Members of the group are engaged in a wide range of research into architectural history and theory, cultural studies, urbanism and heritage.

The group supports and promotes research in innovative and experimental architecture. It explores the experimental projects – buildings, books, artworks, imaginary, ‘paper’ and teaching projects – which act as a laboratory for the architectural profession.

Human Architecture Group The group draws together closely related strands of research in the School of Architecture + Cities: environmental and ecological design, and practice driven research into the history and technological development of architecture. Specific areas of interest include novel construction technologies, innovative and efficient material use, systems building design, day-lighting, acoustics and airquality all in relation to human perception, well-being and comfort. Expanded Territories This group is an umbrella for researchers, scholars and designers working in and around architecture, such as global mobilities, rural landscapes, resource extraction sites, and the atmosphere. Framed by an awareness of the planetary scale of urbanisation, the discovery of the anthropocene, and the ethical imperative to work with the agency and rights of human and non-human actants in the shaping of built environments, it evokes an innovative cultural project rather than merely a research field.

Representation, Fabrication and Computing In an age in which digital technology has facilitated a wealth of new opportunities for creative practice, it has never been more important to question the role of architectural representation. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, scholars, teachers and designers explore the nature of drawing and making in their broadest sense, encompassing a range of activities from historical analysis and the science of visual perception, to design-based research and the exploration of innovative new fabrication technologies. Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) ProBE is a joint initiative between the Westminster Business School and the School of Architecture + Cities. The Centre has a rich programme of activities, including research projects, oral history, film, exhibitions, seminars and other events. It provides a focus for interdisciplinary and international activity related to the production of the built environment as a social process.

Research | Publications

Selected Staff Publications and Research Proceedings 2018/19

Books Bremner, L. (ed.) 2019. Monsoon [+ other] Waters. (London: University of Westminster, London Monsoon Assemblages) Decermic, D. and Peckham, A. (ed.) 2018. The Intrinsic And Extrinsic City. (London: Department of Architecture, University of Westminster) Graham, A. and Dobruszkes, F. (ed.) Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective (Amsterdam, Netherlands; Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA: Elsevier) Jordan, K. and Lepine, A. (ed.) 2018. Modern Architecture for Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom. (London: Routledge) Pandya, S. (ed.) 2018. Architecture and Nation (London: Taylor & Francis) Watson, V.A. 2018. /ATMOSPHERE/ The Origin of Air Grid. (London: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster)

Chapters in Books Allen, J., Cherrett, T., Piecyk, M. and Piotrowska, M. 2019. ‘The logistics of parcel delivery: current operations and challenges facing the UK market.’ in: Browne, M., Behrends, S., Woxenius, J., Guiliano, G. and Holguin-Veras, J. (ed.) Urban Logistics: Management, Policy and Innovation in a Rapidly Changing Environment (London: Kogan) pp. 144-166 Bhat, H. 2019. ‘About “terms and conditions”: The Aadhar biometric identification programme as a mapping analytic.’ in: Bargues Pedreny, P., Chandler, D. and Simon, E (ed.) Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp. 102117

Bremner, L. 2018. ‘Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370’. in: Sorensen, D. (ed.) Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation (Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press) pp. 223256 Blyth, A. 2018. ‘Preface’. in: The Classroom is broken: Changing School Architecture in Europe and Across the World. (Florence, Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione, Innovazione e Ricerca Educativa (Indire)) Charrington, H. 2018. ‘Studio Aalto: An Evolving Practice.’ in: Hipeli, M (ed.) Alvar Aalto Architect: Muuratsalo Experimental House 1952-4, Studio Aalto 1954-63. (Helsinki: Alvar Aalto Foundation) pp. 120-131 Graham, A. and Metz, D. 2019. ‘Limits to Growth’. in: Graham, A. and Dobruszkes, F. (ed.) Air Transport: A Tourism Perspective (Amsterdam, Netherlands; Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA: Elsevier) pp. 4152 Heron, K. 2018. ‘Out of Ice at Ambika P3’. in: Warrilow, J. and Ogilvie, E. (ed.) Out of Ice: The Secret Language of Ice. (London: Black Dog Publishing) Kamvasinou, K. and Milne, S. 2019. ‘Surveying the Creative Use of Vacant Space in London, c.19451995.’ in: Campbell, C.J., Giovine, A. and Keating, J. (ed.) Empty Spaces: Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history. (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London) Lau, C. 2019. ‘A contemporary reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to festival and the Elizabethan notion of “lost sense of sight”’. in: Brown, J., Frost, C. and Lucas, R. (ed.) Architecture, Festival and the City. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp. 35-48

Saleem, S. 2018. ‘Disrupting Heritage: mosques as mediators of British Identity.’ in: Pandya, S. (ed.) Architecture and Nation (London: Taylor & Francis) Smith, A. and Mair, J. 2018. ‘The making of a city: How Expo 88 changed Brisbane forever.’ in: Expo Cities Urban Change (Paris: BIE) pp. 88-100 Spankie, R. 2019. ‘Within the Cimeras: Spaces of Imagination.’ in Psarra, S. (ed.) The Production Sites of Architecture. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp. 42-48 Verdini, G. and Huang, F. 2019. ‘Enhancing RuralUrban Linkages Through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach: The Case of Shuang Wan Cun in the Jiangsu Province.’ in: Roders, A.P. and Bandarin, F. (ed.) Reshaping Urban Conservation Singapore (Cham, Switzerland: Springer) pp. 459472 Watson, V.A. 2018. ‘Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel.’ in Kurg, A. and Vicente, K. (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the European Architectural History Network Estonia Estonian Academy of Arts. (Talinn: Estonian Academy of Arts) pp. 307-316

Technical Reports Blyth, A., Velissaratou, J. and OECD 2018. OECD School User Survey: Improving Learning Spaces Together. (Paris: OECD Publishing) Duthilleul, Y., Blyth, A., Imms, W. and Maslauskaite, K. 2018. Thematic Review: School Design and Learning Environments in the City of Espoo, Finland. (Paris: Council of Europe Development Bank) Neuman, M., Tchapi, M., Sharkey, M., Gelgota, A., Itova, I. 2018. East West Arc: Re-thinking Growth in the London Region. (London: University of Westminster)

Publications | Research

Research | Publications

Selected Staff Publications and Research Awards 2018/19

Journal Articles Allen, J., Piecyk, M., Piotrowska, M., McLeod, F., Cherrett, T., Ghali, K., Nguyen, T., Bektas, T., Bates, O., Friday, A., Wise, S. and Austwick, M. 2018. ‘Understanding the Impact of E-commerce on Last-Mile Light Goods Vehicle Activity in Urban Areas: The Case of London.’ Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. (61, Part B). pp. 325-338

Lau, C. 2018. ‘Recontextualising the Practices of Action, Wisdom and Devotion in Relation to Dialogue in Design’. Il Quaderno: #MAESTRO. Spring (3). pp. 18-23.

Saleh, P., Schiano-Phan, R. and Gleeson, C.P. 2018. ‘The Rasmaska project: temperature behaviour of three, full scale test cells in hot Mediterranean summer: non-insulated double masonry wall and different insulation locations’. Energy and Buildings. Neuman: Webb, R., Bai, X., Smith, M., Costanza, 178. pp. 304-317 R., Griggs, D., Moglia, M., Neuman, M., Newman, P., Newton, P., Norman, B., Ryan, C., Schandl, H., Schiano-Phan: Aparicio-Ruiz, P., Schiano-Phan, R. and Steffen, W., Tapper, N. and Thomson, G. 2018. Salmeron-Lissen, J.M. 2018. ‘Climatic applicability ‘Sustainable Urban Systems: Co-design and Framing of downdraught evaporative cooling in the United for Transformation.’ Ambio: a Journal of the Human States of America.’ Building and Environment. 136. pp. Environment. 47 (1). pp. 57-77 162-176

Bailey, Nick, Kleinhans, R. and Lindbergh, J. 2018. ‘The implications of Schumpeter’s theories of innovation for the role, organisation and impact of communitybased social enterprise in three European countries.’ Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organisational Diversity. Neuman, M. 2019. ‘Is Resilience Planning’s Holy Grail?’ Schiano-Phan, R., Lau, B., Pourel, D. and Khan, S. 2018. 7 (1). pp. 14-36 Town Planning Review. 90 (2). pp. 109-115 ‘Spatial Delight and Environmental Performance of Bhat, H. 2018. ‘Over Skies of Extraction’. Lo Squaderno Novy, J. (2018). ‘“Destination” Berlin revisited. From Modernist Architecture in London – Golden Lane Estate’. Future Cities and Environment. 4 (1), p. 16 - Explorations in Space and Society. 48, pp. 23-26 (new) tourism towards a pentagon of mobility and Cherifi, B., Smith, A., Maitland, R. and Stevenson, N. place consumption’. Tourism Geographies. 20(3). pp. Schultz, M., Lorenz, S., Schmitz, R. and Delgado, L. 2018. ‘Weather Impact on Airport Performance.’ 2018. ‘Beyond image: Imagined experiences of a 418-442 destination.’ International Journal of Tourism Research. Papa, E., Carpentieri, G. and Guida, C. 2018. Aerospace. 5 (4). pp. 1-19 30 (6). pp. 748-755 ‘Measuring walking accessibility to public transport Smith, A., Ritchie, B.W. and Chien, P.M. 2019. ‘Citizens’ Graham: Pagliari, Romano & Graham, Anne, 2019. for the elderly: the case of Naples.’ Journal of Land attitudes towards mega-events: A new framework.’ ‘An exploratory analysis of the effects of ownership Use, Mobility and Environment. Special Issue 2. 2018. Annals of Tourism Research. 74. pp. 208-210 change on airport competition.’ Transport Policy. vol. pp. 105-116 Cullen: Snyder, K., Cullen, B. and Braslow, J. 2019. 78(C). pp. 76-85 Pappalepore: Duignan, M.B. and Pappalepore, I. ‘Farmers as experts: interpreting the “hidden” Gurtner, G., Cook, A.J., Graham, A. and Cristobal, 2019. ‘Visitor (im)mobility, leisure consumption messages of participatory video across African S. 2018. ‘The economic value of additional and mega-event impact: the territorialisation of contexts.’ Area: Journal of the Royal Geographical airport departure capacity.’ Journal of Air Transport Greenwich and small business exclusion at the Society. 2019. 00. pp. 1-9 London 2012 Olympics.’ Leisure Studies. 28 (2). Management. 69. pp. 1-14 Verdini, G. and Russo, E. 2019. ‘The Chinese in pp. 160-174 Southern Europe: Has urban regeneration addressed Hossain, M.M., Wilson, R., Lau, B. and Ford, B. 2019. ‘Thermal comfort guidelines for production spaces Rettondini, L. and Brito, O. 2018. ‘Stanton Williams. their new form of clustering?’ Documents d’Anàlisi within multi-storey garment factories located in Arquitectura 2010-2018’. EN BLANCO. Revista de Geogràfica. 65 (1). pp. 163-184 Bangladesh’. Building and Environment. 157C, pp. 319- Arquitectura. 10 (24), pp. 5-95 Watson,V.A. 2018. ‘Rurality and Minimal Architecture: 345 An inquiry into the genealogy of Tate Modern’s Bankside gallery spaces’. AJAR: Arena Journal of Architectural Research. 3 (1), p. 4

Publications | Research

Watson, V.A. 2018. ‘Mies & Stirling in The City’. Architectural Histories: The open access journal of the EAHN. 1 (6), p. 22 Watson, V.A. 2019. ‘20th Century Avant-garde and Architecture: Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt design for the City of London’. Ancient Monuments Society: Transactions. 63, pp. 90-106 Wilkinson, C. 2019. ‘Distortion, illusion and transformation: the evolution of Dazzle Painting, a camouflage system to protect Allied shipping from Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917–1918 War’. Journal of the Faculty of Art, Pedagogical University of Krakow. (14) Woltjer: Forrest, S., Trell, E. and Woltjer, J. 2018. ‘Civil society contributions to local level flood resilience: Before, during and after the 2015 Boxing Day floods in the Upper Calder Valley.’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2018, 44. pp. 422-436 Woltjer: Willems, J.J., Busscher, T., Woltjer, J. and Arts, J. 2018. ‘Planning for waterway renewal: balancing institutional reproduction and institutional change.’ Planning Theory & Practice. 19 (5). pp. 678-697 Woodburn, A.G. 2019. ‘Rail network resilience and operational responsiveness during unplanned disruption: A rail freight case study.’ Journal of Transport Geography. vol. 77(C). pp. 59-69 Zhang, J. 2019. ‘Towards a New Normal: The Blurred Landscape of Architectural Research in China.’ Architectural Design. 89 (3). pp. 120-125

Research | Architectural History & Theory

Sacred/Secular Conference

IN JUNE 2019, the University of Westminster in partnership with the RIBA hosted a conference entitled, Spiritual, Sacred, Secular: The Architecture of Faith in Modern Britain. Convened by Kate Jordan and Shahed Saleem, the conference was inspired by the growing number of accolades for recently-completed religious and faith building and landscape designs. The increasing noise around this subject suggests a burgeoning interest within faith communities in architecture and greater opportunities for architects: increasing numbers of highprofile practices have been commissioned to produce designs for faith buildings in Britain, including Julia Barfield on the recently completed Cambridge Mosque; John Pawson’s restoration of St John at Hackney; and John McAslan + Partners on the Baitul Futul Mosque in Morden, South London which will be Europe’s largest mosque.

Kate Jordan

Though these celebrated projects have caught the attention of the architectural press, they offer an extremely limited picture of places of worship in modern Britain. The aim of the conference was to look beyond the headlines and draw out some of the complex issues surrounding the design, use, planning and stewardship of contemporary places of worship. The subjects covered by leading academics, architects, planners and heritage professionals included: multi-faith spaces; sites of memory; traditional craft skills; migrant identities; and urban planning. Recent projects that were featured included: Denizen Works’ Floating Chapel; Julia Barfield’s Cambridge Mosque; Tsz Wai So’s Belarusian Church; and Waugh Thistleton’s award-winning Jewish Prayer Halls in Bushey Cemetery. Though the conference covered considerable ground, it highlighted the need for further research on this important emerging field.

Marks Barfield Architects: New Cambridge Mosque

Expanded Territories | Research

Improvised Architectural Responses to the Changing Climate: making, sharing and communicating design processes

THE MANAN FOUNDATION TRUST’S (MFT), Rajapur Women’s Literacy and healthcare centre (Rajapur Centre) is a research project that was self-generated, self-funded and community participative in Bangladesh. It aims to explore, test, disseminate and share some of the rich and varied forms of tacit knowledge that international professional designers could deploy to interact with local communities on the ground in the unique situations which form part of the global picture of the changing climates. This research project was generated as a family initiative by MFT, where I, as an architect, was the principle initiator. A collaborative platform was created for professionals such as doctors, academics, engineers and designers in the UK and Bangladesh to work towards improving access to healthcare and education in a remote village called Rajapur where my late father was born. The platform provides a unique opportunity for co-designing, to find alternative architectural practices and form research methods.

Tumpa Fellows

The Rajapur Centre project was generated by MFT’s fundraising in the UK requiring a designed building. However, on the ground, problems arose immediately and the project was developed as a series of inventive negotiations between the villagers and myself, attempting to draw out the local knowledge of construction skills and materials such as mud bricks and bamboo. This process is illustrated in animation available here: https://vimeo.com/326545592. The research included testing and developing, and built on local construction skills to adjust these to make a stable building and to shift the expectations of western intervention by explaining the merits of local indigenous building types and knowledge. Traditional architectural drawings were a necessary part of the fundraising but had to be entirely jettisoned on site in favour of a range of cooperative techniques for designing, visualising, discussing and constructing the building. The project has been awarded architectural awards, exhibited and presented at various institutions.

Improvising performance-based participatory activities to communicate design on site and to engage with the changing landscape [© Tumpa Fellows]

Research | Expanded Territories

Monsoon Assemblages Principal Investigator: Professor Lindsay Bremner Post Doctoral Research Fellow: Dr Beth Cullen (anthropologist) Research Fellow: Christina Geros (architect, landscape architect) Research Associate: John Cook (architect) PhD: Harshavardhan Bhat (political scientist) and Anthony Powis (architect) Research Assistants: Tom Benson, Thomas Blain, Georgia Trower MArch Studio DS18: Aligned with the project 2016-2019

MONSOON ASSEMBLAGES (MONASS) is a fiveyear long research project (2016-2021) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). It comprises a team of four researchers and two PhD students – three architects, a landscape architect, an anthropologist and a political scientist. This team is undertaking interdisciplinary research into relations between changing monsoon climates and urban development in South Asia, with a focus on the cities of Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka and Yangon. DS18 has been associated with the project for the past three years. The project has employed a number of DS18 graduates as short term research assistants.

Lindsay Bremner

Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873).

It is currently showing a series of drawings at the Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, 1 March – 1 September 2019, of which two are included here. At the end of the grant period, the project will assess the potential impact of its work for the cities it has studied, the spatial design disciplines and the environmental humanities more generally. It will conclude in 2021 with a conference and exhibition in Ambika P3 at the University of Westminster.

For further information, visit the project’s website: www.monass.org

The project is undertaken at a time when extreme weather events converge with neo-liberal urban policies and rapid urban growth to produce fragile conditions for urban survival. MONASS has adopted a novel approach to these conditions. It does not treat the monsoon as an external threat to urban life, but as its organising principle, and urban environments as complex human-morethan-human assemblages. The project aims to produce knowledge of the urban environments it studies through research, writing and drawing. For the past three years, MONASS has hosted symposia structured by the monsoon’s material elements – air, water and ground. These are published on its website.

(left) John Cook: A Portrait of the Subcontinental Monsoon Summer Solstice, 2016; (right) John Cook: A Portrait of the Subcontinental Monsoon Winter Solstice, 2016

Expanded Territories | Research

(left) John Cook: Section through the Troposphere, December 2016; (right) John Cook: Section through the Troposphere, June 2016

Research | Architectural History & Theory

A Photographer’s Sense of Space

HOW DOES PHOTOGRAPHY mediate our understanding of architecture and urban space? As this question generates a growing debate and discussion, some light is being thrown on the topic by looking closely at the work of photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944–2013) who made a significant contribution to the development of urban landscape photography. Basilico graduated in architecture at Milan’s Polytechnic before setting up his photography studio and establishing himself as one of the most influential figures in the documentation of cities worldwide. His work was relatively little known in Britain when he was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the Emerging Landscape conference in 2010, a collaboration between the Schools of Architecture and Art at the University of Westminster. That memorable talk, teeming with personal as well as professional insights, was later published in the eponymous conference volume (Ashgate 2014) shortly after Basilico’s premature death.

Davide Deriu

between the University of Westminster and Dr Alexandra Tommasini, art historian and curator who did her PhD on Basilico at the Courtauld Institute. A themed issue of The Journal of Architecture based on that seminar is due to be published later in 2019. This ongoing project is driven by Davide Deriu, who was also invited to talk about Basilico’s work at the 2019 symposium Photography as Visual Urbanism at RWTH Aachen University. His paper is included in the forthcoming issue of Candide – Journal for Architectural Knowledge dedicated to that event. We thank the Basilico Archive in Milan for their continuous support.

The distinctive sense of space that characterises his photographs reflects an array of cultural references, ranging from cinema to literature, as well as his architectural studies. By seeking familiar elements in the most foreign of places, Basilico forged an intimate bond with the city as an ever-changing living organism. In order to discuss the significance and legacy of his work, in 2016 a multidisciplinary seminar was jointly convened

Gabriele Basilico at work [© Archivio Gabriele Basilico, Milano]

Architectural History & Theory | Research

Modern Architecture for Religious Communities

Kate Jordan

Jordan, K. and Lepine, A. (2018) Modern Architecture for Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom, (London: Routledge) is a collection of pioneering essays by both leading and emerging scholars, edited by Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine.

THIS BOOK CONVERSES with a broad spectrum of social, anthropological, cultural and theological discourses and the authors engage with them rigorously and innovatively. The readings of sacred spaces offered in the volume explore new angles and perspectives on some of the dominant narratives of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries: empire, urban expansion, pluralism and modernity. In a post-traditional landscape, religious architecture suggests expansive ways of exploring themes including nostalgia and revivalism; engineering and technological innovation; and prayer and spiritual experimentation. Shaped by the tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture presented in the volume creates a set of new turning points in the history of the built environment. Modern Architecture for Religious Communities reflects a growing body of scholarship on modern faith architecture in a global context and complements a number of recent publications including Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond: Influence, Process and Afterlife Since 1945 (2019). Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine continue to develop the field through their research on modern and contemporary faith architecture. Ayla Lepine’s monograph, Medieval Metropolis: The Middle Ages and Modern Architecture was published in 2018 and Kate Jordan co-convened a major conference on contemporary faith architecture at the University of Westminster in partnership with the RIBA in 2019.

:Chapel at the Capuchinas Sacramentarias del Purísmo Corazón de María, Tlalpan by Luis Barragán [photo © Jose Bernardi]

Research | Human Architecture Group

The spatial delight and environmental performance of Golden Lane Estate

FOLLOWING THREE YEARS of Design Studio within the MSc Architecture and Environmental Design and additional research in collaboration with colleagues and visiting scholars from the University of Bologna, the theme of the spatial delight and environmental performance of modernist sites was thoroughly investigated. The primary location for this investigation was the Golden Lane Estate built after the 2nd World War on the edge of the City of London, between 1952 and 1961. This estate is a Grade II* listed, high density, low cost housing complex designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. It was built over a bombed site and well embraced the post-war modern architecture ethos, environmental considerations and inclusion of social facilities and landscaped communal spaces. Selected communal open spaces and two apartments in different building blocks with similar attributes were chosen for this study. Through fieldwork, which included subjective observation of the spatial quality of both

Rosa Schiano-Phan

outdoor and indoor spaces, on-site monitoring and interviews with the buildings’ occupants, first-hand information on the environmental and comfort conditions inside the apartments were obtained. Through performance-based computational analysis, archival research and observations, the spatial quality and environmental comfort conditions in the communal spaces as well as in the apartments were critically assessed. The research findings indicate that the design of the communal outdoor spaces in the Golden Lane Estate were well thought through and the spacing between the buildings responded well to the requirements of spatial delight, solar and daylight penetration, and outdoor environmental comfort. Moreover, more recent research conducted in collaboration with University of Bologna on the air quality of the Golden Lane Estate, and simulations of the concentration and dispersion patterns of pollutants in outdoor communal areas, reveals the architects’ foresight in providing an oasis from noise and pollution, whist assuring comfort and privacy through the concept of a ‘city within the city’.

Simulated concentration patterns of pollutants in and around Golden Lane Estate

Architectural History & Theory | Research

Designing London’s Public Spaces, Post-War and Now

DESIGNING LONDON’S PUBLIC SPACES POST-WAR AND NOW SUSANNAH HAGAN

Susannah Hagan

DESIGNING LONDON’S PUBLIC SPACES, POST-WAR AND NOW (Lund Humphries) is the product of a three-year research project headed by Susannah Hagan, Emeritus Professor in the School of Architecture + Cities, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK. It owes a great debt to the work of the two others on the research team: Dann Jessen, a partner at East architecture, and Neal Shasore, currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, both erstwhile project Research Associates. The book, like the project, looks beyond the abstraction of ‘public space’ to the richness and particularity of public spaces. If one cannot have a public space without a public, equally one cannot have a public space without a space, designed or appropriated, and historically architects have been charged with designing them. Using eight London case studies, the book examines the social and political contexts in which designers work, the effect of that context on their designs, the designer’s internal ‘idea world’, and the role of the designer in the emerging future of pubic space production. Public spaces in ‘super-diverse’ cities like London are an opportunity for people to learn to be together in attitudes of tolerance. Essential, therefore, are more designers who understand they are there to ‘organise an ensemble of possibilities’ for the rest of us as much as serve their clients. Today, public space production is all about tactical alliances. By focusing on a group of actors frequently ignored in discussion about public space – designers – and by using a historical perspective, the book seeks to open up the current conversation beyond an exclusive focus on use. This enables a more comprehensive view of why things are the way they are in London and other cities in relation to the privatisation of public space, and what designers of public spaces can and cannot do about it.

Research | EXP

Architectural Animism

THE ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSIONS usually approach the catastrophic issues of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity through more – sustainable – design. Yet it is our extraordinary capacity to design and control ecosystems until they are no longer able to provide that is the very cause of these impeding disasters. This research proposes to design less and instead trust ecosystems to create. It asks: How can we design with the emergence of the ecosystem we are part of, with this unpredictable capacity? The primary methodology is through my reflective practice of built and grown architectures. Although this co-creative form of design shares much with ‘regenerative design’ and architectural ‘repair’, the approach distinguishes itself through a subtle, yet key, difference. Humans neither regenerate nor repair places. Ecosystems as a whole do – humans and other-thanhumans combined. The role of humans, and specifically of architects, is to support these ecological processes through the design of setting and nurturing patterns. This position was summarised as a secular form of Architectural

Eric Guibert

Animism in the doctoral thesis – The Gardener Architect: designing with the emergent natures of places (Guibert, 2018); in this practice ecosystems are conceived as beings, as ‘companion species’ (Harraway, 2003). This ‘cosmopolitical’ position is being further investigated through two intertwining lines of enquiry (Stengers, 2010, Latour, 2004). The first is to give a voice to these ecosystems through written and visual media, for example by writing The Letter from the Soils we Have Designed With (Guibert, 2019). The second is to continue researching through commissioned and self-generated case studies: ‘Emergent Gardens’ understood both literally, as ecosystems that are substantially composed of otherthan-humans; and metaphorically, as environments that are designed through a gardening method. One of these has been proposed as an educational and research project – a ‘learning ecosystem’ – at the University of Westminster.

(left) An example of a co-created landscape border – all the plants came of their own volition; (right) The potential site of an Emergent Garden at the University of Westminster

Sustainable Mobility & Cycling | Research

The Active Travel Academy

READER IN TRANSPORT Dr Rachel Aldred was awarded over ÂŁ500,000 from the Quintin Hogg Trust to set up a new interdisciplinary research and outreach centre. Over the next three years, the Active Travel Academy will host staff, students and international visitors with a programme of events, placements, publications, collaborations, research projects and applications. Initial projects will cover media coverage of road injuries, using

):Walking and cycling on Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streets

Rachel Aldred

machine learning and virtual reality to better understand road user behaviour, temporary and tactical urbanism, health impacts of e-and micro-mobilities, and other topics of interest to members. Any colleagues and students interested in being involved in the Academy are encouraged to email Rachel: atr.aldred@westminster.ac.uk

Research | Tourism & Events Group

Festspace: Festivals, events and inclusive public space Smith, A. 2018. ‘Paying for parks: Ticketed events and the commercialisation of public space’. Leisure Studies. 37:5. pp. 533-546

FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL bid for funding to the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), academics in the School of Architecture + Cities are now undertaking a 26-month long project focusing on how festivals and events affect the inclusivity of London’s public parks. This project is part of wider collaboration between five institutions located in five different European countries which aims to assess the ways festivals and events affect public spaces. The Principal Investigator for the London-based part of the project is Andrew Smith, Reader in Tourism and Events, who has been researching the relationship between events and public spaces for several years and has recently published two papers on the controversial use of parks for major events. On the HERA project, Dr Smith will be assisted by Goran Vodicka, a newly appointed Research Fellow, who has extensive experience of researching public spaces in diverse neighbourhoods,

Andrew Smith

Smith, A. 2019. ‘Justifying and resisting public park commercialisation: The battle for Battersea Park’. European Urban and Regional Studies. 26(2). pp. 171-185

and Professor Guy Osborn from the School of Law. The project is supported by Parks for London, a charity linked to the Great London Authority that seeks to ensure London’s parks remain accessible, safe and beautiful. The research will involve an in-depth examination of one particular park – Finsbury Park in north London – which stages a huge variety of events including large scale music festivals. Researchers will undertake a year-long study of the park to understand how events restrict and enable use of the park, including the extent to which events enable interactions and exchanges between people from different cultural, ethnic, socio-economic and sociodemographic backgrounds. By immersing themselves in park spaces, talking to park users and collecting visual data, researchers will build up a detailed understanding of how staging events affects the use, accessibility and meaning of a public park.

) La Clave Fest: London’s Free Latin Festival - staged in Finsbury Park, August 2019’ [photo © Goran Vodicka]

Centre for Urban Infrastructure | Research

International Collaborative Research on Cities and Water

Johan Woltjer

Rahayu, P., Woltjer, J. and Firman, T. 2019. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Water Governance in Decentralising Indonesia.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Urban Studies. Doi:10.1177/0042098018810306

COORDINATION FOR THE provision of water resources has become an increasingly pressing issue for cities worldwide. Water resource availability is particularly challenging in the urban areas of less developed regions, where the urban population is increasingly concentrated, particularly in smaller and medium-sized cities. It is crucial that these cities have arrangements in place to provide water and thus facilitate urban life.

Recent research by Johan Woltjer and colleagues Mita Rahayu (Sebelat Maret University, Surakarta) and Tommy Firman (Institute of Technology Bandung) has revealed new patterns of fresh water control, based on a case study in the urban region of Cirebon, Indonesia. The study is concerned with the governance of water resources both locally and at the regional level. Using Cirebon City and its surrounding region, Kuningan District, the research identifies a distinct formation process of institutional capacity for water resources in a decentralised system of governance. It is shown that there are signs of increasing inter-local rivalry over water between the city and its surrounding regions in decentralised Indonesia. Water cooperation between up-stream rural areas and downstream urban areas is compromised by significant inequality and a unilateral control of water resources. The research points to the need to establish greater opportunities for water governance at the regional level to transcend interlocal rivalry over natural resources, and thus improve decentralised institutional capacity further.

) Map of Central Java and upstream water control for Cirebon

Research | Sustainable Urbanism

Regional Design Handbook

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES of the first Handbook for Regional Design are two-fold: to highlight the importance of regional design, especially in a rapidly globalising and urbanising world, and to reach new audiences around the world with an authoritative volume that encompasses a diverse range of substantive concerns. It provides international evidence from over two dozen case study regions spanning the globe with the latest research and practice. The contributors come from a wide range of nations and reflect a wide range of experience, from the newest researchers uncovering the latest trends to long-standing experts in the field providing context and wisdom gained through experience.

Michael Neuman

stress that regardless of the type of intervention, existing approaches and ‘business as usual’ have not been sufficient to tackle the new realities facing leaders and societies today. New approaches to governance are critical, and thus the book addresses new interventions, new processes, and new forms need to be created – designed – in order to effectively deal with them. It addresses critical concepts and practices in regional design, touching on governance, finance, regional economics and geography, infrastructure, transport, urban development, water management, public health and (planning and design) education.

This book, which will be published by Routledge next year, is about contemporary research, policy and practice that highlights critical aspects of strategy making, planning, designing and governance for contemporary regions, particularly but not exclusively city-regions. For example, the interplay between regional water management and city regions in the face of climate change leads to an integrated ‘delta urbanism’. The book describes and analyses the characteristics of contemporary regions and efforts to intervene in their development – policy, strategy, planning, design. We group these types of intervention at this scale under the term regional design for two reasons. First, to emphasise the physical/geographic dimensions of regions. Second, to

Malacca Straits Diagonal Regional Design [Image ©: Fundación Metrópoli]

Centre for Urban Infrastructure | Research

Transport and Urban Planning

Mengqiu (Matthew) Cao

Cao, M. and Hickman, R. 2018. ‘Car dependence and housing affordability: An emerging social deprivation issue in London.’ Urban Studies, 55(10). pp. 2088–2105

THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATES the combined problem of high car dependence and housing affordability, in view of likely continued volatility in oil prices (and hence higher petrol and diesel prices), and rising house prices. Household budgets are likely to be stretched where there are high levels of car dependency and housing unaffordability – with little flexibility for rising costs in either or both of these. A composite car dependence and housing affordability (CDHA) index is developed, using indices of oil vulnerability related to car travel and housing affordability. Greater London is used as the case study.

Composite car dependence and housing affordability index (CDHA) in Greater London in 2011

The findings reveal that there are high levels of composite car dependence and housing price vulnerability in many suburban areas across Greater London, adding to the previous areas of social deprivation found mainly in East London. The composite CDHA index illustrates where the most vulnerable areas are spatially. Many neighbourhoods may become less attractive for those on median or even relatively high incomes. The areas most affected may become much more expensive to live in, potentially leading to much greater pressure on travel and housing costs as people could be forced to live further from the centre of London, including beyond the Greater London boundary, which has further implications for travel.

Research | Air Transport & Air Traffic Management

Airport Competition within the Scottish Lowlands Region

Anne Graham

Pagliari, R., & Graham, A. 2019. ‘An exploratory analysis of the effects of ownership change on airport competition’. Transport Policy, 78. pp. 76-85.

THE SCOTTISH LOWLANDS region in the UK, with a total population of around five million citizens, is served by three main airports: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Prestwick. In recent years there have been a number of important developments affecting these three airports including the split of common ownership for Edinburgh and Glasgow airport, and the renationalisation of the struggling Prestwick airport by the Scottish government. At the same time airline competitive strategies, particularly as regards low cost carriers that have a dominant role at these airports, have been constantly evolving. Therefore the aim of this research project is to evaluate how these developments have impacted on the nature of airport competition within the Scottish Lowlands region.

The research is being undertaken jointly with the Centre for Air Transport Management at Cranfield University. A discussion paper was given at the global Air Transport Research Society Conference in Seoul, South Korea in July 2018. Subsequently a journal article was published that focused on the specific effects of separating the common ownership of Edinburgh and Glasgow airport. The research concluded that ownership separation had been beneficial for airports and their airline and passenger customers, with a marked divergence resulting in both pricing and route development strategies. The research is on-going with a shift in focus by considering Prestwick as well and an emphasis on the policy and strategy implications of the changing role of the three airports.

Air Transport & Air Traffic Management | Research

Vista: Scoping future impacts in Europe

Andrew Cook

Project Partners: University of Westminster, EUROCONTROL, Icelandair, Innaxis, Norwegian, Skeyes, SWISS

MODERNISING AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT is vital for the sustainability of European aviation and the forecast increase in air traffic in the coming decades. The Single European Sky’s ATM research project (SESAR) is one of the most ambitious modernisation projects launched by the European Union, contributing to the implementation of the Single European Sky. The air traffic management team at Westminster is involved in a number of SESAR, Horizon 2020 and Clean Sky research projects.

and between stakeholders (such as airlines and airports).

In ‘Vista’, we examine the key trade-offs between KPAs in the current and future timeframes. Our work assesses the effects of market forces (e.g. fuel prices, economic development), technologies and regulatory factors on European performance in ATM, through the evaluation of stakeholder and environmental indicators. Trade-offs are quantified and visualised within and between periods,

The model may be readily extended to a decision-support and network analysis tool. It is currently being exploited in new research activities across Europe, in collaboration with industry, and the results are integrated into teaching programmes both at Westminster and in the European PhD summer schools of the Engage knowledge transfer network (engagektn.com), also led by Westminster.

The novel, holistic model encompasses the three phases of ATM: strategic, pre-tactical and tactical. It captures a typical, busy day of operations. The model is able to estimate the impact of factors on these different ATM phases independently and/or as a coupled system, furnishing a unique assessment of how indicators change under different evaluation scenarios and execution phases.

Research | Forum

Architectural Research Forum

OUR SCHOOL HOLDS an architecture research forum. This is an opportunity for staff and visiting fellows to present their work-in-progress to stimulate discussion and critical debate about their research. Seminars are open to all staff and students. During 2018/19, the programme was:

Shahed Saleem Rethinking the Mosque in Britain Peter Barber 100 Mile City and Other Stories

Victoria Watson

Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi & Raymond Roussel

A Few People, a Brief Moment in Time: Jane Tankard Architectural Education Experiments 1987-91 Alessandra Across Scales and Genres Cianchetta Scott Batty Retrofit of a 1970s House

Eric Guibert

The Gardener Architect: Designing with the emergent natures of places

Sarah Milne Gordon Cullen’s Shed

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19 SHAHED SALEEM Rethinking the mosque in Britain 7 March, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00-14.00

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19 PETER BARBER

100 Mile City and Other Stories

The mosque in Britain is entangled with a host of complex issues such as 1 November, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00–14.00 migration, belonging, identity, and colonialism. Despite its 130-year history, it has nevertheless been understudied and misunderstood, both architecturally and socially. Shahed Saleem has been working with this building type for over a I willfortalk about a handful of built and theoretical projects realised by decade, writing the first architectural and social history of the British mosque Historic England (2018) and designing mosques in his practice. In this talk he Peter Barber Architects. I will offer a series of preambles which aim attempts to tie together the various strands of his work, along with further research and emerging art-practice. He will explore the question of under-represented and to tease out some of the political and ideological themes which obscured histories of marginal communities in mainstream architectural and our practice. This work is currently the subject of a major heritage cultures, the agency of folk and vernacular architecture, and howunderpin history is imagined and re-used in contemporary Muslim architecture. retrospective exhibition being held at the Design Museum in

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE to tour North America in 2019. WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE and scheduled RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19 RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19 Peter Barber is the founding director of Peter Barber Architects. He is a

Shahed Saleem is a practising architect and teaches both Design Studio andLondon History & Theory at SA+C. He is also a Senior Research Fellow on the Survey of London.

JANE TANKARD Reader and MArch studio tutor at the University of Westminster. In 2017 he A Few People, a Brief Moment in Time: Architectural Education VICTORIA WATSON won the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture. Experiments, 1987-91 Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi & Raymond Roussel 15 November, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00–14.00 4 October, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00–14.00

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

The Architecture Research Forum is arevisits seminar series hosted by the in Architecture + Cities My presentation pedagogic experiments post-graduate architectural At the 2018 EAHN conference in Tallinn I gave a paper under the session theme of Research Group where staffLondon presentSouth work-in-progress for discussion. education at the Bank Polytechnic School of Architecture. The Architecture’s Return to Surrealism. The session asked how the reanimation ofperiod 1987-91 marks a teleology of rapid neo-liberalisation, increasing surrealism in the work of architects active in the 1970s and ’80s – at the ‘tangled,globalisation, financial de-regulation and the withdrawal of state commitment to asynchronous juncture of the modern and the postmodern,’ – allowed architecture touniversal higher education. My analysis is structured as a series of stories and ‘formulate a critical project in reaction to the neoliberal economy that was producing itscritical architectural enquiry interspersed with theoretical, historical and visual own dreams, needs and desires.’ Based on my conference paper, this presentationreferences. The methodology is trans-disciplinary using photography, looks at Aldo Rossi and the connection to surrealism in his work through the inﬂuencedrawings, oral and other historical analysis and creative writing. It uses nonof the writer Raymond Roussel. I argue that Rossi used Roussel to make memory anlinear, multiple anecdote as a form of hierarchic inversion. active ingredient in the architectural imagination, hence the reference to surrealism Jane Tankard (ARB/RIBA) teaches full-time in the School of Architecture + Cities. within the formulation of architectural projects after modernism.

Victoria Watson teaches in the School of Architecture + Cities and practices as Doctor Watson Architects.

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

SCOTT BATTY Retrofit of a 1970’s House 28 March, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00-14.00

Across scales and genres

The talk will discuss the retrofit of a 1970’s house which is both a bespoke architectural project and a potential model for the refurbishment of post-war ‘modern’ houses in the UK. It will respond to the following The presentation explores the intricate interactions between discourse - How can a 1970’s family home be redesigned to suit a family questions: living in 2020? How can a post-war ‘modern’ house be refurbished to architectural or otherwise - and built forms. It addresses some crucial WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE create a more comfortable internal environment and use less operational questions that underpin Alessandra Cianchetta’s teaching and design energy? What is an alternative model of instructing and communicating RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19 practices: how can one meaningfully and effectively communicate with a main contractor under a private residential building contract?

13 December, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00-14.00

Lindsay Bremner Sediments of the Rohingya

Sean Griffiths

On the Estrangement of the Real from its Representation

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE

RESEARCH 2018/19 as broad and elusive as a spatial experience? And howFORUM can The Gardener Architect: Designing with the emergent places such a communication influence thenatures final ofoutcome of a design process? Scott Batty is a practising architect mainly designing one-off homes. He studied and SARAH MILNE 4 April, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00-14.00 previously taught at the Bartlett, and is now a part-time Senior Lecturer at SA+C. The forum will discuss a design-centric culture that emphasises the Gordon Cullen’s Shed intangible, the fabrication of perceptions, Faced with the current environmental catastrophes, from the collapsethe of communication of 7 February, Erskine Room (M/523), 13.00-14.00 biodiversity to climate change, we can only conclude that our contemporary The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities atmospheres and lifestyles, rather than objects and products. Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion. capacity to control, the dominant approach to design, kills life. Many aim to something ERIC GUIBERT

Gifted by his family to the University of Westminster in 2015, the Gordon Cullen avoid systemic collapse by repairing our habitats through conservation, yet Archive consists of 115 unordered boxes of material and a bundle of large-scale ecosystems evolve; they self-generate to adjust to changing conditions. Alessandra iscontrol’ an architect and with founding partnerextracted of AWP, anCullen’s beloved Wraysbury office – his garden shed. Eric Guibert has beenCianchetta developing a ‘loose way of designing this drawings from emergent – creative – capacity of places. His talk will discuss tangible and Reflective of Cullen’s often idiosyncratic and independent working practice, the architecture practice working across scales and genres. intangible patterns, and design processes for co-designing and co-making shed still stands but is imminently likely to be dismantled. Thinking historically, architectures with both humans and other-than-humans. Eric’s research how should we handle the architect’s working environment or drawing office? investigates these contested socio-ecosystems through the themes of How these spaces of production be understood, valued and presented in The Architecture Forum is a seminar series hosted byshould the Architecture + Cities ecological heritage, architecturalResearch animism, and the “parliament of things”.

relation the outputs proceeding from them? This talk raises questions about Research Group where staff present work-in-progress fortodiscussion. the origins of an architectural archive and how ‘sites’ of architectural history might be brought into conversation with practice. WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE

Eric Guibert is a practising gardener architect who teaches design studio at SA+C. He did a PhD through Reflective Practice as an ADAPT-r Research Fellow at KU Leuven.

WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FORUM 2018/19

The Architecture Research Forum is a seminar series hosted by the Architecture + Cities Research Group where staff present work-in-progress for discussion.

Architectural Research Forum posters

FORUM 2018/19 Sarah Milne is RESEARCH a Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture at Westminster. She is currently leading an M.Arch. seminar group centred on Cullen. Sarah is also a historian at the Survey of London, the Bartlett, UCL. SEAN GRIFFITHS

PhD | Research

PhD Students THE SCHOOL ACCEPTS candidates who qualify for PhD research in fields in which its staff have expertise. For information of how to apply for a PhD at the University of Westminster, please visit: www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/phd-study

governing bodies, organisations and communities to speed up sustainable environmental improvements.

Current PhD students registered in the School of Architecture & Cities are:

One PhD student, Megan Sharkey, was a winner of the University-wide 3-minute overview of their research with her presentation, entitled ‘It’s Just not Good Enough!’ Megan’s research focuses on working effectively with

Ameera Akl

Sharmeen Khan

Mai Sairafi

Abdullah Almuraiqeb

Kon Kim

Angeliki Sakellariou

Ana-Sabina Cioboata

Frances Kremarik

Rick Schumaker

Penny Clark

Phillip Luehl

Harshavardhan Bhat

Paul Cook

David Mathewson

Megan Sharkey

Lida-Evangelia Driva

Fatemeh Mohamadi

Emilia Siandou

Mehrdad Ebadi Borna

Nicola Murphy

Robert Stewart

Tumpa Fellows

Simona Palmieri

Timothy Waterman

Gabrielle Higgs

Luis Pinto

Holly Weir

Jeffrey Howard

Marzena Piotrowska

Mengran Zhu

Irena Itova

Anthony Powis

Katja Kapanen

Matthew Priestman

Research | PhD

Kon Kim Supervisors: Dr Krystallia Kamvasinou, Dr Tony Manzi

Intermediary-led Participation: Questioning Community Development and Empowerment through Intermediate Organisations in Urban Regeneration in South Korea INTHE SECOND half of the 20th century, East Asia witnessed authoritarian political regimes that boosted uninterrupted rapid industrialisation and economic growth. This resulted in developmental urbanisation that produced speculative urban processes with little or no citizen participation. A prime example is South Korea where the authoritarian state exercised command-and-control techniques over urban development between the 1960s and the 1980s. However, since the dissolution of the authoritarian regime in the 1990s, Korea’s society has seen growth of civic organisations through political democratisation and economic globalisation. Furthermore, entering the 21st century, the country has experienced an economic slowdown and low birth rates that triggered demands for alternatives to the past developmental urbanisation. As a consequence, the state has recently given prominence to citizen participation and attempted to institutionalise it as part of measures for

urban regeneration. Korea’s planning arena has increasingly introduced a variety of urban governance types while creating new kinds of ‘intermediate organisations’ in order to facilitate citizen participation. This thesis poses the question: to what extent can citizens take part in decision-making processes through intermediate intervention? This question is linked to how much the intermediate intervention has actually contributed to empowering citizens and expanding their autonomy in cities. From the collective point of view, both questions are ultimately tied up to how the community sector can be developed and empowered through the intervention of the intermediate sector. To answer such questions, this thesis aims to critically examine the mechanisms of ‘intermediaryled participation’ emerging in new urban regeneration frameworks through case studies in South Korea

Citizen participation

PhD | Research

Mai Sairafi Supervisors: Dr Krystallia Kamvasinou, Dr Yara Sharif

Providing Unity Where There is Division: A study of public spaces as spaces of transition in the twin cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh in Palestine THE INTENT OF this research is to bring into focus the public life and the public spaces that provide possibilities for making connections between people in a context where geographical continuity has become impossible. The control and siege imposed around Palestinian cities by Israel has made it impossible to establish inter-connected social, economic and cultural structures between the Palestinian cities. The continuous focus on the political, economic and social transformations that occur within the broader context takes out the everyday ordinary experiences that are equally important in establishing social and physical connections in Palestine. This study seeks to broaden the understanding of public space in Palestine through ethnographic research that was carried out in the twin cities of Ramallah and AlBireh in Palestine. The ethnographic approach examines

the cities at street level and looks beyond the physical materiality of public spaces to incorporate relational aspects and different forms of activities that support the production of meaningful public spaces. There is significance in investigating public space and exploring its potential to provide opportunities for establishing meaningful connections and enable Palestinians to take control over their everyday reality. Public space is a mirror of the Palestinian experiences and activities, and it can reveal how Palestinians imagine a new alternative for a troubled reality, and how they re-invent new meanings to maintain their solidarity. Locating these public spaces, testing their potentials, and further developing them could provide a platform for Palestinians to challenge the fragmentation and discontinuity.

Research | PhD

Penny Clark Supervisors: Dr Rachel Aldred, Dr Kevin Burchell

Shared Space, Shared Resources, Shared Lifestyles? An exploration of environmental sustainability in UK cohousing and coliving communities ACCORDING TO THE Committee on Climate Change, housing accounts for 23 percent of UK carbon emissions; yet, after a number of lapsed schemes (CERT, CESP, Zero Carbon Homes, The Green Deal) the Government is showing little impetus in providing strong policies to tackle the environmental inefficiencies of homes. Innovative housing solutions are urgently needed considering the climate crisis that we face. Could certain types of communal living form part of the answer? I am looking at two types of community: â&#x2013;Ş

Cohousing where residents retain their own private homes, but share and manage community space and engage in community activities;

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Coliving as a form of shared living in which residents (usually millennials) share a single home and a set of values or intentions.

In this mixed methods, multiple-case study research, I use an ethnographic approach to generate new knowledge on how social networks and environments within cohousing and coliving communities may enable sustainable practices and practice transitions. I explore the meanings, competences and things which constitute sustainable practices within the communities of study. I furthermore am using quantitative surveys to measure the CO2e impacts of the communities, with a view to link carbon emissions to practices to deepen the understanding of how they are related, and to moreover compare the carbon emissions of cohousing and coliving communities with the average household.

Due to these housing typesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; spatial efficiency and the sharing of resources, labour, knowledge and values, there is potential for them to be low impact housing options. However, cohousing and coliving communities are still niche housing options in the UK, with little support being given by the government, scant academic research and little awareness on the part of the general public. Therefore, their potential as more environmentally efficient models of housing in the UK have not yet been thoroughly explored.

A cohousing community picks apples from their orchard

PhD | Research

Mehrdad Borna Supervisors: Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan, Dr Krystallia Kamvasinou

Designing Healthy Cities: The impacts of urban form on concentration of air pollution at pedestrian level

IN 2010 THE World Health Organisation stated urban air pollution as a critical public health problem. The same report accentuated that nearly 4.2 million deaths per year worldwide were caused by the effects of urban outdoor air pollutants. For instance, in a developed city like London, there were more than 9,000 early deaths in 2015 caused by the pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5) and Ozone (O3). Considering the above, this study postulates that there is an association between urban form and urban air quality.

Therefore, the core focus of this research is to highlight potential improvements that can be achieved through the manipulation of urban form which is thought to stimulate a more positive impact on the formation of urban microclimates which can increase the dilution and dispersion of urban air pollutants and respectively reduce its adverse impact on human health. In so doing, this research piloted a study on The Regentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place which is located adjacent to one of the most polluted roads in London (Euston Road). The study began with administering detailed fieldwork and spot measurement of both pollutants and microclimatic parameters, which was followed by modelling a variety of real-life scenarios by using computational simulation studies for validation and prediction. The results of these studies will aid the production of a more comprehensive urban design guidance capable of dispersing and reducing concentrations of road traffic and non-road traffic related air pollutants in active urban pockets. In this respect, the timing of this investigation is of particular importance, especially as a result of rapid urban population growth and construction of tall buildings in dense urban centres which have worsened and increased the concentration of urban air pollution.

ENVI-met simulation of PM 2.5 concentration at pedestrian level at Regent Place Plaza, Euston Road, London, 3 August, 2018, 13:00

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Staff 2018-2019

Vasilija Abramovic

Stanislava Boskovic

Jim Coleman

Wilfred Achille

Gianni Botsford

Joseph Conteh

Jonathan Adams

Roberto Bottazzi

Andrew Cook

Yota Adilenidou

Anthony Boulanger

John Cook

Megan Ancliffe

Eva Branscombe

Tod Courtney

Dimah Ajeeb

Lindsay Bremner

Matt Cousins

Rachel Aldred

Stephen Brookhouse

Paul Crosby

Roudaina Alkhani

Alan Brown

Robin Crompton

Julian Allen

Terence Brown

Ruth Cuenca Candel

Alessandro Ayuso

Jason Bruges

Beth Cullen

Jan Balbaligo

Chris Bryant

Simon Curtis

Pete Barber

Toby Burgess

Miriam Dallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Igna

Scott Batty

Henry Burling

Christopher Daniel

Paul Bavister

Andrea Carapia

Corinna Dean

Roland Beaven

Niall Carter

Dusan Decermic

Nick Beech

Paolo Cascone

Luis Delgado Munoz

Giovanni Beggio

Harry Charrington

Ursula Demitriou

Kristine Biteniece

Maria Cheung

Nigel Dennis

Alastair Blyth

Theclalin Cheung

Davide Deriu

Stefania Boccaletti

Hayley Chivers

Richard Difford

Mehrdad Borna

Alessandra Cianchetta

Chris Dite

Claudia Dolezal

Alisdair Gray

Alan Johnson

Jeg Dudley

Peter Greaves

Kate Jordan

Rachel Eccles

Sean Griffiths

Maja Joviฤ

John Edwards

Tom Grove

Gabriel Kakanos

Elisa Engel

Eric Guibert

Ripin Kalra

Bill Erickson

Gerald Gurtner

Krystallia Kamvasinou

Elantha Evans

Mike Guy

Rowland Keable

Marc Exley

Lindsey Hanford

Yashin Kemal

Helen Farrell

Tabatha Harris-Mills

David Kendall

Tumpa Fellows

Stephen Harty

Neil Kiernan

Giulia Ferraioli

Cath Hassell

Shuko Kijima

Stephanie Fischer

Matt Haycocks

Joe King

Jason Flanagan

Dave Heeley

Jenny Kingston

Theeba Franklin

Catherine Hennessy

Florian Koenig

Isabel Frost

Andrzej Hewanicki

Maria Kramer

Christina Geros

Adam Holloway

Frances Kremarik

Anna Gillies

Mohataz Hossain

Debbie Kuypers

Franรงois Girardin

Edward Ihejirika

Diony Kypraiou

Tim Gledstone

Jack Ingram

Gill Lambert

Nasser Golzari

Clare Inkson

Ed Lancaster

Anne Graham

Bruce Irwin

Benson Lau

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Staff 2018-2019 - contd

Constance Lau

Will McLean

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Chantal Laws

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Emma Perkin

Dirk Lellau

Michael McNamara

Callum Perry

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Catherine Phillips

Chris Leung

James Morgan

Sue Phillips

Gwyn Lloyd Jones

Geoff Morrow

Paulo Pimentel

Tony Lloyd-Jones

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Maja Piecyk

Tania López Winkler

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Stuart Piercy

Alison Low

Rebecca Neil

Juan Piñol

Vlad Luchian

Michael Neuman

Marzena Piotrowska

Tim Macfarlane

Natalie Newey

Izis Salvador Pinto

Jane Madsen

Christian Newton

Alicia Pivaro

Evangelia Magnisali

Johannes Novy

Ben Pollock

Christian Male

Gordon O’Connor Read

David Porter

Arthur Mamou-Mani

John O’Shea

Jim Potter

Martyna Marciniak

Alice Odeke

Alan Powers

Elena Marshall

Chiara Orefice

Anthony Powis

Andrei Martin

Samir Pandya

Catherine Ramsden

Max Martin

Enrica Papa

Kester Rattenbury

David Mathewson

Ilaria Pappalepore

Dave Rayment

Andy McConachie

Sangkil Park

Lara Rettondini

Paul Richens

Afolabi Spence

Richard Warwick

Esther Rivas Adrover

John Spittle

Richard Watson

Mike Rose

Manos Stellakis

Victoria Watson

Shahed Saleem

Joanne Stevens

Zhenzhou Weng

Duarte Santo

Rachel Stevenson

Graham West

Rosa Schiano-Phan

Matthew Stewart

Andy Whiting

Amadeo Scofone

Bernard Stilwell

Camilla Wilkinson

David Scott

Ben Stringer

Dan Wilkinson

Rob Scott

Allan Sylvester

Elizabeth Wilks

Ian Seabrook

Jane Tankard

Julian Williams

Christina Seilern

Graham Tanner

Allan Woodburn

Yara Sharif

Jerry Tate

Andrew Yau

Geoff Shearcroft

Mireille Tchapi

John Zhang

Conor Shehan

Adam Thwaites

Weng Zhenzhou

Elite Sher

Juan Vallejo

Fiona Zisch

Pete Silver

Chloe van der Kendere

Krista Zvirgzda

Guy Sinclair

Giulio Verdini

Andrew Smith

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Tswai So

Phil Waind

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