2021-2022 MArch studios
An introduction to the MArch studios we ran in the academic year starting in September 2021. Some of these studios have built on previous work, and some of them reflect the pandemic that was a core part of life in these years.
In Process
Focusing on how we produce our built environment. Can that process be a culture-producing, community generating exercise in itself? Can we, as architects, have a great time?
Intergenerational Architecture
Investigating how we can design and evolve an appropriate architectural response for our current and future intergenerational demographic.
Invisible Cities
A critical exploration of ‘culture’ in the context of the UK’s City of Culture 2021 - Coventry.
Just Transitions
Exploring how the move from an extractive to a regenerative economy can be delivered in a way that ensures the benefits of climate action are shared widely.
About the Just Transitions 2021-2022 studio
Urban Ecologies
Working with communities on the edges of Convoys Wharf we take a critical look at the developers’ masterplan and make speculative proposals for the site and at the edges to find ways to increase biodiversity and develop tools for creating symbiotic relationships between natural and human-built systems.
Waste
Exploring the concept of waste (and value) through a series of lenses from the idea of buildings as repositories of materials, catalogued for reuse with material passports, to the memories and stories associated with fragments and the transferal of meaning.
(re)Activist Architecture
Exploring a new speculative future for the Isle of Man, actively and aggressively tackling real issues of population decline, migration, reduced birth rates, education, trade, employment and energy security.