Draft A&L research

Our world-leading research challenges intersectional impacts on architecture, landscape and urban space. Under the theme of Architectural and Environmental Justice and Care our methods include decolonial humanities, history and theory, participatory co-design, data-science, and technical innovation.

Our research

Digitally preserving architectural heritage

Our academics have used digital technology to document the wooden architecture of the marginalised Dong people in the south-west of China.

Two women sit in a kitchen with a balcony in the background

Landscapes of Care

This film and installation explore the evolving urban fabric of Bucharest, and the everyday agency of women who reimagined courtyards, balconies, and thresholds as sites of continuity, intimacy, and quiet resistance.

A group of six children gathered around a sapling — Photo credit: Helen Hoyle

Reconnecting communities with nature

By leading transdisciplinary research that bridges public health, landscape design, and community empowerment, we reconnect communities with nature to improve public health outcomes.

Heat proofing our hospitals

Our researchers are tackling overheating in out hospitals - a serious issue which severely compromises patient care, particularly for vulnerable children with chronic conditions like asthma or diabetes, as well as other high-risk patients.

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