Sheffield: Dream City assembles and re-frames a selection of works produced at Sheffield School of Architecture between 2014 and 2025, presenting them as a dream-like walk through an alternative Sheffield.

The project collates works from three principal discourses at the School: Live Works, Live Projects, and MArch Studio in Residence. Selected works are not categorised by discipline, field or type; instead, the curation foregrounds the role of iterative, situated, collective speculation in the continual (re)making of the city - and the role of the city itself in grounding this process.

The work shown deliberately challenges the disciplinary dichotomies which continue to remove architectural work from the complex lived experiences of site, with Sheffield treated as a site in itself and perhaps the only thing capable of giving order to the work done. Dream City dances across established borders between research/practice, art/architecture, architecture/landscape, individual/collective, real/speculative, past/present/future; enjoying the upset this transgression causes.