Carolyn is a Senior University Teacher and Director of Live Works. She also supervises the School of Architecture’s Live Projects programme which involves groups of masters students working with external partners to deliver real projects for the benefit of the community. She leads the ‘In Residence’ MArch design studio which specialises in arts-led community regeneration.

She is a an advocate of the value of ‘liveness’ in architectural education and teaches students how to engage with local communities actively and creatively on site, often in collaboration with artists. She is also Founding Chair of the national Urban Rooms Network and a member of the Advisory Board for ReNew Sheffield.

Leo is Co-Director and co-founder of Live Works. Having led the MArch (RIBA Part 2) course for four years, he currently leads the Y3 undergraduate course at the School of Architecture. Leo has previously run the Live Projects programme and been involved in curating a range of ‘live’ teaching initiatives, including the first year undergraduate project ‘Matter-reality’, where students design and build structures in Sheffield’s City Centre, and the second year ‘Community’ project in collaboration with South Yorkshire Housing Association.

As a design enabler and facilitator Leo has worked with many community/interest groups, delivering design training and advocating participatory design practices.

Sam leads the Live Projects programme across both years of the MArch Architecture course and the MA Architectural Design course. He also co-directs the Collaborative Practice route to the MArch qualification – and I am involved in the teaching of environment and technology at both Undergraduate and MArch level. Sam has taught Architecture at various levels in a number of Schools of Architecture in the UK and internationally – and carried out industry-based research projects for national bodies in my specialist field of community-led housing and self-build projects. 

Sam's most rewarding life experiences have come from travelling and collaboration - both within and outside of the UK. He learns best by doing – and this heavily influences my teaching practice. He is also an accredited Community Led Housing Adviser working with enabling hubs in London and the West Midlands.

Emre is an architect and urbanist working on building speculative relations with social, political, and ecological thresholds of architecture and urbanism to enact minoritarian and commons-based political creations. In his teaching at Sheffield School of Architecture, he explores decolonial, feminist and ecological tactics in critical spatial pedagogies. Emre currently the co-leader of the MA in Urban Design programme and postgraduate module leader at MA in Architectural Design and studio tutor in the second-year Architecture undergraduate programme.

Emre continues to engage with practices on the ground that span across geographies co-producing outcomes that support their particular contexts as well as his thinking and teaching in architecture and urbanism.

Claire Tymon is a creative entrepreneur who initiates and co-produces creative place-based projects, embedding co-design and participation at the heart of her practice. She is a true collaborator, and creates best practice when testing new methodologies and reflecting on the process. Claire introduces an extensive network of creative practitioners, community groups, policy makers and local organisations to makers, artists and students and continues to champion creative approaches to make positive, sustainable change in society. She is an expert in creative methodologies within the urban fabric to create and implement strategies resulting in sustainable ‘place-shaking’ projects. Claire is currently undertaking a PhD by Practice at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture.