Book

The Backpacker's Guide to University, 2025

Most recently I have written a book, ‘The Backpackers’ Guide to University, an Undergraduate’s Guide to Travelling Well and Staying the Course’ (Crown House, 2025) in which, with my co-author Martin Griffin, we draw on our 45 years’ experience teaching undergraduates and sixth formers to bring students the ultimate guide to making the most of their time in further education. We demystify the language of university and share guidance on adjusting to university study, campus life and independent learning. The book urges students to embrace the 'backpacker approach', a transformative mindset that will empower them to immerse themselves in the spirit of adventure and seize every opportunity that university life has to offer.Book, Pedagogy, Jo Phillips

A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility, 2024 - 2025

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.Beginning at the tail-end of the peace movements— the turn of the twentieth century— and ending with the Nuremberg trials, the book highlights the part played by individual agency, social reform and architecture in moulding a working everyday definition of what it meant to be international during this time. By viewing internationalism through the lens of the individual and the body, both as initiator and subject, it is repositioned as an integral part of everyday life, rather than simply understood to be concerned with geopolitical relations between nations and their institutions.The book furthers a research methodology that is multidisciplinary and transnational. It will therefore be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and international history.https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Architecture-and-an-International-Sensibility-A-Curious-Cross-Atlantic-Constellation/Gupta/p/book/9781032841076Book, History and Theory, Naina Gupta

Chapter Contribution

Making Space for Trans and Non-Binary Lives in the Workplace, 2024

Following my contribution to ‘Inclusion Emergency’, I have had a further synopsis accepted for a chapter contribution to ‘Making Space for Trans and Non-Binary Lives in the Workplace’ which will be published by Routledge.For this piece I am driven to expose the visceral nature of a non-conformist queer existence in a post-covid society, once again I will my heart on plate for you to slice and dice, to consume, or to let get cold, leave and forget – let’s see. But a truth still remains…“If exclusion is a failure of the imagination, then inclusion is its greatest triumph.”Jennifer Kerr 2024Book, Inclusivity , Jennifer Kerr

Architecture of swimming

Extraordinary Pools, 2023 - 2025

A feast of 49 architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world that explore the relationship between swimming and its influence on the architectural imaginary. A curated collection that portrays the versatility of the swimming pool and the architecture that the swimming body inspired. It displays some of the world’s famous architectural projects from a new point of view—from that of the swimming pool—through a collection of delectable photographs. It catalogues its many facets—progressive visions, ecological connections, private pleasures, technological mastery and unadulterated excess. Extraordinary Pools is a mosaic of exceptional public and private pools, reasserting the protean quality of the swimming pool as a space of activity, pleasure and excess authored by Naina Gupta. It includes 4 extended essays by Anna Font, Iain Borden, Mathilde Redouté, and Tatjana Crossley on various aspects of pool culture.https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/extraordinary-pools/Book, History and Theory, Naina Gupta

03 OUT OUT OUT Chapter.pdf

Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture

Out Out Out: The Dilemma, November 2023 - June 2024

'Out Out Out: The Dilemma' is my chapter contribution to the book Inclusion Emergency from RIBA Publishing. It is a dialogue between ‘myself’ and my ‘protester self’. The setting is a protest which I had imagined but never enacted in the year 2019. Instead, as ‘Danni’, I have an imaginary conversation with ‘Jennifer’ (my would-have-been protester at the time), to unearth the tensions and story of coming out as a transgender woman.The book, Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture, is a call to action. Capturing insight and experiences from role models in architecture, it provides a voice for the under-recognised to encourage understanding, reflection and meaningful change. Architecture is at a tipping point. If we don’t collectively listen, re-adjust and change our outlook, we risk limiting the relevance of our profession in today’s society and, ultimately, the places we create. Capturing insight from leading voices in the profession, this book addresses critical questions, providing steps towards meaningful change. It will help those who are under-recognised to find the role models, community and tools to feel confident, supported and valued. It will also help those intimidated by change to understand why it’s so important and provoke constructive action.Book, Report, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Jennifer Kerr

Stories-of-Situated-Pedagogies-Proceedings-Book.pdf

Workshop

Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and ..., 3rd - 4th October 2023

This international workshop, which was held in Istanbul on 3-4 October 2023, gathered educators and learners to share their stories of situated pedagogies in architecture and other fields with an interest in critical spatial practices. The open call to the workshop was announced in April 2023 for applicants to respond with their stories of personal experiences in education, together with critical responses to themselves. This call was intended to be the beginning of a playful and productive platform for communication, through pre-workshop peer-to-peer reviews, round-table sessions and post-workshop collaborations for publication. As such, the workshop is envisioned as a manifestation of slow and caring connectivity among educators and learners who have experimented with and experienced transformative pedagogies.Workshop reportBook, Workshop, Climate Emergency, EDI, Pedagogy, Emre Akbil

Book

Beautiful Monsters: Love and Friendship Poems In Time and Place, 2023 - 2024

Poems and prose on the topics of transbian love, and friendship in time and place as critical commentary on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Education, in Institutions, as situated in time and place. 'Friendship is Forged and Trust is Made' was read as part of 'This is Not an Elephant'. Since January 2024 I have made many public performances as 'Jen X' on the street and in venues at Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield and Sheffield.At the moment I collating poems for the theme of 'time and place' ready for publication as a book, and on social media.Book, EDI, Participation, Jennifer Kerr

Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture

Elephant, 26th February 2023

"Architecture is at a tipping point. Over the last few years voices of the under-represented in education and practice have been increasing in volume and are agitated for change. If we don’t collectively listen, re-adjust and change our future outlook, we limit the potential relevance of the profession in today’s society and ultimately the places we create. This book will capture insight from leading voices, both academic and in practice, aiming to encourage understanding, reflection and address critical questions, providing practical steps towards meaningful change. Our universities begin as places of diversity, with visible and invisible differences. But as individuals progress in architecture, representation diminishes, particularly at senior levels of practice to a profession dominated by white heteronormative, able bodied men. Disparities between the cultures and identities of the profession as opposed to the broader population are significant and manifest themselves in important ways, both obvious and insidious. It is critical that we address this, as a profession.Who enters the profession, and progresses on into positions of power, determines not only who writes our history, but who feels accepted in the profession, who designs our built environments and how inclusive they are." RIBA PublishingThis piece which also includes graphics produced from a performance art as been described as essential for Queer representation at the Sheffield School of Architecture.Book, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Jennifer Kerr

Perspectives on teaching architecture and urbanism

Urban Design Pedagogies for Staying With a Broken Planet, 2023

The book chapter aims to position the Masters in Urban Design programme of University of Sheffield School of Architecture, within the broken world pedagogies and reflect on the thematic framework that nurtures common tools and methods to endure, encounter, and co-exist with emerging uncertainties facing urban environments on a broken planet. We use ‘Ecologies of Care’ as a reflexive framework that critically repositions urban design pedagogies within three theoretical registers – the planetary as an image of interdependent worlds and source of disruption for the image of the globe as a colonial artefact; radical unknowability as a process-oriented approach to knowledge co-production that embraces incompleteness of urban life with gaps, margins, and interstices as central to knowledge resources; and cosmopolitical localism that reimagines urban ecologies as real-life laboratories for prefiguring just urban transitions that pays attention to shared vulnerabilities through mutual care amongst urban actors.Book, Climate Emergency, EDI, Ecology, Care, Pedagogy, Placemaking, Urban Design, Emre Akbil

Book chapter contribution

Collaborative Design and Practice: A New Future for Architecture Together, April 2022

Invited to contribute to a book chapter Authored by Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios detailing my collaboration with them in incorporating FCBS Carbon calculator into my Y3 E&T module teaching and assignment. Chapter titled: 'Getting to Grips with Embodied Carbon: How a Collaborative approach made FCBS Carbon more resilient, easier to use and more relevant to the climate crisis.'Book, Climate Emergency, Building Performance, Pedagogy, Rachel Harris

Urban rooms network

Urban Rooms Toolkit, January - September 2022

The Urban Rooms Toolkit is a public resource to be used, downloaded and shared by anyone interested in situated creative community engagement in placemaking. Here you will find all you need to know about setting up an Urban Room. In this Toolkit you can read the STORIES, get the KNOWHOW and discover the METHODS that have been tried and tested by the Urban Rooms Network. The Toolkit consists of a website with links to download the whole Toolkit, or individual sections:

Urban Rooms? introducing the Urban Room as a tool for place-based community engagement - its ethos, the forms it can take and who might benefit from setting one up.
Stories: case studies of Urban Rooms across the UK - how they were set up, their aims, challenges, activities and the impact they had on their place.
Knowhow: how to make the case, set up, resource and operate an Urban Room - based on real experience from the Urban Rooms Network.
Methods: the activities, techniques and tools that have been tried and tested in Urban Rooms to foster inclusive and creative engagement.

The project was funded via HEIF Knowledge Exchange funding by The University of Sheffield. The Toolkit was produced by Live Works, co-created with the Urban Rooms Network, in partnership with The Place Alliance, UR Folkestone and the Greater London Authority. The project also included the redesign of the Urban Rooms Network website."The Place Alliance set up the Urban Rooms Network as one of its working groups in 2015 because urban rooms can play a vital part in working with communities in helping them to appreciate and improve the quality of their places. The Toolkit will play a valuable and integral role in continuing the Place Alliance’s campaign for improving place quality nationally by encouraging the establishment of more urban rooms." Prof. Matthew Carmona, Chair of Place Alliance, UCL Bartlett School of Planning"We are pleased to have partnered the University of Sheffield on the UR Toolkit project which holds immense value to individuals and groups in helping them to develop civic participation in planning and architecture, and the built environment more generally." Diane Dever, Chair of Urban Rooms NetworkWebsite, Book, Toolkit, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Carolyn Butterworth

ReLearning High Streets.pdf

Project catalogue

Future High Streets, 2022

‘Re-learning High Streets’ has been written and compiled to represent the collective endeavour of final year architecture students, staff and collaborators. The publication offers a series of insights into how our global and local high streets might evolve in the future. Re-learning High Streets focuses on the thinking and reflection that goes on before, during and after design projects are developed. The intention here is to show the learning journey that students and staff have been on and the opportunities that they have had to explore high streets globally and locally.There are a range of voices represented within this publication, which we hope evidences the polyphonal nature of the course, and our wish to form dialogues and conversations with people in different geographic places, as well as those from related disciplines and sectors, within and outside the university. Presentation, Book, Digital Learning, Climate Emergency, EDI, Pedagogy, Leo Care, Rachel Harris and Russel Light

ribabooks.com/Designing-for-the-Climate-Emergency-A-Guide-for-Architecture-Students_9781859469644

Climate emergency curriculum

Designing for the Climate Emergency, 2021

RIBA publication. Part 1 of a 3 part series.Part 1: Climate emergency curriculum for architects – Bachelor studentsPart 2: Climate emergency curriculum for architects – Masters students and Part 3: Climate emergency curriculum for architects in practice – TBC (may not be needed pending other publications) This book proposal is set against the background of the climate crisis and countries’ targets of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, with the Nordic region aiming for carbon neutrality sooner (e.g. Norway by 2030, Finland by 2035 etc.). These ambitious carbon neutral goals can only be unlocked through well-planned, and executed designs of new buildings, neighbourhoods, and cities, and the careful and effective (re)design of the built environment we have created thus far. This will mean a significant shift in how we practice architecture, and by extension a radical re-thinking of the curriculum for the next generation of architects is needed. Yet, in built environment education and practice a significant skills and competency gap exists to address this crisis, highlighted, for example, by the architecture profession’s own ‘architects declare' and similar 'architectural education declares’ announcing a biodiversity and climate emergency (e.g. in the UK and Denmark). Another example is the formation of ACAN (Architects Climate Action Network), and architecture students collectively forming the ‘Anthropocene Architecture School’ to conduct ‘crisis studios’ and ‘crisis crits’ to plug the design and knowledge gap in architecture education (all in the UK).Book, Climate Emergency, Pedagogy, Building Performance, Aidan Hoggard

Y2 Housing Newspaper DIGITAL ONLY.pdf

Student project catalogue

Community: Housing Newspaper, 2020

Community is a design project undertaken by 2nd Year undergraduate students in collaboration with South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA), and forms a key part of an architecture school-wide initiative. The Housing Newspaper is a compilation and reflection on the student design projects that is thematically organised into different approaches to the design of social housing.The Newspaper format was chosen to make the work accessible to a wide range of readers and for easy distribution. The newspaper is a limited print run, but a digital version is also available online.Community - digital versionBooklet, EDI, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Participation, Leo Care

Live Works Screen Rights Report_v250923.pdf

Equal access to the screen industry

Screen Rights, 2019 - 2023

Screen Rights is a research project by Live Works. It is funded by SIGN (Screen Industries Growth Network) and is exploring spatial and urban barriers to a diverse screen industry in the South Yorkshire region. Currently UK screen industries are less diverse on average than the total UK workforce. This contributes to reduced creative control over narratives, less meaningful representation and exclusion from cultural production and economic opportunities. This project focuses on a placed-based approach to investigate spatial barriers to a diverse screen industry in South Yorkshire and sets the groundwork for inclusive and collaborative place-making strategies for initiating community-led creative clusters.https://screen-network.org.uk/publication/screen-rights-report/Report, Book, Event, EDI, Material Cultures, Placemaking, Participation, Emre Akbil and Carolyn Butterworth

Urban Commons - HandbookUrban Commons Research Collective presents the Urban Commons Handbook The commons are regarded as a means to generate social processes that can maintain, reproduce, and reinvent our lives in times of uncertainty. This handbook is a compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some

Co-production resource

Urban Commons Handbook, 2019 - 2022

The commons are regarded as a means to generate social processes that can maintain, reproduce, and reinvent our lives in times of uncertainty. This handbook is a compilation of definitions, experiences and references around some of the key questions that arise when thinking about commoning the city. It aims to contribute to an emerging field of practice, help to recognise the work of existing experiences, and provide material to support a variety of learning environments that operate between practice and research, dissemination and pedagogy, production and reproduction, concepts and artefacts, resources and desires, present possibilities and future needs. The handbook was curated by the Urban Commons Research Collective comprised of Emre Akbil, Alex Axinte, Esra Can, Beatrice De Carli, Melissa Harrison, Ana Mendez De Andes Aldama, Katharina Moebus, Thomas Moore and Doina Petrescu, with the contribution of Eleni Katrini and Julia Udall.The handbook was made possible with support and funding from institutions sharing the ambitions of the group. We acknowledge the generous support from the Sheffield School of Architecture for providing the space for gatherings of such diverse people and practices and for their research support that funded the design and copy-editing of the handbook. We also acknowledge contributions from the School of Art, Architecture and Design of London Metropolitan University for hosting the research seminar On the Commons and contributing with funding to the publication.https://dpr-barcelona.com/urban-commons-handbook/Book, Event, EDI, Placemaking, Pedagogy, Participation, Emre Akbil

Collaborative production

Towards a new model for sustainable housing in the UK, June 2019

I was approached by a guest editor to submit a paper to Sustainability Journal on the future of sustainable housing. Through the use of desktop research into national white papers and industry led responses combined with case studies I wrote a 5000 word article exploring the nature of house building in the UK today. I used examples from my own practice based work and collaborated with an alumni led practice, Edge Urban Design.Book, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Howard Evans

issuu.com/asf-uk/docs/839713_6793cfb3c7b14a34bef8f7fda1b96294

Designing inclusion

Pedagogies of Inclusion, 2019

From 2017-2019 my MArch studio Arrival City collaborated with Designing Inclusion, an Erasmus Plus project focusing on the capacity of current and future urban practitioners to make a meaningful contribution to the reception of international migrants and refugees in local urban areas. The studio was included as a Case Study in Pedagogies of inclusion Vol.1 A review of spatial design education in Europe ISBN: 978-1-9160049-2-4 Book, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, John Sampson

www.ribabooks.com/demystifying-architectural-research-adding-value-to-your-practice_9781859465783

Participatory practices

Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice, 2019

I was invited by Prof. Flora Samuel to contribute a section to her Book Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice. The book published by RIBA Publishing provides a practical, hands on introduction to the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice and aims to help practitioners to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores how developing a research specialism can improve the quality of your projects. My contribution focused on the value that participatory practices within the design and visioning process can bring to architectural and urban design projects. This sat within the Visioning section of the book.Book, Placemaking, Participation, John Sampson

Student project catalogue

The Dreams of Sleeping Beauty, December 2018

Our current third year is the fifth cohort of students to be working on design projects for Scarborough. By December 2018 we will have a repository of over 500 different projects for the town. The projects are based on a variety of briefs which engage with different aspects of the rich history of town and located on many different sites that explore its unique topography. The proposal is to take the best of this work and develop an exhibition and/or catalogue, showing how these sites could be used and new facilities that could be proposed. The intention is to present an optimistic future for the town, developing themes of the urban design framework document ‘Kissing Sleeping Beauty’ produced by West 8 in 2003, which so far has largely remained unrealised.In addition to student work, we could also include staff projects in the town (Markets - Group Ginger, Woodend - P Testa, W McFadden). The aim would also be to provide a didactic commentary to the projects, with input from the Y3 team and our external examiners.Event, Booklet, History and Representation, Participation, Building Performance, Material Cultures, Placemaking, Russel Light

Urban design and planning

New Neighbourhood Planning: The Future of the Food Axis, January 2018

This paper considers the evolving relationship between our two most basic human needs; to eat and to dwell. The phenomena of cooking released us from the constant need to feed and thus allowed us the time to develop culture, agriculture and ultimately civilization. The Food axis, a term coined by Elizabeth Collins Cromley, is the principal structure about which food related spaces are arranged from acquisition to disposal. Throughout the history of the home, the food axis has undertaken periodic redefinition in response to the social, economic and political context of the time. This study projects the future of the food axis. At the beginning of the 21st century the supermarket reigned supreme and the rise of convenience resulted in a deepening disconnection between people and their food sources. This detachment has contributed to the deterioration of health with the rise of obesity and sedentary lifestyle while allowing the individual to disregard their impact on the environment through participation in unsustainable food practices and waste. Can collective action transform waste and waste space into a valuable resource, adding to the quality of life for the neighbourhood, establishing a sense of community/ shared activity and contributing to health benefits, food knowledge and general well-being? It is estimated that 7.3 million tonnes of food waste is generated every year by households in the UK. Our evolving relationship with food and a renewed environmental awareness and responsibility to waste will inform the new public health paradigm.This paper will trace a history of the home, looking specifically at back to back housing in Leeds and Public Health Initiatives to propose a new neighbourhood utility. The proposition re-appropriates the obsolete sites of previous communal wash and latrine facilities to address current needs including waste disposal, energy and food production. The new model can be utilised as a strategy to reuse leftover urban space through the setting up of an enabling infrastructure that is taken over by local residents.HEALTH: THE DESIGN, PLANNING AND POLITICS OF HOW AND WHERE WE LIVEConference AMPS, Architecture_MPS; University of the West of England25—26 January, 2018Page 282Journal Article, Book, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Material Cultures, Simon Baker

Professionalism_Pelsmakers_Hoggard_v5.pdf

Book chapter

Defining Contemporary Professionalism, 2018

As a society we are facing accumulated environmental, climatic and resourcing challenges. In response, regulations and standards have tightened in support of better design and building practices, although many would argue not sufficiently. Yet building performance evaluations have highlighted that the majority of buildings do not perform as intended. As a consequence, user’s comfort, health and well-being are jeapordised, in addition to resourcing and pollution issues not being tackled. Regrettably, the architecture profession, against a backdrop of its own declining influence, is struggling to meet these diverse challenges.While architects are well placed to respond creatively to site, client brief and building programme, the architecture profession seems reluctant to apply the same creativity to its own role and its responses to these societal and environmental changes and challenges. Instead many architects treat environmental context as a larger obstacle than other project constraints in creating good architecture. We would suggest however that environmental context can be harnessed to create opportunities for architectural imagination and innovation in design practice and architectural aesthetics, while simultaneously repositioning the architect’s role in society. This chapter specifically sets out how project validation, alongside interdisciplinary collaboration and sharing are essential in creating sustainable architecture and remaining socially relevant.Defining Contemporary Professionalism - RIBA BooksBook Chapter, Climate Emergency, Pedagogy, Participation, Aidan Hoggard

Studio Collaborative Production 2017-18.pdf

MArch teaching

Studio Collaborative Production, 2017 - 2018

Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the MArch degree course at Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. The studio explores the creation of a built environment which supports the collaborative production of objects, processes and infrastructures; generating an architecture which utilises local resources and expertise and is responsive to local needs. The Studio ran over a 20 week period between November 2017 and May 2018, and was attended by 13 students in the 5th and 6th year of their studies, working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification.Report, Booklet, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Dan Jary

Masterplanning

Living the Region, 2017

In November 2017 URBED were delighted to be invited to take part in the DAM- Lab workshop “Living the Region” at the Frankfurt Hypermotion fair. The workshop was organised by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and designed as live project taking place within the fair itself.URBED were one of five teams and were joined by AWP from Paris, LOLA Landscape Architects from Rotterdam, KCAP Architects&Planners from Rotterdam and feld72 from Vienna.Over three days we were tasked with developing a vision for the future of the Frankfurt RheinMain region, bringing together innovative housing and transport solutions. At the same time we also had to illustrate how this future vision might manifest itself at a smaller scale, by designing a conceptual urban quarter based on a fictitious town within the region.We had great deal of fun working on this project, sharing the workshop space with our international colleagues and exploring Frankfurt in the evenings. The workshop culminated in a short presentation by each of the teams, but the project doesn't end there! All five teams are now working up their concepts to be displayed in an exhibition in the DAM next year. We look forward to sharing our ideas and seeing what the other teams have developed.http://urbed.coop/projects/living-region-dam-workshop Book, Exhibition, Workshop, Placemaking, John Sampson

Studio Collaborative Production 2016-17.pdf

MArch teaching

Studio Collaborative Production, 2016 - 2017

Automation and robotisation are changing the nature of labour and production, and transforming the way people engage with local governance, education and cultural exchange. How can we ensure that the new society which emerges from this change enriches people’s lives, is socially inclusive and is protective of the environment?Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the MArch degree course at Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. The Studio ran over a 20 week period between November 2016 and May 2017, and was attended by 12 students in the 5th and 6th year of their studies, working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification. The studio explores the creation of a built environment which supports the collaborative production of objects, processes and infrastructures; generating an architecture which utilises local resources and expertise and is responsive to local needs.The studio is located within Sheffield’s proposed Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District (AMID) which links the University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre to the city centre along the Don Valley corridor. The project began with an investigation of the AMID study area, carried out alongside a critique of the existing local authority and University-led proposals. This revealed a vision which is primarily commercially driven, and lacking in opportunities for engagement of the local community. The students were keen to explore ways in which AMID can become a more socially diverse, inclusive and vibrant part of the city.Report, Booklet, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Dan Jary

Imagine Castlegate.pdf

LW Project Summary Imagine Castlegate.pdf

Castlegate

Imagine Castlegate, September 2015

I edited a 112p book, 750 copies printed, exploring how a mix of vibrancy events and real projects are transforming Castlegate including:

work from SSoA and Dept. of Landscape
ReMake Castlegate
community groups FOTH and FOSC
Castlegate Festival & Sheffield Bazaar

Sept. 15 the book was launched to 100 delegates at the international conference ‘Architecture and Resilience at the Human Scale’ & distributed across TUoS, stakeholders, national and international networks.Aims: To produce a book that showcased the work done over 12 months by The University of Sheffield in Castlegate, an area of Sheffield city centre in decline. The intention was to demonstrate the value of the teaching and research that had taken place in the area, in collaboration with local organisations and community groups.Report, Book, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

Studio Collaborative Production 2015-16.pdf

MArch teaching

Studio Collaborative Production, 2015 - 2016

Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the MArch degree course at Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. The Studio ran over a 20 week period between November 2015 and May 2016, and was attended by 11 students in the 5th and 6th year of their studies, working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification. The educational nature of the Studio requires the students to produce projects of a scale and complexity that goes beyond what is likely to be immediately realisable in the current economic and political context. As a result the proposals are deliberately provocative and aspirational. The ideas and imagination shown hopefully offer a vision of the future which can inspire and empower the next generation.The starting point for the Studio is a realisation that the prevailing economic model of speculation and market-driven change is broken, and that there is a need for greater recognition of interdependency, social capital and local value. Goldthorpe – a former mining town in South Yorkshire – has been identified as a place marginalised by current economic and social policy, and a rich context in which to explore an alternative approach.The work of the students explores a future where a sharing economy becomes mainstream, promoting non-market production and social enterprise. Students have been encouraged to develop an architecture which supports the collaborative production of objects, processes and infrastructures; an architecture which utilises local resources and expertise and is responsive to local needs.Report, Booklet, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Dan Jary

Blackburn Remade Print Final.pdf

Live Projects

Blackburn ReMade, 2013

(re)create Blackburn was a Live Project by fourteen architecture students from the University of Sheffield. Between September and November of 2013 they collaborated with Blackburn and Darwen Council’s Blackburn is Open programme and the community of Blackburn. The project aimed to revitalise Blackburn town centre through the promotion of the creative industries.Book, EDI, Placemaking, History and Representation, Participation, Carolyn Butterworth

Live Project Handbook small.pdf

Live Projects

Live Projects Handbook, 2013

The handbook demonstrates the many aspects of Live Projects, combining project case-studies, practical guides to management and assessment, reflection on learning experience and consideration of the wider impact on communities, architectural education and practice. Along the way you will encounter the many voices that collaborate in Live Projects; students, alumni, clients and teaching staff. This handbook seeks to promote a ‘live’ way of learning, practicing and thinking about architecture. Working in response to the complexity of real-life situations enables students to experience the potential of research by design and to reflect simultaneously upon the processes, roles and effects of architecture.Book, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Carolyn Butterworth

A4 - what is it like at SSoA (1).pdf

Curriculum development fund

What is it like at SSoA? 2013

This project was the result of successful bids to the (no longer available) Faculty Curriculum Development Fund. ‘What is it Like at SSoA?’ is effectively a ‘transitions’ handbook intended to help support students through diverse gateways into, through and out of the School.Booklet, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Ian Hicklin and Leo Care

Urban leisure spaces

Cinema Under the stars; Heritage from below, 2013

This chapter takes as its focus an open-air, ‘pop-up’, site-specific cinema in the car park at Marshall’s Mill, Leeds, a Grade II* listed former flax spinning mill. In the shadow of the official heritage of the mill, this was a Do-It-Yourself event. Counter-mapping heritage, cinema and place. Schofield and Szymanski (2011: 7) suggested that heritage might come alive when “artistic practice connects people to place in imaginative and often unforeseen ways.” This chapter celebrates the sometimes surprising possibilities for counter-mapping cultural heritage involving cinema under the stars and heritage from below. In many respects we had created a, ‘Derive’, simply defined in 1958 as a ‘mode of experimental behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of transient passage through varied ambiences.’ ‘’Debord, Guy, ‘’ theory of derive’’ in Andrettotti and Costa, theory of the derive, 1996."Neither of us has much experience in cinema or heritage projects. We started out, for different reasons, simply hoping to enjoy an open air screening of our own making. Brett had grown up during the 1970s with drive-in theatres in the USA; he lectures on youth arts and urban leisure. Simon was planning on showing films in his garden and, as an architect, his practice centres on urban design; he is based in offices at Marshall’s Mill. After weather postponed another small scale back garden attempt we sketched out our initial ideas in the most hallowed traditions on cocktail napkins over pints in pubs. Fuelled in this way our ideas escalated and Simon’s back ground as a practicing architect prompted, ‘Direct action’ not to talk and dream but to act! As our plans for the site-specific cinema grew, we had a series of fortunate windfalls, including a partnership with the UK Green Film Festival. After nine months of planning (and pints), in May 2012 we hosted a screening of the film Happy (2011 Dir. Roko Belic) in the Marshall’s Mill car park. In sum, the event became something far more interesting than we had initially envisioned."Who Needs Experts? Countermapping Cultural Heritage, 2014Chapter 9 p133-146Edited John Schofield, University of YorkIsbn 978-1-4094-3934-9Book, EDI, History and Representation, Placemaking, Simon Baker

Urban regeneration

Trent Basin, 2012 - 2018

Within my role at URBED I was responsible for leading the development of the Trent Basin Masterplan located on the northern bank of the River Trent, 20 minutes’ walk from Nottingham city centre. The scheme developed by Blueprint aims to create a new type of neighbourhood that is neither entirely urban nor entirely suburban. To do this we drew heavily on Dutch precedents for the way that the scheme relates to the water. The design creates a strong 3 and 4 storey waterside terrace punctuated by narrow streets.In many senses the scheme is a reinvention of the suburb rather than a lively urban neighbourhood. The idea is that the blocks, set back from the waterfront, feel calm and relaxed and not dominated by cars. In collaboration with Nottingham-based architects, Marsh Grochowski, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and landscape architects Landscape Projects, we have set out to create a neighbourhood based around cycling, dog walking, jogging, fishing, reading, chatting, exercising and working. Trent Basin won the Urban Design Group Practice Award 2015, see the video hereI was also involved in securing InnovateUK funding for the project to accelerate the adoption of a pioneering Community Energy Storage proposal for the development.I also worked with Nottingham City Council to develop a strategy for the wider Waterside area of the city.Trent Basin is currently being built out - creating a new and unique residential neighbourhood on the edge of Nottingham city centre.Book, Film, Built Project, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Building Performance, John Sampson

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URBAN DESIGN 132 Autumn 2014 | URBAN DESIGN Journal Issue | Urban Design Group

Temporal uses

Legacy and Placemaking through Temporal use, Conference 2012, Published 2016

This paper will examine three realized projects in Leeds and York, England, to question the legacy and ‘value’ of temporal use within the city and the connections between affect and place.The three case studies are; an established annual light-based festival, a single night pop up cinema, and an art installation sited on a disused viaduct. Each project questions the future use of our heritage buildings, their sites and context. The case studies form destinations which are not part of an established cultural heritage ‘trail’ or route. The action of ‘making and doing’ reverses our analysis of art and film from a tool we were using to help understand a place, to a medium that helped to define a place as a meanwhile use. Simon Baker is a protagonist who worked to re-appropriate the underutilized spaces and Sarah Mills is a lecturer of Architecture and uses film and Situationist techniques to analyse the subversion of the everyday. Challenging the normative modes of architectural practice engenders collaboration and questions existing policies, guidelines, buildings and the current purpose of place.Book, Presentation, Climate Emergency, History and Representation, Placemaking, Simon Baker

"Preliminary Material" published on 01 Jan 2016 by Brill.brill.com/view/book/9781848884533/BP000001.xml

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