Event

Live projects

Live Projects Instagram, ongoing

Sam curates the @ssoa_liveprojects Instagram account, which documents the projects completed as part of each years' Live Projects Programme. The account complements the www.liveprojects.org web archive and offers a two-way channel of communication with potential clients and collaborators, scholars and prospective students.Event, EDI, Participation, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

Live Projects SSOA (@ssoa_liveprojects) • Instagram photos and videos821 Followers, 392 Following, 107 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Live Projects SSOA (@ssoa_liveprojects)

Architects Climate Action Network

ACAN Education Working Group, ongoing

Sam volunteers with the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), participating in its working group on Education.Event, Climate Emergency, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

AdvancedHE teaching award

Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, August 2025

The AdvanceHE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) is a national award that recognises and rewards collaborative work that has had a demonstrable impact on teaching and learning and highlights the key role of teamwork in UK higher education. The winning teams demonstrate innovative approaches to collaborative teaching that have transformed student experiences and outcomes.The winning ELSSA (Engaged Learning at Sheffield School of Architecture) team comprises staff and students who have made substantial contributions to 'live' pedagogy over the last 10 years at Sheffield School of Architecture; Carolyn Butterworth (Team Leader), Leo Care (Deputy Team Leader), Sam Brown, Emre Akbil, Maša Šorn, Tom Moore, Claire Tymon and Rowan Mackay.ELSSA at the University of Sheffield transforms architecture education through engaged learning. Students collaborate with communities on real projects, building vital skills in leadership, communication, and problem-solving. This comprehensive programme of curricular and extra-curricular ‘Liveness’ creates confident, socially conscious architects, impacting both professional practice and global higher education.AdvanceHE Announcement, Sheffield University Announcement (requires Staff login)Accreditation, Event, Inclusivity , Participation, Pedagogy, Carolyn Butterworth, Emre Akbil, Leo Care and Sam Brown

“ELSSA has made a profound impact on the education culture at our University. We are immensely proud of the impact our students, staff and graduates have on their communities and professions; ELSSA typifies this commitment to civic engagement and is a beacon initiative for our university."

Dave Forrest, Deputy Vice-President for Education, The University of Sheffield

Knowledge roundtable co-facilitator

Swimmable Cities Summit, 28th May 2025

Swimmable Cities alliance is comprised of signatories that include academics, activists, municipal bodies, research institutes, to mention a few who are interested in the urban waterways and reintegrating them into the everyday life of the citizens.
Swimmable Cities organised their first international round table in Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 2025. As part of that summit I participated with other international academics as a co-facilitator in the Knowledge Roundtable to workshop ideas, views and experience on swimming infrastructure as placemaking in cities.Event, Design, History and Theory , Inclusivity , Placeshaping, Naina Gupta

Copy of Decolonising Environment and Technology - Rachel Harris_University of Sheffield

Technology teaching

Technica Convention, 9th May 2025

Successful abstract submission and 15 minute presentation given at this annual convention for Technology Subject Leads hosted by Manchester School of Architecture. I presented 'Decolonising the Curriculum: A cross disciplinary initiative - What does this look like for Environment and Technology?'Event, Presentation, Inclusivity , Pedagogy, Rachel Harris

London Loo Hack

Inconveniences, 2025

This was a spontaneous action art at the ACN’s first in person meeting in London, at the RCA. We had just learned of the UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of the word ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ for the purposes of the Equalities act, and this issue was centred in our activities.As a queer woman I had seen this coming for some time, and I had already written ‘For the Benefit of the EHRC’ under my poet’s name ‘Jen X’ back in 2023. So, in the spirit of protest we employed guerrilla tactics and hacked the Ladies Loo as an ‘action art’ and ‘design intervention’. Sadly, that same evening the so called ‘EHRC’ issued their guidance.Event, Inclusivity , Jennifer Kerr

LGBT+ Staff Network

Kelham Pride and Networking, 2024 - 2025

Our network group attended Kelham Pride this year. This and other events are important to build our sense of belonging and to provide mutual acknowledgement and visibility. In addition, we work hard for our members with individual support and through communicating on critical issues with the university leadership. Recently we have expressed our concerns about the EHRC interim guidance and any possible harm to LGBT+ staff, students, and visitors. I will also be taking chair of the LGBT+ Network in August.Event, Inclusivity , Jennifer Kerr

Birmingham Architectural Association

Pride Brunch and Presentation, June 2024

I was invited to make a presentation at the Birmingham Architectural Association Pride Brunch and to join the Building Equality walking float featuring the famous Rainbow JCB for the Birmingham Pride Parade.At this kind of presentation, I usually talk about widening participation, the broader of experience of being queer in the profession, intersectionality and parenting rights. But with the recent impositions on transgender people in society I centred my talk on the issues of bodily autonomy, dignity, respect, privacy and safety which are fundamental human rights and therefore critical considerations in architectural design. My talk included an extract from my piece ‘OUT OUT OUT’ – my chapter contribution to Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture from RIBA Publishing.Event, Presentation, Inclusivity , Jennifer Kerr

100 Women - Jennifer Kerr B.pptx

Book Launch

100 Women: Architects in Practice, 21st May 2024

Women within architecture have always been underrepresented. This highly illustrated book provides a flagship reference for women's contribution to architecture, offering inspiration to readers through 100 profiles.At the launch the panellists were asked:"One of the book’s ambitions is to address different worldviews as well as gender equity. What is your world vision and what is your vision that you bring to architecture?If advancing gender equity and the diversity of perspectives in architecture depends on established knowledge, how should the architectural profession and education expand what is valued as knowledge?Many architects in the book assert that they are not a woman architect, but simply an architect. How do you think it is possible to promote the positive representation of women's contribution to architecture while also embracing the diversity of perspectives in the profession?"Event, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Inclusivity, Jennifer Kerr

Technica Conference

Teaching Technology in Architecture Conference, May 2024

Technology Leads from UK Arch Schools participated in a full day event, exploring ways to advance teaching and research of technologies subject.ARC207 is under development and a presentation at the conference will inform how embodied carbon can be better incorporated and represented within the module.A full set of conference slides is available from the E+T team.Event, EDI, Building Performance, Pedagogy, Jennifer Kerr, Sam Brown, Yun Wu and Pierangelo Scravaglieri

Equal access to architecture

Open City 'Working Class Heroes', September 2023

This Accelerate Debate, speakers will celebrated a working class hero of theirs who deserves to be better known and celebrated in the industry. Presentations and debate from working class designers discussing the wider question of class in architecture. "Many thanks to you! The debate was fantastic and so was your contribution to the panel." Siraaj Mitha, Director of Accelerate Event, EDI, Satwinder Samra

Technology teaching

The work of Prism Facades: terracotta curtain walling system at Blue+William in Sydney, 8th March 2023

Sam collaborated with the facade designer Troy Donovan of Prism Facades, based in Sydney, Australia, to develop a guest presentation and associated worksheet of teaching resources covering the role of a facade designer in design teams, the innovative approach to digital sketching used by Troy to develop detail design proposals and the application of this in the context of an innovative curtain walling system in use at the Blue+William development in Sydney, designed by Woods Bagot. ARC554 22-23 - Troy Donovan worksheetEvent, Teaching Resource, Climate Emergency, Building Performance, Material Cultures, Sam Brown

Fuel Poverty Research Network

Guest speaker at FPRN 'Damp & Mould' event, 1st March 2023

Question and Answer session hosted by the Fuel Poverty Research Network at which I was a guest expert. This was on account of my Retrofit knowledge and expertise. Over 110 people from industry, councils and local authorities attended.Event, Climate Emergency, Building Performance, Rachel Harris

Citizens' Assemblies

Climate Re-assemblies, 2023 - Ongoing

The project aims to rethink how citizen participation is conceived in relation to the formulation, documentation, and continuity of Climate Assemblies. Between October-December 2023, The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is holding a Citizens’ Assembly involving 100 citizens on climate futures, asking participants the following questions: “The way our climate is changing will impact us all. How should we respond, to build a thriving and sustainable future for South Yorkshire?”Climate Assemblies are an emerging form of deliberative democracy employed to provoke conversations around the issues and impacts of climate change within communities. However, there tends to be limited engagement with participants and communities following an assembly, and it is not evident how their recommendations are acted on. For this project, we will specifically explore the potential for innovation in pre event collective agenda-setting, in-event (inclusive, visible, interactive) documentary, and post-event evaluation and progression – and how that, in turn, impacts shared climate future imaginaries, the types of solutions being put forward, and who participates in assemblies. These questions will be explored through a series of workshops on Climate Assemblies and the co-creation of an interactive documentary (idoc) with a diverse range of stakeholders as citizen-researchers, including both academics (from the fields of communication, politics, architecture and art practice) and non-academics from local authorities, community climate-focused organisations as well as communities underrepresented in the climate discourse. Event, Presentation, Climate Emergency, EDI, Placemaking, Participation, Material Cultures, Participatory, Emre Akbil and Carolyn Butterworth

Copy of TECHNICA_2023_Harris and Brown_Uni of Sheffield_Subject Area Review and Emerging Roles.pdf

Technology teaching

Technica Convention, 2023

Rachel Harris and Sam Brown contributed presentations to the inaugural Manchester School of Architecture Technica Convention - an event designed to bring Technology subject leads together to present work and collaborate on the most relevant issues facing our subject. Rachel presented 'Whole Life Carbon and Comfort: ARC308 final Y3 module case study'. Rachel also jointly presented with Sam Brown: 'Environment & Technology Subject Area review - a work in progress.'Event, Presentation, Climate Emergency, Pedagogy, Sam Brown, Rachel Harris

Technology teaching

Retrofit Fundamentals for Construction Professionals, 8th December 2022

In response to the increase in student projects and project briefs focusing on Retrofit, Sam participated in a collective training course for design studio teaching staff in the School of Architecture.The session was facilitated by experienced retrofit contractors, People Powered Retrofit, and was designed to help staff understand the fundamental principles of eco-retrofit works, build on existing knowledge and skills, and to get up to date with the latest green building techniques, products, and regulations.Event, Climate Emergency, Building Performance, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

Castlegate Urban Room Public Engagement Report.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Futures Urban Room, November 2022

The Castlegate Futures Urban Room ran from 12-20th November 2022 and was set up to facilitate the engagement of stakeholders and local people with Sheffield City Council’s plans for a new public space to be built on the Castle site, and for the future of Castlegate more widely.Live Works and MArch Studio in Residence worked in partnership with Sheffield City Council and the Castlegate Partnership (a collaboration with local community groups, universities, charities, arts organisations and independent businesses) to facilitate a programme of exhibitions, discussions, tours and activities to engage people in the past, present and future of this extraordinary part of our city. The previously co-produced Castlegate Common Manifesto, also facilitated by Live Works, informed directly the public engagement programme.The new public space will open up access to the River Sheaf, provide spaces for arts and community events, and reveal the rich heritage of the area, including the remains of the Castle. It should be a place for people from all over Sheffield of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to feel connected to each other and to their city’s history - where everyone can feel welcome. It is hoped that this will catalyse further regeneration of Castlegate that places people, heritage and the environment at its heart."Since securing Levelling Up funding in October 2021, Carolyn has facilitated an inclusive co-production process, including running stakeholder workshops in November 2021 and June 2022 with a variety of stakeholders, occupiers, and the Council, to support the detailed design of the Castle site development.
She supported a public engagement programme in November 2022 which led to planning approval in May 2023. As part of this, Carolyn set up and promoted the Castlegate Futures Urban Room and ran a variety of public workshops which were invaluable." Lucia Lorente-Arnau, Principal Development Officer, Sheffield City CouncilPresentation, Event, EDI, Placemaking, Participation, History and Representation, Case Study, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Emre Akbil

Summer exhibition

SSoA London Exhibition, 4-6th July 2022

The London Exhibition takes place annually in Spitalfields Market. It is an opportunity for the School of Architecture to showcase the wonderful talent of our students within a vibrant venue in central London. Students, staff, alumni and prospective employers are invited to attend a series of events that celebrate the achievement of our students and help them to make connections with design practitioners. Event, Exhibition, Pedagogy, Participation, Simon Chadwick

Architectural education

RIBA Future of Architectural Education Roundtable, 29th June 2022

Sam was an invited participant in a roundtable discussion organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and titled "The Future of Architectural Education".With the early outcomes emerging from the Architects Registration Board (ARB) consultation on the Initial Education and Training of Architects, the event was designed to inform the RIBA's developing position on the reform of architectural education. The discussion centred on three key topics: (1) Accessibility to the profession; (2) Accessibility to the Register and Routes to Registration; (3) Standards and Competences, Validation and Prescription; and (4) Conduct, Agency and Responsibility.As a key stakeholder in reform of the regulation of the architectural profession, the RIBA is working closely with ARB on many key topics including alternative routes to registration, the stage at which the ARB should accredit qualifications, how students can best get good quality professional practical experience, apprenticeships and funding models.Event, EDI, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

Architectural education

ARB CPD Focus Group, 20th June 2022

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is developing a scheme for monitoring continuing professional development (CPD) that will encourage architects to maintain and develop their competence to practise. Sam was invited to participate in a focus group designed to develop the detail of ARB's proposed CPD scheme, ahead of a public consultation later in 2022.Event, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

Student resource

ASCA Climate Resources Hub, 2022 - 2024

Within the School of Architecture we place significant emphasis on supporting and facilitating student led learning. As a Department we have embraced the emergence of ASCA and valued the role they have played as a critical friend. I secured an Education Grant in 2022 in partnership with the group that has helped to invigorate and enhance their activities over the course of the year and beyond.Recognised the long-standing challenge in universities of sharing and disseminating the exceptional work, often laden with specialised knowledge, particularly in light of the climate crisis both with and beyond the school I supported ASCA facilitated by the Education Fund to established a virtual platform called the "Climate Resource Hub." Using the widely accessible Miro platform, commonly used in the school of architecture, this hub initially became a centralised repository for all things climate-related. It featured an extensive, organised reading list, showcases master's level works on critical material appraisals for a deeper understanding of climate-conscious materials, provides an active events calendar, links to talks we hosted, climate-related articles, and fosters collaboration and suggestions from fellow students. Over the summer, the platform continued to evolve into a Climate resource website.Event, Website, Toolkit, Climate Emergency, Building Performance, Pedagogy, Participation, Material Cultures, History and Representation, John Sampson

"The response to the Climate Emergency has developed into a real strength of the programme. I was amazed how the school had stepped forward in response to the Climate Emergency over the past 2 years."

Prof. Sussanne Hoffman, MArch External Examiner 2023

Glass House chats

Connecting students and community-led design projects, 12th November 2021

This edition of Glass-House Chats focused on "Connecting students and community-led design projects". The event sought to explore the increasing practice within built environment degree and qualification courses to link student work with live projects led by local communities. Having some experience of helping to make these connections, and of training and mentoring both the students and the community groups involved, The Glass-House was keen to explore perceptions of other people and organisations in this space. While some of the participants had extensive experience in this space, others were simply curious about it. What emerged was a thoughtful discussion that looked at practice in use, posed questions, and created pause for reflection on approaches and methods in use, and ultimately developed some clear recommendations to those organising them."Thanks again for joining the Chat...and for the really interesting conversation. I am really passionate about this space of live projects and hope that we can collaborate more on this in the future." Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive at The Glass-HouseEvent, EDI, Participation, Sam Brown

Sam Brown - Certificate of Attendance Masterclass Net Zero.pdf

Knowledge sharing

Getting to Net Zero: Masterclass, 14th July 2021

The increased focus on the Climate Emergency has led to a stream of declarations to achieve Net Zero. But what does that actually mean to the built environment? Do we really know how to design and deliver a true net-zero building? This masterclass was undertaken collectively by design studio teaching staff, module leaders and programme leaders in the undergraduate and MArch programmes at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture as a way to enhance our teaching practice.The event explored the issues around net zero, providing practical illustrations of what it takes to achieve both net-zero operational energy and net-zero embodied energy and highlighting what can be done at design stage to achieve the biggest impact.Event, Climate Emergency, Pedagogy, Building Performance, Sam Brown, Simon Baker

South Yorkshire Housing Association collaboration

SYHA / SSoA Housing Exhibition, June 2021 - ongoing

The exhibition is designed to celebrate two years of student work developed through the School's collaboration with South Yorkshire Housing Association, showcasing design projects, dissertation material and Live Projects.The exhibition is designed to be deployed indoors or externally to reach as wide an audience as possible.The exhibition would expose the excellent work of over 300 students from across the School to the general public, providing an engaging forum for discussion around topical housing issues. It is intended that several students would be involved as key members of the curatorial team.Event, Exhibition, Presentation, EDI, Climate Emergency, Design, Participation, Placemaking, Material Cultures, Building Performance, Carolyn Butterworth and Leo Care

Co-design workshop

Harnessing the Elements: Towards Zero-carbon Neighbourhoods, March 2021

This online publicly accessible event sought to explore the potential for online platforms as tools for community-led design. In collaboration with The Glass-House Charity, the workshop used the universal elements of earth, air, fire and water as themes for creative co-design activities to explore how we can activate both citizens and the different sectors as collaborative placemakers. Using the area around London Road in Sheffield as a starting point for discussion, we explored how local placemaking can be informed by and drive forward the zero-carbon agenda. This was an active space, where students, practitioners, policymakers and citizens worked together with The Glass-House and with Year 2 students and tutors from The University of Sheffield School of Architecture to explore and co-design creative methods of engagement around the zero-carbon agenda.Designing Sustainable Places - The Glass-House 2020/21 Event SeriesEvent, Digital Learning, Climate Emergency, Participation, Placemaking, Emre Akbil, Ian Hicklin and Leo Care

Feminist pedagogy

Feminist School of Architecture Teachout, 5th March 2020

20 years ago SSoA staged a 'Feminist School of Architecture take over', where organisers and collaborators took over the tower for a day, running a series of events exploring gender, politics, power and space. This year's strike provided the opportunity for teaching staff and students alike to come together this time out in the city to restage this event 20 years on and to explore what a 'Feminist School of Architecture' might mean. The tone of the event was both critical and celebratory, with a range of discussions on topics from intersectionality and housing through to feminist pedagogy and more interactive/performative pieces including testimonials and a feminist activity mapping exercise. The event captured a growing resurgence of feminist activity within the school and has planted ideas for further events and initiatives, such as the SSoA Feminist Library.'We have been teaching online for a week now and I had the chance to talk to some of the students who were at the teach-out. During the tutorials they express with enthusiasm how the event was a transformative experience for them and explain how this influenced their manifestos and positioning. These are brief but powerful moments that show how the Feminist School of Architecture have created alternative routes of thinking for students.I wanted to share with you the invisible consequences of our collective experience that I think is as powerful as the invisible virus intruding in our collective bodies'Emre AkbilEvent, EDI, Pedagogy, Placemaking, Catherine Skelcher

Astragal: A miniature doughy metropolisTo Somerset House for the Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City 2019, where more than 100 architects have come together to make a miniature doughy metropolis (masterplanned by Tibbalds).

Gingerbread city

Judge for Gingerbread City, December 2019

The Gingerbread City® 2019 was in the Lancaster Rooms at Somerset House and brought together over 100 architects, designers and engineers to create an entire city made of gingerbread and sweets. The masterplan developed by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design explored the theme: 'The Future of Transport'. "Our big thank you to all the visitors and participants for making this exhibition a success! Over 31,000 visited and more than 10,000 votes were cast during the Gingerbread City 2019 exhibition at the Somerset House." Melissa Woodford, Director, Museum of Architecturehttps://museumofarchitecture.org/for-the-public/exhibitions/Event, EDI, History and Representation, Satwinder Samra

EDP Live: celebrating community-led design in historic places of worshippost by Sophia de Sousa and Katerina Alexiou

Live projects

Empowering Design Practices, November 2019 - March 2020

Empowering Design Practices is a 5 year funded research project, in collaboration with The Open University and The GlassHouse. The Live Projects Box was designed and assembled by a Live Works team and showcased at the EDP Live event. The Box marks the culmination of the wider research project and highlights the importance of the Live Projects to the overall success of the research work.The Live Projects Box comprises a pair of interactive units, designed to travel around the country and installed in Historic places of worship. Once opened, the boxes provide an interactive guide to the Live Projects, providing inspiration and advice for groups aiming to open their building up for wider community use. The Live Project Box also enables people to consider key issues that they may need to address in their buildings, and begin to consider how these might be addressed in the future.Event, Presentation, EDI, Participation, Leo Care

Panel chair

Standing at the Sky’s Edge: the Stories Behind the Park Hill Musical, October 2019

Standing at the Sky’s Edge: the Stories Behind the Park Hill Musical Charing discussion with Chris Bush, Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till.Evening event at Crucible Theatre. Exploring the musical development and depiction of Park Hill flats and associated histories. Event, EDI, History and Representation

Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture 2019: Connecting People and PlaceWe are delighted to invite you to the 19th annual Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture to help raise vital funds for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust,

Charitable work

Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture, September 2019

Guest speaker and Panelist at the 19th annual Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture.Event, EDI, History and Representation

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

A Part of and Apart From - Published.pdf

Reflections on student projects

A Part of and Apart From, March & September 2019

A workshop delivered in March 2019 by the authors and MArch students at the ‘School Fundamental’ Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau. The event marked 100 years of the Bauhaus and 20 years of SSoA Live Projects, providing an excellent opportunity to reflect upon our live pedagogical experience within the context of the Bauhaus legacy. The workshop addressed the polarisation that can occur when discussing different types of student projects, using a matrix of four, commonly used terms: real, deliverable, speculative, abstract. Outcomes revealed how a student project can have value as both ‘a part of, and apart from’ the external world. A paper reflecting on the findings of the workshop was presented at the AAE 2019 conference at University of Westminster April 2019 and submitted to the AAE peer-reviewed journal Charette (pending).Event, Journal Article, Presentation, EDI, History and Representation, Pedagogy, Participation, Carolyn Butterworth and Leo Care

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, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Building Performance, Material Cultures, Placemaking, Russel Light

How we build homes_URBED.pdf

Housing delivery models

How we build homes, December 2018

In December 2018 I was invited to present alongside the critic and designer Phineas Harper to the RIBA Housing Group. My presentation drew upon my experience working with URBED (Urbanism Environment Design) Ltd and also my teaching experience working with Disseration students looking at housing delivery models.I have subsequently updated the presentation over the past 4 years and most recently presented the work to students within the MArch programme.Presentation, Event, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Building Performance, John Sampson

RIBA and ABS Wellbeing research

Mental Health Forum, October 2018

Forum discussing mental health and well being at SSoA. Feedback made as part of ongoing research for RIBA and ABS."Thank you so much for participating on the panel at the Sheffield event last Wednesday evening. I understand we’ve had some excellent feedback already. People found it really informative and interesting and there was good engagement from those that attended. We are pulling a student well-being forum together to address the issues addressed at last week’s event and continue to support the work the RIBA and ABS will be doing next year around student mental health."Anne Cosentino, RIBA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion ManagerEvent, Digital learning, Pedagogy, Participation, Satwinder Samra and Catherine Skelcher

Love Among the Ruins review – beauty and brilliance on the high-rises of Sheffield

Debate chair

Experiments in Living, September 2018

Debate as part of ‘Love amongst the Ruins. A romance of the Near Future’ organised by S1 Art space. Speakers included Lyndsay Hanley and Elaine Harwood.Event, EDI, History and Representation, Satwinder Samra

FoTM Speigel Latest .pptx

Castlegate

Experience Castlegate, September 2018

Experience Castlegate is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Partners in the project are UoS academics from Archaeology, Architecture and Computer Science with creative industry and community partners, Human VR and Friends of Sheffield Castle.Outputs from the research were showcased in the Futurecade (Millennium Galleries) for 10 days during the Festival of the Mind 2018. The exhibit was visited by 1000s of people and featured in local and regional press and TV. The project looks at Castlegate in Sheffield as a testbed to explore how immersive digital technologies can engage people in local heritage while involving them in the processes of urban regeneration.In the Futurecade visitors experienced a 3D digital model of Sheffield’s Castle, through Augmented Reality (AR). This was the first public view of a new model of the Castle based on recent archaeological research on this hidden, yet incredibly important, piece of Sheffield’s history. The AR overlaid upon a physical model at 1:150 scale and showing the site of the Castle, and of Castle Markets, as it is now. When the model is viewed through ipads the Castle springs into view, overlaid upon the contemporary site.Alongside the model was a film showing the digital model of the Castle, excerpts from recent archaeological archival research and future visions of the site by architecture students. This exhibit led to a lecture by Carolyn Butterworth, John Moreland and Nick Bax in the Speigeltent to 200 members of the public. Carolyn also gave a lecture to 120 members of the alumni Heritage Circle in Firth Hall on the project. The Experience Castlegate model and AR is due to be shown at the National Videogame Museum in Castlegate for several weeks in spring 2019.Event, Presentation, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

BBC interview

The Arts Tower and the Paternoster lift, February 2018

Speaking as architectural expert for BBC Look North feature. Interviewed by Mark Ansell.Event, EDI, History and Representation, Satwinder Samra

Campus development

Remapping the Learning Landscape Across Campus, 2018 - 2020

The 'remapping learning landscapes' project was an interdisciplinary research project exploring how students and staff used and perceive learning spaces around the University of Sheffield Campus.Our aims:

To capture narratives of learning linked to different spaces among students and staff
To explore potential differences by discipline, nationality, social background, and gender
To experiment creatively with different ways of using spaces for learning
To draw out implications for student learning strategies, staff pedagogy and spatial design and management.

Our approach:

Conducted 30 walk-with interviews with students from Architecture, Education, Chemistry, Psychology and the Information School to learn more about how students currently experience the campus as a learning landscape.
Interviews with members of staff from each department Experiment phase:
Build on what we have learned about what students and staff do, to more creatively engage participants in experimental methods in different spaces around campus.

Remapping Learning LandscapesJournal Article, Event, Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Leo Care

090118samraLTconference .pdf

UoS Learning and Teaching Conference

MArch Collaborative Practice, 2018

Presented at Learning and Teaching Conference in 2018.Event, Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation

DJary L+T conference 2018.pdf

UoS Learning and Teaching Conference

A flexible pathways approach to curriculum design, 2018

Sheffield School of Architecture Curriculum Review:

A programme level approach in a professional context
Programme level leadership
Introducing a flexible ‘pathways’ approach
Level One foundation year to be undertaken by all students
Opportunities for ‘earn-while-you-learn’ practice based learning
Key challenges - progression and distinctiveness

Event, Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Dan Jary

Student wellbeing

Let's talk mental Health, October 2017

Guest speaker at RIBA London. Other speakers included Robert Ball, ABS, and Emmanuel Owusu, Ingelton Wood.Event, Digital learning, Pedagogy, Participation, Satwinder Samra

HEDQF conference presentation 2017.pdf

HEDQF Conference

Studio Collaborative Production, 2017

Presented at HEDQF conference in 2017.Event, Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Dan Jary

Participatory design

Little City of Makers, September 2016

‘Little City of Makers’ was a project by Live Works in partnership with Arbourthorne Community Primary School for the Festival of the Mind. Staff, students and graduates from the University of Sheffield School of Architecture helped 60 ten year olds from Arbourthorne Community Primary School to construct a model of the future Sheffield that they would like to see. We worked with the children at their school and at Live Works using a variety of materials to make the buildings, structures, green spaces and transport systems of their future city. The children suggested the themes of Play City, Working City, Animal City, Night City, Nature City and Moving City. As they build their city they have were encouraged to ask: How will the city be made in the future? What will it be made of? Who will make it?Through the Festival of the Mind the city has been exhibited to the public as it grows. The project aimed to provide a valuable experience to the children, giving them the opportunity to learn new skills and introducing possibilities for their future interests and livelihoods. If our cities of the future are to be vibrant, inclusive and sustainable places to live and work we need to include children in their design. This is a chance to develop imaginative ideas for the challenges of the future including climate change, scarcity of resources and changing demographics. Along the way we also hope to inspire the children to become the architects, planners, engineers, policy-makers and engaged citizens of the future.Event, EDI, Design, Participation, Pedagogy, Placemaking, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Leo Care

European City of Science

Allotment of the Future, 2016

Manchester was the European City of Science 2016 with the aim to bring Manchester alive with science and provide exciting activities for audiences that explore how science connects to our daily lives and to imagine the possibilities for the future. The Science in the City festival (22nd-29th July) ran alongside the conference and engaged the public in all aspects of science. One of the key content strands for Science in the City was food; activities, experiments, tastings, conversations unpicking the science of taste, truth & myths about food and health, and imagining the farms, factories and menus of the future. A key element of Science Feast was an allotment of the future in St Ann’s Square.Co-ordinated by Marketing Manchester, I led a team at URBED to design the allotment. Content partners included Squirrel Nation, the University of Manchester Plant Science department, the University of Salford School of Environment and Life Sciences, Sow the City and Real Food Wythenshawe. Salford based m3industries worked with us to turn the designs into reality.http://urbed.coop/allotment-future-featured-urban-design-journalhttp://urbed.coop/projects/allotment-futureEvent, Placemaking, Participation, John Sampson

LW Project Summary Castlegate Festival.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Festival, June 2015

Live Works designed and delivered the following for the Festival:

publicity material and map
exhibition in Castle House of student design and research work for sites in Castlegate
engagement activities in Castle House using the ReMake Castlegate (Festival of the Mind) model

Aims:To make a creative contribution to the inaugural Castlegate Festival, 21-22 June 2015. The aims of the Festival were to:

provide family friendly, inclusive activities
increase footfall and engage with the people of Sheffield
promote the area and improve people’s perception of Castlegate
tell the stories of Castlegate’s history and future plans through imaginative art installations, exhibitions and activities

Report, Event, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, History and Representation, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

'This is not about gentrification’: the pie shop reviving an Anfield street

Participatory design

2 Up 2 Down, 2015 - 2020

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and International artist Jeanne Van Heesvijk to co-design and develop a community bakery and retrofit local housing with local young people. The project has been widely published and featured in the Observer and The Guardian. Within my role at URBED I was involved in the design and implementation of both the participartory design process and the bakery fit out. More recently I inputted into an exhibition of the work in at the BAK Gallery in Utrecht running from the 14/09/2019 through to 12/01/2020. I used the experience from the project to create a lecture which I have given regularly as part of the Participation in Architecture and Urban Design Module.http://urbed.coop/projects/trainings-not-yet-exhibition-utrechtPress Article, Built Project, Event, EDI, Placemaking, Participation, John Sampson

Participative design

ASRM Festival of Architecture, Frankfurt, 2015

In 2014, URBED were invited to take part in the Architektursommer Rhein-Main ASRM Lab 2014: Region im Fluss, organised in association with the German Architecture Museum (D.A.M) and Kulturfonds Frankfurt Rhein-Main. This was a multi-disciplinary workshop in Frankfurt looking at some of the region's most problematic and neglected urban and semi-rural spaces, and in doing so explore ‘the regional city’. Over the course of 4 days participants visited several sites, discussing the constraints and issues facing each area with local practices and planners, and collaboratively exploring initial ideas and approaches.The subsequent ASRM Expo 2015 Region im Fluss exhibition at the German Architecture Museum (D.A.M) gave URBED an opportunity to present ideas for the region based on our central theme: cities growing together. It also gave us an opportunity to focus the discourse on Offenbach, a vibrant but often neglected part of the Frankfurt conurbation on the southern bank of the River Main.These events culminated in November 2015 in the ARSM Future Pavilion situated in the Goetheplatz in the centre of Frankfurt. The pavilion, codesigned by URBED and Ian Shaw Architekton, formed a public forum for discussion and debate around urban and regional development. URBED took a week-long residency within the pavilion following its inauguration, running a participative public exhibition to highlight the significance of Offenbach as a building-block of the creative city. To stimulate discussion and debate we built a scale model of the Frankfurt conurbation with the public over a number of days, and exhibited the attached drawings of Offenbach and the Northern Quarter in Manchester, the latter having some similarities as a cultural quarter.I utilised links established with DAM to set MArch Studio in Offenbach, Frankfurt. arrivalcity.studioBuilt Project, Event, Placemaking, John Sampson

Healthy Design Creative Safety Agenda 25 March 2014.pdf

Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in schools of architecture

Healthy Design Creative Safety Agenda, 25th March 2014

Healthy Design, Creative Safety - WorkshopEvent, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Material Cultures, Building Performance, Dan Jary and Leo Care

Housing development

Space to Park, 2014

Home Improvements, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange programme, aims to improve the quality and value of new housing by enhancing communication and knowledge exchange between volume housing builders and architectural practices. The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield (lead partner), Edinburgh and Kingston, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA),housing industry stakeholders, including Taylor Wimpey, Design for Homes and Radian as well as 3 practice partners.As one of the practice partners on the project URBED in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and Design for Homes prepared the Space to Park study. This tests assumptions about parking provision in residential developments using data collected on more than 400 new house schemes in Kent, six case studies, residents’ survey and focus groups.Space to Park has resulted in a web-based, user-generated resource of best practice for those seeking parking solutions in new build residential developments.Its final report and findings were presented at a parliamentary launch in Westminster on 12th February 2014 by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.The project was also nominated for an RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-located Research.A copy of the full report along with the executive summary and good practice case studies can be found at the Space to Park WebsiteEvent, Journal Article, Website, Placemaking, John Sampson

Ash, C., Birkbeck, D., Brown, S., Cerulli, C. and Stevenson, F. (2013) - Motivating Collective Custom Build_full report.pdf

Cohousing development

Motivating Collective Custom Build, 2013 - 2014

Sam was seconded to Ash Sakula Architects as part of a project that tested methods by which academic institutions could collaborate with industry partners. The project focused on in-depth research into the delivery of custom build housing in the UK. Sam collaborated with Ash Sakula Architects and housing industry social enterprise, Design For Homes, on the production of a short film and website that collected, curated and introduced information about collective forms of self-provided housing and argued the case for greater support for this type of development.The project attracted significant media interest and was launched in the UK Parliament in 2014. The project was set within the Home Improvements research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research (AHRC) and led by Prof. Flora Samuel. Motivating Collective Custom Build was led by Prof. Fionn Stevenson as Primary Investigator and Dr Cristina Cerulli as Co-Investigator.Event, Film, Website, Participation, Sam Brown

CollectiveCustomBuild_inWeb (trimmed).wmv

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