Exhibition

Technology teaching

Critical Material Appraisal, ongoing

Sam worked with the Students for Climate Action group at the Sheffield School of Architecture to curate and share a set of resources produced by MArch in Architecture students as part of their ARC554 module, Environment & Technology 1. The work is titled the "Critical Material Appraisal" (CMA) and asks students to work in groups to develop a body of design research relating to the material, technical and environmental themes emerging from their design studio work. The brief for the assignment asks students to develop a resource for use by their studio and, if relevant, by the wider MArch cohort, School of Architecture or external partners and collaborators. The work ranges from in-depth worked examples and critique of embodied carbon calculations, to original research into the production of construction materials using waste or byproducts of bio-remediation, as well as the exploration of the vernacular way of building in particular places around the world. The exhibition aims to make the products of tis research available and accessible to other students and to cultivate reflection on the emerging body of knowledge generated by students in the School.BESCA CMA ArchiveExhibition, Online resource, Climate Emergency, Material Cultures, Pedagogy, Sam Brown

UoS Our People Awards

Inspirational Women Award, 24th June 2024

Showcasing and celebrating women from across our University and increasing the number of women represented in portraits and photography around campus."Diversity in architecture is so important. We’re all participants in society and have a role to play in making it a place for all. We should design for all, as our world is diverse. From an educational point of view, this translates to the idea that anyone can be an architect. This idea cascades down and supports more student diversity and the materials they’re learning from should reflect that.""Encouraging diversity, and intersectionality, starts right at the beginning of the education journey. Reaching out to different people from different socioeconomic backgrounds is so important and a core part of the outreach activities we are involved with. We've got a responsibility to provide opportunities and avenues to all young people. The school curriculum can be jam-packed and there isn't always an emphasis on creativity and that's creativity of all varieties. We’ll meet children who haven't had the opportunity to consider design. These events are an opportunity for them to explore avenues that bring them passion."Exhibition, EDI, Participation, Jennifer Kerr and Dan Jary

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

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

Student resource

MArch Internal Exhibition, 2021 - 2024

Alongside Cith Skelcher I developed an internal exhibition to share, celebrate and disseminate the MArch Studio Projects within the cohort. The resource replicates the physical internal exhibition that used to take place within the Arts Tower prior to the switch to digital assessment. For students the resource provides the opportunity to reflect on their own work within the context of their peers. For staff the resources helps to support their teaching practice by providing an archive of student work which they can draw upon within their own teaching.2024 Internal Exhibition2023 Internal Exhibition2022 Internal Exhibition2021 Internal ExhibitionExhibition, Digital Learning, Pedagogy, John Sampson and Catherine Skelcher

Walkley Festival & Walkley Library Exhibition, 2021 - 2022

This project explores a range of methods to begin to understand, measure, record and develop both orthographic “objective” methods and perceptual “subjective” methods of representing space. The project culminates in a student led and curated exhibition of their work."Last Thursday we had a visit of Y3, Y4 and Y5 pupils from St Mary’s Academy, Walkley to look at their artwork of Walkley Library, St Mary’s and Ebenezer Churches, St Mary’s School and a number of pubs and restaurants. The Y4 teacher Michelle Grant talks every year about what architects do, and they were all thrilled to look at your students sketches and drawings. The previous Friday, in Ruskin Park, just under 20 Y5 pupils had been really helpful marking out the houses in Harworth Street which was demolished in the slum clearance in the 1970s. The Walkley history tent proved to be very popular at the Fun Day on the Sunday." Chris Reece, Chair of Walkley Carnegie LibraryExhibition, Pedagogy, Participation, History and Representation, Wei Chan Chia

Student exhibition

SSoA Catalogue 2020, June 2020

Working closely with colleagues Luis Hernan and Ralph Mackinder and a small team of paid students, Sam developed the University of Sheffield School of Architecture’s end-of-year catalogue and online exhibition content in 2020, an innovative response to the challenges imposed by the COVID pandemic and associated restrictions on public gatherings. This required the development of an innovative online platform to take the place of the traditional physical end-of-year exhibition, as well as the integration of documents such as the catalogue with that platform.Responding to this challenge also offered the opportunity to develop a method for documenting and disseminating the activity of the School that was not wholly (and only) aligned with the cycle of the validated courses and as such, more inclusive of post-graduate taught and post-graduate research activity.Exhibition, Catalogue, Digital Learning, Participation, Sam Brown

Decarbonise your House NOW Exhibition GuideFirst Edition 211126.pdf

Exhibition and research

Decarbonise your house now, 2020 - 2022

Acting as a research mentor I supported Editional Studio to develop The Decarbonise Your House Now! guide and exhibition.The research commissioned by the RIBA explores the barriers that small practices play in communicating the importance of environmental upgrade to their domestic clients. The research culminated in an exhibition of experimental building fragments exhibited in Editional Studios local high street shop.Exhibition, Research Publication, Climate Emergency, Material Cultures, Building Performance, John Sampson

Arrival City Exhibition Board.pdf

Student exhibition

Arrival City International Exhibitions, 2018 - 2019

During 2018 and 2019 the work of my MArch Arrival City Studio was exhibited in Mannheim and Milan in local venues in collaboration with local partners. 2018 at Klokke, Mannheim. Exhibition of student work in collaboration with Mark Stancombe and Yanni Pitsillides and Klokke.2019 at Mapping San Siro, Milan. The exhibition of student work in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano.Exhibition, Placemaking, Participation, John Sampson

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

20111031_ALPHA FARM Report Web.pdf

Design research

Alpha Farm, 2011

Alpha Farm: A design-led research study commissioned by Manchester International Festival exploring the delivery of a Vertical Farm in Manchester. The project was a collaboration between URBED, Lancaster University, Cambridge University and Biomatrix Water. The team concluded that by taking a comprehensive approach to the integration of nutrient, water and energy flows within the building a vertical farm has the potential to be developed as a resource ‘sensible’ model. By this we mean that the farm has the potential to grow food using less energy than conventional farming based on the input of large numbers of pesticides and fertilisers and the transport of food over large distances.This resulted in a demonstrator growing project called the Biosphere being constructed at Manchester College that integrated fungiculture, aquaculture, hydroponics and vermiculture. The project won a National PACE Award for Environmental Sustainability.Exhibition, Press Article, Built Project, Climate Emergency, Placemaking, Building Performance, John Sampson

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