B-Pro Super Crit: Urban Design
06 July 2021–08 July 2021, 1:00 pm–5:30 pm

Join students from two of our B-Pro programmes as they share their final projects live on the school's YouTube channel.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Roberto Bottazzi
About
B-Pro, or Bartlett Prospective, groups together five of the school's graduate programmes with a unique philosophy and shared approach to the future of design, architecture and the urban environment.
Over the course of two weeks students from two B-Pro programmes, Architectural Design MArch and Urban Design MArch, will be presenting advanced and forward looking design research, engaging with a variety of topics ranging from machine learning, automation and robotics to housing, the platform economy and the global climate crisis.
Please join us live on the school's YouTube channel to watch the student presentations, and to celebrate their work, as they share their learnings from the past 21 months.
- Find out more about Architectural Design MArch
- Find out more about Urban Design MArch
- Find out more about B-Pro
Schedule
- Tuesday 6 July
Day 1: Post-Human Environments
Critics: Lindsay Bremner, Mariana Ibanez, Vera Bulhmann, Marco Paoletto, William Latham, Melissa Sterry
13:00 | Intro
13:10 | Camden: Ecognosis. Redefining coexistence
Students: Divya Patel, Kehan Cheng, Hui Tan
Research Cluster 513:20 | Urban Enclaves
Students: Zhuangting Li, Yuan Deng, Yonghao Chen, Yiting Hu
Research Cluster 1213:30 | Sheltering Ecologies
Students: Sheng Cao, Meng Zheng, Shusheng Huang, Tao Chen, Anshika Tajpuriya
Research Cluster 1613:40 | Discussion
14:10 | Insula
Students: Wan Qian, Bai Yang, Du Jin, Jiang Haoran.
Research Cluster 2014:20 | Borough Market: Emotional Dynamics
Students: Shan Lu, Xuanbei He, Zixi Li
Research Cluster 1514:30 | Bio - Construct Flourish City
Students: Man Qian, Ruoyu Hou, Jinyue Zuo, Zihan Zeng
Research Cluster 1614:40 | Discussion
15:10 | China Town: Civic Sensorium
Students: Qirui Wang, Shruval Shah, Songlun He
Research Cluster 1515:20 | Collapsed World
Students: Pan Ting, Jen-Hsien Chang, Yi Siqi.
Research Cluster 2015:30 | Physarum Poly-xylem City
Students: Marco Alfaro, Shiyu Qin, Heyuan Chen, Siyi Li
Research Cluster 1615:40 | Discussion
16:10 | UtopAI
Students: Ya Chen, Ziyu Zhao, Kexin Yang, Xiaokun Xiu
Research Cluster 1216:20 | Hyper - Borea
Students: Hanwei Zhang, Miao Zhang, Yiqu Zhang, Chunlan Wang.
Research Cluster 2016:30 | Discussion
16:50 | Kings Cross: Decoding Gentrification
Students: Hao Zhang, Pingyue Cui, Zhiyu Liu
Research Cluster 1517:00 | Non-Fungible Life in the Metaverse
Students: Mincun Shi, Yichen Kang, Weijun Kong, Jiajun Wang, Razi Qadi
Research Cluster 1217:10 | Discussion
17:30 | Wrap-up
- Wednesday 7 July
Day 2: Automation
Critics: Theodora Vardouli Carmen Andriani Georg Vrachliotis Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa Daniel Koehler Tobias Knolte
13:00 | Intro
13:10 | Refreshment of The Local
Students: Cuilan Chen, Zixuan Huang, Ye Lu, Sixuan Song, Yiwei Zhu
Research Cluster 1113:20 | Carbon Plug-in
Students: Wenqi Liu, Yulu Huang, Zhaoyang Li, Anastasiia Federova
Research Cluster 1813:30 | Archiving Artificial Landscapes
Students: Jing Xiao, Jingyi Sun, Tong Tian, Xingyu Huang
Research Cluster 1914:00 | Upon iso-individuals
Students: Qiyuan Hong, Jiang Chang, Wang Shiqi, Yuhan Shen
Research Cluster 1414:10 | Threading-city
Students: Zhichen Liu, Yiming Liu, Yuhao Zheng, Yichen Xie
Research Cluster 1114:20 | Reclaiming Data Infrastructures
Students: Reclaiming Data Infrastructures
Research Cluster 1914:30 | Discussion
14:50 | Dissolution of La Defense
Students: Zheng Zhang, Zhaoyu Wang, Yuxi Ji, Jiaqi Niu
Research Cluster 1115:00 | (De)stressed City
Students: Xiao Peng, Weiheng Qin, Jinyu Wang, Yue Xu, Hongying Zhu
Research Cluster 1415:10 | Carbon Colossus
Students: Qingyi Li, Jiyingzi Xu, Qianyuan Li, Yaping Wang
Research Cluster 1815:20 | Discussion
15:40 | Agri.[Matrix]
Students: Chuandi Wei, Qianyuan Zhou, Qichen Cui, Siyi Liu
Research Cluster 1815:50 | Intra-pelago
Students: Chuandi Wei, Qianyuan Zhou, Qichen Cui, Siyi Liu
Research Cluster 1416:00 | Discussion
16:30 | Metabolic Plug-In
Students: Siwei Hu, Tingting Peng, Han Yan
Research Cluster 1816:40 | Beyond the Grid: Territories of Resolution
Students: Carolina Safieddine, Jiahua Dong, Kun Luo, Yandong Liu
Research Cluster 1916:50 | Discussion
17:10 | Wrap-up
- Thursday 8 July
Day 3: Now
Critics: Andy Bow, Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, Andrew Witt, Georg Vrachliotis, Tom Verebes, Daniel Kohler, Anne-Marie Meister, Barbara Cambpel-Lange, Melike Altınışık
13:10 | Equal Rights of Space
Students: Di Wu, Yan Li, Fan Zhuang, Wanting Ding, Peiwei Jiang
Research Cluster 1113:20 | (Un)Learning in Compressed City
Students: Xinyue Zhang, Yue Hua, Anqi Wang, Jindi Jia
Research Cluster 1913:30 | Fulfilment City
Students: Long Tan, Qian Zhang, Honghao Du, Jue Wang
Research Cluster 1213:40 | Discussion
14:10 | Nutri.net
Students: Margarita Chaskopoulou, Ioannis Bousios, Junqiao Li, Alankrita Amarnath
Research Cluster 1414:20 | L.I.V.E.
Students: Lingchen Kong, Lijiang Huang, Jia Yan, Zehua Zheng
Research Cluster 2014:30 | Smart Communism
Students: Ziyuan Gao, Yunyun Guo, Xinsing Li, Yanbo Wu
Research Cluster 1114:40 | Discussion
15:10 | Urbanrrhizae
Students: Zhiyue Gan, Liangchen Zhu, Ning Zhou
Research Cluster 1615:20 | Symbiocity
Students: Xinyue Wang, Yetong Jin, Siming Chen, Yuxin Liu
Research Cluster 1215:30 | Canary Wharf: Surveillance Urbanism
Students: Luija Yang, Jiachuan Shen, Xiaodong Lu, Zetong Li
Research Cluster 1515:40 | Discussion
16:10 | Shadow-Shape City
Students: Yanni Ren, Ruilu Yu, Flora Selvaraj, Valeriia Volkova
Research Cluster 1416:20 | Boundary Healer
Students: Xuanyu Bai, Senlin Wu, Biyan Ou
Research Cluster 1816:30 | Discussion
16:50 | Data Island
Students: Jinhui Shen, Xinfeng Lu, Yuqi Leng
Research Cluster 1817:00 | Mossy Biopolis
Students: Ruiyi Wang, Lianglu Hou, Liuyang Wu, Bo Liu, Xuehan Tong
Research Cluster 1617:10 | Discussion
17:30 | Wrap-up
Image: Smart Communism: Ziyuan Gao, Yunyun Guo, Xinsing Li, Yanbo Wu. Research Cluster 11, B-Pro UD 2020/21