Two Bartlett Projects Awarded Beacon Bursary for Public Engagement

Tom Keeley’s Hedge School and Claire McAndrew and Mollie Claypool’s Public Participation at AUAR Labs: A Pilot Programme have both been successful in the competitive funding round for 2020.

UCL Culture’s funding scheme advances the practice and culture of public and community engagement and is open to UCL staff and postgraduate students. It encourages practitioners to build engagement and relationships between communities and UCL teaching and research. 

Hedge School - Tom Keeley


Tom will host a series of conversations and events (both online and/or face to face depending on COVID) to explore what it means to live together across borders. This architecture and landscape event will be in the tradition of Hedge Schools - illicit forms of education in Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries when the penal laws banned Catholics from accessing formal education. ‘Hedge School' aims to draw out and chronicle the contested history of the Irish border at a critical juncture in its own timeline, and will work collaboratively, involving local people across communities and invited experts to co-write an experimental bilingual text. This approach aims to share historical and architectural findings gathered as part of Tom’s doctoral research in relation to lived experience, personal testimony and site-specific knowledges, and in doing so break down the barriers between historians, experts and publics. The text will be shared on a website alongside his PhD research outputs and at a Royal Geographical Society event in September 2021.
 
Thomas Keeley is a Teaching Fellow in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Image: Crazy-paving from pub in Belturbet (Béal Tairbirt), Cavan, IRL, clad on to ruined cottage from Gortmore (An Gort Mór), Cavan, IRL, inserted into Slieve Foy (Sliabh Feá), Louth, IRL. Image by Tom Keeley.

Public Participation at AUAR Labs: A Pilot Programme - Claire McAndrew and Mollie Claypool

Breaking gender stereotypes in the construction sector, this pilot programme will support three Knowle West residents to explore what impact expanded ideas of participation in construction and home-building could offer micro-sites or larger housing developments.
 
Dr Claire McAndrew is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Engagement at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Mollie Claypool is a Lecturer in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture. 

Image: Kevin Saey

More information

• See the full list of Beacon Bursary recipients
• Visit Thomas Keeley’s profile
• Visit Claire McAndrew’s profile
• Visit Mollie Claypool’s profile