Inside Building and Urban Design in Development MSc

About Building and Urban Design in Development MSc

This degree immerses you in the intersection of critical urban theory, critical design studies and southern urban practice. It is designed to recalibrate mainstream practices towards a new mode of inquiry and action, one that centres on the political relevance and social processes of design towards a transformative, just and sustainable urbanism. It equips you with the practical and analytical skills needed to design holistic, place-based interventions that tackle conflicting agendas at different urban scales. You will engage with the field of spatial thinking through critical theory and philosophical reflections. We debate and analyse the political economy and power dynamics at play in the production of space through multiple lenses. In so doing, the degree allows you to a gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which such systemic processes reinforce or change engrained spatial issues. You will explore and identify actors’ agency, entry points and positive forms of power that can leverage and realise desired urban outcomes.

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