In Practice IV: Student Showcase

About the showcase

In Practice IV showcases creative research by students from the Global Urbanism MASc and Public History MA programmes. Through zines, installations, podcasts and film, students present new ways of exploring urban change, colonial legacies and identity.

Bringing together research, storytelling and creative practice, the exhibition invites visitors to encounter contemporary urban issues through a range of media and perspectives. Each project reflects a year of collaborative, site-based research undertaken with local organisations and communities.

Presented through installations, zines, podcasts and film, the showcase highlights how students engage critically with place, memory and urban life through collaborative, site-based research.

Together, the works demonstrate how creative methods can generate new ways of understanding cities, histories and the relationships between people and place.

Plan your visit

The showcase is open to the public from 30 July 2026 to 3 October 2026. 

Visit Monday to Saturday, 10:00 - 18:00. 

Booking is not required to visit the showcase, however booking is required for the events specified below.

About Global Urbanism MASc 

The Bartlett’s Global Urbanism MASc is the first urban Master’s degree to cut radically across arts, humanities, social sciences and technology studies, giving you the opportunity to specialise in urbanism as a challenge-driven and practice-oriented transdisciplinary field. Drawing from the distinctive breadth of UCL’s urban expertise, the programme equips students with state-of-the-art knowledge of urbanism – a term that embraces the social and cultural life of cities, and the numerous approaches and practices which set out to understand and shape urban futures. 

About Public History MA 

UCL’s Public History MA combines cutting-edge, research-led knowledge of how history is produced and engaged within public contexts, with training in the practices through which public historical understanding is created and communicated. Students benefit from UCL’s rich experience working with national heritage institutions, museums, and media outlets, as well as local communities in London, and from the university’s own role as a public history provider (through its three on-campus museums and special collections). They work with internationally recognised practitioner-researchers in the fields of oral history, documentary film and radio, exhibition curation, digital history, historical dramatisation and heritage-making. 

About the UCL Urban Room 

Located in Stratford at the UCL East Campus, the Urban Room is an experimental exhibition space for students, researchers, artists and community members. Based on the idea of an ‘urban room’ as a forum for community-based debate and dialogue, the UCL Urban Room brings together academic research and lived experiences of city residents to inspire meaningful education for our students and visitors. Users of the Urban Room are invited to join a dynamic network focused on issues of global urbanism, heritage, arts and social history. The space is equipped with oral history recording and archiving capabilities through its initiative of a Memory Workshop. Together, the Urban Room and Memory Workshop are supported by The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment and the School for Creative and Cultural Industries at the University College London.  

2026 is the year in which we celebrate UCL’s bicentenary, marking 200 years since UCL’s establishment as the first university in London. On 11 February 2026, UCL will begin a year of celebration to mark our Bicentenary. UCL200 will be an exciting and varied programme of activities, events and storytelling, celebrating and reinforcing UCL’s commitment to our founding values, highlighting the excellence and impact of our groundbreaking work and people, and presenting an ambitious and inspiring portrait of our future.