Urban Lab has published its latest Activities Report, covering 2021–2023. The new report looks back at Urban Lab’s work and achievements, including partnerships, and is the last Activities Report by departing Director of Urban Laboratory Professor Clare Melhuish, who completed a six-year tenure in May 2023.
The new report provides an overview of the key areas of activity and engagement that Urban Lab has programmed across the period 2021–2023. Urban Lab has collaborated with a wide range of committed academics from across UCL, as well as partners from different sectors, working together to develop and deliver a vision of an ‘engaged urbanism’ which offers new approaches to urban problems, grounded in an understanding of everyday realities.
Areas of focus in the report include the Urban Lab Walks series, Cities Imaginaries, Queer Infrastructures, all the activity from the Urban Room, and Urban Lab’s research, teaching and publications.
Commenting on the report, Clare said:
It’s always a thrill to receive our new Activities Report hot off the press, even though many of you will read it online, at least in the first instance. Leafing through it is such a pleasurable retrospective of the wide range of rich, transdisciplinary urban research activities and achievements that have been realised by the members and associates of the Urban Lab network.
The report is available to read online free at Issuu. If you would like to receive hard copies of the report for your organisation, please email urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk.
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