Summary
The 2025 edition of the Urban Design Otherwise series brought Building and Urban Design in Development MSc (BUDD) students from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, into close engagement with Pelican House, a countercultural cooperative and social centre in Bethnal Green. Pelican House served as a site through which students could interrogate established notions of space politics, urban agency and design practice.
The pamphlet is a collective contribution by both staff and students — a recognition of otherwise practices that challenge dominant spatial logics and affirm urban design as a space of resistance, care and transformation.
Contributors
MSc BUDD 2025 Students:
Lia Alarcon Castillo, Ananya Jain, Aniesha Andall, Madina Arifah, Lucia Bussell, Xiyang Chen, Alina Abdulwahid, Mario De Los Santos Branca, Andrea Diaz-Ayala, Xuyuan Gan, Xing Geng, Alankriti Gopinatha, Serra Utkum Ikiz, Jakiat Jitu, Cherilyn Lau, Mengyu Liu, Jiaxin Lu, Yanru Lu, Zhaojiang Lyu, Vishaka Nayak, Megha Paudyal, Yasmina Seifeddine, Ashlynn Swatton, Clarissa Tanika, Li-Jian Thean, Shuolei Wang, Yidi Xu, Zihao Xu, Riley Yang, Hasina Zadran, Yanning Zhang, Binghua Zhao, Yun Zhuo.
Curated by:
Milagros Vidal
Academic lead:
Giovanna Astolfo
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