Climate, Displacement and the Posthuman
Nishat Awan Seascape, 2024

Climate, Displacement and the Posthuman

How can we rethink urban spaces and migration through a planetary lens amid the climate crisis?

Feminist Cities
Women talking on balconies in Templehof, Berlin, by Jonah Rudlin

Feminist Cities

How can fundamental freedoms to the city be secured through public policy, innovation and design?

Globalising Urbanisms
A man walks down a street in Doha next to a construction vehicle

Globalising Urbanisms

Developing frameworks for engagements and dialogue with urban scholarship globally, across a diversity of urban experiences.

Queer Infrastructure
Queer infrastructure, Whitechapel gallery exhibition, photo by Stephen White

Queer Infrastructure

Considering the networks of people and sites that have helped to support communities with non-normative sexualities and genders.

Reparative Urban Practices
Reparative Urban Practices

Reparative Urban Practices

Exploring reparative justice in cities shaped by colonial violence, focusing on land disputes, spatial imagination and urban healing.

Speculative Urban Statecraft
Central Hill Estate, Lambeth by Joe Penny

Speculative Urban Statecraft

In an era of financialized urbanism, city governments and global capital reshape space, fuelling displacement, resistance and contested visions of urban futures.

Critical Urban Heritage
Street scene in Gothenburg with a car passing and posters stuck to a piece of street furniture

Critical Urban Heritage

Engaging with heritage as a key shaper of urban experience and identities, the urban environment, and urban futures.

Urban Nights
Woman walks past a disued advertising hoarding on Holloway Road

Urban Nights

Exploring the various ways in which we engage with and impact the urban environment at night.

Multidimensional Urbanism
Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong

Multidimensional Urbanism

Developing new cross-disciplinary, comparative and creative engagement with the multiple spatial dimensions, across different vertical and voluminous domains, that comprise and create urban life.

Hinterland
Hinterland

Hinterland

How can we rethink the hinterland as a site of planetary urbanisation and the Anthropocene through ficto-critical inquiry?