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A space for events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public in east London.
Exploring the impact of industry, globalisation, regeneration and gentrification on the six Olympic Park boroughs and their people, the UCL Urban Room is a practice-based, multi-purpose space at the heart of the UCL East campus, dedicated to debate and engagement around key questions of future living and urbanism.
Located at One Pool Street, the public-facing UCL Urban Room hosts events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public, whilst the Memory Workshop opens up access to UCL’s public and oral history collections, forging dialogue between UCL urban researchers and local community partners. Together they represent an exciting resource on the past, present and future of cities that will enable innovative explorations of London’s history, and the site in east London, through both ideas and objects.
Managed through a partnership between UCL Urban Laboratory, The Bartlett, School for the Creative and Cultural Industries and UCL Library Services: Special Collections, the space is designed to create opportunities for academics, students and partners to be exposed to each other's work and initiatives. It operates as a research-led teaching resource for two associated Masters programmes, Urban Lab's Global Urbanism MASc and Public History MA (History), as well as a space for engagement and participation by the wider academic community.
Meet the curator
“Kara combines extensive experience of working internationally with communities in south and east Africa, with local perspectives on London in the shadow of Grenfell Tower and during the pandemic. She is very well-placed to develop a vision and programme for the UCL Urban Room that speaks to the local and global identities embedded in London’s diaspora communities, critically engages with its complexities and inequalities, and helps us to realise the commitment to equitable and inclusive regeneration in east London that has driven this project from the start.
Prof Clare Melhuish, Director UCL Urban Laboratory (2018–2024)
Work with Urban Room
Urban Room Open Call: Summer Flowers Studio Intensive (29–30 April)
Applications are open for the Summer Flowers Studio Intensive. Read the full details here and apply by emailing urbanroom@ucl.ac.uk. Applications close Friday, 21 March.
UCL Urban Room Volunteers
Are you passionate about urban research, art exhibitions and community engagement?
The UCL Urban Room is looking for enthusiastic UCL student volunteers to join their team! Gain hands-on experience with assisting exhibitions, event planning and social media management.
If this interests you, please complete this short form. There is no deadline for applications as the team will review them on a rolling basis.