Title: Gender and Space in Architecture: Public Toilets, Kitchens, and the Struggle for Equality Author: Minghui Xu Year: […]
Category Archive: Publications
Title: Belonging in Ephemerality: How can architecture create belonging for displaced women? Author: Jodie Yew Year: 2025 Abstract: […]
Title: The Feminist Call: Care Through Cooperation Author: Saorla Hanley Year: 2025 Abstract: The Feminist Call, an imagined […]
Title: Rethinking Our Social Housing: An intersectional feminist analysis of UK social housing design Author: Saorla Hanley Year: […]
Title: Design for the Cthulucene: Common Land, Vulnerability and Imagination in Famagusta Author: William Lawrence Year: 2025 Abstract: […]
Title: Behind the Concrete Walls, A Study of Nostalgia, Place Attachment and Gender in Socialist Housing Author: Mihaela […]
Title: Manifesting Nomadic Author: Owais Abid Year: 2025 Abstract: “I ask you to consider ‘knowing’ as a non-unitary […]
Title: The Political Potency of the Home – a study of feminist perspectives, ideologies, and approaches. Author: Ellie […]
Title: Where We Belong. How the queer and transgender spatial experience is framed by gender and heteronormative ideals. […]
Niamh Lincoln, MArch Dissertation, 2015. Tempelhofer Feld presents a very particular form of public space, as a 386-hectare vacuum in the city of Berlin. Exploring the dynamics and peculiarities that contribute to the experience and understanding of such a unique space requires not only […]
Keren Obiuzu, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. The aim of this design thesis is to research how urban design practitioners can deploy design methods to support Makoko community in building resilience, with a deeper focus on the social urban issues faced by the community.
Kexin Cai, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. This thesis design aims to explore and analyze how urban design practitioners could deploy design methods to support wildlife and designing coexistence of human and wildlife in contemporary cities.
Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi, PhD Thesis, 2018. This research explores the ways in which Iranian women make their diasporic home in the context of Great Britain. The transient nature of diasporic homes provides a unique situation to be examined in relation to the notions of gender, identity, culture and homemaking.
Lara Anna Scharf, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. Situated within the ever-changing field of socially engaged spatial practice, the project explores the relationship between such contexts of socio-spatial inequality, the role of the urban practitioner, and the transformation of spatial practice.
Pritika Akhil Kumar, MArch Dissertation, 2017. India is a country in transition. As the Indian population catches up with the developed world, its needs have begun to go beyond the bare necessities of “roti, kapda, makaan” (food, clothing, housing). In this scenario, there is a strong need for an environment that encourages free conversation and active citizenship.
Sarah Joyce, PhD Thesis, 2018. Birth spaces designed by architects are a relevantly recent invention in the history of childbirth. Sarah’s work critiques the production of such spaces via regulation and […]
Juan Wang, MAAD Dissertation, 2019. Breast-feeding in public space has been a social concern for a long time. The behavior itself not only occupies the physical space, but also interacts with the environment to form the social space form of the body. As a mother and an architect, the author […]
Xiaohui Chen, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. This paper considers how power will be resisted and reconstructed through critical spatial practices. It draws on the experiences of Hong Kong foreign domestic workers (FDWs), focuses on the […]