Participatory backcasting for achieving desired co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester
(2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (129)
Co-creating the tolerant city: The role of inspirational civic leadership (2021)
Book Chapter
In recent decades, the international movement of peoples to cities has accelerated, and some cities now have very high numbers of foreign-born residents. This chapter offers a contribution to current debates about the leadership and management of mu... Read More about Co-creating the tolerant city: The role of inspirational civic leadership.
Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze (2021)
Journal Article
The current landscape of architectural pedagogy is exposed to issues of standardisation that echo the ones that higher education faced in the second half of the twentieth century. The systems of pedagogic nurture in academia that were proposed during... Read More about Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze.
Complex urban futures: Design science for flux territories (2021)
Book Chapter
Book description:
How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value? Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design pr... Read More about Complex urban futures: Design science for flux territories.
Building certification schemes: Are they driving or derailing sustainable development in the construction sector? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Building certification schemes have been hailed as a sustainable building solution; growing debate exists as to the efficacy of these schemes and whether they can really deliver a sustainable built environment. As no agreed definition of sustainabili... Read More about Building certification schemes: Are they driving or derailing sustainable development in the construction sector?.
Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter considers the possibilities of using performative painting as a form of visual and spatial architectural research, where the act of painting is part of the research itself. The paintings are of specific sites and sights that are localise... Read More about Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse.
Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Research is underway to explore the potential of using structurally efficient non-prismatic geometries to substantially reduce the amount of concrete in building elements, thus reducing their carbon footprint. In particular, the benefits of using thi... Read More about Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells.
The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design (2021)
Thesis
This thesis examines the moments of divergence that occur across media in the early stages of the architectural design process. The term ‘divergent thinking’, coined by Joy Paul Guilford (1967) as a key component of creativity, describes the flexibil... Read More about Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design.