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From civic responsibility to socio-spatial civic agency: Critiquing the civic university movement through live projects (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, M., & Columbano, A. (2023). From civic responsibility to socio-spatial civic agency: Critiquing the civic university movement through live projects. Charrette, 8(2), 8-32

Through exploration of Birmingham School of Architecture & Design’s pioneering live project programme, this paper presents a commentary on the potential of architecture and design education in achieving the ambitions of the Civic University movement.... Read More about From civic responsibility to socio-spatial civic agency: Critiquing the civic university movement through live projects.

Educating radical practitioners: A case study of regenerative design on a UK High Street (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, M., Vowles, H., Doron, H., Orchard-Webb, J., & Prescott, L. (2023). Educating radical practitioners: A case study of regenerative design on a UK High Street. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 8(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.375

Universities have a responsibility to educate future practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to achieve the shift required to create regenerative futures. Engaging students in real-world problems and thinking creatively about teachin... Read More about Educating radical practitioners: A case study of regenerative design on a UK High Street.

Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking (2020)
Journal Article
Sara, R., Jones, M., & Rice, L. (2021). Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking. CoDesign, 17(4), 493-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1761985

Austerity has led to a growing interest in small-scale urban practices that engage community groups in participatory placemaking as an alternative to developing government or commercially funded parks and urban spaces. These approaches draw on bottom... Read More about Austerity urbanism: Connecting strategies and tactics for participatory placemaking.

The university as agent of change in the city: Co-creation of live community architecture (2018)
Journal Article
Sara, R., & Jones, M. (2018). The university as agent of change in the city: Co-creation of live community architecture. Archnet-IJAR, 12(1), 326-337

© 2018 Author(s). Universities have a civic responsibility towards the cities of which they are a part. This is typically operationalised through Outreach and Engagement, which aims to share and apply the expertise and knowledge generated by the univ... Read More about The university as agent of change in the city: Co-creation of live community architecture.