Dr Matthew Jones' Outputs (8)

Fuzzy lines: Defining an architecture project office by its barriers and boundaries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A collective mapping exercise of the fuzzy lines that position and border the contemporary Project Office when positioned within the institutional context of the UK architecture school. The aim of this workshop would be to collective map these bound... Read More about Fuzzy lines: Defining an architecture project office by its barriers and boundaries.

Ruthin Future: Contingent practices to reimagine a rural Welsh town (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The political lens is shifting to smaller settlements and Governments in the UK, Ireland and beyond are recognising the need to support smaller places, for example through ‘town centre first’ policies, en-hanced funding for high streets and revitaliz... Read More about Ruthin Future: Contingent practices to reimagine a rural Welsh town.

Next (re)generation architectural education: Disrupting design pedagogy through social lab processes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reflects on collaborative live architectural design projects between Birmingham School of Architecture and Design (BSoAD) students and social lab, CoLab Dudley in Dudley, UK. CoLab Dudley is an experimental form of social and imagination i... Read More about Next (re)generation architectural education: Disrupting design pedagogy through social lab processes.

Collaboration for innovation in housing: The role of the civic university in delivering new homes in the city (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Birmingham School of Architecture and Design pioneered ‘live projects’ as a pedagogic model in schools of architecture in the UK and as part of this programme delivered a number of innovative housing projects in collaboration with the public sec... Read More about Collaboration for innovation in housing: The role of the civic university in delivering new homes in the city.

Critical reflections on the inclusivity and diversity of live community architecture projects (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One of the key ways in which architecture students are prompted to connect with clients, users and community groups is through engagement with live projects. Students are invited to work with, and/or for, an external collaborator for their mutual ben... Read More about Critical reflections on the inclusivity and diversity of live community architecture projects.

The University as agent of change in the city: Co-creation of live community architecture (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Universities, as quasi-public agents, have a civic responsibility towards the cities and communities of which they are a part. This is typically operationalized through Outreach and Engagement activities, which aim to share and apply the expertise an... Read More about The University as agent of change in the city: Co-creation of live community architecture.

Reimagining rural towns: A design-led approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One in five people in Europe live in rural towns of under 50,000 people. Founded as trading, defensive and administrative centres, these towns have undergone dramatic and rapid change due to increasing personal mobility and the shifting nature of the... Read More about Reimagining rural towns: A design-led approach.

Incremental urbanism: An economic approach to the small town (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper an alternative to the prevailing conservation based approach to small town urbanism will be explored. Founded on a belief in the value of the existing and an in depth reading of settlement, an urban strategy underpinned by a series of s... Read More about Incremental urbanism: An economic approach to the small town.