MORE 2025

M MORE 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7385696-7-0 Cover image Seyyed Sepehr Esfahani Designed & produced Clare Hamman First published September 2025 Printed London © University of Westminster

Contents Introduction

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MA Interior Architecture Introduction Theses

MSc Transport Planning 6 8

MA Architecture Introduction Theses

Theses

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Field Trips External Engagement

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Introduction

Selected Research

Department of Architecture Staff Practices

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Research

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MSc Logistics & Supply Chain Management Introduction

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Research Lectures

MSc Air Transport Planning & Management Introduction

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RIBA Part 3

MA International Planning & Sustainable Development Introduction

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Practice & Study

MA Urban Design Introduction

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MA Urban & Regional Planning

MSc Architecture & Environmental Design Introduction

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Leading a School of Collective Intelligence THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER School of Architecture + Cities celebrates its 2025 MORE Postgraduate Show. As the new Head of School, I've witnessed its well-earned reputation for mature and relevant work that is challenging norms and grounding important contemporary questions within the student community.

Our school continues to develop an inclusive culture with a shared ethos, focusing on a yearly cross-cutting theme. This year's theme, Every fraction of a degree matters, is part of our school’s wider and ongoing response to climate injustice. Projects are designed to be intensely local yet globally connected, reframing how we live in London, the UK and beyond. All course briefs – spanning architecture, interiors, planning, transport, and tourism – acknowledge our environmental responsibility and the urgent need for ethical practice. Architecture + Cities aims to lead on tackling the Climate Emergency and promoting Spatial Justice as the built environment industries shift away from carbon emissions, poor construction quality, waste and unsafe practices. Our collaborative learning environment balances specialised expertise with broader knowledge, preparing students for professional practice and/or innovative research in what is becoming an ever-expanding field of design.

Our diverse student body comprises a multicultural mix of home students complemented by our

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international students drawn from across the world, forming a truly global and dynamic community. We're committed to decolonising the curriculum while embedding sustainability, regenerative practices and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Students are supported by industryleading tutors, creating an environment where academics, practitioners and students co-design new ways of thinking while maintaining high ethical standards. Together, we challenge conventions, utilising our cross-disciplinary range of courses to design in a way that connects local built environments to broader ecologies and social networks.

The projects showcased here reflect our ethos: to address contemporary issues and social conditions with visually mature and critically engaging responses. Some will challenge you, others will inspire, but all respond to serious current issues – from climate crisis and loss of biodiversity to spatial justice and rising living costs, the over-reliance on car use, poor infrastructure and increasing privatisation of the public realm.

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates; thank you to Kow Abadoo, and Chris Meloy for their help mounting the show; and of course, thank you to all our students and the staff without whom this show would not take place.

Kate Cheyne Head of the School of Architecture + Cities

Welcome to MORE 2025

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MASTERS

Masters | MA Interior Architecture

David Littlefield (Course Leader), Conor Clarke, Dusan Decermic, Maja Jovic PTVL staff: Simon Banfield, Tomasz Dancel-Fiszer, James Engel, Clare Hamman, Paresh Parmer Dr David Littlefield is course leader for MA Interior Architecture; he leads the Thesis Project module and the Heritage Contexts option. David researches heritage and place.

Conor Clarke teaches across MA and BA Interior Architecture. Conor’s research focus is on making. He leads the Technical Study module for MAIA. Dusan Decermic teaches across MA Interior Architecture and MArch, as well as Part 3 architecture professional practice. He leads the Decoding Interiors module for MAIA, and the Retail Design option.

Maja Jovic is Assistant Head of School, and co-leads the MA Architecture and Sustainable Heritage. Maja leads the Case Study module for MAIA.

MA Interior Architecture Students: Maryam Albahar, Cristian Ayala Munoz, Emily Fung, Elizabet Georgieva, Marina Gutierrez Jimenez, Charlotte Hagenmeyer, Jayamithra Kanagaraju, Ermela Kateshi, Nadia Khatun, Allison Leacu,

Anastasia Linovich, Oliver Pollard, Puspita Amelia Putri, Aishwarya Rane, Eve Raphael, Ava Sheikholeslami, Felipe da Silva, Jagadish Sourav Sumeda, Malwina Szwed, Engy Taher, Irmak Turanli, Shabrina Wardhani, Patrick West

OUR INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE MA promotes a speculative approach to spatial design that is rooted in theory and the world of ideas. Those ideas, however, are deployed to confront contemporary questions and challenges. This MA course, therefore, is both conceptual and pragmatic; experimental and rigorous. With a special focus on people and place, the course encourages students to develop a deep sympathy for the needs and aspirations of the users of a space, as well as a sensitivity towards (and response to) physical and social contexts.

for the challenges of a complex world. Through our theory modules, students encounter the ideas which underpin the understanding of place and site, including the notion that design and social practices are forms of cultural production. We develop research and critical thinking skills, including the use of precedent study and design method. We support students to achieve a high degree of technical proficiency in their work – including the representation of ideas – through physical and digital outputs and the investigation of materials. Students then progress to develop their own major project through either a design proposition or a written thesis.

Located within the School of Architecture + Cities in central London, our Masters course offers students the opportunity to choose their own pathway and develop personally and professionally. The outcomes from this approach are rich and diverse, representing the dynamism and diversity of our students and providing the freedom and encouragement to embark on design-led adventures.

Our MA programme comprises a set of study modules that can be grouped into three categories: Theory; Technical Substantiation; and Design. We strive for a rich, mature synthesis of learning, a process aimed at preparing students (academically, professionally and personally) 6

Seeking to inspire a strong connection with, and response to, place, students this year selected their own study site within the length of Marylebone's Church Street and the nearby Paddington Basin. The results are diverse, imaginative and breathtakingly inventive. Student thesis projects range from the investigation of self-healing surfaces and the investigation of fear and security, to the communication of medical research and the reimagining of the community library. Through this work, students have considered ideas of neighbourhood, people's relationships with objects, regeneration and the nature of materials.

Guests and Critics: Kanaka Thakker, Silvi Panchal, Shenon D’Costa, Nishika Diyabalanage, Liz Ellston, Bessie Holloway Davies, Asena Koksal

Cristian Alejandro Ayala Muñoz

MA Interior Architecture | Masters

Masters | MA Interior Architecture

Patrick West

The Living Room: A study of post-anthropocentric restoration

WHAT IF REPAIR could shift our idea of value from ownership to co-authorship? The Living Room explores this question by reimagining restoration as a shared process between human and nonhuman forces.

Initially rooted in research around antiques and the emotional attachment we form to worn objects, the project evolved into a material investigation of mycelium. Inspired by human regeneration and the philosophy of kintsugi, it explores how broken objects might be treated with the same dignity as living beings, honouring damage and wear and tear instead of hiding these marks or disposal.

The result is a series of interventions that attempt to ‘heal’ damaged objects using mycelium as a regenerative agent. The final installation comprises three key elements: a pair of chairs repaired with mycelium-grown limbs; a sealed hospital chamber in which a cracked bowl is nurtured back to life; and a hybrid display table referencing both surgical and museological design. The table links directly to Alfie’s Antiques Market on Marylebone's Church Street, the site that inspired a renewed relationship with objects. Together, The Living Room's elements create a space for rethinking restoration.

The work positions repair as a cross-species collaboration. By relinquishing full design control and allowing mycelium to co-author the process, the project shifts away from anthropocentric values of mastery and permanence. Instead, it embraces decay and interdependence, and proposes a new ethic of care for the things we live with.

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MA Interior Architecture | Masters

Allison Leacu

Bridging the Void: Connecting the urban community and global science research

THIS THESIS RESPONDS to the Fleming Centre at Paddington Basin, a site soon to be transformed into a research centre dedicated to tackling Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). With the aim of making cutting-edge science open and accessible to all, the project takes the form of a bridge: spanning the Regent's canal and seamlessly entering the Victorian-era building of the Fleming Centre. Symbolically and physically, it bridges the gap in public understanding of AMR, bringing awareness to this urgent global issue.

Grounded in research, the project operates across a range of scales from the macro to micro: from the urban realm and the interior, down to 1:1 material and craftsmanship studies. The spatial proposition is informed by in-depth site analysis in response to the site’s complex urban conditions,

particularly the movement patterns between Paddington Station and the public spaces around the basin.

The bridge features a sleek, slimline deck that reflects the innovative science research within the building. As public engagement is a key element to the Fleming Centres' ethos, the bridge will serve as a gateway to the centre, introducing the subject of AMR through an immersive experience. Wrapped in a copper envelope – chosen for its natural antimicrobial properties – the structure serves as a shelter, inviting tactile exploration. Through patina, etching and perforations, it tells the story of antibiotics: their discovery, evolution and the prospects for future discoveries.

At this point of urgency and opportunity, this thesis questions how can design mark the next chapter of medical history.

Masters | MA Interior Architecture

MA Interior Architecture theses 2025 contd.

Cristian Alejandro Ayala Muñoz

Don’t Give Papaya: A spatial intervention exploring fear and safety through sculptural street furniture Don’t Give Papaya is a critical design intervention using sculptural street furniture to explore public space and security. Rooted in a Colombian expression, it reflects how discomfort in public environments might function as a subtle protective strategy.

Fung Sze Nga

Charlotte Hagenmeyer

Ermela Kateshi

In Memoriam

Church Street Palette: Reimagining a library

In Memoriam is an installation that raises awareness about antimicrobial resistance. Through a handembroidered memorial canopy to convey the individual lives that will be lost without effective antibiotics, it translates research into a transparent, tactile experience, merging storytelling with minimalist, graphics-based design.

This thesis explores the Church Street Library as a multifunctional space blending art, creativity, community and learning. The project celebrates making, meeting and creating by developing a space in which individuals have the opportunity to explore new talents within a dynamic public environment.

Jayamithra Kanagaraju

Reimagining Cherwell House: A low-carbon façade for Church Street

Echoes Of Resistance: Exhibition space for antimicrobial resistance

This thesis redesigns the façade of Cherwell House using recycled local materials, blending sustainability with Church Street's cultural identity. The project promotes a low-carbon, visually striking design supporting circular economy principles and urban regeneration in the Church Street Triangle area.

This thesis proposes an exhibition space in Paddington Basin to raise awareness about Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Using interactive projections, data visualisations and physical artefacts, the design promotes public dialogue and behavioural change, positioning architecture as a powerful tool for health education and advocacy.

Oliver Pollard

The Culture of Cooking Exploring kitchens as cultural spaces, this project is inspired by the rich environment created by Church Street and its inhabitants. Combining modular furniture, ceramics and interactive installations, it reimagines lost domestic objects and celebrates making, memory and adaptability through a curated, participatory environment.

Marina Gutierrez

Sustainable Hub

This thesis offers a proposal to encourage underconsumption and sustainable lifestyles. Focusing on a modular retail space, the scheme actively encourages innovative approaches to consumerism through concepts such as rental retail. Situated on Marylebone's Church Street, it creates a new gateway, leading to the heart of the local community

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MA Interior Architecture | Masters

Puspita Amelia Putri

Threading the Labyrinth: Spatial Strategies for Navigating Complexity in Alfie’s Antique Market This thesis explores Alfie’s Antique Market through spatial interventions inspired by mythological threads of connection. Realised as a red thread, this guiding metaphor suggests movement, articulating rhythm within chaos, and preserving the site's unique spatial and sensory identity.

Eve Raphael

In Passing: Tracing over time In response to the recent demolition on Church Street, this thesis proposes a temporary viewing platform to offer a new perspective on the historic and continued destruction and recreation of the built environment.

Capturing visual representation of contemporary building works with historic research of the site, the project reinstates emotional significance in the face of physical erasure.

Ava Sheikholeslami

The Archive Of Disappearance: A library for forgotten buildings This project is a library on church street that preserves the memory of lost buildings, guiding visitors from the quiet of innocence, through ruins and disappearance, to hope and renewal, where every step remembers what was once loved and lost.

Felipe Silva

Between Light and Shadow: The role of screens in Church Street’s architecture Defining public and private boundaries, this thesis explores the ways light and shadow shape sensory and emotional experiences within the architectural landscape. The installation questions how psychological responses change when light, shadow and visibility are controlled through architectural screens in Church Street's retail, residential and urban environment.

Jagadish Sourav Sumeda

Irmak Turanli

ARA: Architecture of release 'ARA' explores emotional transformation through architecture, designing a space where rage is released and calm is restored. The journey begins with destruction and ends in healing, using biomorphic forms to guide users through intense spatial experiences.

Shabrina Gania Wardhani

Revealing Resistance: Invisible battle, visible space

Echoes of the Divine: A modular stage and acoustic intervention

This project explores the concept of thresholds within architecture and society, specifically where science and public converge. It aims to foster awareness, curiosity and discourse on antimicrobial resistance through visibility and engagement, advancing the ideologies of scientific discourse.

A reversible intervention at St Mary's Paddington Green Church, this project features a retractable stage built into the church's existing fabric. Wing-shaped acoustic panels are suspended between the historic columns, enhancing London's tradition of orchestral performance in sacred spaces.

Malwina Szwed

Library For Growth This project has developed in response to the Church Street community’s needs, providing a space designed to nurture, soothe and support growth and development.

Surrounded by plants, visitors are gently invited to pause, and reconnect with nature and themselves.

(left-right) Jagadish Sourav Sumeda, Eve Raphael, Ava Sheikholeslami, Puspita Amelia Putri

Masters | MA Architecture

Nasser Golzari (Course Leader), Krystallia Kamvasinou, Yara Sharif, Filip Visnjic, Hana Alsaai, Andrew Carr, Beth Cullen, Davide Deriu, Maja Jović, Dirk Lellau, Prajakta Kalamkar, Samir Pandya Nasser Golzari is a senior lecturer and senior partner of Golzari (NG) Architects. His research and build projects have won a number of awards and nominations including RIBA Award for Research, Holcim Award, Civic Trust Award and Aga Khan Award.

Krystallia Kamvasinou is an academic Reader, an architect and a landscape architect. Her research on the topic of Interim Spaces and Creative Use has been published widely in academic journals and books.

Yara Sharif is a practicing architect, senior lecturer and partner at NG Architects. Her work reframes architectural practice while exploring contested landscapes. Her book Architecture of Resistance and collaborative work with PART won the RIBA President’s Award for Research.

Filip Visnjic is an architect, curator and a media technologist working at the intersections of art, media and technology. He is editor-in-chief at CreativeApplications.Net, and director at HOLO Magazine and FRAMED*.

MA Architecture Students: Zainab Abadi, Nada Benhimoud, Merlin Geoarge, Nazanin Ghahramani, Fatiha Khan, Samra Manafova, Camille Marti, Mohammad Mohammad, Mina Najari, Erica Ricci, Seyyed Sepehr Esfahani, Fariba Taherkhni

THE ARCHITECTURE MA course offers a dynamic and unique programme on advanced postgraduate study, combining a high level of design and theoretical investigation with innovative representational methods and critical approaches to contemporary discourses in the subjects of design and theory. The programme is holistic, encouraging both strategic re-thinking of habitation at the scale of the city/neighbourhood as well as conceptual and technical exploration at the scale of an individual building or specific room. Students take issues of globalisation and identity into consideration as they explore theories and design practices in socio-environmental ecologies.

The different modules on offer encourage alternative modes of study and creative methods in design, representation and research. MA Architecture allows for specialisation in architecture design or theory through its three pathways: Cultural Identity and Globalisation; Digital Media; and History and Theory. Alternatively, there is an option for students to select and combine relevant

modules that meet their personal interests for their career development if they decide to take the two-year post-study visa option of working in the UK and beyond.

The course team of academics and practitioners offers full skills and intellectual support for students to develop their own thesis subject, concluding in a design or written thesis project. This promotes live projects and collaboration with clients, institutions, NGOs and municipalities.

The course offers distinct student awards, including: the Jila Golzari Award for outstanding achievement in one academic year; the Weston Williamson + Partners prizes for Inclusive Cities' Thesis Design, and Innovative Methodologies for Creative Use of Digital Media and Conceptual Making, offering monetary prizes and the opportunity of working in practice; and the Surjit Cheema Award for the most outstanding and creative piece of writing. The awards are announced at the exhibition marking the end of the academic year.

Guest Critics: Philip Breese, Andrew Carr, Deniz Çetin, Simon Cole, Richard Difford, Anahita Fathabadi, Charlotte Khatso, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Dirk Lellau, Mirna Pedalo 12

Seyyed Sepehr Esfahani

MA Architecture | Masters

Masters | MA Architecture

Seyyed Sepehr Esfahani

Narrative Landscapes of a Diverse City: London’s ballads as a series of architectural follies

THIS THESIS INVESTIGATES how architecture can act as a narrative device in response to London’s layered and diverse urban identity. It proposes a series of architectural follies, not as solutions, but as spatial questions and statements; fragments that reflect on the city’s stories of diversity, memory and erasure.

The project focuses on Notting Hill as a narrative landscape shaped by conflicting and often traumatic narratives, from racial unrest to the tragedy of Grenfell. Among the designed follies, one enters and wraps around the remains of Grenfell Tower – ambiguous, theatrical and deliberately absurd. Neither monument nor memorial, it avoids resolution. It opens space for reflection, discomfort and imagination.

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The follies are walkable, inhabitable and loosely connected across the neighbourhood. Architecture here moves like a quiet parade, not one of celebration but of presence. These structures do not explain or commemorate. They hold space for what has been lost, ignored or made invisible.

In this thesis, architectural design becomes a narrativedriven project. How might spatial interventions care for the form and presence of a structure, rather than purely illustrating the stories connected to it. These ballads offer no answers. They are fragments of attention marking what has been left unspoken: the overlooked, the interrupted, the still unresolved. Yet stories can still be held. Some narrate to remember, some narrate to forget.

MA Architecture | Masters

Zainab Abbadi

Architectural Glitches: Designing the uncanny to contest capitalist space

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK WRITES, ‘it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.’ This provocation initiated the enquiry of this thesis: If capitalism is contingent, how can architecture reveal its limits and push beyond them?

Felix Guattari situates capitalism not merely as an economic system but as one that infiltrates environmental, social and psychological ecologies, shaping how we inhabit space, relate to others and understand ourselves. To examine its impact on subjectivity, I draw on Freud's concept of axioms and Sartre's seriality, where individuals become depersonalised figures within regimes of mass production, consumption and spatial repetition. Under such conditions, architecture becomes complicit in reinforcing conformity. This thesis reclaims architecture as a tool of interference – one that unsettles rather than facilitates capitalist flows.

I explore priming and nudging, mechanisms capitalism uses to manipulate behaviour, and propose a reversal: spatial and perceptual glitches that exploit binocular rivalry, inducing sensory and atmospheric distortions. These subtle interruptions break the brain’s predictive habits, creating moments of estrangement in otherwise ordinary environments: what Freud identifies as unheimlich, or the uncanny.

The aim is not randomness, but the careful crafting of spatial discomfort. By designing spaces that feel subtly wrong, we disrupt the seamlessness of capitalist space. These perceptual glitches target the brain’s habit of ‘guessing’ reality and trigger moments of estrangement, forcing the brain to question its assumptions. Architecture becomes a cognitive nudge – priming users to perceive the system’s fallibility. They become not just a disruption but a tool to critique engineered space.

Masters | MA Architecture

MA Architecture theses 2025 contd.

Merlin Reeba George

Breaking Barriers: How architecture can dismantle caste divides during natural disasters as the new social norm This thesis analyses the transformation and current state of Old Nashik, focusing on its disappearing culture, heritage and built environment, including old structures, Ghats and temples along the river.

Nazanin Ghahramani

Impossible Woman, Impossible Space, Impossible Time: A personal narration through space

Fatihah Khan

Beyond Sight: Sensory design for inclusive education in response to environmental change This research explores how sensory design in architecture can enhance experiences for students with disabilities. By analysing two case studies, it informs spatial strategies that integrate light, weather and emotion into the redesign of Swiss Cottage School’s environment.

This thesis searches its past to see the impossible woman evolving, using the surrealistic shadow to escape the blinding light of rationality. In a space between the room and the city where personal becomes political, the impossible space takes form as the stories unfold.

Camille Marti

Who Decides What is Needed? Humanitarian architecture through the case of Roça Java, Sao Tomé e principé This thesis questions standard humanitarian models by experimenting with co-design rooted in the daily life of Roça Java’s residents. The project is shaped by their stories, actions and locally-available materials.

Architecture follows life, not the other way round.

I propose a slow, situated and shareable method, where building becomes a collective act guided by listening.

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MA Architecture | Masters

Mohammad Kasim Mohammad

Erica Ricci

The Hive and the Weaving Homes: Reimagining spatial agency for the Bangladeshi community through cultural memory and computational design

Reshaping London: Mental mazes projected on to physical space My thesis is rooted in Felix Guattari's book, The Three Ecologies. The outcome is a museum that focuses mostly on the mental ecology. Multiple related topics are imagined as rooms within the space, such as the issue of species extinction.

This thesis proposes a hybrid architectural framework empowering Bangladeshi communities in London through culturally embedded, participatory housing design. Blending vernacular materials and traditions with computational tools, it envisions modular dwellings woven socially and ecologically, reframing architecture as a dynamic, adaptive ecosystem.

Mina Najjari

Echoes of Moments: Cities we remember, cities we feel This thesis explores how urban spaces are experienced within the context of the quantified self. Using speculative design, it proposes an alternative way of engaging with the city that prioritises emotional and sensory experience.

Fariba Taherkhani

A Design Intervention for Global Space: Fairness and equity at the Shell Centre Focusing on labour rights and fairness, this thesis explores the intersection of globalisation, politics and urbanism. Using the Shell Centre as a case study, it proposes an architectural intervention to address classbased exclusion and promote inclusive spatial justice.

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

Paolo Cascone (Course Leader), Rosa Schiano-Phan, Carine Berger, Mehrdad Borna, Kartikeya Rajput, Filomena Russo, Rofayda Salem, Vera Sarioglu, Juan Vallejo Paolo Cascone is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MSc in Architecture and Environmental Design. He is an AA-trained architect with a PhD at the intersection of environmental design and ecological construction, and is the author of African Fabbers Atlas, published in 2025.

Rosa Schiano-Phan is Reader at the University of Westminster, and has lectured internationally. Rosa has worked in environmental design consultancy and research for almost 25 years, and is co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE).

Juan Vallejo is an architect and environmental design consultant working and teaching internationally between Spain, Italy and the UK. Juan’s expertise lies in the field of building performance simulation, natural ventilation and passive cooling.

Filomena Russo is a doctoral researcher with a MPhil degree in Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She is a registered qualified architect in Brazil and the UK, and has practiced sustainable architecture in the UK and internationally.

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design Students: Nesrine Abdelkrim, Hana Bawamia, Zahra Ghenaat,Vishweshwaran Sundar Meenakshisundaram Kannan

IN 2024/25 THE Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, in collaboration with our partners Hilson Moran and PRP Architects, analysed the environmental performance of working environments, with an emphasis on two existing office buildings in central London. The study investigated the two collaborative partners’ working environments, considering and analysing their local climate, urban microclimates, architectural features and occupant behaviours. This analytical and empirical research-based project explored the mutual effects that these factors may have on indoor/outdoor activities, environmental quality, human comfort, health and wellbeing as well as the energy consumption of the buildings.

Guest Critics: Dimitris Argyros (Haptic Architects), Mari-Joe Daccache (Hilson Moran), Emma Galvin (Haptic Architects), Pil McIlwain (Quantum Acoustics), Amedeo Scofone (Hilson Moran) 18

These evaluation projects led to the semester 2 design brief on The Environmental and Energy Retrofit of Work Environments in London. Proposals for user-centred environmental design solutions in the existing buildings were offered by the students, paying particular attention to the compounding requirements of user-wellbeing and energy performances. The course successfully continued the Collaborative Thesis Programme with industry partners from a range of architectural firms and environmental consultancies. To date, the resulting theses have featured a variety of topics in different climatic and socio-political contexts. This initiative has led to employment opportunities for our students.

Special Thanks: Anna Boldina (University of Cambridge), Alessandro Cirillo (Hilson Moran), Kan-chane Gunawarden (TU Delft), Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge), Maddalena Laddaga (Milan Polytechnic), Adam Mitchell (Homefolk), Mike Sefton (Expedition), Michelle Waters (Homefolk)

Nesrine Abdelkrim: CFD Analysis for visualised airflow analysis for a low-rise residential building fitted with VentBuffer

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Masters | MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design theses 2025

Hanaa Hazra Bawamia

Passive and Hybrid Cooling Potential in Medium-rise Higher Education Buildings in Mauritius This study explores the extent of passive cooling and a hybrid cooling system including natural ventilation and ceiling fans in the tropical maritime climate of Mauritius for medium-rise higher education buildings, while suggesting potential future passive design guidelines.

Nesrine Abdelkrim

Integrated Comfort Solutions: Retrofitting residential façades using a prefab module system to optimise natural ventilation and reduce noise caused by railways Vent Buffer is a prefabricated retrofit module that attaches to existing residential façades, creating a buffer space that enhances natural ventilation while significantly reducing noise from nearby railways. It offers a fast, efficient solution for improved comfort and environmental performance.

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MSc Architecture and Environmental Design | Masters

Vishweshwara Sundar

The Role of Façade Design in Daylight and Visual Comfort in Retrofitted 1970s Office Buildings This thesis conducts a detailed analysis of the Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI) of a typical 1970s office building in London, UK.

Zahra Ghenaat

Circular Design in Vertical Extensions: Reclaimed materials in structure and façade This thesis explores material circularity in architecture, focusing on reusing existing steel and aluminium from the case study building to form an extension, assessing embodied and operational carbon impacts to develop sustainable, low-carbon design strategies for future construction.

Masters | MA Urban Design

David Mathewson (Course Leader), Karan Bakre, Odysseas Diakakis, Simona Palmieri, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Luz Navarro, David Seex, Abubokkar Siddiki, Louise Thomas David Mathewson is Senior Lecturer, with over 22 years' practice experience as an urban designer, architectural designer and international planner.

David ‘s research focuses on planning policy in response to flooding and the link with changing urban form in Jakarta, Indonesia.

MA Urban Design Dissertation Students: Grace Allman, Magdalena Del Rio Godinez, Lewis Dodds, Maxime Draaisma, Cindy Duong, Hiba Hamdaoui, Deniece John, Dan Lusack, Rajan Matharu, Michelle Min, Ralph O’Donnell, Clemens Scheffer, Nomai Thompson-Cox, Lois Whitnell, Zaki Ul-Hassan,

Part-time MA, Diploma & Certificate students: James Bompas, Rebecca Crofton, Alex Haines, Ishrat Jahan, Vicky Lambert, Patrick Oniya, Luuk Van Kessel, Drew Whittock, Harry Zimmerman,

THE PG URBAN DESIGN course, with MA, Diploma and Certificate Pathways at the University of Westminster, provides a coherent approach to understanding and studying the challenges facing cities today. Combining structured academic study with live design projects, it allows students to develop practical skills alongside a theoretical understanding and an informed approach to sustainable urban development. As a multidisciplinary field, urban design overlaps with and incorporates elements of urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape design, urban regeneration, international development, transport planning, infrastructure planning, and geography, drawing students with a diverse range of backgrounds.

change is both dramatic and accelerating, creating new challenges for city design and management, particularly in the developing nations of the global south.

Cities are at the centre of contemporary life and are the places where the majority of the world’s inhabitants make their homes. They are economic and social hubs where the majority of resources are consumed. They have evolved over time with important city images, built forms and urban profiles that attract investment while serving as cultural assets which reflect the values of their inhabitants, around whom shared experiences revolve and daily activities are shaped. This process is well understood in the West; however, in a global context the pace of

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Drawing on the cultural and economic forces acting in cities, the urban design course focuses on understanding and shaping the physical setting in which these processes take place. It carefully considers the manner in which buildings, streets and urban spaces are combined to create distinct environments that nurture daily life, provide efficient urban systems, and form memorable places valued by their inhabitants.

The work presented here is based on student dissertations and studio design projects in which particular impacts on city design are identified and how, in the light of these effects, urban form can best be adapted to current and future needs. The practice of urban design has been emerging as a distinct profession globally since the 1960s and is underpinned by a growing knowledge-base informed by research and tested through spatial analysis and design proposal. These studies represent a critique of current responses to urban challenges and provide a unique contribution to urbanism’s body of knowledge.

Design Critics and External Contributors: Nick Bidgelow (LDA), Claudio Borsari (Momentum Transport), Evgeny Didorenko (LDA), Bill Erickson, Nicola Longland (LDA), Julie Mallett, David McEwen (Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett, UCL), Juan Oyarbide (Prior + Partners), Julie Plichon (Sustrans), Camilla Siggard-Anderson, Andrew White, Mark Williams (LDA), Marcus Wilshere (The Collaborative City) Lewis Dodds

MA Urban Design | Masters

Masters | MA Urban Design

Zaki Ul-Hassan

Designing Better Settlements: Spatial strategies for modular refugee settlements in Kilis, Turkey

THIS DESIGN THESIS addresses the challenge of improving liveability within Turkey’s modular refugee settlements, using the Öncüpınar camp in Kilis as a pilot case. Turkey hosts over 3.6 million Syrian refugees, the largest population globally, with many living in rigid container-based settlements that have shifted from temporary shelter to long-term use without necessary spatial upgrades.

The research examines key limitations in current modular approaches, including spatial rigidity, weak integration, and limited public and community infrastructure. Through detailed spatial analysis and precedent case studies in Azraq (Jordan), Berlin MUFs (Germany), and Kalobeyei (Kenya), the project develops a five-step design framework for incremental upgrades to the camp and its accommodation. This strategy proposes improvements to circulation, housing clusters, public spaces, community facilities and the camp’s edge. Each move responds to Öncüpınar’s constraints, with a focus on low-cost, scalable design. Proposals are evaluated using a matrix that tests how well they address the five spatial themes defined in the research.

The project positions spatial design as a practical tool for addressing the overlooked realities of displacement. It shows how modular layouts, often treated as fixed, can be reorganised to improve how people move, gather and access services. Instead of relying on speculative redesign, it works with what already exists. By testing interventions against consistent criteria, the project demonstrates how targeted spatial changes can improve daily life in the settlements. It highlights the role of design in shaping more inclusive and responsive environments within the constraints of humanitarian settlement systems.

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MA Urban Design | Masters

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Circular Placemaking

THIS HYBRID DESIGN thesis tests the hypothesis that the local circular economy has a role in improving underused urban spaces. It explores how integrating circular economy principles into participatory urban design might provide socially engaged, low-impact environments that minimise waste, regenerate natural resources, educate its users and provide a replicable framework for other circular places.

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Pre-design consultations were conducted with experts and the neighbouring stakeholder, Culpeper Community Garden, who expressed their need for locally sourced wood and soil remediation. Iterations of the proposal were presented at further stakeholder meetings. The feedback received alongside the theoretical framework helped to refine the design to address the practical needs of the area and exposed limitations in the draft framework.

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As a result, a third framework dimension was included: placemaking guidelines that ensure safety, operational resilience and long-term viability. Ultimately, the outputs of this thesis demonstrate that by embedding local circular economy principles to improve underused urban spaces, community needs can be both considered and addressed, while reshaping the way materials are used and created, offering an opportunity for the design to have important educational, environmental and systemic impacts. By merging theory, case study and design practice, Circular Placemaking offers a replicable framework for transforming neglected urban sites into resilient, regenerative community assets.

Masters | MA Urban Design

MA Urban Design theses 2025 contd.

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Rooted in Nature: Exploring the role of culturally responsive biophilic urban design in reducing youth crime in cities

From A to Play: Exploring the role of everyday play in shaping community mobility This study explores the role of play in the public realm and how it affects the wider community, in particular children and their physical and mental health, development and mobility. The research was conducted by the means of a desktop study and an observational study on relevant UK-based case studies, concluding that children are vital stakeholders in the public realm, and that child-friendly design creates inclusive spaces for all.

The integration of natural elements into built environments is shown to support psychological and ecological well-being.

Its universalist application, assuming a one-size-fits-all approach to nature, shows limited consideration for cultural relevance, social equity, or historical disenfranchisement. This dissertation asks, Can Biophilic Urban Design promote engagement and reduce youth crime among young people from Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the UK?

Lewis Dodds

Transforming Brownfield Areas into Green Urban Communities This design thesis investigates how site-specific, sustainable design strategies can transform smaller brownfield sites into vibrant, mixed-use urban communities through innovative spatial planning, green infrastructure and context-responsive regeneration approaches.

María Magdalena Del Río

Water and the Morphology of Informal Settlements: Hydrological influences on urban form in Nezahualcóyotl, Chalco, and Chimalhuacán This thesis explores how hydrological conditions, governance practices and spatial adaptation shape the morphology of informal settlements in former lakebed areas of Mexico City, using a comparative framework informed by assemblage theory, deterritorialisation and the right to the city.

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St Paul’s Cathedral 1710

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Adelaide House 1925

POST WW2 Centre Point 1966 B.T. Tower 1964

Millbank Tower 1963

Barbican Estate 1970

Trellick Tower 1972

Alexander Fleming House 1967

NatWest Tower 1980

Balfon Tower 1967

Dan Lusack

That’s St Paul, that was !

Hiba Hamdaoui

Questioning London’s Height Strategy The dissertation studies London’s tall building strategy and compares it to international case studies to see what lessons the UK's capital city can learn.

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The Influence of Urban Planning Policies on Urban Agriculture This dissertation explores how urban planning policies facilitate urban agriculture, using the cities of Brighton and Leicester as case studies. By evaluating the resulting impact on local communities, it seeks to understand the factors contributing to success.

MA Urban Design | Masters

Rajan Matharu

Clemens Scheffer

Michelle Shu Min Han

Assessing the Role of Elevated Public Spaces in High Rise Developments: A comparative study of London, New York and Tokyo

Placemaking in Transit-Oriented Development: Examining the public realm and walkability

Preserving Identity through Urban Forms: A study on cultural sustainability in urban design

As vertical buildings reshape modern skylines, this dissertation explores how elevated public spaces like sky gardens and rooftop parks are redefining urban public life. Through case studies in London, New York and Tokyo, it investigates accessibility, governance and spatial equity.

This dissertation explores the relationship between the public realm and transit-oriented development.

Through analysis of local and international case studies, the paper investigates the quality of public realm and walkability adjacent to public transport hubs.

How can cities grow without losing their soul? This dissertation explores how urban regeneration can either erase or enrich cultural identity by comparing George Town, Deptford and Woolwich to propose design strategies that preserve memory, rituals and community voice.

Nomai Thompson-Cox

Ralph O'Donnell

Are You Seen? Evaluating indigenous inclusion in the urban fabric and existing guidelines in the public realm

Reimagining Lusaka: Urban design strategies for overcoming colonial spatial development and achieving spatial justice – a case study of Misisi Compound

This dissertation explores design and planning frameworks demanding indigenous inclusion in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Australia. It seeks to understand the tokenistic actions, structural changes and indigenous design sovereignty in delivering public realm projects.

This thesis examines how colonial spatial legacies and institutional frameworks shape informal settlements in Lusaka. Using Misisi Compound as a case study, it explores how design-led, participatory approaches can promote spatial justice and more inclusive urban futures.

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

Giulio Verdini (Course Leader), Krystallia Kamvasinou, Lindsay Bremner, Jim Coleman, Ripin Kalra, David Mathewson, Peter Sharratt, Abubokkar Siddiki Giulio Verdini is Reader in Urban Planning and Director of Global Engagement at the School of Architecture + Cities, and Visiting Professor at International University of Rabat, Morocco. His research explores resilient urban transitions in the context of the global south.

Krystallia Kamvasinou is Reader in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture, and co-convenor of the Emerging Territories Research Group at the School of Architecture + Cities. Her research focuses on the topic of interim spaces and creative use and has been widely published in academic journals and books.

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development Students: Emmanuella Acquah, Andrea Arellano, Mei Chung, Anna Duffy, Yelena Macias Garcia, Nasim Ghadirzadeh, Monica Kfuri, Harmony Mason,

Asim Abdilaziz Mohamed, Abigail Russell, Lizzy Ruta, Diran Shalabana, Aishath Hishma Waheed

THIS COURSE EXPLORES contemporary theories, policy and practice in international urban planning and design for sustainable development in both the global north and south. Students undertaking this Masters course learn how to develop inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 11. By exploring a wide range of growing climate change and other environmental, economic and social pressures and risks, students are equipped to operate internationally, providing context-based and culturallysensitive solutions to forge sustainable urban futures.

pathway has a sustainable development focus emphasising climate change risks, adaptation planning and natural hazard risk management. Students are encouraged to think comparatively and reflect critically on planning and design approaches, considering their international transferability and local application. Throughout the course, students are exposed to a wide range of innovative planning methods.

Structured around written assignments and studio-based projects undertaken in group workshops, and supported by lectures, seminars, tutorials and site visits, the course is grounded in three core modules: Planning in a Globalising World; International Spatial Planning Practice; and Sustainable Neighbourhood Development. Students then choose to follow one of two pathways: Spatial Planning has a strong urban design component and an emphasis on development planning; alternatively, the Urban Resilience

Guest Critics: Imane Bkiri (Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat), Darshana Chauhan (Co Plug), Nandini Dasgupta, Didem Ertem, Kim Hitch (King’s Foundation), Filomena Russo 28

As the University of Westminster was the first UK UNHabitat partner university, the course has benefitted since its inception from the input and contribution of a range of academics and practitioners widely involved in international development organisations.

Throughout their studies students engage in handson exercises and applied research projects based on real-world cases, such as upgrading informal urban settlements, masterplanning and urban renewal of lowincome neighbourhoods. The course is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a ‘combined planning programme’.

Special Thanks: Imane Benanni and Youssef El Ganadi (International University of Rabat), Pilar Guerrieri (Polytechnic of Milan), Moshin Ganai (Z&G Global), Olivier Sykes (University of Liverpool) The neighbourhood of El Akkari in Rabat, Morocco, under regeneration: The site of an intensive joint workshop between UoW and the International University of Rabat

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Masters | MA International Planning and Sustainable Development

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development selected theses 2025 Emmanuella Ben Acquah

Monica Michieletto Kfuri

Incorporating Social Sustainability into Negotiations and Compensation Process of Rural Mining Areas: The case of Mfantseman municipality, Ghana

Exploring Spatial Equity in Public Open Spaces: Sítio Cercado, Curitiba (case study)

The study explores the institutional arrangements employed for a rural mining project in Ghana and considers how it can yield sustainable outcomes through the lens of adaptive governance and social justice. It assesses community awareness and recommends strategies for sustainable outcomes.

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Andrea Murielle Arellano

Beyond Easements: Designing inclusive waterfront futures along the Pasig river This dissertation explores inclusive urban regeneration along the Pasig river in the Philippines. Through further examination, it considers how design, policy and participatory planning can transform degraded waterfronts into resilient civic spaces. A proposed masterplan integrates environmental renewal, social inclusion and economic vitality within a sustainable framework.

Mei Ting Cheung

Between Design Intent and Experience: A site-based analysis of policy implementation, spatial connectivity and user responses in Hong Kong Island North Promenade This project evaluates the spatial design, accessibility and inclusivity of Hong Kong island's north promenade.

Through field observations and interviews, it explores the gap between planning visions and everyday use, and proposes improvements for a more connected, user-oriented waterfront.

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Active Travel and Public Transit Integration: London's urban interchange hubs – A case study This research examines how redesigned pedestrian infrastructure around London’s Old Street and Bank stations influences walking and cycling. By using the Healthy Streets Approach, it evaluates how design interventions support active travel and align with broader sustainable transport policy goals.

This research explores spatial equity in public open spaces in Sítio Cercado, Curitiba, through spatial analysis and qualitative fieldwork. It specifically explores how access to and the quality of public open space reflects broader social and spatial inequalities, particularly in vulnerable urban contexts.

A framework of equity indicators covering accessibility, safety, functional diversity, user diversity, environmental quality, maintenance, and community participation was developed and applied to evaluate three types of public space: a neighbourhood park, a local or pocket park, and a community garden. The study offers insights into the current conditions and challenges. It reflects on how public spaces can foster inclusion in vulnerable neighbourhoods, and advocates for more inclusive urban planning and management strategies that prioritise the needs and voices of historically marginalised communities.

MA International Planning and Sustainable Development | Masters

Harmony Mason

Planning for Biodiversity: Examining urban rewilding strategies in London’s postindustrial landscapes Exploring post-industrial green spaces in London, this thesis examines how planning frameworks support or suppress urban rewilding, questioning whether spontaneous biodiversity can thrive within a system that prioritises controlled, measurable and design-led green infrastructure.

Abigail Russell

Diran Shalabneh

Quality of Life Initiatives' Shortcomings: Critique of Copenhagen's environmental assessments amid social inequalities

Spatial Arrangements and Policies in Be'er Sheva Valley: Examining the spatial and social marginalisation of communities

Through a comparative case study analysis of the Nordhavn and Nørrebro neighbourhoods in Copenhagen, the research critically examines the effecacy of current Environmental Impact Assessment practices in addressing social considerations such as displacement, gentrification, and community inclusion.

This study highlights the lived realities of communities in the Be’er Sheva Valley, revealing how policies intersect with gendered constraints resulting in marginalisation.

It calls for the acknowledgement and appropriate planning for the communities living within the Negev.

Lizzy Ruta

Climate Adaptation and Sustainable Tourism in the Maldives

Asim Abdilaziz Mohamed

Exploring the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Community Resilience during the Somalia Drought Crisis This dissertation uses qualitative methods to examine how social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube served as critical communication tools to spread information, mobilise resources and empower local communities during the crisis of the 2017 Somali drought.

Aishath Hishma Waheed

Considerations for New Towns in the UK: Lessons from the Netherlands and Singapore The planning of a new generation of New Towns in the UK is underway. This research offers insights for the emerging towns from analysis of two international case studies.

The project takes a governance-centred approach to exploring climate adaptation within the Maldivian tourism sector, identifying key barriers and offering actionable recommendations to support adaptive tourism governance.

Masters | MSc Air Transport Planning and Management

Nigel Dennis, Frances Kremarik (Course Leaders) Andrew Cook, Anne Graham, Sugandhi Jayaraman Nigel Dennis is joint course leader and a specialist in airline economics, forecasting, scheduling and operations. He has served on international committees including those of the Transportation Research Board in the US and the Association for European Transport.

Frances Kremarik is joint course leader. She specialises in airline networks and the North Atlantic market, passenger rights and disability issues, airline marketing, as well as air travel statistics and surveys.

Andrew Cook is a professor leading the department’s air traffic management research and sits on national and international ATM committees. He also lectures on air transport market research and data analysis.

Anne Graham is an emeritus professor, specialising in airport economics, finance and aviation issues related to tourism. She is author of the book Managing Airports published by Butterworth-Heinemann.

Sugandhi Jayaraman is a lecturer focusing on airport management and operations, sustainability and environmental issues, and the digitisation of air travel.

MSc Air Transport Planning and Management THE MSC AIR Transport Planning and Management is a very practical course that brings together academic content with a large number of specialist contributors from the aviation industry. It is uniquely taught in block mode where students attend for modules of five days’ duration, making it very accessible to part-time students working in the aviation industry. Additional activities are arranged for full-time students between the module blocks, including tutorial and discussion sessions, guest lectures and visits to airport facilities and outside events.

Students come from a range of disciplines (first degrees have included Economics, Geography, Engineering, Languages and Music). No prior knowledge of the air transport industry is assumed but a passion for aviation is one of the best qualifications taken in conjunction with a formal academic background or equivalent appropriate work experience.

Students take three taught core modules: Air Transport Economics; Air Transport Management and Operations; and Air Transport Forecasting and Market Research.

They then select three taught module options, currently Guest Speakers: Carole Blackshaw (aviation consultant), Guillaume Burghouwt (Schiphol Group), Andrea Chiesura (Lufthansa Group), Neil Cottrell (formerly British Airways), Kelly Ison (formerly American Airlines), Tim Hawkins (Manchester 32

from a choice of four: Airport Finance and Strategy; Air Transport Policy and Planning; Airline Marketing and Business Models; and Air Traffic Management, Scheduling and Network Planning. Students also have the possibility of a free choice module from another suitable programme in place of one of the three options. Most modules include a group workshop or business game in which students apply their knowledge to work as a team in a competitive environment.

The Research Dissertation is also a core module undertaken in the second half of the study period. A wide range of aspects of the aviation business can be analysed and this year’s dissertations have covered subjects including: impact of narrow body long-haul aircraft; analysis of ATM and navigation aids to enhance African aviation; improving the air cargo logistics of Formula 1 motor racing activities; the role of Premium Economy on long-haul services; analysis of turnaround times at major UK airports; successes and failures of long-haul low-cost travel; air cargo trends at UK airports; a new airline for Sierra Leone; and aviation crisis management following accidents/incidents.

Airports Group), Gavin Molloy (British Airways), Antoinette Nassopoulos (Foster and Partners), Eric Njoya (Bauhaus Luftfahrt), Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida (University of the Algarve), Tim Wheen (Heathrow Airport)

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management | Masters

Marzena Piotrowska (Course Leader), Jacques Leonardi, Maja Piecyk Marzena Piotrowska is Senior Lecturer whose primary research interests focus on city logistics, urban freight consolidation and transport policy. Her current research centres on the role of urban freight consolidation facilities in supporting sustainable city logistics.

Jacques Leonardi is Professor of Sustainable Logistics with over 20 years’ experience in developing, testing and evaluating sustainable logistics solutions.

His research focuses on supply chain energy and global logistics, and applies survey methods to evaluate new technologies and policy impacts.

Maja Piecyk is Professor Emeritus. Her research interests focus on the optimisation of supply chain networks, GHG auditing of businesses and the sustainability of freight transport operations.

Students: Kennedy Abenney-Mickson, Nadeem Akhtur, Ziwen Bai, Robam Dawit, Sahibzada Hamzala, Karensia Himawan, Muhammad Junaid N'dri Kouakou, Moses Kawooya, Ludovica Mazzocchi, Abdullah Naveed,

Gerard Nsengimana, Ecem Nur Okur, Prasanna Kumar Rajendran, Jeet Dharmendra Shah, Shaweta, Viraj Vikrant Shelar, Kirtal Pareshbhai Talaviya, Ahsan Tanveer, Vishal

MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSC LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, introduced in 1998, is one of the longest established logistics postgraduate courses in the United Kingdom. The course has been designed to combine logistics concepts and principles with ‘real world’ experience, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to freight transport (i.e. product flow) within the supply chain. The course delivery encourages reflective and critical thinking, helping students to extend existing skills and competencies. In particular, students are given guidance on developing their skills to undertake personal research, and a considerable amount of time is spent by the students on personal study for the Research Dissertation.

takes one year to complete part-time. Each taught module occupies a three-hour slot per week. Modules use a variety of teaching and learning methods including academic lectures, seminars, tutorials, case studies, guest speakers, site visits, small group exercises, and group and individual presentations.

The course can be taken full-time over 12 months or parttime over 2 years, starting in September. We also offer a Logistics and Supply Chain Management Postgraduate Diploma and a Logistics and Supply Chain Management Postgraduate Certificate. The Diploma usually takes one year to complete full-time, while the Certificate usually

The course team is highly active in freight-related research, with a particular focus on freight transport efficiency and sustainability. The curriculum is updated regularly based upon our research which ensures that the course content and overall strategy reflect current issues in logistics practice, preparing students for careers in this area.

The course attracts a diverse, international group of students which is of particular benefit to a programme that focuses strongly on international logistics and supply chains. Over the years, students on the course have come from all parts of the world and have brought a huge variety of educational and professional experience.

Masters | MSc Transport Planning

Tom Cohen, Rachel Aldred, Paulo Anciaes, Enrica Papa

Tom Cohen is Reader in Transport Policy and a member of the Active Travel Academy. He is the course leader of the MSc. Rachel Aldred is Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy.

Paulo Anciaes is Principal Research Fellow in Transport and Health at UCL. He contributes to our Transport-Planning courses as a part-time visiting lecturer.

Enrica Papa is Professor of Transport Planning. Her main research interest is in sustainable accessibility planning.

MSc Transport Planning THE SUITE OF Transport Planning courses (MSc, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate) is designed to prepare its students to perform at the highest standard in a wide range of transport roles. It teaches the essential practical skills of transport planning: students learn the fundamentals of transport, acquiring the techniques and knowledge required to practise in the transport sector. Alongside this, the course teaches students to think critically so that, in addition to knowing how to ‘do’ transport, they complete the course with a zeal to find better ways of doing things, a confidence to question orthodoxy, and the rigour necessary to follow through on the challenges they pose.

The cohort is diverse, drawing students from a mixture of UK-based and international backgrounds, with a large proportion studying part-time alongside their existing work in transport. This enriches the experience for all concerned as those already working in the field share their experience whilst those who are newer to transport bring fresh thinking to bear.

The courses are embedded in industry, with senior practitioners from all parts of the transport world contributing their expertise as guest lecturers, mentors and advisers. We’ve been teaching transport at Westminster for over fifty years and this is reflected in the impressive number of alumni who have reached highly influential positions in their fields.

The MSc course has for many years been accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT); graduates are not required to take the Institute’s exams. It also forms part of the pathway to the Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification, managed by the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation and the Transport Planning Society.

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Teaching is further enriched by the strong links that exist between the courses in Transport Planning and their ‘siblings’ across the School of Architecture + Cities: Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Air Transport Planning and Management.

MSc Transport Planning | Masters

MSc Transport Planning Dissertations 2024 Zahra Ali

Goal: Exploring sustainable football supporter travel – Brentford FC case study

Annalucia Bellisario

Assessing the Impact of Healthy Streets Indicators on Children's Pedestrian Preferences

Alexander Davies

Another One Rides the Bus: Investigating the perceptions and influences of bus travel in South Buckinghamshire

MSc Transport Planning Dissertations 2025 Arthur D’Arcy

Mushfiq Islam

Cycle Streets: The next step for Britain’s cycle networks?

Travel Behaviour at Public Spaces/Mobility as a Service in the UK

Matthew Moody

Ellie Parton

Building Better Streets in England

Evaluating the behavioural intention of people to use DRT services in South-East England as a potential solution to rural transport isolation

Harry Pearce

An Investigation into Car Dependency and Modal Shift: A case study using TRICS data on five residential developments in East & West Sussex

Matthew Raven

Researching Perspectives and Lived Experiences in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Oxford

David Gannon

Cycling Infrastructure: Assessment of current provision and spatial disparities between inner and outer London

Focal Building

Mini Roundabout introduced at junction

Claire Hammond

Assessment of Cyclist Injury Risk across Britain in 2022-2023

Tree Lined Street

Ali Hassan

Pedestrian Paths widened to minimum of 3m wide.

How does Location Influence Private Vehicle Dependence? Assessement focusing on London’s Zones 1-2 and Zones 3-6

Haroon Munir

Environmental Impact of High-Speed Rail and Air Travel: A case study analysis of Japan and India

Cycle Lane introduced to provide safe cycle route along High Road.

James Shaw

Planning for Net-zero Transport: Does England’s land use and planning governance fit the ambition?

Callum Turner

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A review of travel plans and the travel planning process in England

Tom Valek

Two-Way System introduced

Single Lane One-Way System

New and Additional Crossings introduced to allow pedestrians safe crossings.

Existing Bus Stop retained and cycle route guided around the bus stop to prevent collision.

Investigating the Implementation of a Vision-led Approach to Transport Planning in Kent and the UK* Residential street closed off from High Road to create a public space at the mid point of high street.

* Winner of best dissertation prize, sponsored by WSP Jack Owen, Lewis Dodds & Mushfiq Islam: Visualisation of improvements to the street environment in Leyton, created as part of Streets, Places and Active Travel

Focal Building Rain Gardens introduced in public space as Sustainable Drainage Systems.

Raised Tables introduced as Traffic Calming Measures

Masters | MA Urban and Regional Planning

Johannes Novy (Course Leader - MAURP), John Somers, (Course Leader - RTPI Apprenticeship) Johannes Novy is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and holds a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University, New York. In addition to his work in teaching and research, he is a founding member of the Berlin collective u-Lab, Studio für Stadt und Raumprozesse, and a member of the Curatorial Board of the International Building Exhibition Stuttgart Region IBA2027.

John Somers is Senior Lecturer in urban planning and the historic environment at the University of Westminster. He is a chartered member of the RTPI and the IHBC, and his research interests involve retrofitting historic buildings, heritage at risk, assessing heritage significance, and investigating inequality as a result of legislation and the resultant design of the built environment.

MA Urban and Regional Planning

MAURP Students: Costa Boateng Brew, Dylan Brooks, Ka Long Cheng, Mahdi Jalal, Lucas Ives, Mohinder Kaur Bagry, Emily Mackenzie, Amblessed Ogoke, Matilda Redzimski, Tom Strachan, Andrew Such, Mia Tyson-Ritchie

THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025 offered a rich learning experience for everyone involved in the Urban and Regional Planning and RTPI Apprenticeship and MA degrees. Alongside the main lecture-based structure of the courses, our regular teaching is enriched by special events and first hand experience of the work environment.

Among many highlights from across the year, the field trip to Amsterdam/Rotterdam stands out. It provided students with valuable insights, interactions with stakeholders, and exposure to cutting-edge planning projects, as well as a chance to explore a new city. Reflecting our commitment to practice-relevant learning, students engaged with industry professionals in discussions around sustainability and gender-inclusive design strategies. The staging of a mock planning committee simulated the complexities of real-world decision-making, giving students firsthand experience of the challenges faced by planning professionals. In addition, our ongoing partnership with Waltham Forest enabled students to assume the role of consultants to the local authority, equipping them with invaluable experience at the cutting edge of the field.

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RTPI Professional Apprenticeship: Nadeem Ahmed, Dalia Alghoul, Amy Allen, Grace Austen, Syeda Begum,Vitus Cheung, Jessica Cliffe, Bethany Crowther, Elise Davis, Andrea Dollard, Gabriella Fairley, Thomas Harding, Katherine Harvey, Anna Jagielko, Amreen Kausar, Matthew McNulty, Zakariyya Osmani, Emily Ozwell, Philip Rewcroft, Syeed Uddin

The RTPI Apprenticeship pathway attracts strong interest from employers, enhancing the Urban Planning courses overall. The programme's strength was recognised in November 2024 when it received a ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted.

The dissertation thesis is a major part of the course for which students select a topic of their choice to explore. The range of subjects reflects both the breadth of the planning discipline and the diversity of interests, perspectives and questions the students bring to the subject. Topics this year included: the implications of AI for the future of planning; the promise and pitfalls of biodiversity net gain legislation; the contested role of social value in planning practice; and the quality concerns surrounding the growing built-to-rent sector. Taken together, these projects reflect intellectual curiosity, critical engagement and, perhaps most importantly, a commitment to making our world more just, sustainable and liveable. We are proud of what the students have achieved and look forward to the contributions they will make as they continue their professional journeys.

(clockwise from top left) Amsterdam Field Trip, New London Architecture Visit, Amsterdam Field Trip, Waltham Forest Consultancy Project

MA Urban and Regional Planning | Masters

MA Urban and Regional Planning Theses 2025

Dalia Alghoul

Costa Boateng Brew

Andrea Dollard

Land Use Changes and Development Patterns: The influence of proximity to new railway infrastructure in urban versus suburban London

Planning for Affordable Housing in HighGrowth Areas: A case study of Luton

Amy Allen

Greener Cities, Clearer Minds: Investigating the link between urban green spaces and mental well-being within the city of London

Grace Austen

Artificial Intelligence and Planning: Addressing ethical considerations and local authority preparedness

Rethinking Neighbourhood Living: A strategic policy framework for 20-minute neighbourhoods

Jessica Cliffe

Planning Officers and Councillors: Effective decision making

The Commercialisation of Placemaking: Unpacking use and exchange value in UK builtto-rent schemes

Integrating Tiny Homes into Town Planning: An exploration of the potentials and limitations of mandatory policies to the UK housing crisis

Syeda Begum

Urban Pulse: Exploring the movement of people to create sustainable town centres

Bethany Crowther

Biodiversity Net Gain in Practice: Ecologist perspectives on housing-led development in Hampshire

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Dylan Brooks

Vitus Cheung

Biodiversity Net Gain: An empircal view of implementation

Gabriella Fairley

Walkable Cities: The potential of public spaces in Chelmsford to improve social interaction and personal well-being

Thomas Harding

Katherine Harvey

Historic Buildings and Filmsets: Investigating practical changes or supplementary planning guidance for film production listed building consent in England

Lucas Ives

Reducing Youth Out-Migration through Ramsgate’s Plan for Neighbourhoods

Elise Davis

Beyond Decoration: A comparative investigation into the placemaking benefits of public art in Chelmsford and Harlow

Anna Jagielko

Safe Routes to School: Analysing the impact of School Streets on children’s active travel habits

MA Urban and Regional Planning | Masters

Mahdi Jalal

Tackling Rough Sleeping in Westminster: A PIP research proposal

Amreen Kausar

Intersectionality in Space: Investigating the experience of Muslim women in community gardens

Ka Long Cheng

From Streets to Statistics: Rethinking planning advocacy in post-democratic Hong Kong

Emily Mackenzie

Anxiety on the Underground: Strategies to improve the tube experience for passengers with mental health conditions

Matthew McNulty

Permanence from Impermanence: Investigating the role of meanwhile use as a catalyst to delivering social value across London

Amblessed Ogoke

Reimagining Green Spaces: Improving the perception of safety for young women in Barking

Zakariyya Osmani

Effective Planning Conditions and Obligations: What are the key factors to mitigate development impacts and contribute to local priorities?

Emily Ozwell

The Role of Urban Parks in Healthy Ageing: A case study of Beacon Park, Lichfield

Matilda Redzimski

Green Spaces and Urban Wellbeing: Insights from Crystal Palace park for thriving urban futures

Philip Rewcroft

Housing Targets: But is this an effective way to increase the delivery of affordable homes?

Gauranshi Sharma

Evaluating the impact of England’s planning policies on housing affordability and supply

Tom Strachan

Bridging the Gap: Evaluating the influence of planning policy and legislation on electric vehicle charging infrastructure accessibility in England

Andrew Such

Creative Enterprise Zones: The role of CEZs in the provision and retention of affordable workspaces in Hackney Wick and Fish Island

Mia Tyson-Richie

Moth Club: The effect of development on music venues

Syeed Uddin

Awareness and Usage of Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (NCIL)

ARCHITECTURE + CITIES INTEGRATES practice with academia through modules embedded across all courses and degree levels, allowing students to explore the Theory of Practice and Practice of Theory. Our role is to help students develop ways of working together and build an understanding of their role in the complex landscape of practice, whatever their subject focus. This approach includes practicing architects and planners teaching curriculum, annual award-winning practitioner talks and site visits, always using London as a ‘Live Classroom’.

Architecture is presented as an expanding field in which the experience of those who use buildings, and the environments architecture touches, are as vital to design as the form it may take. Consideration of all aspects of a design intervention means architects must balance the natural world and non-human equally with built world and human need, sometimes choosing not to propose buildings as solutions at all.

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The curriculum offers these dynamic insights into built environment practice through learning of stakeholder responsibilities, legal frameworks, contracts, procurement, fire-safety and material life-cycles via discussion, application, reflection and role-play. Industry placements and cross-disciplinary workshops build a student’s confidence and give them real-world experience.

The nature of working and practicing within fields of urban design, planning and strategy means that students are expected to contribute to society in a variety of ways when they move into the workplace. Professional studies is an opportunity to develop working practices with colleagues, in addition to cultivating an appreciation of personal, economic and intellectual well-being.

PRACTICE & STUDY

FIELD TRIPS STEPPING BEYOND THE walls of the university is a vital part of the postgraduate courses at the University of Westminster. Whether looking at the city of London through different lenses, or travelling further afield to sites and cultures related to their course, field trips form an important part of study.

Explorations illustrated here include the trip made by students from MA International Planning and Sustainable Development to Rabat, Morocco, where the neighbourhood of El Akkari was the site of an intensive joint workshop between them students from the International University of Rabat.

Closer to home, walking tours of London exposed hidden legacies and narratives, buried in the materiality, form and historical resonances of the slave trade, be it the commerce that drove business, the funding it provided to build certain edifices, or the geographic significance of London's docklands as the port of global trade, coordinating and handling the goods produced internationally.

(double page: clockwise from top) MAIPSD students in El Akkari, Morocco; MAURP, MAA and MAIA students reading the history of London through new lenses.

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EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT STUDENTS AND STAFF across postgraduate courses participated in a number of public-facing projects enriching their understanding of the cities and communities we are all part of.

Centred on the theme of ‘Voices in Architecture’, the space was re-imagined as a site for storytelling and connection through the display of student work and the creation of a Human Library.

The 2025 London Festival of Architecture provided an opportunity for MA Interior Architecture student, Charlotte Hagenmeyer, to present her Heritage Contexts project, ‘The Heritage Found Within Everyday Streets’ to members of the public on a tour of Ranston Street, Marylebone.

MA Urban and Regional Planning course's unique mock planning inquiry workshop provided an opportunity for students to play the role of developer and council whilst being cross-examined by two planning barristers and a planning inspector.

LFA also saw the creation of the Platform for Unwritten Books (P.U.B.) which transformed the University of Westminster's former Tower Tavern into a living laboratory of heritage activation.

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Students from MA Architecture contributed to the creation of Objects of Repair, an installation by design-led research group the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), which formed part of their Venice Biennale installation in June this year.

Practice & Study | RIBA Part 3

RIBA Part 3 Susanne Bauer, Alastair Blyth, Wilfred Achille, Alice Odeke & Amanda Pawliszyn

THE POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA in Professional Practice in Architecture (RIBA Part 3) is the final part of an architectural student’s professional training. The content of the course and each module builds on the professional experience and knowledge that students will have gained throughout their studies and working life. The students on the course at Westminster University's School of Architecture + Cities come from a wide variety of backgrounds including overseas schools of architecture. Architects who trained outside the UK also attend the course to gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities of UK practice.

Following the requirements of the ARB/RIBA Professional Criteria, Part 3 is structured as a series of building blocks with clear assessment points throughout the year. The lectures are delivered online by industry experts to allow students to balance their study with work commitments. Throughout the course students are encouraged to place the issues covered on the course in the context of their practice and wider experience.

Students’ professional development in the workplace is supported by a team of professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide tutorial guidance on projectbased coursework and act as the students’ Professional Studies Advisors (PSA). Students may defer submission of their coursework for six or twelve months to enable them to respond to their workplace context. Recent graduates have joined the course as Professional Champions to act as mentors for current students, with the aim of developing a network to support young practitioners. Professional examiners consistently comment on the high, critical standard of the coursework which we attribute to the structured tutoring system where students are challenged to think about practice differently.

The students' personal backgrounds, the types and number of practices represented on the course, along with the tutors and examiners gives the course a healthy diversity and an unprecedented reach into the architectural profession. This enables the course both to draw from the breadth of practice experience as well as contribute to it.

Susanne Bauer

Wilfred Achille completed a major study on Broadwater Farm, Tottenham after the eighties riots. Founder of Mode 1 Architects specialising in estate remodelling projects and urban regeneration, he is developing new Turn-key solution business models for architectural practice.

Susanne Bauer is Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Professional Practice in Architecture and the Architectural History and Theory courses. She has practiced in offices in the UK and Germany, including Foster + Partners and AHMM, and previously taught at Norwich University of the Arts and Birmingham City University.

Alastair Blyth is Assistant Head of School. He spent ten years in the Directorate for Education and Skills at the OECD developing a research programme on learning environments. Publications include books on Briefing (Routledge, 2001, 2010); and education environments (OECD 2009, 2012). He collaborates with architectural practices in Sydney and Mexico on school building projects, and is part of an international project investigating Innovative Learning Environments and Student Engagement run by the University of Melbourne.

Alice Odeke is a Lecturer in Professional Studies in Architecture and Co-Leader for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the School of Architecture. As an architect with over 35 years of experience, she is also a RIBA Part 3 Examiner, Tutor and Mentor committed to advancing equity, promoting personal growth and professional development within architectural education and practice.

Amanda Pawliszyn is the Course Administrator for the Part 3 course.

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RIBA Part 3 | Practice & Studies

Lecture-based Modules

Part 3 Ethics in Practice Lecture

The two lecture-based modules are delivered during the first and second semester respectively These programmes are delivered by a variety of industry experts, including construction lawyers, construction managers, architects and

surveyors, and are repeated to allow students to balance academic attendance with work commitments. Lectures are recorded for easy future access. Each series concludes with an open book written exam.

English Law, Regulations, Construction Procurement and Contracts

Architectural Practice Management

This module is delivered in the first semester from September to December with a written examination held in January. The module starts with an overview of the English legal system, the regulatory framework that architectural practitioners work with, the procurement of construction projects, the range of contracts used in practice and dispute resolution.

This module is delivered in the second semester from January to April with a written examination held in May. The lectures cover general management, marketing, practice management, different forms of architectural practice and the role of the professional and regulatory bodies.

Throughout the course students are encouraged to place the issues covered in the lecture-based modules in the context of their practice and wider experience.

Practice & Study | RIBA Part 3

RIBA Part 3 Work-based Modules These are taught through workshops and in small groups (in a mix of group and individual tutorials) guided by a Professional Tutor, who also acts as the students’ Professional Studies Advisors (PSA). Students may defer submission of the coursework for the work-based modules for either six or twelve months to enable them to

respond to their workplace context. The final coursework is submitted in June or December with a final viva in September or February respectively. Students may defer submission of their coursework for either six or twelve months to enable them to respond to their workplace context.

The Professional Case Study The aim of the module is to bring together student’s knowledge of practice including management, legal frameworks, procurement and critical analysis in the context of a construction project, drawing substantially on their own experience. It aims to build on the theory studied in the lecture-based modules, and provide an opportunity to make professional judgements. The case study covers the practice, the design team, appointment, regulatory framework, procurement, and the construction stage. Students are asked

to analyse their project against best practice, and make recommendations for future practice based on their analysis.

Students submit a draft case study in March and receive formative assessment and feedback in April. The final coursework is submitted either in June or December and assessed in July. Guidance is given on preparing for the oral examination which takes place either in September or February, depending on the coursework submission..

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RIBA Part 3 Work-based Modules contd

Professional Development and Experience Group Workshop

Professional Development and Experience

Oral Examinations

This work-based module tracks and supports the student’s professional development in the workplace. A student’s professional development is discussed with their Professional Tutor who provides guidance on the professional Curriculum Vitae and the Career Evaluation as well as guidance on preparing for the oral examination. Coursework, comprising the CV, Career Evaluation and PEDR sheets, is submitted either in June or December, together with the Professional Case Study submission. Students are required to complete PEDRs for the duration of the course and the PEDR sheets are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Oral examinations for both modules take place in either September or February, based on the Professional Case Study and the Professional Development coursework submitted, with interviews generally lasting 45 minutes. Professional Examiners are paired and will see six students over a day. Their role is to assess the candidate’s performance from the oral exam alone. The written coursework will have been marked and the examiners will see the feedback given to students.

THE SCHOOL OF Architecture + Cities was created in 2018, as part of a University-wide restructuring exercise. It is part of the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries (DCDI) which facilitates collaboration between the School of A+C, Westminster School of Arts, the School of Media and Communication and the School of Computer Science and Engineering. A+C hosts a wide range of disciplines engaged in the design of urban environments including architecture, interior architecture, transport studies, urban design and planning. This diversity provides an opportunity for the cross-fertilisation of ideas between built environment disciplines in ways not possible at many institutions in the UK. The School has a strong international reputation for research, knowledge exchange and public engagement. Research and knowledge exchange is coordinated by a Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee chaired by Professor Lindsay Bremner, with Luz Navarro as the Knowledge Exchange lead. Since 2019, the school has also participated in the universitywide Sustainable Cities and Urban Environments research community, now led by Tom Cohen.

The School of Architecture and Cities hosts several research centres and groups. These entities are organised around the school’s recognised strengths, values and areas of impact. Our research and knowledge exchange centres are the Active Travel Academy (ATA), the Centre for Air Traffic Management Research (ATM), and the Centre for the Production of the Built Environment, (ProBE), the latter shared with Westminster Business School. These

centres are externally funded and generate a good share of the University’s research and knowledge exchange income. Our research and knowledge exchange groups are Architectural Humanities, Emerging Territories, Design Practices, Transport & Mobilities, and Place & Experience which next year will be replaced by a new research group focusing on Heritage and Place. Research active staff and doctoral researchers elect to join at least one of these groups, whose role is to develop their capacities and activities, to provide research mentoring and to encourage collaborative research within the group and across groups.

One of the most important cycles in the academic research calendar in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) evaluations that take place every six to seven years. The next REF will take place at the end of 2028, with Dr Davide Deriu co-ordinating the school’s submission. In 2021, the school submitted 77 members of staff, 159 research outputs and 5 impact case studies to the REF. It was rated 7th in the country for research power, a measure of both the number of people submitted and the overall quality of research. Our impact case studies were also assessed very highly. This reflects the excellent quality and quantity of impactful research being undertaken in the school.

The RKE Committee runs a bi-weekly seminar series throughout the year and hosts inaugural professorial lectures. For more information about ongoing events and outputs by our research and knowledge exchange community go to: http://www.openresearchwestminster.org/

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RESEARCH

Research | Forum

RESEARCH FORUM LECTURES

Selection of Posters for the regular Architecture + Cities Research Forum lecture series

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Research | Forum

INAUGURAL LECTURES

During this past year, we have hosted a number of Inaugural Professorial Lectures by staff holding the position of Professor, as is academic tradition. These lectures used to be organised by the Vice Chancellor’s office, but were delegated to schools last year. Three of the lectures in the last year were given by our Professors of Practice, two by professorial members of our full-time staff.

Sadie Morgan

Professor of Practice

Design as a Force for Good

Jim Coleman ARCHITECTURE + CITIES PROFESSORIAL INAUGURAL LECTURE Peter Sharratt, Ma, DipArc, MSt IDBE (Cantab), RIBA, MIET, FRSA, Professor of Practice, University of Westminster

Professor of Practice

Delivering Net Zero Places: Realities, Constraints and Opportunities

Re-inventing growth through Strategic Design: the new agenda shaping the future.

‘’ I believe that we can solve the complex growth challenges facing us as we head for a world of 9 billion people on a rapidly warming and urbanising planet - but to do so we need to shift our focus beyond improving the efficiency of what is, to redesigning what c ould be – Strategic design can help us make better choices and delivery solutions that make a difference.’’

Peter will make the case for a new design imperative, Strategic Design, in addressing the global growth challenges we face by applying design and systems thinking to solving complex and often contradictory problems. Drawing from his international professional experience leading a niche Strategic Design and Planning consultancy, he will explain what strategic design means, how it’s being deployed in practice and importantly, how architects’ unique skills can play a leading role in shaping the realworld solutions that make a difference. Examples include net zero transition strategies for organisations and cities in the Gulf region, to policy innovation and post war recovery planning for Kyiv, to new approaches for infrastructure in emerging economies across Africa and SE Asia.

Professional Practice Profile: With a background in award winning passive and low energy building design, Peter has held appointments at senior levels in international blue-chip design, engineering and management consultancies before setting up Fhoras Consulting, a niche strategic design consultancy advising cities, business and governments on sustainable development, economic infrastructure, climate resilience, Net Zero transition and inclusive, green growth strategies.

Peter Sharratt

Professor of Practice

Re-inventing growth through strategic design: The new agenda shaping the future

Professor Rachel Aldred Active Travel:

Challenging the status quo

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When: 10th February 2025, (18.00 – 20.00) Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS How to Book: On Evenbrite for in person or on-line attendance

Professor Harry Charrington Helsinki to Kumasi: Stories from the centre

Groups & Centres | Research

RESEARCH GROUPS Architectural Humanities

Design Practices

Transport and Mobilities

Members of the Architectural Humanities Research Group address critical questions about architecture and its historical, social and cultural contexts by engaging with a range of humanities-based methods, including interdisciplinary approaches that bring together arts and sciences.

The Design Practices Research Group unites designers who teach and research through practice with academic researchers using formal design methods.The group aims to advance understanding, promote innovative approaches, and encourage ongoing debate about the role of design within complex system interactions.

The Transport and Mobilities Research Group covers a diverse range of aspects of urban movement, including: City Mobilities, Active Travel, Freight, Infrastructure Investment, Networks, Accessibility, and Transport Equity.

Convened by Davide Deriu and Kate Jordan

Convened by Gerald Gurtner and Enrica Papa

Convened by Will McLean and Victoria Watson

Emerging Territories

Place and Experience

The Emerging Territories Research Group focuses on societal and environmental challenges faced by cities and territories in relation to evolving notions of sustainability and resilience, climate change, healthy cities, governance, diversity and social inclusion.

The Place and Experience Research Group focuses on tourism, events and leisure research with specialisms in: City Tourism, Mega Events, Urban Parks, Destination Experiences, and Sustainability.

Convened by Pappalepore

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Ilaria

Convened by Krystallia Kamvasinou and Giulio Verdini

RESEARCH CENTRES Active Travel Academy [ATA]

Centre for Air Traffic Management Research

Centre for the Study of Production of the Built Environment

The ATA is an interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange centre that currently leads projects funded by organisations including NIHR, DfT and TfL. It hosts the Active Travel Studies journal and organises events including the regular Walking and Cycling@Teatime seminars.

The Centre for ATM Research builds on around 40 years of air, rail and urban transport research, consultancy and teaching at the University of Westminster. We have coordinated and led work across over 40 major European ATM research projects, primarily funded by organisations including SESAR, Clean Aviation, EUROCONTROL and Horizon Europe.

ProBE offers a research hub providing a forum for debate and discussion, and a focus for interdisciplinary and international activity related to the Production of the Built Environment as a social, environmental and historical process.

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Co-directors: Rosa Schiano-Phan & Alastair Blyth

Emerging Territories | Research

Areas for a Resilient Urban Future: Participatory mapping workshops, Galopolis University of Westminster

Luz Navarro Giulio Verdini

Funded by ESRC

IN MAY 2024, the city of Caxias do Sul in southern Brazil was devastated by catastrophic floods and landslides that caused over a hundred fatalities, numerous injuries and the evacuation of thousands in the region. The disaster had profound consequences for public health, infrastructure and economic development. This research explores how local authorities can build more resilient cities by adopting place-based civic engagement strategies tailored to local contexts, taking specific vulnerabilities and strengths into account. The project draws on the concept of evolutionary resilience, which is not only the capacity to return to a predisaster state, but to adapt, evolve and transform in the face of future risks.

Universidade de Caxias do Sul Dr Rafael de Lucena Perini Prof. Dr. Ana Cristina Fachinelli Focusing on two critical post-disaster challenges, disaster governance and understanding social spatial vulnerabilities, the project involves a multi-method, participatory approach. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), it brings together policymakers, civil society organisations, businesses, researchers from Brazil and the UK, and the local community of Galópolis. A series of four participatory workshops held in March 2025 facilitated the co-development of tools and strategies to enhance community involvement in the planning of a more climate resilient urban future.

Preliminary findings suggest that integrating local knowledge through participatory co-design approaches leads to more effective and context-sensitive resilience planning than traditional top-down models. The project reframes resilience governance as a social and inclusive process rather than a purely technical one, emphasising justice, community agency and the co-production of policy. It highlights how grassroots participation can strengthen long-term urban resilience and climate justice in vulnerable urban contexts, particularly in small and medium-sized cities across the global south.

Ultimately, this research offers scalable pathways for embedding civic engagement into climate governance, contributing both theoretical and practical insights for urban planners, policymakers and researchers committed to transformative action in the face of accelerating climate disasters.

Areas for a resilient urban future: Co-produced map result of the participatory mapping workshops with residents of Galopolis

Research | Emerging Territories

Sustainable Built Environment Futures for Bangladesh Ripin Kalra In collaboration with The Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, Bangladesh with funding from The British Council, Bangladesh.

WITH SUPPORT FROM the British Council, the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscape and Settlements brought together global practitioners and academics to explore future trajectories for sustainable built environments in Bangladesh. As Bangladesh rapidly moves towards a middle income status, it must contend with high rates of urbanisation, population growth, poverty, environmental degradation and threats from climate change. There are significant challenges in determining appropriate practices to create and maintain sustainable built environments in Bangladesh. This is because, even with a small surface area, the country has extensive diversity of landscapes, weather, bio-diversity and culture.

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Through a series of interactive discourses informed by research and case-studies, the research team identified a number of practices, at macro and micro levels and across construction and social environments, that can help shape future sustainable built environments in Bangladesh: sustainable building forms; building for social welfare; improving education access; advancing food production; applying modularity; planning for climate resilience; reviving indigenous practices; applying adaptive reuse; practising material innovations; creating innovation in water and energy. The research also identified examplar case studies of such practices that could inform and be integrated with design and planning education locally.

Built-environment futures from hills to delta in Bangladesh – Macro and micro level identified practices that will shape future sustainable built-environment in Bangladesh

Emerging Territories | Research

Gender Ecologies

Corinna Dean Funded through the British Council Pakistan

LIMINAL LISTENING: Whispers of Amphibious Worlds is an ecocultural learning platform that bridges art, design and ecological engagement in which designers, architects, artists and communities work together across multiple sites globally. The first workshop took place at the Manipal Srishti Institute, Department of Adaptive Ecologies & Climate Extremes, Bangalore, in January 2025.

One outcome of the project is to produce a critical glossary that collects key terms and concepts explored during the Liminal Listening workshop. It also explores afterthoughts and speculative frameworks grounded in interdisciplinary research on liminal ecologies, immersive design and sustainability.

As part of the project, my recent field work, Gender Ecologies, established a collaboration between groups of river activists in Pakistan and the UK, specfically focused on the River Lea in London. The project sought to uncover more-than-human justice between colonial and industrial landscapes. Our reciprocal projects in the Indus (Karachi), Ravi (Lahore) and River Lea (London), explored actions for new socio-environmental relationships through narrative and the moving image.

Water Monitoring Testing adjacent to a Combined Sewerage Outlet on the River Lea

Gender Ecologies seeks to frame an approach to landscape literacy, referencing Anna Tsing’s ‘Patchy anthropocene’. The multiple outcomes of the project, including films and co-produced projects with nature and communities around the River Lea, consider how we can better read landscapes. The co-production projects include floating reed beds supporting phytoremediation, and an outdoor learning classroom for transitory environments to enable future socio-environmental commoning.

Research | Emerging Territories

Cyprus Summer School and Workshop Andrew Boughton

A COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP and summer school was organised jointly by Westminster’s School of Architecture + Cities and BAU Cyprus University in northern Cyprus. With the dual objectives of enabling knowledge exchange around developmental problems and creating an exploratory collaboration, the workshop was attended by architecture and engineering students from four different universities across twelve nations, all beyond Europe. Participants were drawn from professional chambers of architects and engineers, with several local and international academics, including four lecturers from A+C. Over several days of site-based study around the subject of sustainability interventions at differing scales, the event culminating in a presentation of group work.

Northern Cyprus presents a microcosm reflecting globally-encountered challenges, particularly in terms of developmental practice, framed by its newly-colonised

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status and post-conflict dislocation. Although characterised as inward investment in the tourism sector, the north of the Island of Cyprus has seen disproportionate and rapid growth of residential developments. Largely for foreign use with an associated in-migration, this has resulted in unsustainable patterns of development with little consideration for infrastructure or environmental consequences.

The purpose of the Summer School was twofold: to explore what sustainable forms of development might look like; and, in practical sessions in the northern coastal zone, to conceptualise opportunities for interventions while considering the large scale coastal perspective. A third and important element of the workshop was to consider, at a very local level, the contributions that the unique but disappearing rural heritage of the island might make to more sustainable patterns of tourism.

(left) New Workshop poster; (right) Academics from School of Architecture + Cities

Emerging Territories | Research

Green and Resilient Urban Development in the Tashkent Urban Region University of Westminster Giulio Verdini Ripin Kalra Funded by WIUT-UoW Research Collaboration Fund (RCF2024-001)

THE TASHKENT URBAN REGION has undergone in recent years a process of economic integration along the Shymkent-Tashkent-Khujand transnational economic corridor, linking Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Due to its centrality, the Tashkent region has experienced major investments in infrastructure, the development of new industrial zones and rapid urban growth. While this process has brought overall economic benefits to the region it has come at a cost, raising critical concerns about environmental sustainability, water security, energy resilience and the preservation of the region’s unique cultural heritage.

This ongoing research project aims to assess the existing gaps in knowledge, institutional capacity and professional skills in the field of green growth, multi-hazard resilience and culturally-sensitive planning. In the recently completed first phase of the project, three thematic reports were developed focusing on key regional challenges: water scarcity, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, and the governance of urban growth.

These reports will form the foundation for a series of multi-stakeholder scenario-planning workshops to be held in autumn 2025 at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), Uzbekistan. The workshops aim to bring together stakeholders from local authorities, academia and the private sector to map system-level inertia, identify signs of positive transformation, and collectively explore the educational and capacity-building needs related to each challenge.

New Tashkent [base map: Google Earth]

Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) Zamira Ataniyazova Munira Zakirova The long-term goal is to establish a community of practice and a research agenda for promoting green and resilient urban development in Tashkent. It is hoped the project could lay the groundwork for future transnational educational initiatives and research collaborations between partner institutions to support sustainable urban transitions across Central Asia. WIUT is an independent international University located in Uzbekistan, offering transnational education and programmes accredited by the University of Westminster.

Research | Transport & Mobilities

COMMON_ACCESS: COMMONing ACCESSibility in urban outskirts and beyond Enrica Papa (Project Coordinator) Martha Sainsbury

Funded by Driving Urban Transitions Partnership

common_access COMMON_ACCESS is a €1.5 million project funded by Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) and led by the University of Westminster.

Existing approaches often overlook the social and community-based aspects essential to designing and delivering effective mobility and accessibility solutions in urban peripheries. COMMON_ACCESS introduces a renewed emphasis on the social dimensions of accessibility for both people and freight in peri-urban contexts, areas where applying the principles of the 15-minute city remain particularly challenging.

COMMON_ACCESS looks to addresses this gap by exploring community-led practices such as shared electric bikes, cargo bikes, cars and vans, as well as communitymanaged digital platforms and shared social, cultural and care services. These initiatives aim to foster more inclusive,

connected, and resilient neighbourhoods beyond dense urban cores.

Using a mixed-method, transdisciplinary approach that builds on the 15-minute city concept, the project adapts its principles for the unique spatial and social realities of urban outskirts. Through spatial analysis, participatory design and policy evaluation, COMMON_ACCESS investigates how shared mobility and service models can enhance proximity and accessibility in peripheral areas.

Delivered by a European partnership of 18 universities, municipalities, SMEs and NGOs who are working collaboratively, the project intends to co-create inclusive, place-based solutions. By foregrounding community agency and social infrastructure, COMMON_ACCESS seeks to extend the benefits of the 15-minute city to those often left at its margins.

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Design Practices | Research

Air Grid Propositions

Victoria Watson

AT THE TURN of the millennium I initiated a research project that was based on my invention of a new kind of plastic form. It entailed the reactivation of an old formal logic from within modern architectural design, namely the grid, hence the project’s title and the name of the form: Air Grid.

Air Grid is produced in a range of sizes relative to the human body, never larger than a human torso, nor smaller than a human hand. Most Air Grid structures are conceived at a scale of 1-to-1, but sometimes it is realised in scale models of speculative building designs to evoke material assemblies, such as trabeated systems, space frames and screens.

Common to all Air Grid structures is the manifestation of a fine-grained, three-dimensional lattice, ranging in module size from 4 to 9 mm. Made from coloured thread, it is woven and suspended in a support armature.

Air Grid is beguiling to look at because the observer sees regular patterns that form and dissolve as their eyes track back and forth across the extent of the lattice. This has the effect of making Air Grid seem animated, where in fact it is an optical illusion produced by the observer’s visual system perceiving the movement. Another beguiling feature is the way the simple grid form, so obvious in its design, will dissolve when the observer looks into the physical grid, which appears as a soft, blurry mass. The blurriness is something the observer actually feels, rather in the way that mist not only looks but also feels misty.

Air Grid structure based on Agnes Martin’s painting Song , 1962.

[Embroidery thread, acrylic & card, 31 x 31x 53 cm, Compton Street Studios, 2024]

Research | Centre ATM Research

Centre for Air Traffic Management Research Andrew Cook

THE CENTRE FOR ATM RESEARCH builds on over 40 years of air, rail and urban transport research, consultancy and teaching at the University of Westminster. Specialising in ATM since 1999, we have coordinated and led work across around 40 major European ATM research projects. These have been primarily funded through SESAR, EUROCONTROL, Clean Aviation and the European Commission (e.g. Horizon programmes), and carried out in collaboration with airlines, airports, ANSPs, software/service providers, and other research institutes. The Centre focuses on data-driven, applied research for industry and stakeholders, especially: performance assessment, with current SESAR transversal project examples PEARL and AMPLE3; economic analysis, including behavioural economics, conjoint (SP) analyses, cost of delay reference standard production for Europe; environmental assessment such as the current SESAR Green-GEAR project; passenger centricity and multimodality, like SESAR's MultiModX project; simulation and modelling, including agent-based modelling, machine learning, GenAI, meta-modelling; and, flight dynamics and flight prioritisation.

Building on a provenance of SEAR award-winning work promoting passenger-centric research, the team released its unique, open-source Mercury simulator in 2023. This modular, agent-based aviation platform allows easy addition/modification of roles, events and agents at a door-to-door/multimodal level, embracing high-speed rail, internal/external airport processes, and flexible modelling capabilities for policy and performance assessment. This work also reflects the Centre’s strengths in data management, with Westminster having led such work packages across a range of research projects, also prevalent throughout our pedagogy.

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The University of Westminster led the first SESAR Knowledge Transfer Network (Engage, 2018-22; over 230 research outputs) and is partner and work package lead for the successor network, Engage 2 (2023-2027, led by Deep Blue). Drawing on extensive partnerships with approximately 60 industry partners, we have promoted the integration of exploratory and industrial research, leading the development of an ATM future concepts roadmap and driving the maturation of new concepts, such as currently leading catalyst fund activities, which is expediting the SESAR innovation pipeline. Enabled by these European networks, we have synthesised internal and external teaching and training through international schools and workshops, PhD mentoring and our Transport Research Lab.

Research | ProBE

Breaking Barriers and Building Better: Women's Contributions to Construction Quality and Sustainability

Rosa Schiano-Phan (School of Architecture and Cities) Linda Clarke Anca Zahan (Westminster Business School) THIS PILOT STUDY focused on the experiences and perceptions of tradeswomen and women in construction vocational educational training. The objective was to evidence the contribution that women make to quality and sustainability in construction.The study was conducted using focus groups and one to one semi structured interviews in collaboration with Enfield Construction Skills Academy and Islington Council.

Women In Construction focus group on 19 June 2025

The preliminary results from the study show that women trainees and in trade are aware of the importance of sustainability issues and of their positive impact on removing gender stereotypes as well as improving construction quality. Although they lament that there are too few female role models in the field, they also acknowledge that, in educational settings, they are often referred to as role models to male counterparts for the quality of their work and neatness.

Research | Active Travel Academy

Active Travel Academy Rachel Aldred

NOW IN ITS fifth year,The Active Travel Academy believes all disciplines and expertise are needed to address the acute global problems that car-dominated transport systems have created. The Academy brings together a broad spectrum of expertise to lead research, teaching and knowledge exchange on walking, wheeling, cycling and other active modes of movement and transportation, and takes a critical approach to pressing policy problems by drawing on a wide range of tools and methods, from Big Data to (auto)ethnography to do so.

The ATA has several projects, all at different stages. The £1.5m Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) in London project (funded by NIHR) is finishing, with the new NIHR Travel Well project (£2.5m) beginning. The LTNs in London project generated a pipeline of innovative papers, including a novel mixed methods analysis of congestion, and critical reflections on power within go-along interviews. We presented project results at many events in 2024-5 including at a special session of the Transport Practitioners Meeting and the RGS-IBG academic conference.

Our work on active travel equity continues to be highly regarded, with papers this year published on disability and active travel (Harrie Larrington-Spencer) and queer women’s mobilities (Rachel Aldred, Ersilia Verlinghieri). Tom Cohen and Ersilia Verlinghieri authored the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling and Walking’s Active Travel and Social Justice Report. Spatial equity analysis has continued with David Fevyer leading the ATA’s Cyclability analysis, exploring disparities in how the built environment supports cycling.

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Ersilia Verlinghieri won City Bridge Foundation funding for the Get Shady: Swapping cars for trees on London's hottest streets project. Led by climate action charity Possible in collaboration with other London based organisations and local authorities, the project explores strategies to improving walkability and urban greening with London.

Tom Cohen and Ersilia Verlinghieri were awarded £20,000 by the Foundation for Integrated Transport for the Hierarchy of Road Users: What next? This deliberative project will bring citizen and expert voices together in defining how the principle can be converted into reality.

The Active Travel Academy received positive media coverage in The Guardian for research into the impact of LTNs on road traffic injuries. The article, entitled ‘London’s low-traffic zones “cut deaths and injuries by more than a third”’ referenced our article, led by Jamie Furlong, in the high impact academic journal Injury Prevention.

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Celebrating the ATA's 5th birthday [Jamie Furlong]

Active Travel Academy | Research

Travel Well: Health, wellbeing and new cycling infrastructure

Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Programme (grant number NIHR167654)

ACTIVE TRAVEL – walking, cycling, and wheeling – offers major health and environmental benefits, yet cycling remains rare in Britain, making up less than 1% of daily distance travelled. While London has led a cycling revival through high-quality infrastructure, it's unclear whether similar results can be achieved in cities with higher car ownership/use, lower population densities and worse public transport.

This five-year research project investigates the impact of new, high-quality cycling infrastructure in Greater Manchester, West Midlands and West Yorkshire. These regions are planning major investments aligned with updated national design standards. The study will assess whether the implementation of this infrastructure shifts travel behaviour, improves health and wellbeing, and reduces car use, carbon emissions and injury risks.

Key research questions include: how does new cycling infrastructure affect active travel, car ownership/driving, road traffic injuries and CO2 emissions? How do these effects vary by area and social group? And what are the impacts on wellbeing and on people from groups that cycle less, and specifically disabled residents?

A recumbent cyclist crosses a parallel crossing whilst cycling on a separated cycle track running alongside a main road

The research will be gathered using a mixed method approach. A large annual panel survey (15,000 participants per wave) will track behavioural and wellbeing changes over time among people living near new and unbuilt routes; and in-depth qualitative research will explore personal experiences of infrastructure, with particular focus on disabled people and ethnic minority communities, in partnership with Wheels for Wellbeing and JoyRiders.

Rachel Aldred Ersilia Verlinghieri Harrie Larrington-Spencer Jamie Furlong David Fevyer Led by the University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy, with partners at the University of Birmingham and LSHTM, the project is co-designed with local authorities and community groups. Regular engagement will ensure findings are shared widely and used to shape better, fairer transport and health policies.

By understanding who benefits from new cycling infrastructure – and how – we aim to support more inclusive, healthier and more sustainable transport systems ACTIVE across England.

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School of Architecture & Cities | Staff

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Catherine Abrams

Anthony Boulanger

Paul Crosby

Alex Fox

Louise Humphreys

Wisam Abu Ghosh

Lindsay Bremner

Thomas Cubitt

Riccardo Fregoni

Jisoo Hwang

Wilfred Achille

Florian Brillet

Beth Cullen

Jamie Furlong

Zack Ibrahimi

Yota Adilenidou

Christopher Bryant

Fatai Dabiri

Ana Gatoo

Edward Ihejirika

Sam Aitkenhead

Tom Budd

Waj Dadabhoy

Eric Gilbert

Clare Inkson

Patrice Ajai-Ajagbe

Toby Burgess

Tomasz Dancel-Fiszer

Anna Gillies

Sho Ito

Dimah Ajeeb

Andrew Carr

Christopher Daniel

Francois Giradin

Josef Jammerbund

Rachel Aldred

Clare Carter

Ana De Oliveira Araujo

Vasilija Glynn

Sugandhi Jayaraman

Julian Allen

Owain Caruana-Davies

Corinna Dean

Inan Gokcek

Kate Jordan

Paulo Anciaes

Paolo Cascone

Dusan Decermic

Nasser Golzari

Maja Jovic

Alessandro Ayuso

Ian Casey

Luis Delgado Munoz

Alisdair Gray

Angela Kalisch

James Baldwin

Harry Charrington

Nigel Dennis

Sean Griffiths

Ripin Kalra

Eric Guibert

Rim Kalsoum

Simon Banfield

Akma Chekkinankandy Puthiyapurayil

Davide Deriu Zoe Diakaki

Naina Gupta

Krystalia Kamvasinou

Pete Barber

Kate Cheyne

Richard Difford

Kanav Gupta

Paol Kemp

Scott Batty

Russell Bamber

Hayley Chivers

Ursula Dimitriou

Gérald Gurtner

Neil Kiernan

Susanne Bauer

George Christofi

Christopher Dite

Alison Gwynne

Jennifer Kingston

Ross Bennett-Cook

Sabina Cioboata

Isabel Dozic Frost

Johannes Hagan

Michael Kloihofer

Carine Berger Woiezechoski

Conor Clark

Kirti Durelle

Clare Hamman

Mary Konstantopoulou

Jeremy Hammant

Maria Kramer

Jessica Best

Tom Cohen

John Edwards

Jim Coleman

Liz Ellston

Lindsey Hanford

Frances Kremarik

Brian Constant

James Engel

Samantha Hardingham

Diony Kypraiou

Hannah Constantine

Didem Ertem

Stephen Harty

Gill Lambert

Andrew Cook

Helen Farrell

Niall Healy

Victoria Landeryou

John Cook

David Fevyer

Andrew Hewanicki

Matthew Cousins

Stefanie Fischer

Thomas Hopkins

Harrie LarringtonSpencer

Brian Crawford

Annette Fisher EvansAnfom

Sam Sam Hui

Constance Lau

Alastair Blyth Stefania Boccaletti Tatjana Bolic Mehrdad Borna Roberto Bottazzi Andrew Boughton

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Chung-Tai Lau

Sadie Morgan

Catherine Phillips

Pete Silver

Alessandro Toti

Bernard Lavelle

James Morgan

Susan Phillips

Alex Sinclair

Lulu Le Vay

Rachel Moulton

Aoi Phillips Yamashita

Guy Sinclair

Cristina-Alexandra Trifan

Dirk Lellau

Bongani Muchemwa

Stuart Piercy

Sumita Singha

Juan Vallejo

Jacques Leonardi

Richa Mukhia

Marzena Piotrowska

Andrew Smith

Nasios Varnavas

Christopher Leung

Rutendo Musikavanhu

Ben Pollock

Paul Smith

Giulio Verdini

David Littlefield

Cheryl Mvula

Jessica Porritt

Joana Soares Goncalves

Ersilia Verlinghieri

Gwyn Lloyd

Luz Navarro

David Porter

Urna Sodnomjamts

Filip Visnjic

Ian Lowden

Suzy Nelson

Kartikeya Rajput

John Somers

Tsz Wai So

Rodrigo Lucena De Mello

Natalie Newey

Federico Redin

Majid Soolaki

John Walter

Laura Nica

Anthony Richardson

Ro Spankie

Richard Watson

Jayne Luscombe

Johannes Novy

Tadeas Riha

Afolabi Spence

Victoria Watson

Jonah Luswata

John O'Shea

Toby Robins

Manos Stellakis

Michal Weiszer

Jaqlin Lyon

Alice Odeke

Filomena Russo

Kenneth Stevens

Adam West

Arthur Mamou-Mani

Jamie Ogilvie

Martha Sainsbury

Nancy Stevenson

Andrew Whiting

Balveer Mankia

Chiara Orefice

Shahed Saleem

Matthew Stewart

Camilla Wilkinson

Andrei Martin

Enrica Papa

Rofayda Salem

Bernard Stilwell

Julian Williams

David Matthewson

Ilaria Pappalepore

Izis Salvador Pinto

David Strafford

Jerome Wren

David McEwen

Roman Pardon

Vera Sarioglu

Ben Stringer

Andrew Yau

Warren McFadden

Jake Parkin

Matteo Sarno

Ozge Suvari

Paolo Zaide

William McLean

Paresh Parmar

Rosa Schiano-Phan

Allan Sylvester

Elham Zareian

Alison McLellan

Bhavina Parmar

Rob Scott

Jane Tankard

John Zhang

Michael McMamara

Gabriele Pauryte

David Seex

Graham Tanner

Joanna Meehan

Deborah Pearce

Yara Sharif

Mireille Tchapi

Tabatha Mills

Mirna Pedalo

Peter Sharratt

Kanaka Thakker

Stuart Mills

Polina Pencheva

Conor Sheehan

Louise Thomas

Md Mohataz Hossain

Diana Periton

Faye Shortland

Adam Thwaites

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CrossRiverPartnership

Hilson Moran

Arup

Deltion Ltd

Historic England

Aurora Business Consulting

Environment Agency;

Homefolk

Bauhaus Luftfahrt

Expedition

Inholland University of Applied Sciences

Bicycle Association

First Within

Institute of Historic Building Conservation;

British Airways

Footways

IPPR

British Association for Sustainable Sport

Foster and Partners

Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat

Foundation for Future Supply Chain

King's Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP)

City of London Corporation

Greater London Authority

King’s Foundation

Co Plug

Haptic Architects

Kings Chambers

Co-op

Healthy Streets

LDA

Costain

Heathrow Airport

Lighting Design Studio

London Borough of Hackney

Planning Inspectorate

Town and Country Planning Association;

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Prior + Partners

Transaid

LOUD Mobility

Quantum Acoustics

Transport for London

Lufthansa Group

RAC Foundation

Urban Design Learning

Manchester Airports Group

Royal College of Arts

Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Amsterdam

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government;

Schiphol Group

Urban Movement

Sierra Leone Transport Ministry

Virtus Energy

Momentum Transport

SpacedOut

Wedderburn Transport

Natural England

Sustrans

Westminster City Council

Network Rail

The Collaborative City

Weston Williamson + Partners

No5 Chambers

The Transportation Consultancy;

Z&G Global

Phil Jones Associates

Tower Hamlets Council

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