Emergence | Enabling Inclusive Design
Unit D is a distinctive design unit that focuses on Architecture within a broader context, both in terms of the city and in terms of wider society. We focus on Architecture and Urbanism as a way of exploring socio-economic and/or ecological spatial initiatives to support the development of resilient communities, and participation to challenge the structural conditions that perpetuate exclusion from urban planning, design, and governance and as a process to deepen democracy.
The briefs for the year were focused on complexity theory and the notion of emergence. Through grounded research into Digbeth, a central area in Birmingham, to understand the existing systems and the current trajectory of the area becoming gentrified, programmes for the projects will encourage community development and mixed-use social enterprise, focussing on inclusiveness and diversity. In addition, the designer’s role will be to establish activism as a key strategy for resistance.
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Melissa Kinnear
Peter Newton
Rob Goacher (tech)
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Zuzanna Krzyzanowska
Elizabeth Ryall
Ubada Muti
Priya Addanki
Adrian Mpanga - Sempa
Barnaby Turner
Stefania Gaudyn
Alice Latham
Emily Holland
Omar Ibrahim
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Adeyemi Aoife Motunrayo
Amalie Ball
Ana Bradbury
Willem Butler
Camelia Lupasco
Annabel Cartwright
Faye Ellery
Hannah Lee
Matthew Hamm
Elle Packham
Tenecia Pearce
Chloe Richardson
Jamie Siceley
Ayush Chandorkar
Ella Dichlian
Emre Gunduz
Milly Jackson
Amy Morrill
Eliza Neil
Kate Sumitomo- Wyatt
Ayser Hussain Umar Syed
Carys Webb