Alana Bibby

Cowley's Urban Pier is a new typology and microcosm of global cultural events that embraces the cross pollination of; the city, seasonal celebration and everyday life, to create memories and shape personal experiences. Asserting Cowley Road's continuing relevance as a place for social optimism.

Year 3

Briza Carrascoza

The 'Consultation Arcade' is a new typology of community design and build, inspired by the functions and forms of family brand games. The Arcade playfully creates a dynamic interaction during the process of designing civic spaces to ensure the community knowledge and narrative is embedded in the proposals for its host site from the very beginning whilst delivering a meanwhile social environment for the community.

Year 3

Catriona Ng

The 'Recycling Theme Park' advocates for an environmental change on Cowley Road through providing an engaging recycling journey. Here, users exchange their plastic recycling, for access to upcycling workshops and are rewarded with plants and produce grown in the greenhouses.

Year 2

Eda Yıldız

‘The Children's Circus’ proposed a space for kids to shape the street. From learning knot techniques and spending time with each other the workshop space evolved over time and they present their ideas back to the parents with exhibitions and shows.

Year 3

Pelin Eskiocak

The 'Hot-Beverage House’ is a multinational microcosm of tea and coffee customs, a place for cultural exchange and skill sharing.

Year 2

Samuel Norton

The 'Cowley Allotshop' follows the sustainable ethos of adjacent community allotments facilitating the adaptation and repurposed use of abandoned and discard urban artefacts, as usable neighbourhood structures.

Year 2

Jacob Millar

‘Garden in the Park’ An Alternative Learning Centre

Year 2

Elena Symeo

‘The Dojo’ (Missing project information)

Year 2

Fergus Adam-Smith

Year 3

‘The Self-Build CoOp’ is a new typology of co-living specific to the high street, inspired by the functions of a public house. The CoOp playfully creates new social habits and more diverse uses along the high street, whilst also delivering on housing demand in the city!

Finn Burbanks

Year 2

'Preservation HQ', is the result of intricate research into the forgotten history of a single Cowley Road terrace, inspiring a visitor built pavilion that acts as the advocate and archive for the preservation of local structures and memories.

Kritika Gumber

'Green Market Road' explores the future pedestrianisation of Cowley as an opportunity for activation, enterprise and urban agriculture.

Year 3

Magdalena Kurdzialek

The 'Carnival Lock-up' is an initiative to keep the Cowley Carnival spirit all year round. A complex for the Cowley Works Charity with spaces dedicated to float making workshops for school competitions, engaging local musicians and artists as well as on-going public rollercoaster tours.

Year 3

Ríonach Cai Muphy

The 'Elder Diner Experience' focuses on creating social change by introducing a cookery skills exchange that encourages elderly people to come to Cowley road and interact with students, encouraging conversation, learning and bringing people together after the pandemic.

Year 2

Sara Kerpatsi

The 'One-Stop Teahouse' is a new typology of corner convenience store, inspired by the functions and franchising abilities of flagship brands. The One-Stop Teahouse playfully creates new social interaction between local customers, residents and people experiencing homelessness in the area whilst also delivering a new greening infrastructure in the city.

Year 3

Sarah Nawaz

The 'Uhuru Centre for Activism' provides a new civic prominence and spatial legacy for urban activist groups, charity organisations and all members of the public campaigning for change. This is a base celebrating the multi-cultural history of Cowley and a social space for the forward thinkers.

Year 3

Sze Ho Fung

'Music Marketplace' explores the production and consumption of music in a single microcosm. Here the boundaries between private studios and public performance spaces are blurred in order to create an interactive and immersive public space of sound from every angle.

Year 2

Nurul Mohd Razali

Year 3

‘The Happiness-Go-Round’ was a proposal for a pavilion that brought the miniature exhibition of events in Oxford city throughout the four seasons as a spotlight in the South Park. The Cowley Creative Corridor advocated for improving the cultural arts programme whilst stitching urban fragments to encourage artistic expressions.