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Although after the invitation was sent I received 5 student sign-ups to the event in the end only 1 came (3 emailed with apologies that other matters had arisen, including 2 that were viewing a new residence).   As the interview became a more individual qualitative interview – rather than group dynamic – meant there was… Continue reading Research Processes Reflections: Data Collection

Bias: Comes from me with an agenda  The agenda is a social one and based on auto-ethnographic experiences. I want that the detrimental experiences I experienced in my own educational journey while at a higher creative education institution are tackled within the institution I now work in (specifically student agency and the understanding of their… Continue reading Critical Reflections: Data Bias

Location for Intervention: Inivia Space & Stuart Hall Library a Starting Point. Considering what would the best space to hold my intervention I felt a more neutral space or more student-led environment could have the effect of hosting the discourse in a more ‘open’ environment rather than the ‘classroom/studio’ where the students and staff are… Continue reading Research Processes Reflections: Location for Intervention

The necessity to ‘deschool’ as Lokko here describes as “we need to keep encouraging critique and problematisation of what is considered to beknowledge and the processes involved in generating it. “ In her dissection of what an architectural education can and should be like, discussing epistemologies, limitations of what has come before in architectural theory and situated… Continue reading Reference(s): Developing an ‘Ecology’

Bibliography Books Eds Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister. (*) Radical Pedagogies. New York: Walters, Kelly. (2021) Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race. New York: Princeton Architectural Press Papers Equality, Diversity and student characteristics data, Students at Higher education providers between 2010-11 and 2020-21 (June 2022) The Office for Students Link: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/… Continue reading ARP – Unit 3

Blogging Task 3: Race. As a brown woman having grown up in different countries and cultures part of a family of mixed nationality and race, have myself been a student in design schools and encountered various and often complex situations where I have been seen as ‘exotic’, ‘an exception’ or otherwise ‘othered’. The sentiments expressed… Continue reading Where are the Drums?!

Blogging Task 1: Disability Disability remains widely avoided in architecture (and mainstream architectural theories and discourses). In practice, it is often approached as an ‘afterthought’ or box-ticking exercise. Having watched the film by Christine Sun Kim (https://vimeo.com/31083172), it has made me reflect on sound, just one aspect making up the ‘language of spaces’ (Jones, 2016)… Continue reading Disability

Blog Task 2: Faith Kwame Anthony Appiah Reith Lecture on Creed Not being religious myself, but able to identify with how Kwame Appiah has grown up (mixed nationality and race shaped by his family and having lived in different cultures and countries), this lecture on identities – and religions – echoed my own perspectives.  Identity –… Continue reading Creed