Architectural Future(s)

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Voices
Volume 1

Release: 28/06/25

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The Bartlett School of Architecture
University College London

Voices Vol. 1 is the first edition of Transformative Voices, a UCL Changemakers Project, aimed at increasing students’ agency in architectural education and practice, positioning them as key voices in reshaping the discipline and addressing urgent global challenges through critical dialogue and transformative action.

Editors: Charlie Hayles, Jihoon Baek & Kay Sedki
Transformative Voices Team: Charlie Hayles, Jihoon Baek, Forrest Xie, Kay Sedki & Guang Yu Ren

Voices Vol.1 Contributors:
Jihoon Baek, Faezeh Besharat, Jianhao Chen, Charlie Hayles, Nikki Ifeobu-Zubis, Ye Ha Kim, Aiala Samula Lopez, Karna Majdian, Caspar Meurisse, Caelen Parsons, May Parkes-Young, Raihan Syed, Afshan Tanweer, Charlie Timms, Yuichiro Tomita, Forrest Xie & Enrique Zhang Zhuo

Printed by: Panopus Printing PRS Ltd

Voices Vol.1, 2025
Architectural Future(s)
ISBN  978-1-0682592-1-0





Voices
 Volume 1

Can you read me?

  1. From Flood to Flow: Rethinking Governance and Resilience on Urban Floodplains — Jihoon Baek
  2. The 1001 Tales of Somers Town: A Neighbourhood as One Social House — Faezeh Besharat
  3. Affective Change within Interactive Tactility: Tactile Architecture and Emotional Response — Jianhao Chen
  4. A Case for Doing (Almost) Nothing: Growth, Decay and Heritage in the Post-Human Convergence — Charlie Hayles
  5. Rhetorical Dissonance: Semiotic Veils in Urban Regeneration — Nikki Ifeobu-Zubis
  6. Modelling Edge Computing for Smart Cities: Probabilitistic Models Compared in Barcelona — Ye Ha Kim
  7. From the "Back Seat": Urban Equity for Private Hire Drivers in london — Aiala Samula Lopez
  8. A Regressive Environmentalism — Karna Majdian
  9. Eva Hesse, Sans III (1969), 2025 — Caspar Meurisse
  10. Tidal Nexus: Toward a Mutispecies Architecture on the River Lea — Caelen Parsons
  11. The Life of Death and Burial in Ireland — May Parkes-Young
  12. Crafting Acceptance through Minor Art: Art and Stigmatised Access for Minority Youth — Raihan Syed
  13. Letting the Eel Pass — Afshan Tanweer
  14. Navigating Informality in the Market — Charlie Timms
  15. Urbanism + Infrastructure, Consumerism: Shibuya's Subterranean Journey (1957—) — Yuichiro Tomita
  16. Reading Between the Lines: Observing Angling as a Form of Control and Resistance — Forrest Xie
  17. Material Manifesto — Enrique Zhang Zhuo



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