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Domains The Bartlett School of Architecture
University College London

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Kay Sedki

Guang Yu Ren

Kay Sedki
Emily Mann
Lo Marshall
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José L. Torero Cullen (UCL, CEGE)
Rami Daher (GJU)
Edward Denison (UCL, BSA)
Ruth Lang (RCA; LSA)

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From the back seat: Addressing spatial inequities for Private Hire Vehicle Drivers through the re-imagination of London’…

Aiala Samula Lopez
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025
This piece is an exploration of the distinctions in the spatiality of employment conditions regarding PHVs versus taxis in London and the systemic inequalities that emerge from this analysis. The writing culminates in a cognisance of what could constitute a future ‘beneficial’ architectural model/intervention to begin reducing these inequalities. Essentially functioning as an inquiry into the degree of spatial justice afforded to these workers; workers often sat in the ‘back seat’ of conversations surrounding the domains of transport infrastructure, precarity and equity. 

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Architect's Duty of Care Within the Multifaceted Genealogy of Romanian Healthcare

A Transposition Of The 20th.c Communist Regime

Anda Guinea
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025

Considering Romania’s political transposition in 1989 and the effect incurred on its healthcare infrastructure, fire outbreaks have magnified the architect’s role in designing facilities that remain flexible and adaptive despite urbicidal disintegration, balancing duty of care with the social right to health amid nepotism and fiscal austerity policies imposed.

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Take the Show to the Streets

Charisse Kwong
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025
This essay reflects on personal experience dancing in London's public spaces to explore informal performance as a political act that reclaims the city. Performance disrupts urban control, asserts autonomy, fosters dialogue, and redefines public space as a site of collective agency, resistance, and meaning-making by and for the people.

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A Case for Doing [Almost] Nothing: 
Growth, Decay and Heritage In the Post-Human Convergence

Chrlie Hayles
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025How have we found ourselves in this ‘commemorative fever’, where almost everything is saved and thus deemed vitally important?

A piece that attempts to understand why it is that we must protect [almost] everything, and the growing need to begin doing [almost] nothing.

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Markets & Informality

Charlie Timms
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025Examining our collective past and the role of markets have played in creating informal spaces within the heart of our cities, specifically analysing Covent Garden Market

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The Notion of Home in Displacement: A Discussion of the Gibraltarian Evacuation to Madeira During the 1940s

Enrique Zhang Zhuo
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025
Set in 1940 during the evacuation of Gibraltar to Madeira, this essay examines how displaced Gibraltarians carried and reshaped their sense of home through cultural identity, objects, and rituals. It explores the shift from the tangible aspects of home to the intangible process of homemaking, revealing how migration redefines belonging.

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Reading Between the Lines
Angling along the River Wandle as a form of urban resistance

Forrest Xie
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025Angler resistance is merely a catalyst, a lens to understand the landscape. The shear amount of perturbations enacted upon the River Wandle in its current state, calls foran equal if not greater collective reaction in order to enact enduring change. “In the grand tapestry that is environmental stewardship, even the smallest stitch holds significance.”

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Hidden in Plain Sight:
The Quiet Choreographies Behind London's Chinatown

Jayne Lee
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025Between stacked crates, smoke breaks, and attuned cooperation, Dansey Place pulses behind Chinatown’s curated spectacle. Overlooked choreographies, improvised, embodied, and infrastructural, sustain the spectacle they are excluded from. Through presence and observation, new ways of valuing logistical spaces and labour-shaped infrastructures emerge, ones that honour rhythms over spectacle and everyday rituals over commercialised identity.

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The Role of Urban Village Redevelopment in Shaping Housing Inequality in Shenzhen China: Discrimination of Urban Villagers by State-Owned Real Estate Enterprises and the Government

Jennifer Yang
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025This essay critically analyzes the state-led redevelopment of urban villages in Shenzhen, exposing the monopolization of affordable housing by state-owned enterprises. It examines the displacement of villagers, inequitable resettlement policies, and the failure of branded apartments to address housing deficiencies, raising concerns about transparency, systemic power imbalances, and social exclusion.

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Riddle, Rubble, and Ripple: The River Brent’s Floodplains Between Memory, Infrastructure, and Collective Governance

Jihoon Baek
UCL, BSA, MSci Y4, 2025This essay examines the River Brent’s Metropolitan Open Land floodplains as dynamic landscapes of resilience. It highlights how community memory, grassroots action, and ecological restoration challenge centralised flood management, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals on climate action, sustainable cities, and strong institutions through participatory, locally informed approaches to environmental governance.

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