Architectural Future(s)History & Theory, MSci Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London



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Author Essay
2025 – 26
Ruben Alexander Intention: Singapore’s Public Housing Success at the Expense of Freedom in a Multicultural State
Hamzah Ahmed
The Price of the Poisoned Gift: Epistemicide and the Architecture of the Vernacular

Mimi Blanksby
Accumulative Heritage

Nemo CaiTranscending the Static Envelope
Jianhao Chen
The Hand of the Leviathan and Broken Homes: Scale and Ethics in National Infrastructure

Yi Zhen Chuah
Everything We Need Is Already Here: An Ethos of Community Co-Design

Pauline Comte
River Anxieties: The Victorian Embankment Wall and Memories of London’s Abject

Eunice Dingcong
Towards an Architecture of Collective Ownership

Bruce Duan
Kintsugi: Translating Ceramic Repair into Architectural Renewal

Annabelle Edwards
For the People, By the People, For the Future

Abdelrahman Eladawi
The Right to Take Time

Rahul Faizer
A New Framework for Housing Delivery in London: Reconsidering Section 106 through Comparative Analysis

Lia Penela Failde
Toward the Horizon

Muvis Hui
Nowhere and Everywhere: The Luminous Geography of Loneliness

Hafiza Hussain
The School Beyond the School: Architecture of Survival in Gaza

Nadia Kwiecinska
The Domino Effect of Time Compression in the Built Environment

Kim Lee
Merthyr Tydfil: Identity Framed through Technologies of Representation (Self, Place, Image)

Ahsan Momen
Architecture of Obedience: A Letter from an Authoritarian Future

Hanna Porooshani Nia
At the Table: Re-orienting Social Life in the Contemporary City

Pung Pung Phonoi
In the Places the City Forgets : Legibility, Mediation, and the Politics of Urban Infrastructure

Charlotte Pike
A Case Against the ‘Over-Intellectualisation’ of Architecture

Oyindamola Olunloyo
Faith, Memory and The Other

Eleanor Rudd-Jones
Squatting as a Counter-Model of Material Care and Adaptive Reuse

Ethan Starkey
Angling as Situated Practice

Louis Thomas
Between Silence and Motion: Designing the Porous Archive

Yiting Wang
Respectability to Reciprocity: Reframing the Shop-Flat as a Gendered  Infrastructure of Care in Limehouse

Gan Zihan
Market in Everyday Life: The Neglect of Barking Market in Suburban Town Centre Regeneration

2024 – 25
Jihoon Baek
Riddle, Rubble and Ripple: River Brent’s Floodplains between Memory, Infrastructure and Governance

Anda Guinea
Architects’ Duty of Care in Romanian Healthcare: A Transposition of the Communist Regime

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

Charisse Kwong
Take the Show to the Streets

Jayne Lee
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Quiet Choreographies Behind London’s Chinatown

Aiala Samula Lopez
From the Back Seat: Addressing Spatial Inequities for Private Hire Drivers in London’s Urban Infrastructure

May Parkes-Young
Burial Sites as Political Instruments: Power, Authority and Resistance

Raihan Syed
Crafting Acceptance through Minor Art: Artistic Expression within Stigmatised Access for Minority Children

Charlie Timms
Markets and Informality

Thaleia Tsoutsos
A New Blueprint for Housing Policy: In the Wake of Britain’s Fading Ownership Ideal

Forrest Xie
Reading Between the Lines: Angling along the River Wandle as a Form of Urban Resistance

Jennifer Yang
Urban Village Redevelopment and Housing Inequality in Shenzhen: State and Corporate Discrimination

Enrique Zhang Zhuo
Home in Displacement: A Discussion of the Gibraltarian Evacuation to Madeira during the 1940s

2023 – 24
Maria Paola Barreca
Transient Homes 

Xan Goetzee Barral
Gazing and Glancing: Moments of Queer Mutuality in Public Spaces

Hanna Eriksson Södergren
Order and Dis-Order within the London Food Landscape: The Street Party and Structures of Social Eating

Samuel Jackson
The Desire for Dragons: The Application of ‘Concrete Fantasy’ and ‘Parafiction’ in Our Architectural Future(s)

Ismail Mir
Reimagining Solidarities and Spaces in Industry 4.0: Battersea as Microcosm for New Industrial Urbanism

Dominic Nunn
Euston Town: Retaking the City in the Wake of HS2

Toby Prest
The Dialectical Relationship between the Peak District and Manchester: Perception, Reality and Politics

Hansen Shuhan Wang
Pamphlet for a Humanised Architectural Future: Conserving Local Communities through Relicfication

Anna Williams
Displacement and Replacement during Periods of Transformation at the Barrington Recovery Site

Jun Zhang
Fragmented Cognition of the City’s Image: Distractions from Technology








Raihan Syed Crafting Acceptance through Minor Art: Artistic Expression within Stigmatised Access for Minority Children


The exploration of the affordability of artistic expression in minority children living is the focus of the essay. How could this empower the generation to combat the stigma and normalize the acceptance of arts? The stepping stone of an initiative to create an equitable route into the creative arts through craft is pressing point of discussion concerning the challenging of stigmatization. The role of minor art, a small intervention through creative expression, is a term coined to challenge this.

The exploration of the affordability of artistic expression in minority children living within council estates and its role in early-life development/education is the seed of this discourse.

There is a disparity between children who can access these facilities of visual and creative arts, rooted within socio-economic hierarchies within the UK. Furthermore, there is a cultural discourse to be tapped into, regarding the accessibility and stigma surrounding the arts within third-culture children coming from immigrant families settled in the UK. The apparent stigma surrounds the pursuit of creative professions over more vocational careers.

This is due to a key barrier being the economic feasibility and therefore background of these families. The other role is the cultural risk taken to strive for what appears to be an unsustainable life without a safety net, due to the transgressive depiction of the artist and their work. The stepping stone of an initiative to create an equitable route into the creative arts through craft also seems to be a pressing point of discussion concerning the challenging of the stigma. Moreover, would this empower the generation to combat the stigma and normalize the acceptance of arts in minority and migrant families? The role of minor art, a small intervention through creative expression, is a term coined to challenge this.


IMG 1, painting of a carnation, by author 2006
IMG 2, painting of a carnation, by author 2006
IMG 3, digital illustration/collage of the internal creative self and external, by author 2025
IMG 4, Regents’ Park Portrait, Brendan Barry 2025
IMG 5, Recent woodwork craft, by author 2024




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Architectural Future(s) 2026 History & Theory, MSci Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London