Urban Projects Bureau Research

Urban Projects Bureau delivered a lecture on Urbanism and Citizen Empowerment at the
EU-sponsored Sustainable Urbanism conference in Dubrovnik in March 2013.

Urbanism & The Informal City research cluster explores the concept of the ‘informal’ as a parallel modality that shapes the urban condition.

Working in collaboration with Transparency International, UPB have been developing a pedagogic model that addresses corruption and urban development.

Networking event at the World Urban Forum 7 in Medellin.

UPB, together with Hawkins\Brown, Aecom, Creative Wit and the Architects Journal, are part of a think tank about the value of design intelligence in delivering good school buildings.

UPB are part of the AA Research Cluster rethinking the spatial conditions of informal cities, run by Elena Pascolo, Alex Warnock-Smith and Jorge Fiori.

UPB taught a design workshop in Amsterdam, developing integrated urban design proposals and spatial strategies for the Zuidas region of Amsterdam, February 2012.

Urban Projects Bureau teach an international urban design workshop in Recife, Brazil.

Elena Pascolo was a visiting professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

UPB Contributes to the Guardian’s Stories of Cities, #42: Medellín

Cities of Opportunities - Connecting Culture and Innovation.

Edited by Mel Dodd, and published by Routledge, the book explores ‘spatial practices’ - a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

UPB's Bradford Block at Graveney School featured in 100 Projects UK CLT