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Research projects and funding

The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE) hosts a range of active interdisciplinary researchers who are engaging in research projects focusing on environmental, social and cultural ecologies of cities.

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Transforming Architecture in Development

Unequal power dynamics in international development have sparked discussions about decolonising development, aid, and peacebuilding to dismantle discriminatory structures.

Aural Histories: Coventry 1451–1642

The interdisciplinary and collaborative project aims to recreate the experiences of musicians and audiences in this period.

An illustration of a fox and a squirrel on top of a fence and two bees flying

Wild Ways

Wild Ways aims to understand and influence urban-rewilding behaviour with a focus on adaptations to private residential gardens in London.

Spaces of Birth and Death

Spaces of Birth and Death aims to expand philosophical attention to the beginning and end of life by investigating the spaces in which we encounter these transitional moments.

Afropolitan Architecture

The event series "Afropolitan Architecture: Imagining the African Urban Future by Design" emerged as a collaboration between Mokena Makeka and Matthew Barac.

After the Arrival City

The project seeks to understand how a city without an existing model for rented social housing can adapt to find new ways to support and accommodate people in displacement.

Crossing Cultures

Developing an innovative pedagogical model that facilitates intercultural relationships and group learning.

System of Localised Common Good Objects: Cultural Commons in Neighbourhoods

This research aims to explore the potential of a commons sphere (citizen agency/community) to strengthen socially engaged art, design, and citizenship.

Housing Space Use in the Pandemic and After: The Case for New Design Guidance

Covid-19 shone a spotlight on UK housing injustice.

Mapping Social Infrastructure

Bringing together scholars in the fields of architecture, urbanism, sociology and public policy, to generate place-based tools and methods for mapping civil society networks.

Designing Inclusion

The project is set within the European context and centres on migration as a key component of urbanisation.

The Living Memory of Cities

Through a series of seminars organised running from Nov. 2020 to April 2023, the project facilitates knowledge exchange between practitioners, planners, academic, students and public.

Freetown School of Architecture by Joe Davis

Lines through the City

This project draws from the combined networks, expertise and track-record of the applicants to consolidate the work that ARCSR has done to date in Freetown.

Urban Depth and Autonomy

Global cities are becoming bigger and more diverse, and it is key to elaborate a greater understanding of how we can build better, more inclusive cities.

Architecture, Nature and Experience in the New Climate Regime

The research brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts in architectural history, architectural practice, environmental philosophy, cultural geography and sustainability.

Research funding The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies