USL research

Our research responds to urgent global challenges, using diverse methodologies to understand and engage with complex urban processes. We explore a broad range of research themes , including:

• The intersections of architecture, infrastructure, and everyday social practices.
• Architecture  and urban transformation under the climate emergency.
• Human-nature-infrastructure interactions.
• Digital narratives and visual methods in architectural theory and practice.
• Inequalities and marginalisation in urban environments, focusing on vulnerable populations such as children and older people.
• The digitalisation of everyday urban life.
• Universal  culture and materiality in the context of museums and the ‘other’.

We are committed to decolonial and translocal approaches that help to dismantle entrenched colonial perspectives within urban studies.