The Bartlett assesses the sustainability of its own estate

15 May 2012

Bartlett experts regularly advise government and industry on reducing built environment –related carbon emissions but in a bold move Alan Penn, Dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL, decided that his own Faculty should be subject to the same scrutiny.

Widening participation in architecture: A student mentor's experience

02 May 2012

By Tom James, first-year student at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Here he talks about his experience of being a mentor on the Open-City Accelerate programme.

The Bartlett announces £100K in scholarships to tackle inequality

The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is introducing £100K worth of scholarships to encourage postgraduate students from a broader social background to apply.

On World Heritage Day, the Bartlett asks, “What does heritage mean to you?”

To celebrate World Heritage Day, postgraduate students from the Bartlett have contributed their thoughts on what heritage means to them.

New Publication: The Capability Approach, Technology & Design

The new book edited by Oosterlaken, Ilse and Hoven, Jeroen van den (Eds.) has now been published by Springer. DPU lecturers Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Camillo Boano have a chapter in it entitled ...

Bartlett undergraduates mentor A-Level students from hard-to-reach London schools

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture undergraduates are mentoring A-Level students from London schools as part of the Accelerate programme which aims to raise the aspirations of pupils to go to university, encourage them ...

Water and sanitation justice for all? One right, two fora

Between 12 and 17 March the French port city of Marseille hosted the triennial World Water Forum (WWF) in its sixth edition. The event, entitled Time for Solutions, was not the only international ...

Flushing out the answer to drought

We’re facing the worst British drought for 30 years and London and the South East will be hit particularly hard by hose-pipe bans. So, what can we as individuals do to reduce ...

Speculations on a Good City - BUDDlab3

BUDDlab Volume 3 is now available for download!

'Taking Care' of the Informal City

MSc BUDD Alumni Azzurra Muzzonigro, was recently taking part in the ambitious project São Paulo Calling which was inaugurated on the 27th of January 2012 in the Centro Cultural of São ...

Welcome to visiting professors appointed for the DPU

We are delighted to welcome professors Susan Parnell and David Satterthwaite to their most recent appointments as DPU visiting professors.

Prof Susan Parnell from the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences and the ...

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Bartlett appoints new visiting Professor

The Bartlett demonstrates its close links with industry with the recent appointment of Space Syntax director Tim Stonor as Visiting Professor. The appointment is given to internationally renowned, distinguished individuals from their chosen ...

Cities as bubble mirrors

DPU's PhD Student Vicente Sandoval is winner "runner up" in the  UCL 'Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research' 2011/12 organised by Graduate School.

Experts from the Bartlett discuss the regeneration of London in the latest issue of Architectural Design

Members of the Bartlett contributed to January’s issue of Architectural Design, which brings into focus notions of regeneration within the specific context of London: what does the term actually mean, how has ...

Bartlett interdisciplinary research secures £30,000 funding

Six interdisciplinary research projects, each involving significant Bartlett collaboration, have been awarded nearly £30,000 of funding.

Change by Design

This book documents a two-week action research workshop, Change by Design, undertaken in Nairobi, Kenya from 19th June - 1st July 2011. The workshop was developed and coordinated under the banner of Architecture Sans ...

Post-Disaster Interdisciplinary Scenario Seminar (UPDATE)

On Monday, 14 June 2010 a multi-disciplinary group of approximately 40 students from the Development Planning Unit, the MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management and the Bartlett School of Planning took part ...

The social production of urban risk

From October 31 to November 3 DPU coordinated a workshop in Mexico City with Oxfam-Latin America and Caribe (LAC) which aimed at consolidating the focus of the research commissioned by Oxfam-LAC on urban ...

DPU summerLab in Abitare

The summerLab series of workshops, devised independently from the MSc programmes, look to proactively expand the investigations of the DPU into contested sites in various cities throughout Europe, while opening up the experience ...

The city in urban poverty

Policy makers, theorists, and practitioners deliberated on the theme of 'The city in urban poverty' on 10-11 November 2011 at the DPU.

Glass half empty? Special journal issue on urban water poverty

Special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development edited by Adriana Allen and Sarah Bell

DPU talks

You are invited to attend a series of talks by the following guest speakers as part of the DA2 sessions, which will all take place at the Birkbeck Building, Malet Street, Room 421 ...

Decoding Bangkok's Pocket-Urbanization: Social Housing Provision and the Role of Community Architects

An endless six-lane herd of neon taxis sputter along a network of brutalist flyovers while scooter drivers weave boldly in between. Spiced scents escape from side alley markets, penetrating the air as sweltering ...