ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (2015 – 2017)

The ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) seeks to promote a more holistic approach through the integration of a wide range of data sources. By...

Bulgaria’s Forgotten Elderly: a human ecosystem approach to ageing (2015 – 2017)

How do senior citizens in Bulgaria cope under conditions of diminishing pensions, rising living costs, uncertain health care provision, dilapidating housing and truncated family ties? This project uncovers the main...

Sanitation and Differentiation in Urban China (2012 – 2013)

Defecation in rapidly transforming cities may serve as an axis, linking the individual and the social, private perceptions and public policy, as well as other connected yet seemingly remote dimensions...

Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (2010 – 2013)

Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (SCIBE) explores how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design,...

Lives on the Borderland: the sociospatial restructuring of a neighbourhood in Shanghai (2006 – 2010)

This project explores urban borderlands as the formation, negotiation, and maintenance of multiple individual and group identities under coexistence. On the example of a sociospatially fragmented district of contemporary Shanghai,...

Future City Systems (2016)

This is a collaborative project between the Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester/Manchester Metropolitan University) and Architectural Association. Complexity, Planning and Urbanism (CPU) and Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech)...