MSc Building and Urban Design in Development

📣 The Urban Design Otherwise 2025 pamphlet is here!
In-out[side]: Rethinking Urban Networks for Transformative Action in Pelican House

This year’s publication brings together reflections and provocations from students and staff on the latest edition of Urban Design Otherwise, a critical design workshop part of the BUDD practice module.

The 2025 workshop was developed in collaboration with Pelican House a countercultural cooperative and social centre in Bethnal Green where over two days, students explored otherwise design practices, radical infrastructures and alternative approaches to just urbanism.

Led by: Mahsa Alami Fariman, Laia Garcia Fernández, David McEwan and Florence Wright
Curation and cover: Milagros Vidal
Graphics: Ottavia Pasta
Image credits: Alexander Macfarlane

Download now via the link in stories and bio.

Overseas Practice Engagement -
Design Research Framework and Strategies.

Last Friday marked the end of the sessions of term 2, and we did so by presenting the preliminary Design Research Framework and Strategies for our upcoming Overseas Practice Engagement in São Paulo, Brazil.

Here you can see a snapshot of student's presentations, that was followed by feedback and an Iftar potluck with students of both BUDD and DAP programmes.

We are getting ready to the adventures of Fieldwork in Brazil!

Thanks to our guest for joining us!
Also to the OPE Project partners, , and .

The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL

New publication: 'Spatialising intersectionality' by BUDD's Catalina Ortiz

This article on public space design in self built neighbourhoods in Cali, Colombia is part of the outputs of the Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition (GREAT) project in Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba.

📖 Read the open access article from the link below:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41289-024-00267-y?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250122&utm_content=10.1057%2Fs41289-024-00267-y&fbclid=IwY2xjawI2n4ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeeKVnVqirzzV95s11NOxd2LdWUR2JMmT--qta_-Zh4XP2iD8hf6aPsKcA_aem_O8nq23NULDcMoSfGT6cIeQ


The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL Catalina Ortiz Arciniegas