Research is part of our process of developing work, all projects proceed as a process of enquiry. We are interested in asking questions about how we imagine futures, how we relate to history and the environment and how we create agency for citizens. We have created exhibitions, conferences and publications for: Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Centre for Contemporary Arts in the Natural World (CCANW), the National Portrait Gallery, The Architecture Foundation and Bridgwater Arts Centre.
CIAM6 – Cities Reimagined
Inspiring Futures – Timber Architecture
Glastonbury – Instant City
Talks and Publications include:
2024 De-Risking Site Allocations, Design and Planing Considerations, RTPI
2023/4 Urban regeneration: circular economy at the neighbourhood level, RIBA Academy
2024 Shaping Resilient Cornish Places, Design principles for minor projects, Design West
2022 Design Code Pathfinders, Design Skills, Locality & DLUC
2022 Placemaking from Policy to Strategy, Green Horizons, Design West
2020 Future Place: What’s the Future of Place? RIBA Academy
2020 Movement and the National Design Guide, Creating Excellence
2019 Glastonbury Instant City: Spatial Practices – M. Dodd (ed.), Modes of Action and Engagement in the City, pp. 137-146, Routledge
2018 Competition Culture in Europe: Voices, Project Compass for the Venice Biennale
2017 West Country Modern: Reinterpreting Modernism for the 21st Century, The Arnolfini, Bristol
2017 Alison and Peter Smithson: Ideas, Impact, Architecture, Bath University
2016 CIAM6, Making Places: A toolkit for relationship-based place making, MELA
2010 Making Competitions Work, web edition. CABE
2010 Creating Excellent Buildings, web edition. CABE
2007 Inspiring Futures, European Timber Architecture for the 21st Century. CCANW:
2007 Actions for Housing Growth. CABE
2006 It’s our space, a guide for community groups. CABE Space
2001 This is what we do, a muf primer (Ellipsis, London)
1998 ‘Shared Ground’, in J. Hill (ed.), Occupying Architecture pp. 119-134, (Routledge, London)