The Role of Physical Interface in Facilitating User Interactions in the UAE Over the past few decades, the importance of public open spaces has been substantially increased due to rapid urbanization and developments. Likewise, cities and communities in the Arab world are also going through urban transformation; d…

Eco-centricity in Art and Education Educational theorist Gert Biesta proposes that we need to be “in the world without occupying the centre of the world.” (Biesta, 2017, p. 3). This injunction provides a frame with which to interrogate the hybrid practice of ecoart. This practice can be characterised by a concern…

Youth, Safety, and the Right to the City in the Global South The compilation of scholarship presented in the following pages represents the culmination of extensive collaborative research emerging from the Safe and Sound Cities Programme (S²Cities), an initiative led by the Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation…

Towards Inclusive Public Spaces for Young Women in Cairo The practice of play, encompassing physical activity and social connectedness, exerts a positive effect on communities’ health and overall urban quality of life. Depending on design and social dynamics, public spaces in cities can be more or less welcoming…

Designing is an experimental practice. Eschewing traditional concepts of designing as simply solving problems, and ideas of research as a positivist pursuit of truth, Landscope DesignLab embraces an expansive perspective of design-directed research.  Using the tools of questioning, collaborating, designing, grou…

This paper records and reflects on two architecture design studios situated between academic and professional practice contexts. It is motivated by the level of both student and external engagement generated by the studios, which occurred at a significantly higher level than that generated by similar studios tha…