The Leeds School of Architecture Yearbook 2023

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PAS 6463: 2022 Design for the mind
CIRCLE studio
PAS 6463: 2022 Design for the
mind – Neurodiversity and the built
environment – Guide | The British
Standards Institution
Exhibition, Conference, Publication
‘Design for the mind – Guide’. A
selection of Joan’s research is included
in the first standard on how to create
a sensory inclusive environment
Authors
Joan Love
Joan’s expertise is in the advancement of autism-friendly design assisting future professionals
to shape responsive enabling environments. In a world which is designed for
neuro-typical people, Joan’s autism-friendly design research helps to provide a voice
for some autistic people, whose needs are often misunderstood and overlooked.
Joan’s autism specific research papers have resulted in the innovative creation of ‘Ten
Novel Sensory Living Themes’. A selection of these themes have been incorporated
into the ‘Design for the Mind - Guide’.
“The guide comprehensively tackles challenges relating to built environment design
and neurodiversity and is the only guidance of its type supplying authoritative
guidance, with input from world leading experts and those who experience neurodiverse
conditions.” (BSI, 2022)
CIRCLE studio
Event
Open Architecture with RIBA
Authors
Rozita Rahman, Mariam Abbas
Rweikiza, Alfianis Okatasari, Zakky
Khalid, Michael Austell
Website
http://www.wearecirclestudio.com
CIRCLE studio started of with a question: How can architecture impact beyond buildings
and more towards people? The studio was founded on three major principles: Education,
Opportunity and Inclusivity. Understanding how architecture can impact generational
change rather just project focused change. Working with communities that want to
create positive generational changes through individual and collective empowerment,
creating the game changers of tomorrow. CIRCLE studio are facilitators, storytellers
and then designers, an inter-disciplinary design, build and research collective based on
the premise of story telling, community development and impactful problem solving
through beautifully crafted, self-sustaining projects. CIRCLE studio was proud to support
and mentor alongside the RIBA the Youth Forum who set out to design an evening that
showcased and amplified the importance of exploring sustainability and the future of
the built environment. There was a range of practical hands on activities led by artists
and build environment professionals.
Scenographic (re)wilding
Left: Tom Arber (2012) OverWorlds and UnderWorlds, Right: Killa Schuetze (2022) Everything that happened and that would happen
Ineffective Architecture!
Obsolete Spaces and Active Assemblies:
Exposing Infrastructures of Collective
Value
Conference
TaPRA Conference, University of
Essex, September 2022
Authors
Sarah Mills
Website
http://tapra.org/2022-conference/
As part of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012 ‘OverWorlds and UnderWorlds’ curated by the
Quay Brothers, transformed the Dark Arches in Leeds. Seven years later, ‘Everything
that happened and that would happen’ directed by Heiner Goebbels was performed
in the Mayfield Depot in Manchester. Temporarily located within Victorian transport
infrastructures on the cusp of redevelopment the ‘theatres’ were ‘part performance
and part construction site’ - their access on the verge of vanishing captured, reconstituted
and materially transposed. This paper proposes the enactment of a theatrical
set through the filmic apparatus in actual, spatial situations has distinct architectural
significance. Sideways views and active assemblies of recycled and reimagined components
juxtaposing events alongside trivial anecdotes often jumbled up and out of
sequence ultimately question the transformative power of previously subordinated
and suppressed forms of occupations and expressions elevated to the sublime to offer
another-worlds.
The shortcomings of conventional
architectural design processes in
designing humanitarian settings
Author
Zaid Alawamleh
This research journey details the shortcomings of conventional architectural processes
in designing spaces for refugees. It outlines six years of pragmatic research and the
subsequent development of a human-centered behavior-setting methodology for designing
spaces in a humanitarian context. The research puts the theory of Behavior
Settings into practice within a refugee camp reconstruction project to demonstrate its
significant methodological abilities in shaping behaviors through designed spaces. The
methodology that is subsequently developed is not a substitute for architectural design
techniques but an admission of the deficiencies of their conventional process. A methodology
that enables one to fully immerse themselves in the environment, recognize
specific architectural interventions, assess their effects, and reiterate. It is a proposal
for humanizing architecture, sympathizing its processes, and personalizing its results
for the users of any space.