Browse research from the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Submissions from 2025
Ambient writing in a terrain of threatened subjectivity: Unfolding codes, tainted models and holey spaces, Phil Smith
Submissions from 2024
Evaluation of the thermal insulation potential of post-harvest blocks using the native strain of the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, Leonardo Almonacid-Munoz, Miguel Aravena, Carlos Rojas-Herrera, Hector Herrera, Juan Pablo Cardenas Ramirez, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, and Cristiane Sagredo-Saez
Space of resilience: architecture, communication, and immersive experience in “St Sebastian: Plague Memory”, Mathew Emmett
The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood by James Boyle: Reviewed by Hannah Drayson, Hannah Drayson
A perspective on solar railway potential for the UK, T. E. Butt, M. Braima, M. A. Maraqa, S. Goodhew, S. Sundaram, and M. M.A. Mohamed
Hula, Dani Landau
Illustrated Stories of Severe Asthma: a Case Study., John Kilburn, Darren Aoki, Rupert Jones, Alice Inman, Isabel Keen, Devon Tipping, Danielle Glover, and Joseph Lanario
Spinner, Dani Landau
Could residential air-source heat pumps exacerbate outdoor summer overheating and winter overcooling in UK 2050s climate scenarios?, Zhiwen Luo, Xiaoxiong Xie, Sue Grimmond, Yiqing Liu, Carlos E. Ugalde-Loo, Matthew T. Bailey, and Xinfang Wang
Lo-Fi, Quick and Glitchy: T(h)inkering with Unreal Engine in Digital, Hybrid, and Expanded Theatre, Andrew Prior, Musaab Garghouti, and Greg Bott
Impact of the energy crisis on indoor temperatures and thermal comfort in UK houses during winter 2023, Omar Al-Hafith, B. K. Satish, and Pieter de Wilde
Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses, in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law: by David Howes, Hannah Drayson
spɛktə/ - on Digital Dust, Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome., Mike Phillips
Where Lean and Offsite Construction Meet: A Bibliographic Scientometric Analysis, Emmanuel Itodo Daniel, Anthony Babalola, Olugbenga Oladinrin, Lovelin Obi, and Olalekan OSHODI
Polluted Pool in Apollo's Decathlon, Cultural Olympics, Paris 2024: Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, Mathew Emmett
Codesign principles for the effective development of digital heritage extended reality systems for health interventions in rural communities, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Marius N. Varga, Hannah Bradwell, Rory Baxter, Ray B. Jones, and Daniel Maudlin
Hauntological Form: Where We Might Find the New in Contemporary Videogames, James Sweeting
Quatermass 2: The Alien-Vegetable Core Of A New Canon, Phil Smith
Psalms, Mike Phillips
Critical Success Factors in Large-Scale Agile Software Development, Anabel Milagros Salazar, Muhammed Qasim Rana, Ana C González Leyba, Mandeep Saini, Olugbenga Oladinrin, and Angela Lee
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio, Alejandro Veliz Reyes
Cadence 360, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore
Flow 360, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, and Luke Christison
Flow + Cadence, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, Luke Christison, and Benjamin Payne
Sea-ing Differently, Kayla Parker, Marie Lavelle, Karen Wickett, and Stuart Moore
Deploying the Hybrid Project Management Methodology Framework in Major Transportation Projects in the United Kingdom, Ana C González Leyba, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Anabel Milagros Salazar, Mandeep Saini, Olugbenga Oladinrin, and Angela Lee
Exploring the Underlying Barriers for the Successful Transition for Women from Higher Education to Employment in Egypt: A Focus Group Study, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Lekan Damilola Ojo, Shadia Fahim, Mohammed Saad, Angela Lee, and Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin
An investigation into the vapour permeability and durability of natural renders on an earthen wall system, Jim Carfrae, Steve Goodhew, Matthew Fox, Karen Hood Cree, and Kevin Owen
WHEN TIME IS NOT OF THE ESSENCE: SLOWNESS AND CERTAINTY BEYOND THE 15 MINUTE CITY, Robert Brown, Leah Dinning, Rachel Manning, Emily Childs, and Cansu Basitici
Can Neighbourhoods Save the Smart City?, Alessandro Aurigi
Digital Hybridities: Theorising the ‘Social’ and the ‘Local’ of Fabrication Technologies in Craft Practice, Alejandro Veliz Reyes and Matthew Holmes
The Tone Poem: A Stolen Work, Michael Punt
Urban planning education in the global south: exploring the possibilities for Egyptian curricula, Ola Ahmed Maged, Robert Brown, and Nancy Abdel-Moneim
Machine Learning-Based Indoor Relative Humidity and CO2 Identification Using a Piecewise Autoregressive Exogenous Model: A Cob Prototype Study, Yassine El Mendili, Mohammed Hichem Benzaama, Karim Touati, Malo Le Guern, François Streiff, and Steve Goodhew
Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes: By Desiree Förster, Hannah Drayson
Chapter 21: Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Alexandra Carr, and Timothy Crabtree
Digital Seascapes: Can we use digital technologies to engage coastal communities in building marine citizenship?: Resilience and Adaptation: Parallel Workshop (6), Ashita Gupta and Katharine Willis
Digital Seascapes: Digital Technologies For Building Resilience Of Coastal Environments: Coastal Regions and Territorial Policies: Track (7) Environment and Climate, Ashita Gupta and Katharine Willis
Early-stage codesign of a material passport for volumetric timber building components, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Alberto Estevez, David Torreblanca-Diaz, Duhan Olmez, and Alexandra Carr
Impact of Energy-Consuming Air Conditioning Systems on People's Thermal Comfort and Preferences: Comparative Study of Iraq and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Omar Al-Hafith, Satish B.K., Pieter de Wilde, and Sepideh Korsavi
Pop-up books, Magic, and Health, John Kilburn
Spaces for co-creating rural futures: Bridport's Living Lab, Alexandra Carr and Alejandro Veliz Reyes
Submissions from 2023
Addressing the “Whys” of UK Children’s YouTube Use: A Purposes Approach, Fiona Scott, Becky Parry, Jackie Marsh, Jamal Lahmar, Beth Nutbrown, Emilie Scholey, Patrizia Baldi, Lily Law, and Dylan Yamada-Rice
Between research, practice and governmental policies in the global south: understanding the Egyptian urban planning scene, Ola Ahmed Maged, Bob Brown, and Nancy Abdel-Moneim
Indoor Air Quality in Cob Buildings: In Situ Studies and Artificial Neural Network Modeling, K Touati, M-H Benzaama, Mendili Y El, Guern M Le, F Streiff, and S Goodhew
Domicide: Architecture, War, and the Destruction of Home in Syria by Ammar Azzouz, S Murrani
Drivers for Design for Deconstruction (DfD) Implementation Among Design Professionals, H Pittri, K Agyekum, E Botchway, J Alencastro, O Oladinrin, and A Dompey
Development and introduction of a mixed realities playkit: decreasing the incidence of general anaesthesia for paediatric MRI, J Thompson, Dylan Yamada-Rice, S Thompson, Louise Murray, and Matthew Taylor
Polyrhythmic modelling of non-isochronous and microtiming patterns, G Sioros
Reiterated empathy in BA director training, Alex Cahill
Separation Anxiety: Filming the Nicosia Buffer Zone, K Parker and S Moore
Hygrothermal and Economic Analysis of an Earth-Based Building Using In Situ Investigations and Artificial Neural Network Modeling for Normandy’s Climate Conditions, K Touati, M-H Benzaama, Mendili Y El, Guern M Le, F Streiff, and S Goodhew
Impact of Trust in Virtual Project Teams: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach, Sukhwant Kaur Sagar, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Mohammed Arif, Amit Kaushik, and Rubina Islam
Insight into the Optimization of Implementation Time in Cob Construction: Field Test and Compressive Strength Versus Drying Kinetics, K Touati, Sahmarany B Al, Guern M Le, Mendili Y El, F Streiff, and S Goodhew
Correction: Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities, Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Marcus Foth, and Alessandro Aurigi
Monitoring of drying kinetics evolution and hygrothermal properties of new earth-based materials using climatic chamber simulation, A Azil, K Touati, N Sebaibi, Guern M Le, F Streiff, S Goodhew, M Gomina, and M Boutouil
The impact of disruptive events on built environment degree apprenticeship delivery – a case study of COVID-19, David Oloke, Louis Gyoh, Emmanuel Itodo Daniel, Olugbenga Oladinrin, and Nagwan Abdallah
Place-Keeping in the Park: Testing a Living Lab Approach to Facilitate Nature Connectedness in Urban Greenspaces, Katharine Willis and Ashita Gupta
Impact of cultural behaviour on indoor comfort: Examining the air quality in Homes and exploring observational and experimental methods of representation through filmmaking, B. K. Satish, Allister Gall, and Sally Shahzad
The importance of multimodal play and storytelling in medtech for children: A Case Study of Co-designing a Mixed Realities Play Kit to Prepare 4 to 10-year-Olds for an MRI Scan, D Yamada-Rice, S Love, J Thompson, S Thompson, and H McQuillian
Smart Home Technologies to Facilitate Ageing-in-Place: Professionals Perception, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Jayantha Wadu Mesthrige, Lekan Damilola Ojo, João Alencastro, and Muhammad Rana
A scientometric analysis of global scientific literature on learning resources in higher education, Muhandiramge Kasun Samadhi Gomis, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Mandeep Saini, Chaminda Pathirage, and Mohammed Arif
The social infrastructure of the smart city: How can "Smart Cities" be more inclusive?, K Willis
Investigating the influence of quality management on building thermal performance, Joao Alencastro, Alba Fuertes, and Wilde P de
Queer Psycho and the He Circus: Applying Queering, Magic, and More-than-Human Theories to Immersive Visual Story Worlds as an Antidote to Late Capitalism, Eleanor Dare and Dylan Yamada-Rice
Making Music with Enzymes, E Miranda
Earthen-based building: In-situ drying kinetics and shrinkage, Karim Touati, Guern M Le, Mendili Y El, Athmane Azil, François Streiff, Jim Carfrae, Matthew Fox, Steve Goodhew, and Mohamed Boutouil
Generative Music with Partitioned Quantum Cellular Automata, Eduardo Reck Miranda and Hari Shaji
Q1Synth: A Quantum Computer Musical Instrument, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Peter Thomas, and Paulo Vitor Itaboraí
The becoming of spatial planning: the contribution of Alessandro Aurigi, Alessandro Aurigi
UDA Invited Exhibition 2022, United Designs Alliance and Victoria Squire
Developing Sustainable Makers, Polly Macpherson
Hygric properties and adsorption characteristics of simple and dual coblayers of bio-sourced building materials, T Kaoutari, H Louahlia, P Schaetzel, E Lepinasse, M Boutouil, S Goodhew, and F Streif
Neo‐Fluxus: Multimedia Performance Art and Architecture, Mathew Emmett
Paris Par Arrondissement, Michael Punt
The Way We Live Now, Angela Piccini, Joanne Dorothea-Smith, and Sefryn Penrose
Unlocking Social Innovation in XR for Healthcare in Coastal Communities, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Marius N. Varga, Hannah Bradwell, and Rory Baxter
Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities, Aale Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Marcus Foth, and Alessandro Aurigi
Visualizing the Untranslateable, M Punt
Submissions from 2022
A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database, B Dong, Y Liu, and W Mu
Evaluating social sustainability in Jordanian residential neighborhoods: a combined expert-user approach, Ahlam Ammar Sharif, Ala’a Saleh Alshdiefat, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Amit Kaushik, and Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin
Factors influencing the state of blinds and lights in primary schools: Behavioural models and opportunities to improve children's visual environment, SS Korsavi, RV Jones, and A Fuertes
An Evaluation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Iraq, S Al-Fatlawi, M Ibadi, S Goodhew, and W Pan
Framework Design: A Curatorial Approach to Teaching Participatory Performance, J Harper
Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating RE Systems in Egyptian Building Stocks, Ahmad I. Elshamy, Engy Elshazly, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Muhammad Qasim Rana, el-Lateef RS Abd, Seif Tarek El-Badry, Mahmoud Elthakaby, Ahmed M.R. Elbaz, Khaled Dewidar, and Iman El-Mahallawi
Effect of Indoor Environment on Occupant Air Comfort and Productivity in Office Buildings: A Response Surface Analysis Approach, Amit Kant Kaushik, Mohammed Arif, Matt M.G. Syal, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Ahlam Ammar Sharif, and Ala’a Saleh Alshdiefat
Placestory/Storyplace: A Gristly category for a New Poetics of Space, Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst
Investigating the potential of EDA data from biometric wearables to inform inclusive design of the built environment, Katharine S. Willis and Elizabeth Cross
Family and Other Ties, S Waterman, N Bird, A Suze, B Jaqueline, R Martin, and I Rae
Spatialization of oppression, N Bobic and F Haghighi
Eating in Theory, Hannah Drayson
Teaching Qubits to Sing: Mission Impossible?, E Miranda and BN Siegelwax
Word Embeddings for Automatic Equalization in Audio Mixing, Satvik Venkatesh, David Moffat, and Eduardo Reck Miranda
Autoethnographic Memory Archive, K Parker and S Moore
The Other Side of Now, K Parker, D Sergeant, and S Moore
Cadence, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image, Stephanie Black
