City Design (MA)

Working with Autonomy_Urban students from the MA City Design rethought the organisation of London through the framework of Post-Pandemic Urbanism.

In a direct response to an unprecedented pandemic that affected us all, students considered Covid’s transformations of work, workers, and workplaces. The stakes couldn’t be higher: in the words of their tutors “on almost every level, Covid-19 has altered the way we conceive of the city.” In response to that challenge, City Design students developed a broad range of systematic design research, whose aim was to seriously address the spatial, economic, social and infrastructural conditions required for re-imagining new forms of city life in this post-pandemic world. If Covid impacted their lives, design and seminar research allowed a pathway to regain control and make the best of a difficult situation. Slowly students started coming back to the studio, spending time, discussing and designing together. The work reflects both the seriousness of the topic, and the joy of its collective discussion.

Image: “Community Centre Movable Furniture”, Yunning Qie. MA City Design