Monthly Archives: February 2026

What the ARP has changed for me When I started this Action Research Project, my focus was mainly on students: how they imagine users, how they talk about social and affordable housing, and whether a sequence of early studio activities … Continue reading →

When students are asked to imagine users, they never start from a neutral place. This isn’t a criticism of students, it’s simply recognising that we all bring assumptions with us, often without realising it, and usually with good intentions. Rather … Continue reading →

I created the following guidelines for me and my teaching partner: “Who do I imagine when I imagine a user?” Date: 21.11.25 Duration: 1.5–2 hoursFormat: Studio-based sessionParticipants: 15 Students (Stage 2 and Stage 3 BA Architecture)Context: Design Studio: Social / affordable housing retrofit Materials … Continue reading →

Second Intervention: Speculative users, discomfort, and collective recalibration The second intervention took place once students had completed an initial phase of site, building, and demographic research and were asked, as we do every year, to create three speculative users for … Continue reading →

First Intervention – “What Is the Meaning of Home for You?” This first intervention sits at the very beginning of the studio and responds to a question I have been asking students for several years: What does home mean to you? Until … Continue reading →

Workshop 2 has been an important for me to clarify how my teaching practice already aligns with established Action Research approaches. Working through these questions helped me articulate that my ARP does not rely on a single research tool, but … Continue reading →

1.  What is the working title of your project? Working title:  To what extent does a teaching sequence support socio-spatial and ethical awareness in architecture students? This Action Research Project examines how a structured sequence of teaching activities supports BA Architecture students in developing socio-spatial and ethical awareness … Continue reading →