Month: April 2026

We are please to announce that Dr Craig Stott’s new article ‘Identifying External Collaborator Learning: a platform to guide architecture live project educators’ has just been published. Abstract: Architecture faces increasing marginalisation, partly due to architects’ inability to articulate their role, a challenge rooted in education. This study explores how live projects, through co-design with…

Jen Chalkley’s journal article ‘The Play Gap: Construction toys in the design process‘ is hot off the press. Abstract: Anchored in current debates surrounding spatial design education, this paper investigates the role of unstructured play using construction toys as a catalyst for creativity and collaboration in early design development. Moving beyond established design methodologies, the…

We are pleased to welcome Sam Thomson as the latest member to join PARTICIPATE. Sam is a game developer and researcher currently teaching on the BSc (Hons) Games Design and BA (Hons) Games Art courses at Leeds School of Arts. Research interests include cybernetics, feminism, simulation, ontology, commodification of knowledge, and the history of the…

Walking has gained increasing attention as a research method—through walking interviews, ‘go-alongs’, and approaches that map the geographies of everyday life. In 2024, Dr Anne Schiffer spent six months on a research sabbatical, including four months at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, hosted by Prof. Ping Su and Prof Adam Grydehøj. ‘Mapping with…