Our Design Think Tanks (DTT) bring together first-year students with practices from our Practice Network to generate creative design propositions informed by rigorous analytical research aimed at solving real-world problems in London.
Each year the LSA selects a shortlist of DTT topics to be studied from a list of suggestions made by the Practice Network. The study topics suggested are ones that require urgent consideration, innovative thinking and design solutions that will generate significant social and environmental progress and beneficial urban change.
The research undertaken by this year’s DTT teams has manifested as a series of in-depth reports and films, the latter of which are shown here.
A Comfortable Home
Students: Daniel Njoku, Elliott Wang, Funmi Adebiyi, George Kelly, Imogen Phillips, James Mearns
Leader: Maccreanor Lavington
Future of Urban Travel
Students: Charlie Spall, Eleanor Washington, Fabrica Rutikanga, Giorgia Maccini-Hill, Karol Grzeskowiak
Leader: Weston Williamson + Partners
Phygital City: The Press Pause Project
Students: Janusz Ferenc, Taylor Gittens, Moia McErlean, Dev Navekar, Shreenidhi Srinath
Leader: Penoyre Prasad
Excavating the City
Students: Beth Allen, Irgel Enkhsaikhan, Eleanor Harding, Stephen Johnson, Sarena Shah, Manon Vilagines
Leader: Ash Sakula Architects
Space of the Street: An Urban Renaissance in Poplar
Students: Adrian Moussaid, Lucy Beech, Moyagh Gallagher, Sarah Mansour, Vanessa Salambassi, Zafir Ameen
Leader: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Creative Blocks: Challenging Modularity with Meaningful Placemaking
Students: Charlie Isham, Declan Wain, Isobel Parnell, Jerry Florez, Luke Taylor, Marta de la Morena Papiani, Semi Han
Leaders: Studio Egret West; Wimshurst Pelleriti
Eco-City-System: Future-Fitting Urban Habitats
Students: Aishwarya Vipin, Charley Harvey, Deniz Uyanik, James Anderson, Mair Evans, Teresa Warner
Leaders: Bell Phillips Architects; PiM.studio
Beyond Housing: The Architecture of Wellbeing
Students: Aldrin Mallari, Clara Calladine, Emily Brown, Eve Nixon, Theodore James, Timothy Howitt
Leader: RCKa
Making Good
Students: Alexander Berger-Sandhofer, Adam Connolly, Hannah Millar, Karla Bonner, Simeon Scott, Zuzanna Grodzka
Leaders: Orms; dMFK
Water Agora
Students: Helaena Blanch, Cassius Cracknell, Dara Edmondson, Dylan Hopwood, Bryony Johnson, Hattie Orr
Leader: IDOM
Life and Death in the Shared City
Students: Natalia Bieszke, Malcolm Ebose, Regen-James Gregg, Cameron McKay, Eugene Sinclair
Leaders: Allies and Morrison; Erect Architecture