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Dr Pablo Sendra, with a team of researchers from the UCL Urban Laboratory, the Department of Information Studies, and the UCL Special Collections, will be leading a team of UCL Consultants on the Discovery Phase of the North Kensington Social Justice Archive.

For over 150 years, North Kensington has been at the centre of many campaigns, and fights for social justice and equality. The group from UCL Consultants will be working with members of the local community, specialists in community archiving, and the organisation Decolonising the Archives, to create a series of workshops and other opportunities to hear directly from the people of North Kensington, so that the team can understand and develop the communities’ ideas around this subject.

Dr Filipa Wunderlich has recently published a new research monograph 'Temporal Urban Design'. The book examines an alternative design approach, with focus on the temporal aesthetics of urban places, and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment.

The Bartlett Review 2021 has been published! Professor Matthew Carmona and Valentina Giordano disseminate Place Alliance's findings on the effect of lockdown on UK housing.

The 'Design Deficit' report summarises the findings of a short survey of urban design skills and approaches within England’s local planning authorities, and how they have changed over time. A response rate of 71% was achieved.

Alexandra Gomes recently spoke at 'What is a city of future?', a debate within the Publico "Conversas Urbanas" series. This discussion is in Portuguese.