Shortly after it was announced that Bartlett Design PhD candidate Judit Ferencz had won this year’s RIBA LKE Ozolin Studentship
with 'The Graphic Novel as an Interdisciplinary Conservation Method in
Architectural Heritage', four members of The Bartlett were shortlisted
for the RIBA Research Award.
The RIBA Research Award is an annual
celebration of the best research in the fields of Architecture and the
Built Environment. This year's award was aimed at broadening
participation within the Built Environment through emphasising the
interdisciplinary nature of architectural research.
Bartlett
Teaching Fellow Edward Denison worked with the Asmara Heritage Project
for his research on Africa’s Modernist City: UNESCO World Heritage
Nomination. The research combines past and present photographs to convey
the life of a building in Eritrea's capital city over time. Asmara
provides a unique example of a colonial city facing modernity and
postcolonial struggles. In seeking to redress the under-representation
of African and modernist sites on the World Heritage List, Denison's
research challenges traditional perceptions of colonial heritage and
modernism in order to move beyond a Eurocentric gaze.
Bartlett
Tutor David Roberts’ entry, Make Public: Performing Public Housing in
Ernö Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower, is based on his PhD thesis looking at
the history and future of east London housing estates undergoing
regeneration. Central to his research into 1965-7 Balfron Tower was
engagement with current and former residents through a series of
workshops to build collective knowledge, and activism which draws on
this material and evidence to contribute to a more informed public
debate and planning decisions.