Mas-Piece / Body-Architecture: Collaboration between Tropical Isles Canrival Group and UEL BSc Architecture, Unit A

Carnival Mas-Piece is a live-build project and 1:1 construction of a 5 meter tall Mas-piece in collaboration between Tropical Isles canrival youth group and UEL students that won numerous prizes at Notting Hill and Hackney Carnivals 2019

Co-Design Practice

Can a collaborative approach to analysis and production of space promote knowledge transfer that enhance social and spatial capital for local communities? Over the last three years we have initiated, raised funds, managed and delivered a number of successful collaborative design- and research projects across Dalston, East London. As award winning and internationally practicing architects and urban designers, we embed relevant topics into the centre of the studio-based design teaching at UEL to create a ‘field of opportunity’ for overlaps between professional disciplines, institutions and local authorities, for mutual benefit. As a response to challenging urban contexts of conflict, deprivation and climate change, our designstudio approach to research aims to explore and develop alternative forms of collaborative design practice and co-design methodology

Relational States of Dalston: Research Project

This report documents the innovative method for a multi-phased collaborative research project with a Local Authority client, that originated from the research-led design studio teaching. Externally funded, graduates worked as co-researchers to produce a socio-spatial stakeholder analysis that formed part of Hackney Council’s public consultation process and evidence base for the implementation of Dalston Area Action Plan into local Planning Policy

Dalston Roof Park

How can new types of shared urban spaces support well-being wholeheartedly and attempt to "seed" ideas for innovative and adaptive use through collective appropriation? How to cultivate a new "breed" of community spaces in the city through bottom-up processes: a case-study in co-design

“DALSTON! WHO ASKED U?”: A Knowledge-Centred Perspective on the Mapping of Socio-Spatial Relations in East London

Since the turn of the millennium, Dalston in the London Borough of Hackney has experienced fundamental change through public and private investment in new infrastructure and processes of urban restructuring. This was paralleled by the reform of the national planning system, which aimed to devolve decision-making to the local level and increase the possibilities for residents and stakeholders to participate in planning processes. However, the difficulty of translating local needs and aspirations into policy goals and broadly accepted area action plans resulted in a crisis, which, in 2018, led to the introduction of the Dalston Conversation and subsequently the revision of planning goals. It is in this context that the Relational States of Dalston mapping project generated and assembled local knowledge about the web of socio-spatial relations between different local actors and in this way highlighted the significance and fragility of the communities’ networks and their spatial dimensions. The collection, ordering, integration, and production of knowledge can be seen as part of the core work in urban planning processes and policymaking. Which forms of knowledge are routinely used in planning contexts and define the relationship between planning action and urban transformation? To what extent could the mapping of local community relations add to this knowledge and help to improve decision-making processes in contested spaces of knowledge? In what ways could a relational understanding of space and architectural modes of research and representation contribute to the analysis, conceptualisation, and communication of local community relations? This article engages with these questions, using the mapping project in Dalston as a case study

Relações filogenéticas entre espécies de "Flectonotus" (Anura: Hemiphractidae) isoladas geograficamente reveladas por dados moleculares, de comportamento e morfológicos

Phylogenetic analyses of data derived from one mitochondrial gene and one nuclear gene show that the five species of small marsupial frogs currently recognized as Flectonotus are in fact two distinct and not closely related lineages. This conclusion is strongly supported by reproductive behavior and morphological characters. Thus, we recognize the genus Fritziana Mello-Leitão for the three species in southeastern Brazil and Flectonotus Miranda-Ribeiro for the two species in northern South America.Análises filogenéticas de dados derivados de um gene mitocondrial e um gene nuclear mostram que as cinco espécies de pererecas-marsupiais de pequeno porte atualmente incluídas no gênero Flectonotus pertencem, na verdade, a duas linhagens distintas e não intimamente aparentadas. Essa conclusão é fortemente sustentada por caracteres morfológicos e características do comportamento reprodutivo. Dessa forma, reconhecemos os gêneros Fritziana Mello-Leitão, para as três espécies do sudeste do Brasil, e Flectonotus Miranda-Ribeiro, para as duas espécies do norte da América do Sul