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©Forms of Living 2019 - 2025
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New Towns New Tenures

Research and Education | 2020 - ongoing
© Isabella Synek-Herd, Everything But The Kitchen Sink(2022-2023)
Our focus on new towns comes from an interest in studying the relationship between domesticity and housing within a broader territory, and the impact of policy on the design of housing. This is underpinned by an ambition to unravel how the organisation of domestic activities and social relations are currently designated, and how they could be reimagined. This is part of a larger investigation that we continue to carry out in Europe, the US and Mexico through various case studies that problematise the commodification and privatisation of domestic activities as expressed in the development of specific housing typologies that facilitate real estate appropriation, for example, the ‘studio-flat’ or the single-family house.

This research is an extension of the work we have been conducting since 2020 through the teaching of various design studios at the University of Cambridge, Kingston University and Oxford Brookes University.

Teaching

The University of Cambridge

© Faye Blackshaw (2024-2025)
2024-2025
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House
Site: Milton Keynes New Town
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral, Daniel Marmot (Artefact)
Students: Luca Batista Dias e Godoy Beltrame, Jessica Bendelow, Jyotsni Bhattacharyya, Faye Blackshaw, Thomas Bridges, Cristina De la Joya Peletier, Samira Elbahja, Elliot Hamilton-Croft, Holly McNicoll, Lara Peralta, Maggie Porter, Katerina Reguretska, Albi Rix, Nadina Solovjova, Reuben Tomlin, Nyahalo Tucker, Vanessa Tung.


© Emma Stewart (2023-2024) Photo by Yushi Li
2023-2024
The Practice of Everyday Life
Site: Stevenage New Town
BA Studio 3.4
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral, Sam Nelson (Type)
Students:
© Freya Dougan, Beyond Insulation (2022-2023). Photo by Yushi Li
2022-2023
Magic, Party, Place
Site: Basildon New Town
BA Studio 3.4
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral, Sam Nelson (Type)
Students: Freya Dougan, Isabella Synek-Herd

2021-2022
Never Let Me Down Again
Site: Harlow New Town
BA Studio 3.4 
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral, Sam Nelson  (Type)
Students: Miriam Agiru, Hannah Back, Juliet Babinsky, George Birch, Alex Bramley, Mary Holmes, Bence Lipcsei, Precious Ndukuba, Sarah Portsmouth, Lalia Saidy Khan, Sang Wee.
Guests/Collaborators: Shumi Bose, Ives Brown, Barbara Campbell-Lange, Oliver Cooke, David Devine, Hunter Doyle, Rory Gardiner, Theodora Giovanazzi, Jane Hall, Moira Jones, Jon Lopez, George Massoud, Maria Rebecca Plaza, Ioanna Piniara, Davide Sacconi, Lorenzo Zandri.

Kingston University
2021-2022
Never Let Me Down Again
Site: Harlow New Town
BA Studio 2.1
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral

2020-2021
Uprooted
Site: Stevenage New Town
BA Studio 2.1
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral

Oxford Brookes University
2020-2021
The Approaching Obsolescence of Domesticity
Site: Various New Towns in the UK
MArchD DS7
Taught by: Lola Lozano Lara, Elena Palacios Carral and Sam Nelson
Technical Tutor: Emily Priest


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