Funded projects

Moving pictures: reusing cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora

  • Project led by Kate Jordan and Julie Marsh
  • Funded by the RIBA

Ramadan Pavilion

  • Project led by Shahed Saleem
  • Funded by the V&A    

Vertigo in the City

  • Project led by Davide Deriu
  • Funded by the Wellcome Trust (small grant in the medical humanities, 2014-15) and British Academy (Mid-Career Fellowship, 2019-21)

Read more on the Vertigo in the City blog.

Falling Away, Exhibition and Symposium

Ambika P3, 22 October – 20 November 2021

  • Co-curator and Symposium convenor, Davide Deriu
  • Funded by Arts Council England / British Academy

Towards Inclusive Pedagogies // “Architecture Design Studios: re-framing with the empathic imagination in mind”

A SA+C / EDI-education Participatory Workshop funded by University of Westminster’s Diversity and Inclusion Research Community, July 2021.

Travelling Companions

ARB Exhibition

  • Curator: Ro Spankie
  • Supported by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, April 2020

From Progress to Possibliity: The urban imagination of the British New Left, 1956-1964

  • Paul Mellon Foundation
  • Recipient: Nick Beech, 1 January 2021 - 30 April 2021

Decolonising urban and architectural curricula to enable effective climate actions

  • Funded by SCUE (2019 - ongoing, £9,699).
  • PI: Giulio Verdini, with Steven Bland (UN-HABITAT), Roudaina Al Khani, Johan Woltjer, Michael Neuman, Terry Lamb, Paolo Cascone, Nick Beech, Olivia Bina, Josefine Fokdal. 

Architecture and/for Photography

Funded by CCA Multidisciplinary Research Program, Davide Deriu, 5 May 2016 to 4 November 2017.

Housing and Labour: a pilot oral history of post-war council house building in England and Scotland

  • £23,750
  • PI Christine Wall, University Strategic Research Fund, Phase 3, July 2017