RESEARCH
Metropolitan Workshop has committed to a programme of practice-based research aimed at capturing and communicating our practice expertise and reflecting on it with a variety of voices to promote innovation and enhance our creative endeavour.
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Research themes
We will select a major research theme annually, driven by our practice imperatives and our collaborators. Like everything else we do as a studio, our research process will be tailored to the specific issues at hand and encourage collaboration.
Our methodology
Each research project will begin with an issue of Prospects, a set of proposition papers that will constructively challenge our thinking, and planned events to capture debate within practice and refine our analysis.
Our research projects will end with an addendum Prospects, which will capture new knowledge from participating -practitioners, present new reflection and analysis on our past and current practice, and critically propose new ways of thinking that will enrich our future practice with collaborators.
Our Research Projects
People Powered Places: Practical Guide
Metropolitan Workshop was founded as a vehicle for productive collaboration. We have always valued working...
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People Powered Places
Metropolitan Workshop was founded as a vehicle for productive collaboration. We have always valued working...
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A New Kind of Suburbia
Metropolitan Workshop has been thinking critically about how innovative forms of suburban housing and neighbourhoods...
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NLA Ideas for Housing London
Pocket Regen has been shortlisted as one of 100 ideas that will be on display in a free public exhibition in The Building Centre from 15 Oct to 17 Dec, examining London’s housing crisis. Working with Pocket Living, Pocket Regen presents an alternative estate regeneration strategy, that provides a better offer to existing residents, and other stakeholders, than the received logic of demolish and rebuild. The intention is that the new model utilises a bottom-up approach to estate regeneration, offering residents compelling incentives and choice. Key to the idea’s success will be the ‘alignment of incentives’ across all key stakeholders – Residents, LA, GLA, etc...
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