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A practice-based, multi-purpose space at the heart of the new UCL East campus, dedicated to debate and engagement around key questions of future living and urbanism.

Located at One Pool Street, the public-facing UCL Urban Room hosts events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public.

Exploring the impact of industry, globalisation, regeneration and gentrification on the six Olympic Park boroughs and their people, UCL Urban Room is a partnership between UCL Urban Laboratory,听The Bartlett,听School for the听Creative and Cultural Industries听补苍诲听UCL Library Services: Special Collections.

The space is designed to create opportunities for academics, students and partners to be exposed to each other's work and initiatives. It operates as a research-led teaching resource for two associated Masters programmes, Urban Lab's Global Urbanism MASc, and Public History MA (UCL History Department), as well as a space for engagement and participation by the wider academic community.

What's on

Volunteer

Volunteer opportunities with UCL Urban Room

Passionate about urban research, art exhibitions, and community engagement and want to make an impact? The听UCL Urban Room is looking for student volunteers听to join our team!

Gain hands-on experience invigilating exhibitions, and planning and assisting events!

If this interests you, please听.听There is no deadline for applications as the team听will review them on a rolling basis.

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Past exhibitions

Memory Work

5/07/2024听- 16/08/2024

Connecting researchers and practitioners from acorss UCL, the Memory Work exhibition explored the theme of memory in urban research, and how creative outputs might provide entry-points for understanding the complex evidence of urban investigations.

The exhibition showcased a range of work from members of the Urban Lab Steering Committee, spanning across disciplines, geographies and communities.听Contributions came听from people working in the fields of urbanism, architecture, geography, political science, planning, critical heritage studies, history and anthropology.听

Sonia E. Barrett: Maplective

15/03/2024听- 15/06/2024

In the 'Maplective'听exhibition, artist takes European tools instrumental in creating colonial power, such as desks, maps and cameras, and reconfigures听them to do the cultural work they disrupted. Through creative workshops, sculpture, discussion and performance, Sonia worked with local communities in East London听to respond to, and co-create, new sculptures that reframe the question: "What was here before?鈥澨�

Sonia has been working with groups of black and brown women, forming听the 'East Bank map-lective', to shred and braid the maps听of colonised and post colonised, coloniser and post coloniser territories. Find out more.

Undocumented? Migration on the edges of Europe

30/09/2024听- 29/02/2024

Co-curated by artist and academic听,听'Undocumented?' explores听journeys of migration as a series of video installations and situated vignettes from the edges of Europe.听

Grounded in original field research, the exhibition traces a route through the borderlands of the 'refugee crisis', narrating stories of migrant journeys and the clandestine crossing of borders. An unfinished and听immersive 'Atlas of European Belonging' visualises Europe through its margins and the spaces of transit, movement and stasis produced by those on the move.

In Practice: Student Showcase

06/09/2023 - 28/10/2023

This showcase brings together student work from three postgraduate programmes: Public History, Global Urbanism, and Connected Enviornments. The range of presentations demonstrates their approaches to understanding today's social challenges relating to memory, identity, urban change, and technology.

All three programmes are located in the new UCL East and engage with the context of the area through site-based learning, and collaborations with local oraganisations and communities.

SEEDED residency showcase

01/08/2023 - 19/08/2023

T锘縣e SEEDED showcase brings together work created during and as a product of residencies as part of听听in London College of Fashion and UCL East Urban Room. The four artists have been embedded for five months to allow them to investigate and develop their practice on themes around social practise, activism, collective memory, urbanisation and community engagement.

Audiences can expect to explore ideas of antifascist protest in east London with听Mercedes Baptiste Halliday; unethical pay in the east London fashion industry from听Toyin Gbomedo; sustainable styling in Easten Eurpean fashion with听Noemi Gunea; and Somali identity and poetry with听Naajia Ahmed.

Testing Ground: an immersive sound and video exhibition

31/05/2023 - 21/06/2023

An exhibition of visual and sonic installations of contemporary and historic helicopter surveillance over London, Iraq and Belfast.听听It shows techniques of aerial surveillance that were developed by the British Army over Belfast during the 30 year conflict - the so-called Troubles 鈥� these have now been adapted by the National Police Air Service for use over London and other UK mainland cities. This exhibition, derived听from a project conceived by听听补苍诲听,听interweaves archival material gathered from the Imperial War Museum鈥檚 Northern Ireland Collection against contemporaneous video footage and sonic field recordings of helicopter surveillance at moments of protest in London.

Navigating the System: A Boater Healthcare Exhibition

24/03/2023 鈥� 29/04/2023

is a co-curated exhibition about London鈥檚 boater community and difficulties they face accessing healthcare, told through photographs by photojournalist听听and testimonial accounts documented in research by听and听Nura Ali.

• Read the Q&A with Joseph Cook and Nura Ali

SE1 Stories: Community action in a London neighbourhood

19/01/2023 鈥� 03/03/2023

is a public history exhibition tracing four decades of community action, starting in Blackfriars in the 1970s. The exhibition has been created from a collection of thousands of photographs, and archives including the SE1 Newspaper publication that was produced from 1975-1991

Selected images from the SE1 exhibition听courtesy of Paul Carter