Research Ideas – Master
PGT, Master, Dissertations, Research Methods
Last Updated 7 October 2030
 

This is a non-exhaustive list of possible themes, topics, and research questions that I am interested in and capable of supervising for Master dissertations (MArch/MSc/MA/MPhil). I will update this list every academic semester and include links to exemplary outputs where possible. If you are enrolled at the University of Salford, email me to discuss supervisory arrangements. If you are enrolled at another university, check your institution’s external supervision regulations, and contact me accordingly. If you have general questions about dissertations, contact me and I will try to respond in a timely manner.

\\\ Site-ing and Landscape Strategies

Coming soon…

 

\\\ Machine Ethnographies

  1. Methodologies of the technical and the socio-technical in architectural and urban studies;
  2. Evolving machine-human spatialities [new robot factories, human-machine co-existence, robot spatialities, 3-D Printing in construction sites];
  3. Prosthetic Architectures and the evolving body-space associations [prosthetic body parts, exoskeletons, (dis)ability, all gender toilets].

 

\\\ Mobile Architectures

  1. Completed – The architectural associations of vehicles such as car, bus, train, airplane, and ship (see Mobile Architectures)
  2. Completed – Inhabiting the Extreme 1: Refugees Rescue Ships from the M.V. Aquarius Dignitus (MSF) to M.V. Louise Michel, Geo Barents (MSF), and others
  3. Inhabiting the Extreme 2: vehicles of science and power in the Poles from the US Antarctic Snow Cruiser to the Soviet Kharkovchanka

 

\\\ The Othered Everyday

  1. Geographies of security, conflict, and militarization [borders, walls, boundaries, wars, occupations, etc.];
  2. Less-studied sites [construction sites, logistics sites, shipyards, airports, factories, train depots, and infrastructure hubs];
  3. Abandoned/derelict construction sites and buildings.

 

\\\ Contemporary Concerns

  1. How architecture continues to change in a post-COVID19 world [typologies, morphologies, atmospheric environments, sociotechnical configurations, living with COVID];
  2. Critique of smart cities and smart architecture, specifically the breakdown of technical-human relations relational to technological determinism [surveillance, citizenship, automation, etc.];
  3. Critical approaches to Sustainability as a philosophical worldview and a discursive practice in architectural and urban design.