Top down vs. bottom up — a brief critical history of urban planning

How different configurations of…

Meet our fellows

Six young researchers working with engaged citizens to create mutual learning for better neighbourhood living.

Meet the Bucharest team

Architects, urban researchers, anthropologists, political scientist…

Sheffield Live Works: the UK’s first permanent University-funded ‘Urban Room’

Salo Games

In the Tampere team we have been talking about how to integrate a game element into the explorations and Social Mapping that the highschool…

Urboteca Fellowship is live

An applied research programme engaging neighbourhood communities in Bucharest.

Introducing the Association for Urban Transition

A 16-year journey of researching all things urban.

2017 SSoA Live Projects

An educational initiative introduced in 1999 by the Sheffield School of…

Social mapping the places of transition. Case: Tobačna, Ljubljana