We are a world-leading cross-disciplinary centre promoting critical, creative and collaborative inquiry into urgent urban problems, based at University College London
Established in 2005, Urban Lab investigates, proposesÌýand disseminates critical solutions to a wide range of social, physical and technological urban and built environment issues, with a focus on the grand challenges of our time.
We draw on a wide range of urban expertise and research methodologies, based on exchange and collaboration between researchers from across the institution, including The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's faculties of Social and Historical Sciences, Engineering, and Arts and Humanities.
Urban Lab deliversÌýthe Global Urbanism MAScÌýprogramme, a transdisciplinary postgraduate degree thatÌýcuts radically across arts, humanities, social sciences and technology studies.Ìý
We actively promoteÌýparticipatory approaches to urban research, working in partnership with a range of different non-academic, business, and community-based organisations.Ìý