Welcome to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Urban Laboratory
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The Bartlett is Ranked Global #1 in 2024
For the second year running, The Bartlett has been ranked #1 in the world for Architecture and the Built Environment, and remains #1 in the UK for the tenth year in a row, in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2024.
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Memory Work | Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Urban Room
The new 'Memory Work' exhibition at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Urban Room explores key questions about the past and future of urban livingÌýthrough a Memory lens, and presents different creative approaches to engaging research.Ìý05 July–16 August 2024.
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Global Urbanism MASc
Applications are open for our new interdisciplinary MASc programme, which aims to equip urbanists with the critical skills and specialist knowledge to tackle urgent urban challenges and help shape fairer cities.
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Global Urbanism MASc: Ruth Glass Scholarship
Find out more about theÌýRuth Glass Scholarship, a full scholarship covering fees and living costsÌýfor our new MASc programme.
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