Dear friend and colleague
We are delighted to finally announce the launch of the DPU summerLab 2015 series.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the DPU summerLab – by now five years old – is a unique platform for one-week design workshops in urban contested spaces. Through the summerLab, we have been partnering with professionals, universities and other civil society organisations that had interests in analysing a particular urban condition and propose design strategies in collaboration with us: it has been truly a great opportunity to open up research pathways and explore new grounds of investigation while starting up fruitful partnerships.
For this year’s series, we have been overwhelmed by requests and ideas, to the extent of deciding to offer the unprecedented number of five workshops.
Beirut – Imagining Bliss: 31 August – 5 September
Chicago – Puerto Rican Diaspora: 7 – 12 September
Mostar – Common Grounds: 14-19 September
London – Localising Legacies: 21-26 September
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The workshops are geared toward professionals and students with an interest in studying the built environment and its contested narratives of transformation. The application deadline for all summerLab workshops is Monday 6 July 2015. We would really appreciate if you could spread the info through your networks, your current and past students
