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Glasgow Urban Lab

The Glasgow Urban Lab is funded by Glasgow City Council Department of Development and Regeneration Services and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. The Urban Lab’s work on Scottish Renaissance Towns is supported by the Planning Exchange Foundation.

 

Mission
The Glasgow Urban Laboratory is a partnership between the Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA) at the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow City Council’s Department of Development and Regeneration Services (DRS). The Urban Lab will use the established design and research capability of the School of Architecture, together with expertise and experience at DRS and other partners and collaborators. The City and academia will come together to explore the scope and potential for renewal within the city and its environs, to address urban problems.
 
By pooling resources, the Urban Lab will develop a community that achieves collaborative gain and increased capacity. It will do this through research and educational programmes that deliver and sustain improvements to the economic, social, cultural and physical environment.
 
The Glasgow Urban Laboratory seeks to provide a forum and a delivery mechanism for pooling the best minds across sectors and disciplines and plays a role in creating a ‘knowledge ecology’ of better city-making.
 
The Glasgow Economic Forum’s 10-year strategy calls for wholehearted and strategic engagement with the city’s education providers and the Urban Laboratory responds to that. It is establishing new creative relationships between the different place-making communities of the city, creating a triangular relationship where the city offers urban issues and problems; where practice offers expertise and linkage to practitioner networks, and the academic community offers scoping of issues, creativity through projects, vision, research knowledge, and new ideas. In return, the city gains new visions, possibilities and solutions and a resource for specialist staff training; practice gains intelligence and up-stream influence, whilst the academic community gains new research opportunities and connectedness.

 

For more information contact j.radcliffe@gsa.ac.uk





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