Behind the Lines of Everyday Public Spaces

Location: Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 22 Gordon St, London WC1H 0QB. Room no 6.01 and 6.02 (6th Floor) | Map
Language: English

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Image Credit: DECOLAB and Kıvıcılm Göksu Toprak

DECOLAB invites you to step into an immersive, participatory series hosted by University College London that explores the hidden stories woven into the fabric of our public spaces.

From the alleyways of Chennai to the contested corners of Istanbul and into the emergent spaces of belonging in the UK, this event invites you to reimagine the city through the lenses of memory, displacement, resistance, and belonging. Engage in interactive storytelling, participatory art-making, and sensory reconstructions of spaces that no longer exist — or exist only in fragments.

This is not a conventional exhibition. It is a living archive, a collaborative exploration, and a call to re-map the city together.

This event is open to adults who are curious about the textures of everyday urban life, including artists, international students, designers, activists, and local community members seeking deeper engagement with place, identity, and urban transformation.

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"The USF has played a crucial role in creating space for urban research that not only moves beyond academic spheres but also values embodied, decolonial, and insurgent ways of knowing. As a queer geographer working in and through the messy, affective terrains of urban India, this Fellowship didn’t just fund my research — it affirmed it. It gave me the courage and capacity to experiment with form, to centre marginal voices, and to hold space for joy, pain, memory, and resistance in my work. I remain in awe of the nurturing, and genuinely transformative support USF continues to offer its Fellows — during, and far beyond, the fellowship period."

Dr Dhiren Borisa, International Fellowship

Urban Studies Foundation is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC039937.

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