Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy

Laura Sanderson's work focuses upon the process of analysing and understanding the nature and qualities of place, in order to develop new buildings and other elements within the environment of the already built. As the Atelier Leader for Continuity in Architecture, she has led funded projects in settlements around Manchester; producing research outputs from projects in Bollington (2016), Bakewell (2017), Rochdale (2019), Shrewsbury (2020), and this year in Bradford. These outputs include exhibitions, articles, interactive children's projects, book chapters and built interventions. Laura co-curated UnDoing (2019), an exhibition at the radical independent Castlefield Gallery (with Sally Stone), featuring the work of a number of international artists and architects, exploring how buildings, places and artefacts are re-used, reinterpreted and remembered. These themes will be further explored in the forthcoming book Remember, Reveal, Construct: Reflections upon the Contingency, Usefulness and Emotional Resonance of Architecture, Buildings and Context (with Sally Stone 2022). Another imminent project is a collaboration with Luca Csepely-Knorr and the Institute of Place Management examining the High Streets of the District Centres of Manchester. Laura has published a number of reflections on her pedagogic approach including the work in Continuity in Architecture, the Atelier Zero installation and the MSA Events Programme (with Vicky Jolley), which has produced over 200 diverse live projects over the past decade. Laura Sanderson is an Architect, a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture, Year Leader for the Master of Architecture Programme and Atelier Leader for Continuity in Architecture. For more than thirty years Sally Stone has been designing, discussing, formulating ideas, and writing about architecture, building reuse and interiors. She recently published UnDoing Buildings: Adaptation and Cultural Memory, and she is also the co-author of a number of other books including ReReadings Volumes 1 & 2, From Organisation to Decoration, and the series: Interior Architecture: An Approach. She co-curated the exhibition UnDoing at the radical independent Castlefield Gallery in the centre of Manchester, which explored the disconnected yet similar approaches that artist and architects take to the already existing (interior) environment (with Laura Sanderson). 'Remember Reveal Construct: Reflections upon the Contingency, Usefulness and Emotional Resonance of Architecture, Buildings and Context' (with Laura Sanderson) will be published in 2022. Sally is the co-recipient of the UK Government sponsored Heritage Heroes Award in recognition of her work to save the Preston Bus Station. Sally Stone directs the Atelier Continuity in Architecture, and leads the Master of Architecture programme at the Manchester School of Architecture.