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Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes

Mitchell was uest editor and contributor to single journal issue introducing new architectural research area in places where architects are embedded within rapidly changing unfamiliar situations using small live projects to generate creative inspiration within the host community.

Draws out themes from field research and hypothetical schemes in Indian slums from 2002 to 2008, where the academic nature of the research and the imaginative response of the individual designer is protected from the need for immediate closure; subsequently turning these themes into transfer metaphors for new ethical narratives, broadening the discourse by engaging Indian schools of architecture and active NGOs; then collaborating in the germination small live projects from fertile psycho-geographic landscapes, establishing lines of enquiry and validating relevant topics through small incremental participatory making projects. This methodology involves a process of testing ways of making territorial decisions and turning the several orders of reality which are always in play, and often in conflict, in any particular situation into a concrete programme where closure involves the interweaving of infrastructure, dimension and fit at a broad range of scales from the dwelling to the city without reductive standardisation in the process of up-scaling.

Angela Hopcraft runner up for the RIBA Silver Medal Award, 2006.

Valerie Lux, Short Listed for the RIBA Bronze Medal Award, 2008.

Exhibition at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, 2009.

Has theoretically underpinned subsequent work in the ARCSR research area which is the subject of other REF outputs and the ARCSR Impact Case Study.