RESEARCH
Research Collaborations
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A collaboration across the disciplines of Mobility and Urban Design looking at the future design of cities.
Founded in 2020 with Sam Livingstone of Car Design Research.
Moving Spaces is a new concept that harnesses the creative potential of emergent technologies in the overlapping arena of the built environment and mobility.
Through a step-change in the design of cities, buildings, and vehicles, it shows the opportunity to reshape how people live for the better — with associated economic and environmental benefits.
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An awareness campaign highlighting issues and solutions around construction waste.
Founded in collaboration with members of University College London.
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An international collaboration between designers and researchers focussed on inclusive urban design solutions that address the needs of different genders, age groups, ethnicities and sexual identities.
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London Exhibition for the Seoul Biennale 'Collective Cities' which seeks to question how modes of collective practice and action can challenge the current paradigms of development of our cities and offer resistance to the dominant systems of spatial production.
The biennale seeks to reflect on new models of co-existence, social practice, governance, research and speculation, to suggest alternative concepts of architecture, the city and the environment and to interrogate architecture's political agency.
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Collaborate with Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou to represent Ireland at the Biennale Architecttura 2016 in Venice.
An installation to communicate and interpret the changes to spatial perception caused by dementia.
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A public engagement exercise with the Asmara Heritage Project (AHP) and University College London, aimed at researching, safeguarding and promoting Asmara’s outstanding urban heritage.
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A report exploring alternative uses for the traffic corridor and combines design concepts.
A collaboration between UCL, British Land, Camden Council, Living Streets, White Arkitekter, Fletcher Priest Architects, AHMM and Arup, with input from Publica.
Lectures + Podcasts
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An International Conference bringing together leading names in the profession including Sir David Chipperfield, Odile Decq and Hannah Corlett to discuss the challenges facing our urban environments, now and in the future.
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A series of talks given by the most exciting architectural practices working across the world, as well as debates around ideas and issues that impact architecture and urbanism today. Organised by the Architecture Foundation.
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In this episode, Hannah and Chris discuss what that future might look like for everyone and how urban designers and educators play in an integral role in shaping it.
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Part of the Future is Now lecture series, which poses the question - What comes next and How can architecture make the future a better and brighter place? - to speakers, each of whom has achieved incredible feats in their personal and professional lives, in the hope that their insight will help to inspire the future generation of architects. Organised by Reading University.
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Presentations and discussion addressing gender inclusive design.
There is a growing body of research that suggests we design our cities with an unconscious gender bias which can disadvantage the wellbeing of a large proportion of our society, treating them as ‘invisible citizens’. So can a conscious application of a gender-design filter create an approach to cities that is more equitable and sustainable? This conversation will explore the city through the eyes of those who have identified and expressed these inequities and discuss what we might do to address these imbalances.
Speakers include Sarah Williams, MIT (USA), Öykü Ülgüner, City Planner and Sustainability Manager, (Germany), Rumana Kabir, Development Consultant (Reading, UK), Wan Sophonpanich, Global CCCM Cluster Coordinator at IOM - UN Migration (Geneva, Switzerland) , Pedro Silva Costa, UNStudio (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Chaired by Oyin Talabi, Happold Foundation.
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The second of Meet the Architects series introduces Hannah Corlett, founder of HNNA. Corlett is not only the architect behind two of the new Greenwich Design District’s buildings but also the creator and coordinator of its ambitious masterplan.
The final event in the Meet the Architects series sees the return of Hannah Corlett, Founding Director of HNNA. Having previously spoken about her work on Design District's masterplan, the focus this time is on the two buildings she's brought to Greenwich Peninsula's new heart. Interview by Jemima Burrill, curator and cultural consultant to NOW Gallery.
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Presentations and discussion addressing the theme: ‘Beyond Brick – Creating a new London Vernacular’.
The line-up of presenters includes Hannah Corlett (HNNA), Angela Dapper (Denton Corker Marshall), Shireen Hamdan (Populous), David Kohn (DKA), Yeoryia Manolopoulou (AY Architects), Patrick Michell (Platform 5), Chloë Phelps (Brick by Brick), Jessica Reynolds (vPPR) and Amin Taha (Groupwork).
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Round table debate looking at urbanisation trends and a stronger economic outlooks that are boosting prospects for European cities. Organised by Property EU
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Implementing better futures: What needs to change? Where are practices already manifesting change? Part of the Built Environment online panel series. Speakers include: Hannah Corlett, HNNA, Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, Amanda Sturgeon, Mott MacDonald and Monica Richter, WWF
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HNNA Director Hannah Corlett was guest speaker as part of a series of talks for Constructing Excellence.
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Part of the Modernism for the Future program of Kaunas 2022, building up 2022 when Kaunas will be European Capital of Culture, the workshop also celebrated 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
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Online presentation in which HNNA's Greenwich Design District Masterplan is used as a case study to open up discussion on the physical and economic scale of future cities, broader ways of encouraging innovation by challenging design guidance, and the need to engage with long term sustainable big picture strategies.
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Meet the Design District Architects: Jemima Burrill in conversation with Hannah Corlett, Founding Director of HNNA and Design District Master Planner and Architect.
During this talk, the thinking and planning behind London's new Design District is discussed and the challenges, benefits and learnings of the unique approach to planning and the overall impact it had on the architectural outputs is explored.
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Teaching + Workshops
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An undergraduate design unit for the BSc Architecture program at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London run in collaboration with Niall McLaughlin.
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A seminar group that looks at the ethics and agency of construction waste through the lens of design practices
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A post graduate architectural landscape programme focussing on time and process. Taught in collaboration with Tom Budd.
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An annual urban design workshop at Bezalel University for Israeli and Palestinian students addressing cultural identity and growth organised by Els Verbakel.
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A week-long workshop for architecture and heritage protection professionals and students. Part of the Modernism for the Future program of Kaunas 2022, European Capital of Culture, the workshop also celebrated 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The participants investigated different development perspectives for historical plots in the modernist centre of Kaunas.
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The masters programme pioneers the development of a more diverse and creative attitude to the reinterpretation and reuse of historical environments in cities around the world. It teaches a fresh and critical approach that promotes architectural and artistic interventions which rejuvenate and reinterpret historic environments at all scales, from innovative street furniture to city planning.
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An Urban Design Masters programme. Believing that urban design must move beyond its current role as mere facilitator of capital expansion, the program sets out to transform existing paradigms of urban design education.
Publications
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HNNA’s Design District has been named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Places in the World in 2021.
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Can you Actually Design a Creative District?
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Designing the Greenwich Peninsula’s Design District
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Greenwich design district: ‘It’s going to have this amazing anthill quality’
Can you really design a design district?
Greenwich Design District: first building completes
HNNA have been shortlisted by Argent-backed King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP) for new 23,000sqm commercial buildings on the St Pancras Hospital site, as part of a two-stage charrette and design contest.
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Design District Reveals New Images Of Designs For London's First Purpose-Built Facilities
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8 Architecture Firms Announced To Design London’s First Purpose-Built Design District
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Designing London’s Design District
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Designers on International Women’s Day: “We need to address imbalance all year round”