DPU, UCL July news
News
2024 DPU Short Film Competition winners announced
DPU are happy to announce this year’s winners and runners-up of the annual DPU Short Film Competition. The competition gives students of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit the opportunity to share their experiences and reflections of the annual overseas practice engagements, encapsulating some of the key themes taught within their master’s courses. Watch both films here.
Join the DPU alumni networking platform
This platform seeks to reconnect all those that have graduated from the DPU. Join the ever-expanding network of development practitioners to collectively shape a better future, advance your career trajectory in interesting ways, and find long lost DPU friends around the globe! Sign up now.
DPU alumni-founded charity CatalyticAction completes project empowering adolescent girls in Lebanon
CatalyticAction, founded by alumni from the Development Planning Unit (DPU), has concluded its pilot project in Beirut, Lebanon empowering adolescent girls by involving them in the co-design and construction of public spaces.
UCL announces 2023-24 staff promotions at The Bartlett
UCL has announced the senior academic, research, and teaching fellow promotions for 2023-24.
DPU70 Event Recordings
Missed some of the DPU70 anniversary events? You can still join the celebrations! Catch up on all their previous events on YouTube and be a part of the ongoing celebrations. Alternatively, listen on Mixcloud.
Publications
- The UK-Rwanda deal: a cruel experiment in inhospitality By Dr Harriet Allsopp
- The colonial face of ‘housing’ refugees: the construction of the racialised subject within a necropolitical infrastructure By Dr Giovanna Astolfo and Dr Harriet Allsopp
- Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins Book chapter in Beyond Houses: Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises. By Dr Giovanna Astolfo, Prof. Camillo Boano and Belen Desmaison
- DPU70 Special Edition: Seventy Years of the DPU: Collective visions for change By Prof. Caren Levy