Studio 10: Global Challenges – Urgent Pedagogy
Studio 10 holds a long history of research and pedagogy around the topic of displacement and engages in collaborative, live-built projects within contexts of social, environmental, and civic injustice, that aim to bridge the gap between architectural education, practice, and research. Over the years we have designed and built for refugees in Izmir Turkey, engaged in proposition for the reconstruction of Ukraine, Syria and Palestine, and imagined a world that is free from the mistakes of its past. Over that same period the number of displaced populations has grown rapidly due to war and the effects of climate change, and this has become an urgent Global Challenge.
Context of Investigation
The focus is on you to define ambitious, research-based thesis that connect to your own life experiences, beliefs and ambitions as a future architect, to some of the greatest challenges facing our societies today. Moving between the personal and the global, within multiple contexts and scales, we will help you deliver diverse, architectural proposals, to a high level of conceptual, social, environmental, material, and tectonic resolution. Projects that have a positive impact on the wellbeing and dignity of individuals and populations, and where possible and supported by our international network of collaborators, assist you to locate your project so that it has real life impact.
Studio Agenda and Methodology
The studio will continue to deploy the Global Free Unit methodology of the contract, the gift, and project friends to help you realize projects that are impactful, practical, poetic and that can be applied right now. This studio is not about mapping, it’s not about abstract research, it’s not inward looking. Rather it’s about good architecture, compassion, and being useful to the wider society.
We see the studio as the first part of your future practice not just the last part of your education. Grab it and make it count.
Teaching team: Amalia Katopodis, Robert Mull, Toms Kokins and Luis Berríos Negrón.
Latest update: 2026-08-30