Name: Kelly Lui
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: Some.Kind.Of.Nature
Undergrad: MSA

Skills: Sketchup, Revit, Autocad, Photoshop, Indesign, Model Making

Interest: Cooking, eating, reading and gaming. I also have an obsession with all things dog related.

Name: Alysha Syed
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: Some.Kind.Of.Nature

Skills: digital collage, revit, rhino, sketchup, photoshop, abstract painting, sketching

Interest: Cooking, painting and trying new desserts recipes

Fun Facts : if i'm not taking architecture, I would probably be a doctor.

Name: Chloe Roberts
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: PRAXXIS

Skills: sketchup, autocad, Adobe suite, neuroarchitecture, photography
Hobbies: travelling, poetry and painting/ drawing
Fun fact: I’m a second Dan in karate & have a world title


Interest: Cooking, eating, reading and gaming. I also have an obsession with all things dog related.

Name: Jonathan Burtan
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: MAKING
Undergrad: Newcastle

Skills: Sketchup, Photoshop, indesign, twinmotion, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Cinema 4D, 3D Printing.

Interests: Sustainability, inclusion and advancing technology incorporated into design and manufacturing.

Name: Norsyazwina Jamal
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: Some.Kind.Of.Nature

Skill: I can memories songs of other languages that I don’t even understand.

Hobbies: Watching movies

Fun facts: I can binge watch 1 or 2 seasons of any series in one day.

Name: Tengku Nurul Nasfakhira
Year: MArch 1
Atelier: Some.Kind.Of.Nature
Undergrad: International Islamic University Malaysia

Skills: Technical drawing, Autodesk Revit, CAD, Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop, Indesign, Enscape, Vray, Procreate, Naviswork manage, BIM modeler

Hobbies: Travelling , watching movies and drama, listening music, swimming,

Fun facts: i can binge watch kdrama series in a day and repeat the same drama while doing my work

The project takes place in Old Trafford. The site is chosen due to its lack of public space infrastructure. The aim of this group is to work with the local community around the area, to help understand what will help make women feel safe on the streets in Old Trafford.

Our group is to create a precedent for the client, in which the can implement in future proposals and areas around Manchester. The chosen site will be in Hullard Park. The site was chosen due to its prominence, however due to the lack of safe infrastructure for females in the community much of this space is unoccupied. Therefore, to move forward how do we create conditions for women and girls to widen their access and participation on site?

Week 1 & 2 Discussions

Our fist approach to this project was to discuss certain elements in generating a safer street, from the initial meeting three themes were raised: Living an active life; Living a safer life and Living where I belong . The client’s aim is to challenge the status quo and with these three aims postcards were produced to act as a tool to form further discussion on the topic.

1. Living an active life The main question that we asked ourselves is: How are active lives gendered? The answer to this question comes in the form of six postcards. These illustrate the six most important ideas and theories derived from the literature that describe how active lives are gendered: 1) Affordability of being active 2) Infrastructure for being active 3) Fitting in: the triple burden 4) Harassment, gender-based violence and being active 5) Women’s bodies, femininity and being active 6) Boys’ sports/ Girls’ sports

2. Living a safer life The main question that we asked ourselves is: How are safer lives gendered? The answer to this question comes in the form of seven postcards. These illustrate the seven most important ideas and theories derived from the literature that describe how safer lives are gendered: 1) Activity can be healing and empowering 2) Public space design 3) Safety behaviours in public space 4) Harassment and gender-based violence in public space 5) The stories we tell: positioning women as powerless or powerful? 6) The problem with policing 7) Safety means different things to different people

3. Living where I belong The main question that we asked ourselves is: How is a sense of belonging gendered? The answer to this question comes in the form of six postcards. These illustrate the six most important ideas and theories derived from the literature that describe how safer lives are gendered: 1) Belonging is different from fitting in 2) Belonging relates to functionality 3) Representation through public art 4) A representative sector 5) Participation and co-design as belonging-in-action 6) Public space as a location of resistance