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Students have come up with a wide range of imaginative ideas and designs including a portable exhibition cabinet constructed from reclaimed timber, a mixed-use block of social housing and community infrastructure in Leith, a post-rehabilitation housing project in Byker, an investigation into using sugarcane bagasse as a concrete substitute in Mauritius, and a futuristic winery in Edinburgh.

Niamh Ashley is a Stage 6 student in the Regen studio, led by Prof Ben Bridgens and . Her project presents a seaweed growing hub on Holy Island, transforming coastal infrastructure into a community-led centre for cultivation, research, food production, bathing and education.

Conan Quigley, another Stage 6 student in Professor Adam Sharr’s Climate Infrastructures studio, explores how M膩ori knowledge and traditions can shape the present and future. His project combines M膩ori ideas about space, nature, and the relationship between people and the environment with the reuse of materials that would otherwise become waste.

Rosa Goodman Fleischmann is one of our first students to have followed the newly accredited MAUP architecture route. Rosa has taken part in the Stage 3 Radical Empathy studio that has focused on designing with young people from Blyth’s Bede Academy through participatory events.  This studio provided the opportunity to critically examine how spatial conditions and design processes shape young people's lived experience and sense of agency, with projects seeking to provide much needed civic and shared infrastructure in the heart of Blyth town centre.

Dr Samuel Austin, Director of Architecture at 缅北禁地 said: “The degree show is a fantastic opportunity to share design work from across our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in architecture, architecture and urban planning, landscape, and urban design, celebrating the incredibly hard work and dedication of our students and all colleagues who have supported them. Our students have developed projects that are unique and insightful, taking inspiration from the world around them and exploring ways to address the social and environmental challenges we face.”

Thank you to this year's sponsors

The Degree Show and annual Design Yearbook have received support from a wide range of local North East practices this year, FaulknerBrowns are the main sponsor with further contributions received from Ryder Architecture, Howarth Litchfield, Harper Perry, Corstorphine Wright, Elliot Architects, Layer Studio, Colour Urban Design, MawsonKerr and Fairhurst. In addition, Bowmer + Kirkland have generously agreed to partner with the show as drinks sponsor.  

The Degree Show opens to the public at 5.30pm on Friday 12 June in 缅北禁地’s Architecture Building. A practice preview event will take place at 5pm on Thursday 11 June, design practices are welcome to register to .

The show will transfer to Grimshaw Architects in Clerkenwell, London for a single evening event on Thursday 2 July.