Research
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Unit of measureUnit of Measure is an ongoing photographic project by U-P that uses a standard-sized basketball as a universal unit for measuring the city. Through a series of urban surveys, the project explores observation, density and urban development, using an everyday object to reveal new ways of understanding and interpreting the built environment.
We maintain an ongoing programme of study and self-directed projects, exploring questions that sit adjacent to and often inform our wider practice. This section brings together those investigations. Recent threads of enquiry have centred on ecological thinking, the material and conceptual possibilities of reuse, and the increasingly connected relationship between digital and physical environments. These investigations take many forms, from written pieces and visual experiments to prototypes and small publications. We see this research as essential to how the studio evolves. A space to test ideas, build new vocabularies, and consider how design might respond to the conditions of the present.