The Memory Workshop Open days

A new space for events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public in east London.Exploring the impact of industry, globalisation, regeneration and gentrification on the six Olympic Park boroughs and their people, the UCL Urban Room is a practice-based, multi-purpose space at the heart of the new UCL East campus, dedicated to debate and engagement around key questions of future living and urbanism.Located at One Pool Street (the first phase of the development), the public-facing UCL Urban Room hosts events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public, whilst the Memory Workshop will open up access to UCL’s public and oral history collections, forging dialogue between UCL urban researchers and local community partners. Together they represent an exciting resource on the past, present and future of cities that will enable innovative explorations of London’s history, and the site in east London, through both ideas and objects.Managed through a partnership between UCL Urban Laboratory, The Bartlett, School for the Creative and Cultural Industries and UCL Library Services: Special Collections, the space is designed to create opportunities for academics, students and partners to be exposed to each other's work and initiatives. It operates as a research-led teaching resource for two associated Masters programmes, Urban Lab's MASc Global Urbanism, and MA Public History (History), as well as a space for engagement and participation by the wider academic community.