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      Decolonising the curriculum: US Study Abroad: London Architecture and Urbanism – Albertopolis, South Kensington

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      decolonising the curriculum, US Study Abroad, London, architecture, British cultural imperialism

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          This article focuses on ways of decolonising the curriculum of a one-semester London Architecture and Urbanism course taught differently across several US Study Abroad programmes in London. These introductory courses took place in the seminar room and out in the field. With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a greater focus on teaching in open spaces. The courses are principally structured around the capital’s key public developments. Many of the sites have an older historical antecedence. They were largely built between the mid-eighteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth century during the time of the Empire and the Industrial Revolution. While the Empire has gone, London continues to transmit ideas revolving around the cultural hegemony of a politically, economically and socially superior nation through its urban histories. These histories are sometimes explicit, but are more often hidden, as they become subsumed into London’s evolving cityscape. On this basis, introductory architectural courses that outline the city’s development, by default, recapitulate the values of British cultural imperialism. This article examines how London’s architectural history and imperial visions can be re-evaluated through the lens of a culturally responsive teaching and learning study abroad platform.

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                Contributors
                Role: Guest Editor
                Journal
                Archit_MPS
                Architecture_MPS
                UCL Press
                2050-9006
                27 January 2022
                : 21
                : 1
                : 1
                Affiliations
                Boston University Study Abroad London, UK
                Boston University Study Abroad London, UK; cdon@ 123456bu.edu
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                Archit_MPS-21-1
                10.14324/111.444.amps.2022v21i1.001
                b861b31c-d3a8-4cb4-b762-a3dde226022f
                2022, Caroline Donnellan.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2022v21i1.001.

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                : 30 January 2021
                : 17 December 2021
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                Pages: 11
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                Donnellan, C. ‘Decolonising the curriculum: US Study Abroad: London Architecture and Urbanism – Albertopolis, South Kensington’. Architecture_MPS 21, 1 (2022): 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2022v21i1.001.

                Sociology,Political science,Political & Social philosophy,Urban studies,Architecture,Communication & Media studies
                decolonising the curriculum,architecture,US Study Abroad,British cultural imperialism,London

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