As a Teaching Assistant for the Design Realisation Module at a post-graduate level, I collaborate with academic Module coordinators to deliver teaching to enrolled students. I support seminar teaching in physical and online settings, give formative feedback, attend regular meetings with tutors, offer weekly office hours, and provide software demonstrations and support to students. The core aims of 'Cities Studio' are to develop student skills towards building an understanding of unfamiliar
urban contexts through a critical engagement with scholarship on selected urban contexts. By passing this module, students can acquire specific, detailed knowledge of and insight into urbanisation and urban
experiences in three urban contexts. The course will involve active engagement with the history and urban
challenges of the programme’s partner city, Johannesburg, as well as Skardu (Pakistan) and Kingston
(Jamaica). Themes are drawn from the existing scholarship from and about the partner cities and
from policy challenges, urban political issues, artistic practice, design, and planning innovations in those
contexts. Various sources are interrogated through workshops and studio activities, including
academic and policy sources, empirical studies, data analysis, maps, visual, artistic and cultural
productions.

Course Coordinators: Jennifer Robinson, Njogu Morgan, Clare Melhuish, and Nishat Awan.