Nishat Awan Knihy

Exploring the intersection of architecture, urban design, and migration, this book delves into how diasporic communities shape and are shaped by their environments. It emphasizes the co-production of space, highlighting the complexities of difference, belonging, and movement within urban settings. By addressing the impact of increasing migration, it offers a fresh perspective on the role of design in fostering inclusive and responsive urban spaces.

This book presents a thorough overview of alternative architectural practices, highlighting the need for richer approaches in the profession. It features various examples of successful implementations and explores future possibilities for architectural innovation.

This work features Jeremy Till, Ian Anderson, Ruth Ben Tovim, Tim Etchells, Hugo Glendinning, Jim Prevett, Trish O'Shea, Martyn Ware, and, Sarah Wigglesworth. This publication accompanies Echo / City, the British Pavilion exhibition for the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Echo / City was commissioned by the British Council and conceived and designed by Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture at Sheffield University, and presents Sheffield as an exemplar of post-industrial cities everywhere, using the city as a paradigm for discussion of their identity and renewal. Till Sheffield acts as a vehicle to push around wider ideas about cities and their social dynamics. In this way, it is an echo of many cities, buffeted by the social and technological forces of modernity. The exhibition has Sheffield at its heart, but is about much more than Sheffield; it is about any city.