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Dr

James Thompson

Lecturer In Teaching And Learning
placemaking
pedagogy
cultural identity
curriculum
student identity development
urban pedagogy
informal urbanism
collaboration
utopian projects
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Dr

James Thompson

 
Division
Architecture, Building And Planning
 
Primary Interest
Built Environments Education
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Dr

James Thompson

 

Dr James Thompson is an early career researcher in the area of tertiary built enviroments education. He joined the MSD's Built Environments Learning and Teaching group (BEL+T) in 2019 after previously being Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he led the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industry's Pedagogical Research Group.

James holds a PhD in the Built Environment from the University of Washington (USA), as well as a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota (USA). His recent book is titled Narratives of Architectural Education: From Student to Architect (Routledge, 2019). This work, based on a multi-year case study of recent graduates, explores the ways in which aspiring architects construct their occupational identities through an interpretation of their educational experiences, sense of self, and sense of belonging. This perspective, which foregrounds how individuals traverse the university landscape while making sense of their professional world and positioning themselves within it, expands and reframes our understanding of professional education. Understanding the holistic, interconnected, and narrative-based nature of the university student experience and their transition into practice provides evidence for reallocating institutional and pedagogical priorities. James is guest editor for an upcoming issue of Charrette journal, from the Association of Architectural Educators, which focuses on student agency and student voice in architectural education. He is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 15 most recent scholarly works by James Thompson.

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Temporary Appropriation in Cities Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience

Alessandro Melis, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, James Thompson

Book  |  2020

This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenshi..

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Live Making Project Insights: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Teaching Method from the View of the Students

James Thompson, Guido Robazza, Nicola Crowson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Charrette

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Narratives of Architectural Education From Student to Architect

James Thompson

Book  |  2019

This book proposes becoming an architect as a personal narrative of professional development structured around various stages and ..

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Seeking Northlake: Place, technology, and public as enabling constraints for urban transdisciplinary research

Megan Brown, G Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Roneva Keel, Eleanor Mahoney, Jennifer Porter, James Thompson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Cities

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Promoting Occupational Engagement in Design Education: Accounting for doing, being, becoming, and belonging

James Thompson

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Begin W/ Why: Ethics and Values in Beginning Design

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Teaching Global Architectural History

James Thompson

Report  |  2017

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A Pre-disciplinary Approach to Built Environments Education: Teaching Seattle on Foot

James Thompson, Daniel E Coslett

Journal article  |  2017  |  The International Journal of the Constructed Environment

Educators increasingly pursue inter- and transdisciplinary pedagogies to facilitate a more holistic approach to the design, use, a..

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Urban revolution now: Henri Lefebvre in social research and architecture

James Thompson

Journal article  |  2016  |  URBAN GEOGRAPHY

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Identity Transformation through Collaboration: Narratives of ‘Becoming an Architect’

James Thompson

Book Chapter  |  2016

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Becoming an Architect: Narratives of Architectural Education

James Thompson

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2016

This dissertation examines the personal narratives of several aspiring architects to investigate the emergence of “occupational id..

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Review of The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space

James Thompson

Journal article  |  2015  |  Built Environment

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Bringing Theory into Practice: seeking constitutive utopian potential in Astana

James Thompson

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

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Antipodal Architecture: Traces of the 'Other' Tradition in Renzo Piano's Tjibaou Cultural Centre

James Thompson

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

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Beyond the Neighborhood: Community at the Urban Scale

James Thompson

Journal article  |  2013  |  The International Journal of the Constructed Environment

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Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark: Architectural Insurgency in Copenhagen

James Thompson

Journal article  |  2010  |  Conditions

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Architecture
Curriculum and Pedagogy

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)

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Credentials

Positions

Lecturer In Teaching And Learning

Architecture, Building And Planning

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Washington

Master of Architecture

University of Minnesota

Bachelor of Arts

Colby College

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