Leading a School of Collective Intelligence

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER School of Architecture + Cities celebrates its 2025 MORE Postgraduate Show. As the new Head of School, I’ve witnessed its well-earned reputation for mature and relevant work that is challenging norms and grounding important contemporary questions within the student community.

Our school continues to develop an inclusive culture with a shared ethos, focusing on a yearly cross-cutting theme. This year’s theme, Every fraction of a degree matters, is part of our school’s wider and ongoing response to climate injustice. Projects are designed to be intensely local yet globally connected, reframing how we live in London, the UK and beyond. All course briefs – spanning architecture, interiors, planning, transport, and tourism – acknowledge our environmental responsibility and the urgent need for ethical practice. Architecture + Cities aims to lead on tackling the Climate Emergency and promoting Spatial Justice as the built environment industries shift away from carbon emissions, poor construction quality, waste and unsafe practices. Our collaborative learning environment balances specialised expertise with broader knowledge, preparing students for professional practice and/or innovative research in what is becoming an ever-expanding field of design.

Our diverse student body comprises a multicultural mix of home students complemented by our international students drawn from across the world, forming a truly global and dynamic community. We’re committed to decolonising the curriculum while embedding sustainability, regenerative practices and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Students are supported by industry-leading tutors, creating an environment where academics, practitioners and students co-design new ways of thinking while maintaining high ethical standards. Together, we challenge conventions, utilising our cross-disciplinary range of courses to design in a way that connects local built environments to broader ecologies and social networks.

The projects showcased here reflect our ethos: to address contemporary issues and social conditions with visually mature and critically engaging responses. Some will challenge you, others will inspire, but all respond to serious current issues – from climate crisis and loss of biodiversity to spatial justice and rising living costs, the over-reliance on car use, poor infrastructure and increasing privatisation of the public realm.

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates; thank you to Kow Abadoo, and Chris Meloy for their help mounting the show; and of course, thank you to all our students and the staff without whom this show would not take place.

Kate Cheyne
Head of the School of Architecture + Cities

View online MORE 2025 PDF Catalogue

Opening and Awards Ceremony
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025, 18:00 BST
Location: M416 (Robin Evans Room), University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS