Emily Crompton
Architect/ Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Emily Crompton graduated from Manchester School of Architecture (2011) with a Masters in Architecture and completed her Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture in 2014. She has experience working in a range of practices. At URBED, an urban design cooperative, she worked on small-scale community buildings as well as large residential masterplans coordinating urban design and public engagement in neighbourhoods all over the UK. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
She is a registered Architect with ARB, a founding member of QuEAN (Queer Educators in Architecture Network), actively involved with the Participatory Design Conference community and is often invited as a guest critic at many UK school of architecture.
Emily has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programme and currently leads MSA LIVE and is the Foundation Year lead.
Link
e.crompton@mmu.ac.uk
Designing Inclusive Spaces
Emily is interested in how cities can include minoritised groups and how role of the architect is entangled with that. Building on her research into the LGBT+ Centre in Manchester, she uses archival and participatory design methods to understand the changing contexts of designing inclusive spaces. Previously Emily was the project coordinator on the ‘Ambition for Ageing’ research project which aims to understand how age-friendly neighbourhoods in Manchester are now, and how to make them better in the future. The research involved using innovative engagement methods, working closely with residents and organisations. She curates a project known as the Library of Engagements which archives methods of engagement concerning spaces, buildings, neighbourhoods and cities.
Relevant Projects
- Ambition for Ageing
- Manchester LGBT+ Centre
- The Library of Engagements
- MSA LIVE
