Diana Ibanez Lopez

Profession

Course Leader, MA Cities

College

Central Saint Martins

Person Type

Teacher

Biography

I lead MA Cities, the newest course in the Spatial Practices programme. The course develops creative city-making practices through situated research, working translationally and intervening across scales from the voice to global infrastructures.

Before leading the MA Cities course, I was led on architecture and built environment projects at Create, an arts organisation dedicated to making projects that are useful to society in collaboration with communities, artists and local authorities.

In 2021, I co-curated a series of public realm and social infrastructure commissions to mark the centenary of the Becontree Estate, the largest housing estate in the UK; commissioned Talking Planning, a platform for demystifying the planning system and how the city is made, led by young people in Brent; co-curated Lived in Architecture at the RIBA; and saw A House for Artists, an award-winning building designed by Apparata, through to completion. The project was awarded the RIBA London and Client of the Year Awards in May 2023.

Diana has taught architecture and urbanism since 2015, at the Royal College of Art, UCL, TU Delft and Kingston, and been a visiting professor at Karlsruhe HKA.

I have taught architecture, design and urbanism since 2015, including MA units at the Royal College of Art, UCL, TU Delft and Kingston School of Art; ran summer schools in Paris and Vienna with a focus on urban photography; been a visiting professor of product design at Karlsruhe HKA; and am an associate of The Why Factory, MVRDV's architecture think-tank on future cities.

I am a Trustee of Troy Town Art Pottery in Hoxton and co-founded spatialradio.live with Stephanie Sherman, Course Leader of MA Narrative Environments.

Diana Ibanez Lopez

Biography

Central Saint Martins

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