Learnings/Unlearnings Reader #3: Emancipating and Emancipated Pedagogies – Decolonising and Co‐Creating Our Future Built Environment

Built environments have long been dictated by elite planners and architects and bureaucracies that serve privileged societies. Faced with deeply rooted social inequities, environmental degradation, and a rapidly evolving technology, educators, urban planners and designers, and architects are obliged to rethink how cities are built and maintained and how knowledge about their futures is generated, produced, and reproduced. This collection weaves together a diverse array of ideas—from alternative spatial paradigms, and Islamic thought to decolonised architectural pedagogy, AI-enabled public engagement, nature-based solutions, and the mobilization of participatory art-based methods for public spaces. Collectively, they offer threads for multiple learning opportunities and speak for an urgent pedagogical call to action: to unlearn established, habitually exclusionary, practices and to reimagine future built environments as inclusive and co-created realms of possibility.

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A Decolonised Architectural Pedagogical Framework: An Imperative for Reform
Ashraf M. Salama
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A Space of Our Own: Creative-artistic methods to include girls’ perspectives in urban public space design
Jana Schade
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Engaging the Dwellers to Reimagine Their Public Space Supported by AI
Mustapha El Moussaoui and Kris Krois
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Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for the Co-Creation of Urban Green Spaces: A Research-Driven Approach to Local Knowledge and Community Engagement
Charalampos Spanos, Georgios Artopoulos, Constantinos Kritiotis, Afroditi Magou
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Learning from Islamic Tradition: Changing the Perception of Public Space
Abeer Allahham