My research explored ‘queering’ of space as a methodology for destabilising exclusionary urban power structures. Queer space was used both to exemplify spaces for specific marginalised urban communities, as well as with a looser definition to encompass other non-normative spaces. While both these understandings can be seen as a possible alternative to the increasingly prevalent idea of ‘smoothness’ in cities, they equally fall victim to it.

Moreover, the social consequences of architecture are often overlooked, and those within the industry fail to recognise when they are complicit in processes of exclusion. I hope that this project prompts those with the power and privilege to intervene to recognise when they might be complicit. This project therefore acts as a provocation – a slow-burning call-to-action. Taking a playful approach at times, it giving room for critical reflection, allowing viewers to recognise their own complicit relationships to the processes at hand.