Craft is central to the school’s ethos, and evident in the thinking, making and finished work of the undergraduate and masters students alike. Work at the School is ‘research-led’, with staff teams from both practice and academic research creating a collaborative and exploratory environment embedded in real-world pragmatism. The seven SuperStudios tackle divergent briefs, but each introduces a discourse around important and urgent social issues, creating responsible student projects, full of social value but without sacrificing craft and artistry. Evidence of a precise and investigative process is seemingly as important – if not more– than a polished final project. Architecture is studied in the widest sense. Themes explored include architects’ social agency and influence, innovative ways of connecting inner-city communities, understanding and exploring landscape, the specificity of housing in rural and urban settings, the ‘unseen characters’ that affect architecture and urban space, culture-led regeneration, and climate change and ecology. Each SuperStudio is entirely ‘vertical’; every year of the course, from first year undergraduate to final year masters study together within their elected studio. The underlying intention is that students of varied skill-sets work together closely, becoming mentors and colleagues, in a cycle of constant exchange.