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Research Title

New Geographies of 鈥楳aking鈥�: Advanced manufacturing听in the post-industrial urban context - The case of 3D Printing Industry in London

About Ana

Academic Qualifications

2013-Present
MPhil/ PhD candidate (part-time), Department of Geography, 最准的六合彩论坛

• Title (working): 听New Geographies of 鈥楳aking鈥�: Advanced manufacturing in the post-industrial urban context - The case of 3D Printing Industry in London

2005-2006
MSc UD Built Environment, Urban Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 最准的六合彩论坛

• Commendation, 最准的六合彩论坛 Award for Outstanding Urban Design Thesis

1998-2003
Dip Arch, Diploma in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon

• Final Report Pass with Merit

Employment History

2014-Present
Associate,听Senior Urban Designer, HTA Design LLP, London,

• SMB team

2011-2013
Senior Architect / Masterplanner, Chapman Taylor LLP, London, UK, Middle East and Africa team

• Member of the Executive and Business Development Groups

2010
Architect, Grimshaw Architects, London

• Cultural and Masterplanning team

2007-2010
Urban Designer, ARUP, London

• Integrated Urbanism team, Group Planning Plus

2003-2005
Architectural Assistant (Part 2), Simbiose Arquitectos Associados, Lisbon

2002-2003
Intern Architect (Part 1), RBD.APP Studio Arquitectos, Lisbon

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Chartered Architect
• Architects Registration Board (ARB), Registered Architect
• Portuguese Order of Architects (OA), Effective Member
• Urban Design Group (UDG), Member through HTA Design LLP

Other Experience

2014

• Input on Urban Design and Local Retail Design,听Latin Elephant听(non-profit, ethnic minority businesses in Elephant and Castle)

2013

• Input on Industrial Land Demand and Release Benchmark,听Just Space: Planning and Economic Group ( JSEP)

2009-2009

• Assistant Production for 鈥淭he Assault鈥�, Film and Performance, Project funded by The Arts Council England. Director听Mario Pires Cordeiro, performing artist & Joao Lima Duque, pianist,听Royal Albert Hall, London

2008

• Workshop in Planning, Planning Plus,听Planning School, Arup, London

1999

• Student, Photography for Architecture programme,听Ar.Co, Arte Contemporanea Institute, Lisbon

1999-2002

• Student, Fine Art Life Drawing Programme (3 years),听The National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon

Publications

• McMillin, A. and McMillin, M.听Stoneleigh Terrace Gym for Garages, RIBA Forgotten Spaces 2013听(2013, 25th June),听The Architects鈥� Journal.
• McMillin, A. (2011). Urban narratives of Time-Images or the Drift of Alienation. In F. Neuhaus (Ed.),听Studies in Temporal Urbanism听- The urbanTick Experiment.听London and New York: Springer.
• McMillin, A. and McMillin, M.听Greenland Beach, RIBA Forgotten Spaces 2011听(2011, 15th June),听The Architects鈥� Journal.
• Available at:
• Rebelo, A. & Resendes, M. (2000).听Desenho Urbano, Rego. In Rodrigues, P. (Ed.),听Desenho Urbano.听Lisbon: Faculty of Architecture of The Technical University of Lisbon.

Research

Recent years have been marked by a growing awareness of the need for diversifying urban economies and achieving greater resilience, in particular during the debates following the recent recession. Literature on evolutionary economic geography highlights that a recessionary shock can affect an urban economy for a longer period of time and even be irreversible due to economic path dependencies. The risk of a slump at the end of an economic cycle will be better spread and mitigated across a variety of sectors, and more sectorally diverse regions experience greater stability and higher rates of overall growth. It has also been听documented that regions that consume more than they produce are more susceptible to recessionary shocks and need to develop other economies.

Theoretical work on post-industrialism has focused on various aspects and processes around the high-value cultural, cognitive, knowledge and听service activities that replaced the old manufacturing share of regions. City centres听have grown as a consequence of processes of innovation through听sharing information, social networking, competition and听re-combination of activities.

Building on these ideas, this project considers听the scenarios and assumptions issued by writers, governmental departments (BIS Department),听media (The Economist, The Guardian) and听think tanks on the so-called 'Third Industrial Revolution as a possibility for听growth.

But, even enabled through the latest听technologies and through information and communication networks, manufacturing is unlikely to replace the dominant sectors and the existing supply chains in de-industrialised city regions. However, it may contribute to growth, job creation and resilience if linked to the economic diversification arguments. Developing the capability of 鈥榤aking things鈥� emerges thus as an almost ironic alternative in a post-Fordist city region. But, it may not be an 鈥業ndustrial Revolution鈥�, and instead, the resurgence of 鈥榤aking鈥�, whether more technological or more craft, may be linked to the high-value activities and benefit from the way knowledge is shared and exchanged in听the current Informationalism context.

The key questions that drive this听project thus are:听How do we theorise the resurgence of manufacturing / 鈥榤aking things鈥� within contemporary urban economic geography and reconcile this with post-Fordism theories? What are the new geographies of 鈥楳aking鈥�? What is the contribution that advanced manufacturing can make to jobs and to growth? Can advanced manufacturing capture the strength of a strategic urban location where most people and other businesses are located? Are these industries viable in urban areas and under what circumstances? How is knowledge transferred and recombined across the firms? What can we learn from听the cases to inform current spatial planning policy?

Concentrating on the case of the 3D Printing Industry听in London and its wider value chain, this research aims to contribute to empirical knowledge on the sector,听and inform spatial planning policy responses. It will听add to the understanding of incubation processes at the micro-scale, addressing specific forms of knowledge transfer and innovation in a post-Fordist urban global context. Building on the post-industrialist and evolutionary economic geography bodies of literature, this听research will contribute to听theorising the role of 'making'听within contemporary capitalism and its urban economic geography.

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