Milo Lethorn
Manifesto for a Studentopia
In the last decade, British universities have exponentially expanded their recruitment targets and the increasing number of students given residence in the towns and cities that host these institutions is proving greatly impactful. Agencies set up to cater to the growing student demographic amass profits while those businesses unbound to the institution struggle; this mutating of the local social, economic and cultural ecologies in newly studentdominated areas is part of a process known as studentification. Navigating lines of industry, neoliberalism and gentrification, Manifesto for a Studentopia attempts to frame an anonymous case study of construction. The tension felt between 'town and gown' is responded to via a fictionalised narrative in which studentification and the seemingly innocuous proliferation of student-accommodation sites is positioned as an initiative underwritten by a lucrative contemporary infrastructure.
Matthew Bruce • Katie Bywater • Emily Jones • Milo Lethorn • Niall O'Connor • Liam Richards •
Bath Spa University
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Bedfordshire
BA (Hons) Photographic Practices
Birmingham City University
BA (Hons) Photography
Arts University Bournemouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
Coventry University
BA (Hons) Photography
Crawford College of Art & Design
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Technology University Dublin
BA (Hons) Photography
Falmouth University
BA (Hons) Photography
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Contemporary Art
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Communication Design
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Photography
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media
Hereford College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Hertfordshire
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Huddersfield
BA (Hons) Photography
De Montfort University Leicester
BA (Hons) Photography & Video
National College of Art & Design
Cert Photography & Digital Imaging
The Northern School of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Plymouth College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Portsmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
Sheffield Hallam University
BA (Hons) Photography
University of South Wales
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
University of Suffolk
BA (Hons) Photography