Queer[ing] Space Part 2 Dissertation 2025 Eve Isherwood University of the West of England | UK 'Queer[ing] Space' is a research project seeking to interrogate intersections of queer narratives and architectural space. Historically, the LGBTQIA+ community has shown strong resilience in response to continued discrimination and persecution. Because of this, queer space has existed outside the binary system, appropriating space for reasons of resistance and transformation. The research questions the existence of space between oppositional binaries and what it is to exist in the ‘ante-closet’ - an interstitial space functioning between mechanisms of identity concealment and disclosure.The project is triggered by a personal memory of place rooted in the everyday use of the built environment, the bus stop. By analysing these places and the queer-phobic events that occurred there, we can uncover and preserve important narratives about queer history.Through a written narrative approach, the study explores what it means to transform lived experience into spatial understanding by using text as both a form of documentation and a generative tool.Ultimately, Queer[ing] Space broadens the remit of architectural inquiry to redefine what it means to design spaces that acknowledge and enable queer identities, asking: how can queer narratives reveal new insights into the connection between place identity and the inhabitation of architectural environments? Tutor(s)Mr Jonathan Mosley