DEPT. Community Led Housing and Urban Mining Infrastructure Part 2 Project 2025 Jessica Fisher University of Sheffield | UK DEPT. Community Led Housing and Urban Mining Infrastructure is a project set within a moratorium on all new construction, a restriction implemented in response to Sheffield City Council's carbon over expenditure. It adopts sites of ‘civic extraction,’ such as the former Debenhams building, to explore principles of radical re- use.Founded on the pragmatic anarchist principles of DIY, Degrowth and Disorder, the project challenges the rigidity of new urban developments. Through an architectural approach that champions porosity, incomplete form, and non-linear narratives, it develops a ‘moratorium architectural typology.’ The outcome is an alternative housing methodology which is both materially and socially informed by a wider spatial program of Urban Mining.The architecture itself is incremental and dynamic, fabricated using waste from industrial sites just outside the city centre, and designed to incite aesthetic disorder within the public realm. Material specialism research placed an emphasis on a waste- informed design process and the use of adaptable material and structural elements to facilitate contingency in material flows. Tutor(s)