Sarah Renshaw is a part-time Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture where she combines her research interests with her role as an Architect-Director at Loop Systems, an award-winning, Manchester-based practice, who deliver value-led projects built on co-operative principles. .

A Manchester School of Architecture graduate, Sarah has been teaching at the MSA for over 10 years now and currently co-leads the BA3 with Richard Morton. Sarah also teaches in PRAXXIS, a feminist atelier, running vertically in both BA3 and the M.Arch. Sarah is currently leading in the MArch 1 with Abi Patel and Rachel Carter-Jones. 

PRAXXIS is an explicitly feminist teaching atelier aiming to stimulate a positive intersectional feminist debate within the school.

PRAXXIS, has grown out of a feminist architectural research collective with Helen Aston, Emily Crompton and Kat Timmins. PRAXXIS has three key aims... Inspire: be a woman centred and woman led organisation with an open, honest, supportive and transparent working practice . Challenge: be a learning organisation encouraging creativity and the sharing of knowledges through engagement, participation and partnership to promote inclusive design. Impact: influence the built environment professions using our voices to value diversity and champion equality.

Research

Artefacts

Aston, H., Renshaw, S., 2019. 'Stretford Builds... a series of gossip pavilions at Stretford Grammar School', Stretford Grammar School.

Aston, H., Renshaw, S., Crompton, E., 2018. 'A Great Knowledge Give Away: 100 feminist architectural texts for International Women's Day 2018', Manchester School of Architecture.

Performances

Aston, H., Crompton, E., Renshaw, S., 2017. 'A Great Knowledge Give Away: 100 feminist architectural texts', Manchester School of Architecture, 8/3/2018.

Presentations

Aston, H., Renshaw, S., 2021. 'All these things Praxxis // a conversation', SHEBUILD #2 series of online talks with Urbanistas NorthWest.