Tatjana Schneider is a researcher, writer and educator based at the School of Architecture in Shef eld, UK. Her current work focuses on the changing role of architects and architecture, pedagogy and spatial agency. She has a particular interest in theoretical, methodological and practical approaches that expand the scope of contemporary archi- tectural debates and discourses by integrating political and economic frameworks that question normative ways of thinking, producing and consuming space. She is a co-author of Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture (2011), Flexible Housing (2007), and A Right to Build: The Next Mass-Housebuilding Industry (2011), and (co)editor of Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (2009) and glaspaper (2001–2007).