Introduction

At first reading, the Architecture’s Afterlife study appears to focus upon the travails of one specific discipline, that of architecture. However, it offers both a methodology for other disciplines to assess their own qualification mobility, and generated findings that impact all disciplinary pedagogy, all professions, and across education and economic policy, too. One of the reasons why a study focusing on architecture graduates’ trans-sector impact can provide insights into the transversal performance of all discipline-situated skills, is due to architecture’s unique, epistemological origins (meaning the knowledge frameworks). As figure 1 illustrates, architecture’s deep connectivity to other disciplines spans across both the arts and humanities and what are also characterised as STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) ¹ currently considered a ‘priority’ for Europe to address skills shortages. Architecture is therefore in a unique position to be a source of valuable insights for a range of other disciplines.