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Scholarship supported by RPS
A new scholarship has been launched at the University of Greenwich to remember former student Karen Roberts. Sponsored by RPS Group Ltd, the RPS Karen Roberts Scholarship is designed to support students on the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture course. Karen Roberts studied Landscape Architecture at University of Greenwich (then Thames Polytechnic), completing the programme in…
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Architect’s Journal praises Greenwich Landscape approach
The Architect’s Journal (AJ) has visited the University of Greenwich School of Design summer exhibition and recognised the strength and innovation in the Landscape Architecture programmes. While reviews traditionally focus on architecture projects, this year AJ’s Harriet Jennings highlighted the work of landscape students and tutors in creating inspiring landscape programmes. Read the full article…
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Final year student writes article for Journal of the Landscape Institute
One of the final year students from the BA Hons Landscape Architecture programme, Naomi Maguire, describes the importance of intersectional approaches to designing landscapes. The article describes the challenges that women face in navigating urban spaces. She writes: “If landscape architecture, and our culture as a whole, truly embraced intersectional equality, our landscapes would be…
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Co-Designing Publics International Symposium
This is the third and final event of the Co-Designing Publics Research Network. They invite activists, practitioners and academics working and experimenting with design in the public realm to join them for the event. The symposium will bring together their team, project partners and special guest speakers to discuss emerging themes for research and practice…
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Emerging Spatial Exchanges – Call for abstracts
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Emerging Spatial Exchanges FLAS PhD Symposium 2021 Monday 17 May 2021 (online) The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences (FLAS) PhD Symposium 2021, hosted by University of Greenwich with support of the Advanced Urban (AU) research group, seeks to explore conceptions of spatial exchange, as interrelated and shaped by digital, ecological, material…
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Call for proposals: Project Anywhere
Submission deadline: September 1, 2021 www.projectanywhere.netInstagram / Twitter / Facebook Project Anywhere is an innovative global exhibition program specifically designed to promote art at the outermost limits of location-specificity. Using a blind peer review model to replace the role of curator, Project Anywhere provides artists and artistic researchers working outside traditional exhibition systems with peer-validation, community support, and global dissemination…
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Reciprocal Landscapes – Jane Hutton lecture – Monday 15 February, 1pm
Register here The question of LAND. What do climate emergencies, Covid-19 & racism have in common? The crises we are living through are interconnected, the prevalent political/economic models and dominant western mentalities have been shaping the planet and the relations between humans and nature for hundreds of years. They are at the root of the…
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Trio of End of Year Celebrations
The end of year for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism students at the University of Greenwich has been marked by three collective events. Firstly, in June the students presented their final projects to a public audience of design practitioners, tutors, family and friends. Then on Friday we launched the end-of-year online graduate exhibition. Finally, the exhibition…
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Geocinema presents Architectures of Planetary Cinema
We are delighted to announce that Advanced Urban is holding a special research webinar with Geocinema – Architectures of Planetary Cinema on Friday 10 July 2020, 2pm BST. Geocinema is a collective by Solveig Suess and Asia Bazdyrieva that explores the possibilities of a ‘planetary’ notion of cinema. This is a free event requiring registration. Participants…
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Lev Manovich presents in Advanced Urban series
We are delighted to announce that this coming Friday, 3 July 2020, at 11am Advanced Urban of the School of Design is holding a special Research Webinar with one of the world’s leading theorists of digital culture Lev Manovich. This is a free event requiring registration. Everybody is welcome, but we limit capacity, so register early to…
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