Tag: sustainability
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Forest Futures
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will host a two-day academic conference alongside its new exhibition, Forest Futures. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban forest canopy of cities and towns everywhere. The Fifth National Climate
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Crises, Conflicts, Contradictions
Crises, Conflicts, Contradictions: (re)thinking the meaning of public space in cities Online from 14 February to 06 March 2024 The upcoming edition of the Planning Theory Lecture Series (TU Berlin) addresses the constantly renewing negotiations of the meaning of public space in cities. In the context of the current social change, we want to take
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Whole Earth Fellowship
The University of Greenwich Sustainability Hub awarded Daisy Haywood, a Masters in Landscape Architecture student, a Whole Earth Fellowship to carry out a research project on a sustainability issue. Daisy’s project, London-Under-Sea, explores the future of London’s flood defences. She published a zine in time for the UN climate change conference in Paris, to initiate
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What is it to design the city? Find out on the Masters Advanced Landscape and Urbanism
Applications are open for the Masters Advanced Landscape and Urbanism. The Masters programme supports students to develop inventive and speculative approaches to the design of cities, landscape and territories. It promotes distinct design and research methods and the integration of new and innovative technologies to explore the complexity of contemporary cities, including issues of urban growth,
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“Green Greenwich” named best in sector for sustainability
The University of Greenwich has won the prestigious Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development. The judges said that they chose the university from a shortlist “full of heavyweights” in recognition of the university’s “remarkable achievement” of “attaining and sustaining a standard that not just matches best practice elsewhere but introduces its
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