Posts Tagged ‘cities’
A Conversation About Thinking Design for Systemic Solutions
Monday, December 21, 2009 16:39 1 CommentInterdisciplinary collaboration and rapid prototyping for design-driven innovation at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
It is widely acknowledged that design is a powerful tool for changing human behaviour and shaping our environment. This realization has revolutionized the design sector in recent years, not only offering innovative business models and opportunities for post industrial economies but [...]
Urban Age Public Lecture: Cities, Design and Climate Change
Monday, November 16, 2009 18:15 No Comments“With cities contributing disproportionately to global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the social, political and economic impacts of creative urban design solutions coming out of the world’s cities”.
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE | Free and open to the public
Date: Tuesday November 17 [...]
Rachael Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 16:26 No CommentsIn this video Rachael Armstrong, interdisciplinary researcher, teaching Fellow at the Bartlett, and member of AVATAR Research Group talks at TED Global 2009 about building genuinely sustainable cities by connecting them to nature. How? Architect Neil Spiller and Rachael are generating metabolic materials from scratch and building architectures from a bottom-up approach to counterpose Victorian [...]
‘Essen for Ruhr’: transforming a region into a leading European metropolis
Friday, September 18, 2009 16:17 No Comments“Essen for the Ruhr“, is the capital of Culture 2010. It represents 53 cities, towns and districts and 5.3 million inhabitants, making it the third largest conurbation in Western Europe (after London and Paris). It is the first time that the capital of culture has been designated to an entire region (it’s usually [...]
Inequality, Territory and Urban Form in South America
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 13:11 No CommentsUrban Age releases ‘Cities and Social Equity Report’ a research report that assesses the challenges of inclusion in one of the world’s most unequal urban regions
Urban Age is a leading worldwide investigation into
the future of global cities. Initiated by the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred [...]












