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M.Arch Year 6 Thesis Project at #MSA Metropolitan Prosthesis Collaborative Work with Chuyue Jiang Phase I: The Problematic Future Scenario from Which We Identify the Spatial Problems: This thesis explores the transformation of East Manchester's urban landscape amidst rapid urbanisation, population growth, mobility enhancements, and future transportation. Using urban complexity and systems theory, we view the city as a self-organising system and extrapolate future scenarios for East Manchester, identifying spatial problems. By 2073, the increased number of vehicles, dense urban fabric, and high-rise buildings reduce green spaces, block pedestrian access, and limit sunlight to the ground level. Great thanks to Ulysses Sengupta, Solon Solomou, Alex Macbeth and Thilo Aschmutat for their invaluable guidance and tutoring. [CPU]ai Student at Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) #thesisproject #futurecity #futurescenarios #extrapolation #urbancomplexity #unrealengine #shortclip #architecturethesis #designproblems

UME? UNIVERSITY INTRODUCES ON-CAMPUS HOUSING FOR RESEARCHERS. ? A top-class university is essential for Ume? Biotech Incubator’s success. ?? In Ume?, the real estate company Gazette AB (co-owned by Balticgruppen AB and VKMedia) has inaugurated 167 flats on the campus doorstep. These will be rented to international PhD students and early-career researchers at Ume? universitet for two months to two years. ?? This initiative strengthens Ume? University’s ability to attract top talent by offering: ? Cutting-edge research infrastructure and support ? A collaborative and inclusive research environment ? A creative city with a vibrant cultural scene and proximity to nature, with lush forests and the Northern Lights ?Exclusive on-campus housing for talented researchers. ?? When research thrives, it leads to more innovative ideas that can flow into Ume? Biotech Incubator and we can help turn these ideas into products and services that benefit society. ? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/drZN7-Z4

M.Arch Year 6 Thesis Project at #MSA Metropolitan Prosthesis Collaborative Work with Qipei Fang Phase I: The Problematic Future Scenario from Which We Identify the Spatial Problems: This thesis explores the transformation of East Manchester's urban landscape amidst rapid urbanisation, population growth, mobility enhancements, and future transportation. Using urban complexity and systems theory, we view the city as a self-organising system and extrapolate future scenarios for East Manchester, identifying spatial problems. By 2073, the increased number of vehicles, dense urban fabric, and high-rise buildings reduce green spaces, block pedestrian access, and limit sunlight to the ground level. Great thanks to Ulysses Sengupta, Solon Solomou, Alex Macbeth and Thilo Aschmutat for their invaluable guidance. [CPU]ai Student at Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) #thesisproject #futurecity #futurescenarios #extrapolation #urbancomplexity #unrealengine #shortclip #architecturethesis #designproblems

?? Before diving into well-deserved rest, I am happy to share the preprint of a truly unique study, of which I am very proud. This study seeks to understand whether the positive affective impact of symmetrical architectural facades can mediate the enactment of pro-social behaviors. It is well known that the space we live in shapes us, influences us, and molds our interactions with others. But is this really the case? This research aims to delve into this question, exploring the connection between our environment and our behaviors.

Please join us this Thursday evening for our next SoAD public lecture and book launch titled "Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground" authored by Yun Fu and moderated by Prof. Evan Shieh. ? ? Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground is a book about designing for risk and resilience and can be read in three ways. First, the book argues that it is misguided for designers to think about earthquakes as purely technical problems. Working with 120 case studies across 30 countries, the book shows that designers have come up with different design options and strategies that combine technical knowledge with several kinds of cultural and social understandings. Second, the book argues that the diversity of options and strategies for seismic architecture can be conceived in terms of six distinct schemas or ways of viewing the world. What is shareable between designers is not the repeated use of the same technical solutions but a sense of the schema. Third, the book argues that the ability to recognize different kinds of design innovation will be key to navigating the new scales of risk and uncertainty in the Anthropocene era.? ? Yun Fu is a partner of Semester Studio and a Design Critic at Harvard GSD, where he co-authored the Master of Architecture in Urban Design core studio and offer courses on housing, cities, and urban design theory. Yun's scholarly work focuses on design thinking, or the method of solutions, surveying different approaches to familiar classes of problems. He is the author of several books, including Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground, Southeast Asian Modern: From Roots to Contemporary Turns, and Korean Modern: The Matter of Identity. He received a doctoral degree from Harvard University, a MArch I AP from Harvard GSD with the AIA Henry Adams Medal, and a BAs from UNSW Sydney with the AIA Undergraduate Design Medal.? ? Register for the lecture here: https://lnkd.in/eFCJjppB? ? #nyit #nyitsoad #nyitarch #architecture #design #lecture #publiclecture #booklaunch #risk #resilience #seismic #earthquakes #casestudies

5 years ago today, the Anthropocene Architecture School held its first public event at the oldest Victorian music hall in the world - the Britannia Panopticon, during 2019’s Architecture Fringe. The event held space for a forum of discussion on architectural education & education more broadly during what has begun to be cited by scientists as the #Anthropocene, as human activity has reached a magnitude the equivalent of a geological event on the Earth’s climate systems. Naming the “school” after the Anthropocene was a provocation, an invitation - to look at the reality of the #climateemergency in order to imagine beyond today’s norms & of side-stepping using any cliched ‘climate’ or ‘green” phrases & this name has opened up many conversations since. This event built on the foundation laid by the launch of the AAS Library that February & the carrying out of research that assessed the experiences of Scottish architecture students in 2019. This research quantified students Knowledge of sustainability - what we defined as #ClimateLiteracy in 2020 before the phrase was adopted across industry & academia, their Awareness of climate & sustainability initiatives in the built environment space & their Engagement with built environment & #sustainability goings-on beyond their university education. This research was shared widely with curious academics & the research was cited & features in the ACAN! contribution to “Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency” edited by Sofie Pelsmakers & Nick Newman. The AAS was not intended to outlast its initial provocation but began to be invited elsewhere & to undertake other activities beyond teaching in academic institutions & has since engaged thousands upon thousands of people through a variety of events, workshops & media. You can book a ticket here (https://lnkd.in/e8UffVUn) to join us as we mark half a decade of the AAS at Civic House in Glasgow on the 22nd of June with a ceilidh & more.

In a few weeks time I will be defending my PhD thesis, entitled Queer as a City: Unsettling coherence in 'sustainable urban development'. This means that it is now available open access! https://lnkd.in/drpb772B In the thesis, I attempt to formulate a queer theoretical framework to understand architectural (re)production of orders, as well as opportunities for subversion of orders through architectural practice (in a wide sense, from the design of built environments to the formulation of large-scale visions for the city). I argue that queer thinking is particularly relevant to understand the sometimes tricky and contradictory concept 'sustainable urban development' - including its issues of sustaining status quo rather than facilitating transition and transformation. Thanks Architecture and Built Environment Lund University, Sweden and Lund University Agenda 2030 Graduate School for the support during my PhD studies, I have sincerely loved every second of it.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” - Winston Churchill, 1943 The link between intentional design and society is linear – because while architecture shapes our students, it’s the students that shape our future. And campuses worldwide are sparing no detail, specifying materials for both functionality and aesthetics. These elements breathe life into universities, building community and encouraging academic success. Don’t neglect the details. Check out our Education Brochure: https://buff.ly/3KqbrOo #Education #Architecture #HigherEd #Universities #IntentionalDesign #StudentSuccess #Academics #AcademicSuccess #BuildingCommunity #SCAD #BuildingMaterials #CSolutions #PeopleBuildingsBetter

I am always asked about really good, innovative postgrad programs that span design, planning, regenerative and transition thinking, so I thought I'd plug this great postmaster program at DELTALAB - Centar za urbanu tranziciju, arhitekturu i urbanizam, which is still open for applications. I have been a little bit (minimally) involved in this Urban Studies program, which is not to be confused with the Urban Studies at Melbourne Centre for Cities. The speciality of this specific program is that it is not directly attached to an architecture and planning school. It is, rather, run by DeltaLab, which is directly under the auspices of Sveu?ili?te u Rijeci / University of Rijeka, and operates somewhat similarly to Strelka: research, intensive teaching programs, publications, exhibitions. Having looked under the hood of its programs, and enjoyed exploring some of the research output (DeltaLab presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021), I think the biggest strength of this program is its immense interdisciplinarity that comes from not being beholden to an architecture or planning curriculum. The inputs, rather, come from strategic planning (EU level), construction, speculative architecture. But also the specific environment of a multicultural Mediterranean port being rapidly turned into a logistical hotspot for both energy and global consumer goods. (This is not necessarily a great situation on the ground, as a small city might be eaten up by transport infrastructure, in a kind of free-for-all that is, I think, quite specific for the postcolonial periphery.) So there is a kind of mega-infrastructure-meets-speculative-thinking situation going on, which is very fruitful for anyone wanting to think big and outside of the box. It also offers some fantastic opportunities to really get involved in action research, and participate in grassroots community resistance at a pinch point of global capitalism. Since Strelka has closed, I have felt the absence of a particular kind of spatial thinking from the periphery - there is a freedom there. I see DeltaLab, and particularly this program, as offering something quite ambitious in that direction. I believe the current program is themed Waterworld Futures - and applications close on 1 October. More on DeltaLab's Insta: https://lnkd.in/dvJ_BWbc

Assistant Professor Asma Mehan, PhD contributed a chapter titled “Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogy” in the edited volume?Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time, published by Springer Nature.?The book explores the rarely examined concept of time in education, with the editors urging an analysis of time ‘in itself,’ highlighting its many dimensions through personal reflections and educational events. Challenging linear and neoliberal notions of progress and efficiency, the work avoids the “Time’s-(killing)-arrow” mode and introduces themes such as temporality, timescapes, timetables, and the finality of time. The book draws on philosophical works by Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, physics studies by Karen Barad, and literature by T.S. Eliot to inspire new ways of thinking about time. The volume has received recommendation from Karen Malone, Professor of Environmental Studies, Swinburne University, Australia, Jayne Osgood, Professor in Education, Centre for Education Research & Scholarship, Middlesex University, UK, and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, Professor of Educational Theory & Practice, University of Georgia, USA. To access the edited book, click?the link here: https://lnkd.in/diy28Q-s To read the chapter, click?the link below:?