Barbara Illsley - Chancellor’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Teaching
Barbara Illsley, Senior Lecturer in Town and Regional Planning and winner of the University of the Dundee Chancellor’s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Teaching in 2014, presented a Discovery Days lecture on 9 January, 2015, entitled ‘The education of tomorrow’s town planners’. Barbara explained that town planning has a long history both as an academic discipline and a professional activity dating back over a century. This dual identity presents educators with challenges and opportunities; graduates need to have both in-depth knowledge and understanding of the discipline whi...
Score for a prepared voice: the city is a thinking machine
THE CITY IS A THINKING MACHINEACTIVISM IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Accompanying the Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of satellite events, the final one of which takes place this Thursday: Thursday 10 December 2015, 6-7:00pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee John Dummett: Score for a prepared voice: the city is a thinking machine John Dummett is an artist and writer based in Scotland. Working between sculpture, critical writing and performance, John addresses the social production of knowledge. His work examines the different and often contradictory...
Facing the Future 2016 Conference: Realising Resilience
Facing the Future 2016 is a two-day postgraduate conference for Masters, PhD and early career researchers organised through the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR) at the University of Dundee and James Hutton Institute. Our conference will be held from 31 May – 1 June 2016 at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In our rapidly changing world, it is vital to create and support strong, resilient ecosystems, food systems and human communities. Therefore, this year’s Facing the Future conference will focus on understanding community and ecosystem resilience, and will equip...
Activism in the Built Environment: Planning
Accompanying the City is a Thinking Machine Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of three evening events, the third of which takes place Wednesday 09 December 2015, 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee. This double bill should be of interest to planners, architects, citizens and other agitators, everyone interested in the city region as a strategic planning unit, its past and its future, for the Tay Valley and Scotland. Greg Lloyd: The demise of strategic planning (again and yet again) Greg Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Planning at Ulst...