Planning Student part of Winning Team - Designing Places Competition
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Congratulations to Annabel Macgregor, second year MA TRP student, who was part of the winning team in the Scottish Government Designing Places Student Competition held on Saturday 15th March at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. About the competition The masterplanning competition is an annual free event hosted by the Scottish Government. Following the success of last year’s design competition, this marks the 5th year that the Designing Places Award has taken the format of a live masterplanning class. The emphasis is on interaction and learning across disciplines. Students who’ve participat...
Geddes Institute Lunchtime Forum
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Work at Lunch When Thursday 20 March, 12:30 to 1:30/2:00 Where Room 2F10 in the Dalhousie Building Garry Adam - Living in/on/from small projects: the Architect as Developer or Consultant Garry is a Certified Passive House Designer and a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Dundee where he is also the Professional Studies Advisor. Moses Jenkins - The technical development of Scottish brickwork, 1700-1900 Moses is a Senior Technical Officer with Historic Scotland and PhD student in Planning at the University of Dundee. It would be great to see as many people as possible to this chat/information...
Geddes Institute Lunchtime Forum
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Work at Lunch When Thursday 20 March, 12:30 to 1:30/2:00 Where Room 2F10 in the Dalhousie Building Garry Adam - Living in/on/from small projects: the Architect as Developer or Consultant Garry is a Certified Passive House Designer and a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Dundee where he is also the Professional Studies Advisor. Moses Jenkins - The technical development of Scottish brickwork, 1700-1900 Moses is a Senior Technical Officer with Historic Scotland and PhD student in Planning at the University of Dundee. It would be great to see as many people as possible to this chat/information...
Attention Journal No. 1
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Attention is Princeton’s Audio Journal for Architecture. It offers concentrated and curated discursive content about architecture in a format geared to a new kind of audience; today's distracted multi-tasking digital natives. At a time when habits of attention are evolving rapidly, and we are more likely to listen to a podcast while on the move or while working late at night than we are to sit down for a day to read a book or a traditional print journal from cover to cover, Attention deploys the affect of the spoken word in interviews and debates, to focus the ...
2 lectures + 2 seminars by Dr. Iain Biggs
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Architecture + Art + Philosophy + Place-making >> Monday, 25 November, 2013: Lecture - ‘Deep Mapping and Place-based Research’ 2-3:00pm in 5013 Seminar - ‘Socially engaged practice’ for Architects and Art students 3-4:30pm venue: Boardroom in the Crawford Building >> Tuesday, 26 November, 2013: Lecture –‘Art and Ecosophy' 11-12noon in 5013 Seminar: ‘Practice Based PhD’s' [for MFA in ART & Humanities plus invited students] 2-3:30pm venue tbc Dr. Iain Biggs Director of PLaCE (England) Research Fello...
Master Planning Process Under Current Conditions
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A Practitioners Symposium at University of Dundee Held on Friday, 12th October 2012 Master-planning has had a strong revival in recent years. However, significant socio-demographic changes are on-going amidst the constraints of the current economic stagnation, the policy of reduced public spending and added pressure the search for growth places on the environment. This changing environment poses a major challenge for master-planning. The way we conceive of master-planning now requires re-visiting. The traditional perspective of master-planning as a design-led activity concerned with the architectural form ...