Coming Home Professionally: Place and Placemaking -Transformative Perspectives on Planning and Design
We are delighted to welcome Professor Ian Wight from the University of Manitoba to present at a CECHR working lunch on Friday 26th February. Ian will be discussing ‘Coming Home Professionally: Place and Placemaking -Transformative Perspectives on Planning and Design,’ which will be followed by a discussion and then lunch. All staff and students at the University of Dundee are welcome. We have a limited number of places available so we recommend that you register early for this event. Date – Friday 26th February Venue – River Room 2, 9th Floor Tower Building Time &n...
Flood Scheme and Climate Resilient opportunities discussed at Hawick workshop
Recreation, energy, the local economy and natural flood management were among the opportunities highlighted at a joint workshop for the Hawick Flood Protection Scheme and the Scottish Borders Climate Resilient Communities project. Members of the public, community groups and politicians attended the event on Monday, held in Hawick Baptist Church’s community hub. The workshop was held in the wake of last month’s devastating flooding in Hawick, which was one of the main topics discussed. With experts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in attendance, Teries reflected on their experiences of the fl...
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...
New Director for CECHR
Professor Ioan Fazey is the new director of CECHR, previously deputy director of CECHR, and Professor of Social Dimensions of Environmental Change, University of Dundee. Pictured here with the new team. The world is facing major social and environmental challenges in ways that are difficult to comprehend. Complexity, uncertainty and change are now the norm and new interdisciplinary and transformative approaches are needed to understand and shape that change. CECHR provides an exciting opportunity to do this by bringing together some of the best social and environmental researchers in the UK from the Univer...
Activism in the Built Environment: Media
Accompanying the City is a Thinking Machine Exhibition in the Lamb Gallery is a programme of three evening events, the second of which takes place this Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee This double bill should be of interest to architects planners lawyers psychologists, artists and other agitators, anyone interested in the city as the arena in which our social political and legal relations are played out and inscribed in our collective memory. Mike Small - Geddes and the 5th Estate: Publishing, Citizenship and Cultural Insurge...
Measuring wellbeing for effective place-making
Date: 13/11/2015 Time: 10.00 – 16.00Location: Dalhousie Lecture Theatre (LT1- Ground Floor), University of Dundee Register for tickets Considerable advances around the meaning of well-being have been made in recent years, with a view to influencing national policies which value quality of life, including linkages with the physical environment and the social health of communities. However, as yet there has been little consideration of how well-being can be achieved through collaborative forms of place making. Critics suggest that place making is often more concerned with the form and physical appearan...
Enhancing wellbeing: inclusive, community collaborative approaches to place making
Resources from the event, Report, videos, Galleries - now with final report Briefing Attitudes to well-being are beginning to change, both within government and society, with a shift away from the idea that a flourishing life is primarily connected to material prosperity towards one that positions well-being as a significant goal for public policy. This shift is being accompanied by a commitment to empower local communities, unlocking social capital and giving individuals greater voice in the processes of place making that determine the quality and direction of their lives. Together, these changes pro...
Youth Camp 2015 with Minecraft on the Waterfront
Youth Camp 2015 was a successful and engaging workshop where seven secondary schools across the TAYplan area developed hypothetical visions for what they think Dundee waterfront should look like through interactive sessions using the popular game, Minecraft. Each participating school team was given an individual plot on a model of the Dundee Waterfront (designed in Minecraft by Andrew Rennie, Conservation Officer, Perth and Kinross Council) to develop their visions of the waterfront. A central aim of the Youth Camp was to encourage young people to think differently about places they live and to help them u...
Husam Al Waer awarded Reed and Mallik Ltd journal prize
Congratulations to Husam Al Waer who has been awarded the Reed and Mallik Ltd journal prize (for the best paper in journal) for his paper ‘Improving contemporary approaches to the master planning process’ published in the journal Urban Design and Planning (Vol 167 issueDP1). Each year, ICE Publishing acknowledges the best work published in their journals at the ICE Publishing Awards ceremony. We award authors from both industry and academia who have produced work judged by their peers to be of exceptional quality and benefit to the civil engineering and science community. Each paper is free to ...