Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th September 2014 Supported by the Geddes Institute for Urban|Rural Research and the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR) Arranged for MSc students within the School of the Environment, however it is also open to anyone who would like to attend. The event involves talks from distinguished guests including Alex Hill (Met Office Scotland), Katie Crerar (Tayplan) and Professors Stuart Gulliver and David Adams (Glasgow University). Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability Please contact Dr Husam Al Waer (h.alwaer@dundee.ac.uk) if you have an...
On the Waterfront, with Minecraft!
Derek Robertson (School of Education, Social Work and Community Education) and Deepak Gopinath (Town and Regional Planning, School of Environment) won Incubation Fund Competition at University of Dundee (Jun 2014) for a sum of £1600 to carry out the project, titled ‘On the Waterfront: Using Minecraft with school pupils to allow them to digitally reimagine, design and build Dundee’s waterfront’. This project will commence in September 2014. Dundee Waterfront World pictured above created by School of the Environment's Andrew Rennie. Full details of Minecraft: On the...
On the Waterfront, with Minecraft!
Derek Robertson (School of Education, Social Work and Community Education) and Deepak Gopinath (Town and Regional Planning, School of Environment) won CECHR Incubation Fund Competition at University of Dundee (Jun 2014) for a sum of £1600 to carry out the project, titled ‘On the Waterfront: Using Minecraft with school pupils to allow them to digitally reimagine, design and build Dundee’s waterfront’. This project will commence in September 2014. Dundee Waterfront World pictured above created by School of the Environment's Andrew Rennie....
Inspiring Mugs?
Town and Regional Planning staff Anne Thomas-Cumming, Vincent Onyango and Deborah Peel would very much like to thank their students for their nominations for this year’s category: Most Inspirational Teaching of Undergraduates. This DUSA initiative is a fantastic example of how students can tell their lecturers about what makes a difference. Feedback is important for all of us and the Town and Regional Planning staff are most appreciative of these nominations. It is, of course, our aim to create a transformational learning environment for all students but this award is a clear way of telling us we are...
ISoCaRP Workshop
Town and Regional Planning were delighted to welcome planners from Scotland, England and Europe to an ISoCaRP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) workshop held in the university last week. The workshop, on the theme of ‘The Realism of Implementation - Engagement of Local Resources’ explored the challenges which are being addressed in the process of renewal and recovery in Dundee. Speakers included Pam Ewen, TAYplan Strategic Development Planning Manager and Allan Watt, Dundee Waterfront Manager, both key players involved in the city’s regeneration, as w...
ISoCaRP Workshop
Town and Regional Planning were delighted to welcome planners from Scotland, England and Europe to an ISoCaRP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) workshop held in the university last week. The workshop, on the theme of ‘The Realism of Implementation - Engagement of Local Resources’ explored the challenges which are being addressed in the process of renewal and recovery in Dundee. Speakers included Pam Ewen, TAYplan Strategic Development Planning Manager and Allan Watt, Dundee Waterfront Manager, both key players involved in the city’s regeneration, as w...
Let’s plan a new town
Primary school pupils from across Dundee got the chance ‘to plan a new town’ at the Engage Dundee event held on 6 May 2014. Working with staff from Town and Regional Planning, the pupils began by discussing what they like and dislike about their neighbourhood. Their ‘likes’ included living near friends, shops they could walk to, parks with swings, seesaws and football pitches, wide streets, and well-designed houses and their ‘dislikes’ included major roads with noisy traffic, anti-social behaviour, a lack of things to do in the park, small gardens, not ...
Let’s plan a new town
Primary school pupils from across Dundee got the chance ‘to plan a new town’ at the Engage Dundee event held on 6 May 2014. Working with staff from Town and Regional Planning, the pupils began by discussing what they like and dislike about their neighbourhood. Their ‘likes’ included living near friends, shops they could walk to, parks with swings, seesaws and football pitches, wide streets, and well-designed houses and their ‘dislikes’ included major roads with noisy traffic, anti-social behaviour, a lack of things to do in the park, small gardens, not ...
Icing on the Cake?
Town and Regional Planning were delighted that Barbara Illsley’s excellent teaching was acknowledged when she received one of the College of Arts and Social Sciences’ 2014 Teaching and Good Practice Awards under the “Transformational Teaching: Creating Wider Impact” category. The Course Team had nominated Barbara for a range of learning and teaching initiatives she has developed over the years and which have helped to raise the profile of planning amongst the general public. In selecting just one of her initiatives, Barbara talked about her work with primary and secondary schools an...
Architectural History in Practice
Tuesday 27 May 6 – 8pm A Planning Aid Scotland event in conjunction with 50 years of planning education at Dundee Tom Parnell, Architectural Historian with Simpson & Brown (a conservation architecture practice), will talk about how he helps inform architects and clients in developing designs and supporting planning applications. This visually-based presentation will look at the tools available for research into the historic built environment; discuss case-studies and the documents produced (such as conservation plans and statements); and examine what can/should be expected of applications re...