10 Nov 2015
#LoveDesignDundee launched by UNESCO City of Design Dundee
What design do you love in Dundee? UNESCO City of Design Dundee is calling for everyone in the city to share photos on social media with the #LoveDesignDundee hashtag. Each month the team will share a new theme – for the first month they’re looking for photos of ‘Beautiful buildings’. This could be where you live, where you work, the local school or community centre, an old building full of character, or a new modern structure. The photo could be of the whole building, or a tiny design detail – inside or outside – which you find beautiful. Anna Day, Project Manager of...
9 Nov 2015
Mary Shelley's Dundee: Re-animating a City
Frankenstein author Mary Shelley’s formative experiences in Dundee will be revisited in a series of events starting from tomorrow, The University of Dundee will host ‘Mary Shelley’s Dundee: Re-animating a City’ as part of the Being Human 2015, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. The festival will see events take place at 41 universities and other organisations across the UK throughout November. The Dundee programme includes the production and exhibition of an original comic, theatrical adaptations and immersive film screenings that will explore Shelley’s teen...
9 Nov 2015
‘Flourishing Communities and Productive Seas’ – Tuesday, 10th November
The first of three workshops to discuss how to involve communities in decisions about marine and coastal planning is being held in Dundee tomorrow. The ‘Flourishing Communities and Productive Seas’ event, organised by the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, brings together a range of different disciplines, policy-makers and stakeholders to discuss what has been called ‘blue growth’. It takes place at Discovery Point from 9.30am-4.30pm. International experts will discuss how to navigate the complex legal and regulatory systems governing the marine environment and which has been ...
5 Nov 2015
‘Space, Planets and Solar Systems’ – Café Science on 9th November
Dr Soko Matsumura will explain how the planets in our solar system have shifted position since its formation and what the implications of this changing picture are at the next Café Science event in Dundee. Dr Matsumura, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Dundee, will deliver the talk, entitled ‘Space, Planets and Solar Systems’ at Avery & Co, South Tay Street, on Monday, 9th November. She said, “Until recently, the configuration of the planets in our Solar System was considered to be similar to that during its formation. This ‘quiet’ picture of the ...
4 Nov 2015
World Town Planning Day celebrated in Dundee
The University of Dundee is celebrating World Town Planning Day with colleagues from around the world. The event has been organised by Town and Regional Planning staff from the University, who will take part in the virtual online conference along with delegates from prestigious regional and international organisations. They will discussing topics related to Housing Regeneration: Strengthening Communities, the theme of this year’s World Town Planning Day. In the context of increasing urbanisation and economic inequity, housing pressures takes on unprecedented importance across the globe. The level o...
