For the last Green Space discussion of the year we will be joined by Simeon talking to us about board game Climania and the role of the built environment in the climate emergency.
Dm us for the zoom link.
Come join us this Wednesday on zoom or in Forum 1 where we will be screening our talk from Scott McAulay on Climate Activism for Designers and Architects: Agency Within and Beyond the Studio.
Green Space discussions are coming back this term!
Next Wednesday, we are welcoming in our Green Space discussions Lotte Dijkstra, a PhD researcher in APL, that will talk about the use of storytelling as a method for intersectional environmentalism. The talk will explore how we can use collaborative storytelling to explore equitable access to urban forest places across communities and how place-based narratives can help connect us to nature and our non-human kin close to home.
Wednesday 3rd of May, 16:30, Forum 1, Architecture Building
Connecting nature & the built environment
PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Open to all NCL Uni students
Organised as collaboration between Photography Society @nuphotographysoc and NCAN @nclstudentscan
Send in your photo entries to [email protected] for the chance to win a £50 gift voucher for ecobravo.co.uk @ecobravouk .
For any questions feel free to dm us.
EARTH DAY DESIGN CHARRETTE AND COMPETITION 21st of April
Investing in our planet: A Place for the ’Displaced’
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Celebrating Earth Day 2023, students from architectural schools around the UK are invited to participate in a design charrette and competition responding to a brief on the theme of Investing in our planet: A Place for the ’Displaced’.
We are collaborating with Manchester, Cardiff and Bath's Architecture Student Climate Action groups to host this Design Charrette and Competition.
The day will consist of interactive design sessions in which groups of students will respond to a brief through expressive design, making and collaboration. At the end of the day, the designs will be judged awarding a Newcastle winner. Their submission will then further compete with winners from other schools.
Sign up link in bio.
Deadline for signing up is 16th of April.
For more information dm us.
@nclstudentscan@mssaclimateaction@bath.cag@wsacan.cardiff
Great last session of the term! Thank you all for joining both in person and online and big thanks to Aidan for giving us the talk!
Future of Climate Literacy in education looking hopeful!
Watch this space for information about future events!
This coming Wednesday, we are welcoming Aidan Hoggard that will talk to us about the book he co-authored Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students, published by RIBA, touching on design approaches tackling quadruple challenges of the climate crisis:
- Adapting to a changing climate
- Climate change mitigation
- Creating a positive and restorative design
- Improving climate justice locally and globally
Wednesday 22nd of March, 16:30, online, screening in Mezzanine, Building Science
dm us to get the link or find it in the email invitation.
This Thursday we are welcoming in our Green Space discussions Helen Mizgajeva that will bring to us the topic of alternative material practices. She will discuss the material alternatives for popular construction materials nowadays, that can be more eco-friendly and considerate of reducing embodied carbon and sustainably using renewable resources.
Thursday 16th of March, 16:30, Forum 1, Architecture Building
