The Botanical City (2020), co-edited by Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper, has just been published by jovis Verlag, Berlin.
This unique collection of essays explores the botanical dimensions of urban space, ranging from scientific efforts to understand the distinctive dynamics
As a response to their cancelled event (due to COVID-19), UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden are putting on a virtual screening and panel discussion of Natura Urbana, available online between 17-19th of April 2020.
Panelists will include:
Sandra Jasper…In response to the recent screening cancellations due to the COVIV-19 pandemic, and in solidarity with all those currently in self-isolations, quarantines, and lockdowns around the world, Natura Urbana – the Brachen of Berlin has been made available for free …
On Thursday 12 March 2020 at 6.45pm, the Cambridge Natural History Society presents “Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin” as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Created by the project’s PI Matthew Gandy and former post-doc Sandra Jasper (co-author and …
The project’s PI, Matthew Gandy, is presenting a keynote at the symposium “Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions”, Taubman College, University of Michigan, on 21st February 2020, 6pm local time.
The symposium frames discourses emerging from a relational study of …
In recent years many European cities have developed innovative park designs that combine environmental objectives such as healthier air, cooler microclimates, and the enhancement of biodiversity with novel approaches to the creation of public space. On the evening of 18 …
There is growing recognition that cities can act as urban refugia for biodiversity and that the spontaneous dynamics of nature can be woven into the aesthetic characteristics of green spaces as part of the cultural and scientific enrichment of public …
Sandra Jasper’s new paper “Acoustic Ecologies: Architecture, Nature, and Modernist Experimentation in West Berlin” has been published open access in Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
The paper argues that existing geographical research on sound has largely focused on …
Our post-doctoral research associate Maroš Krivý has published a new paper in Architectural Histories:
Krivý, M., 2019. Automation or Meaning? Socialism, Humanism and Cybernetics in Etarea. Architectural Histories, 7(1), p.3.
It can be accessed via: https://journal.eahn.org/articles/10.5334/ah.314/…
Research Associate Krithika Srinivasan from the University of Edinburgh has published a new paper:
De Silva S and Srinivasan K, 2019, Revisiting social natures: Human-elephant conflict and coexistence in Sri Lanka, Geoforum, Vol 102, pp. 182-190.
It can be freely …