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  • about
  • themes
    • - redefining urban nature
    • - post-humanism and new conceptions of agency
    • - epidemiology, insect vectors and the political ecology of water
    • - wastelands and urban bio-diversity
    • - aesthetics, landscape and “non-design”
    • - marginal spaces and cultural practice
  • cities
    • - london
    • - tallinn
    • - berlin
    • - chennai
  • team
  • news and events
  • outputs
    • - publications
    • - lectures and presentations
    • - reports
    • - image gallery
    • - documentary film

Blog

Natura Urbana is screened virtually by UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

Apr 8, 2020Louise Kay

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…

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COVID-19: Natura Urbana available online for free

Mar 25, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Natura Urbana is screened at Cambridge Science Festival

Mar 7, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Matthew Gandy’s keynote at the symposium “Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions”, Taubman College, University of Michigan

Feb 21, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Urban Salon event “Urban green space: reflections on ecological design”, hosted and chaired by Matthew Gandy

Feb 14, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Matthew Gandy is chairing British Academy event “Urban Green Space”

Feb 14, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Sandra Jasper published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Feb 4, 2020Louise Kay

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 …

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Maroš Krivý published in Architectural Histories

Apr 16, 2019Louise Kay

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/…

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Krithika Srinivasan published in Geoforum

Apr 16, 2019Louise Kay

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 …

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Krithika Srinivasan published in the Transactions Journal

Feb 27, 2019Louise Kay

Research Associate Krithika Srinivasan from the University of Edinburgh has published a new paper, Remaking more‐than‐human society: Thought experiments on street dogs as “nature” in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Journal.

 

 

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