Hive mind for Net Zero: Towards a social engagement model for collective home energy behaviour change
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (711)
Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article
Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Creating healthy and sustainable cities (2025)
Digital Artefact
This short article summarises the major themes that will be addressed at the European Urban Research Association (EURA) Conference to be held in Bristol in June 2025. Contributors will share perspectives on how to create healthy and sustainable citi... Read More about Creating healthy and sustainable cities.
The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
Book Chapter
Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.
Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype (2025)
Journal Article
To reduce the significant environmental impact of the construction industry, building floors designed as concrete shells that work mainly in compression and that are segmented for prefabrication and disassembly offer a promising alternative to reinfo... Read More about Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype.
World Book Night 2025 - Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees) (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
WBN United Artists invited responses to The Overstory by Richard Powers for an exhibition and mail art swap at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK. We received over 200 works by artists from countries around the world including: Australia, Austria, Bel... Read More about World Book Night 2025 - Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees).
unfolding library (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Tricia Treacy + Denise Bookwalter curators of a collaborative project, unfolding library. We prompted a handful of artists + designers to make a book object within the past six weeks about a passage of time. We are excited to "table" as a method to e... Read More about unfolding library.
UK Parliament POST Future research: Regenerative agriculture (2025)
Report
This submission explores the definitional, practical, and governance challenges associated with regenerative agriculture, a concept increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of food production. Drawing on historical and cont... Read More about UK Parliament POST Future research: Regenerative agriculture.
International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change? (2025)
Journal Article
The current article examines whether international criminal tribunals (ICT) can be regarded as actors of international relations, which trigger domestic policy changes in countries under their jurisdiction. Drawing on the concepts of ‘third party enf... Read More about International criminal tribunals as triggers of institutional change?.
Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications (2025)
Journal Article
As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing sig... Read More about Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications.
What is here - there (2025)
Physical Artefact
What is here - there, our shared seas, rocks, clouds, storms, stars, flora, beauty, Sarah Bodman, collage.
HERE: a place-based polar image bridge, a participatory digital exhibition at Polar Educators International, Boulder, Colorado, USA, curated... Read More about What is here - there.
Implementing environmental management systems (ISO 14001) in the construction sector of Ghana (2025)
Journal Article
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) enable organisations to manage their environmental impacts. Globalisation has resulted in more organisations needing to engage in environmental sustainability. In developed nations ISO 14001 provides the key gui... Read More about Implementing environmental management systems (ISO 14001) in the construction sector of Ghana.
On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning (2025)
Journal Article
Accurate identification of the black soil thickness from soil profiling is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the on-site identification of black soil thickness by experts is challenging due to the notable transitional layer in the thi... Read More about On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning.
Co-production and the key aspects of community involvement in flood risk management (FRM) (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flood risk management (FRM) has shifted towards more decentralised and people-centred approaches. This increase in community involvement has become conceptually linked with ‘coproduction,’ used in other societal domains by both academics and professi... Read More about Co-production and the key aspects of community involvement in flood risk management (FRM).
Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool (2025)
Journal Article
Purpose - Sustainability practices and reporting have consistently evolved over the years with trends towards more holistic approaches with respect to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In the real estate sector over the last deca... Read More about Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool.
We sing to you (2025)
Physical Artefact
Collage postcard edition for World Book Night 2025, the trees sing their song, an elegy in memory of Chico Mendes, the Brazilian activist and environmentalist, assassinated in 1988.
"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I... Read More about We sing to you.
SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells (2025)
Journal Article
The Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) project explored digital workflows from the design to the construction of reinforced concrete building floor elements, reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency of building processes. The resulti... Read More about SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells.
Industrial time (2025)
Physical Artefact
Artist's book and video. Sound recording to accompany a book made for the unfolding library project, USA. Industrial Time is part of a set with Natural Time. Each denotes a minute waiting on the roadside.
Natural Time (2025)
Physical Artefact
Artist's book and video. Sound recording to accompany a book made for the unfolding library project, USA. Natural Time is part of a set with Industrial Time. Each denotes a minute waiting on the roadside.
Evidence of greater dung beetle abundance in a rewilded area compared to nearby organic farms (2025)
Journal Article
Organic farms have been shown to harbour larger and more diverse invertebrate populations and associated ecosystem services compared to other conventional farming methods. However, data on the impacts of rewilding on invertebrates remain scarce.
D... Read More about Evidence of greater dung beetle abundance in a rewilded area compared to nearby organic farms.