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Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities share experiences, ideas and resources betwe... Read More about Developing community leadership for action on affordable, healthy, and sustainable food issues.

The implementations of smart monitoring on construction sites – A literature review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A critical concern with the UK’s construction project progress monitoring and control techniques is their dependency on data collection, which is time-consuming and unproductive and may lead to various circumstances in managing projects. However, col... Read More about The implementations of smart monitoring on construction sites – A literature review.

The implications of interim payment certificate in UK: A literature review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The appropriate measurement and valuation of construction works is between the crucial aspects of successful project management. This takes place following traditional surveying methods and inspection techniques, however, both clients and contractors... Read More about The implications of interim payment certificate in UK: A literature review.

Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The lack of diversity has been recognised in the Built Environment and Construction industry, and solutions to address this are both achieving diversity within Higher Education, as well as improving workplace culture to increase retention of a divers... Read More about Building allies: The role of diversity allies in built environment higher education courses.

The role of the petty bourgeoisie in the current crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The interlocking crises of capitalism that we face are coming to a head. Amidst these dangerous times we are witnessing a response from the organised working class across the world through waves of strike action and unionisation drives in new sectors... Read More about The role of the petty bourgeoisie in the current crisis.

How can policy making be improved by citizen science? (2023)
Report

This is a meeting note from a roundtable chaired by Ian Diamond, National Statistician (21 April 2023). This roundtable explored the opportunities and barriers to incorporating citizen science and other participatory approaches in policymaking. This... Read More about How can policy making be improved by citizen science?.

System shifting the design studio: Educating regenerative future practitioners (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Published in 2021, the UK Design Council’s Beyond Net Zero report identified that designers are ‘not yet using their skills and resources to deliberately support the green transition in the way that they should and could’. A rising awareness of clim... Read More about System shifting the design studio: Educating regenerative future practitioners.

The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West (2023)
Journal Article

Danielle Sinnett, Katie McClymont, Hannah Hickman, Zaky Fouad and Stephen Hall outline the findings of a study of housing affordability in the South West of England, suggesting that it is unlikely that current housing need assessments will deliver en... Read More about The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West.

Making demands on government: Theorizing determinants of backyard residents' collective action in Cape Town, South Africa (2023)
Journal Article

Informality is growing with Africa's rapid urbanization. Much like residents of other types of informal housing, backyard dwellers face overall poor living conditions and political marginalization. However, backyard residents are in an ambiguous lega... Read More about Making demands on government: Theorizing determinants of backyard residents' collective action in Cape Town, South Africa.

Integration of LCA and LCCA through BIM for optimized decision-making when switching from gas to electricity services in dwellings (2023)
Journal Article

This study aims to assess electric heating system retrofit options and identify the optimal solution by applying a combined LCA and LCCA approach using BIM for existing UK homes. Exemplary case study illustrating an LCA and LCCA calculation using a B... Read More about Integration of LCA and LCCA through BIM for optimized decision-making when switching from gas to electricity services in dwellings.

The role of modular homes in addressing homelessness: Cambridge's modular homes (2023)
Report

Book review of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-state, by Gareth Doherty (2023)
Journal Article

House in a garden (2023)
Digital Artefact

Review of Gianni Botsford's House in a Garden

VKhUTEMAS pedagogy: Composition and the new language of form (2023)
Journal Article

This article explores the application of a modernist educational practice into a contemporary studio environment. The aim is to investigate the impact that modernist design pedagogy has on visual perception and abstract thinking. The analysis examine... Read More about VKhUTEMAS pedagogy: Composition and the new language of form.

Getting lost in design drawing with the Satnav natives (2023)
Journal Article

In the context of the Attention Economy, this essay discusses an immersed digital learner. It posits the metaphor of the Design Satnav as the way these students conceive the design process. This Satnav is understood as the antithesis of the tradition... Read More about Getting lost in design drawing with the Satnav natives.

Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The panel session will question how a visual, spatial research, might uncover the implications of technological and social change in Norrlands. It will consider how political narratives of the region might be embedded in the space and propose new rea... Read More about Session 3: Wide load - The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (panel 1).

Key questions for road investment and spending (2023)
Report

This report has been produced by the Road Investment Scrutiny Panel – an assembled group of senior professionals supported by funding from the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund.

Roads are the arteries of economic and social prosperity. They also come at a c... Read More about Key questions for road investment and spending.

Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers (2022)
Journal Article

Social robots have the potential to support autistic school children with their wellbeing. This research reveals how a co-design approach with autistic children and their teachers was undertaken. Focus groups with autistic children and teachers colla... Read More about Co-designing a social robot in a special educational needs school: Listening to the ambitions of autistic children and their teachers.

Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Concrete is the world’s most widely used man-made material, accounting for around 7% of global CO2 emissions. Currently, up to half of the concrete used in buildings is unnecessary, as it is there because it is shaped using prismatic formworks, which... Read More about Digital design of automatically wound shear reinforcement for non-prismatic concrete beams.

The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community (2022)
Journal Article

In this study of the Andean town of Chuschi and its surrounding district of the same name, we consider the impacts of the proliferation of fencing on once open land. The paper contributes to a growing body of literature on the practice and impact of... Read More about The fences of Chuschi: The impacts of land enclosure on an Andean indigenous community.