Solar street art for a participatory energy transition
(2024)
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Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges (2024)
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This presentation explores the importance of learning environments for Higher Education students that value multiple perspectives on a specific design challenge. Using examples from the classroom, this presentation will explore the vital role of inte... Read More about Creating a learning environment that values multiple perspectives, in the face of climate related design challenges.
Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring (2024)
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In the light of an unprecedented climate emergency, there is an urgent need to reconsider the materials we use for the construction of our buildings and to explore alternative material systems that are abundant, easy to source, and exhibit increased... Read More about Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring.
In between: Ghostly control through slowness and the relational (2024)
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This presentation is about space and sustainability, exploring Massey’s theory of space and how it can enform musical interface design. In particular, how something can be imagined from the old and remade anew.
Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan (2024)
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Construction is regarded as the most hazardous industrial sector due to its nature and physical demanding activities. Construction workers in developing countries are 3~4 times more likely to die from accidents on-site compared to workers in other in... Read More about Revamping occupational safety and health (OS&H) regulations in Pakistan.
Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network (2024)
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We wish to showcase how a hands-on craft has relevance and capacity within the Nordic regions, and in doing so: to discover what role a heritage process and facilities can play in our contemporary culture and connect its existing communities of pract... Read More about Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network.
A ‘passive’ approach to Net Zero for New Zealand social housing – preliminary findings (2024)
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New Zealand's first emissions reduction plan sets out goals to achieve Net Zero for all GHG and a 24-47% reduction in biogenic methane by 2050. Buildings contribute to 10-15% of overall domestic emissions in New Zea-land (NZ). Reducing operational em... Read More about A ‘passive’ approach to Net Zero for New Zealand social housing – preliminary findings.
Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing (2024)
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This presentation formed an overview of the current research into the technologies we are developing in SOAS at UWE for the analysis of soil carbon dynamics and soil biodiversity. It highlights three main strands; electrochemical (bio)sensing, gas s... Read More about Sensing solutions in soil biodiversity and carbon monitoring; from acoustics to biosensing.
Dimensions of maturity model for institutionalising Smart Circular Construction: A systematic literature review (2024)
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The systematic adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies has potentials to achieve the transition to Smart Circular Construction (SCC). However, the construction literature lacks a systematic guidance of maturity models to inform the transition to circul... Read More about Dimensions of maturity model for institutionalising Smart Circular Construction: A systematic literature review.
Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry (2024)
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Corruption is prevalent across the construction industry in developing countries. This is due to converging factors such as (a) the sector’s requirement for substantial capital investment, (b) government involvement, (c) time pressures to deliver new... Read More about Impact of corruption on achieving sustainable development goals within Africas construction industry.
High spatial resolution monthly temperature and precipitation data modelling for Tunisia from 1950 to 2023 (2024)
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High spatial and temporal resolutions climate data play a fundamental role in enhancing our understanding of climate change and addressing its environmental and social consequences. However, challenges such as the sparse distribution of meteorologica... Read More about High spatial resolution monthly temperature and precipitation data modelling for Tunisia from 1950 to 2023.
Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies (2024)
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This paper presents findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM Excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces. This research focuses on winter conditions and the ou... Read More about Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies.
Be less scientist, be more human: Scientists and policymakers mastering the art of public engagement in environmental governance (2024)
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In environmental psychology, a disconnection from nature is often studied but a disconnection from one another is less commonly discussed. Through a similar process of industrial growth, researchers and policymakers have been distanced from fellow hu... Read More about Be less scientist, be more human: Scientists and policymakers mastering the art of public engagement in environmental governance.
MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability (2024)
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Research indicates that STEM activities which draw on wider societal or environmental purpose (communal goals) are more attractive to women. Maker projects have also been shown to improve identity and agency in STEM for black men and encourage engage... Read More about MAKERS - Making and knowledge exchange for repair & sustainability.
A conceptual framework for understanding community resilience to flooding (2024)
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Flooding, an already prevalent global hazard, is predicted to worsen in frequency and intensity. Flood Risk Governance has evolved from exclusively combating flooding to now also coexisting with it, aiming to enhance resilience comprehensively and ov... Read More about A conceptual framework for understanding community resilience to flooding.
The contribution of CSR activity to perceptions of a place brand - The case of Bristol (2024)
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Socio-economic cohesion might otherwise be described as the integration of ‘social and environmental topics’ into ‘business activities’, which Öberseder et al (2014) describe as corporatesocial responsibility (CSR). Previous studies have investigated... Read More about The contribution of CSR activity to perceptions of a place brand - The case of Bristol.
Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping (2024)
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Set within an eco-feminist praxis of matter, fluidity, care and porousity, this paper considers how brackish waters, as slow sites of exchange, offer new ways of thinking about methodological ‘slow attention’ in critical photographic landscape practi... Read More about Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping.
The role of enjoyment and affective arousal in air pollution and climate change decision-making (2024)
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Diverse citizens need to be involved in net zero transitions to ensure policy interventions do not entrench inequalities for people from minoritised or disenfranchised groups and ensure public engagement with rapid social changes. This talk draws on... Read More about The role of enjoyment and affective arousal in air pollution and climate change decision-making.
“Designer huts” in allotment gardens – A new phenomenon – A case of Warsaw, Poland (2024)
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Allotment gardens are widespread across Europe. Their gardeners maintain green oases in otherwise heavily built-up areas by cultivating urban land and caring for the green space. Thus, they generate positive externalities by privately managing public... Read More about “Designer huts” in allotment gardens – A new phenomenon – A case of Warsaw, Poland.
Policy evidence for community climate action (2024)
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The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) region has pledged to reach Net Zero emissions by 2030 - 20 years earlier than UK Government ambitions. The area has a population of over 1.1 million people across the cities of Bristol and Bath, alongsi... Read More about Policy evidence for community climate action.