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Welcome to Urban Arena Lecture Series: Sandra Jeppesen 20 September 13:15-15:00
20 September 2023, 13.15-15.00 Pufendorf Institute , Biskopsgatan 3, Lund Mass surveillance through datafication, or dataveillance, is a complex, ideological issue in AI-driven Smart City projects, fraught with contradictions and tensions. Whose data will be collected, who is put under dataveillance, who will own the data, who will be [...]
Welcome to Urban Arena Lecture Series: Sandi Hilal - 12 September 9:15-10:15
12 September 9.15-10.15 Exhibition Hall, A-building, Sölvegatan 24, LTH Campus Dr Sandi Hilal is an LTH Lise Meitner Professor in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at Lund University. She is also the co- director of DAAR, a practice-based research collective in Palestine that works at the [...]
Welcome to Urban Arena Lecture Series: Charles Durrett - 12 September 10:15-12:00
12 September 10.15-12.00 Exhibition Hall, A-building, Sölvegatan 24, LTH Campus Charles Durrett is an architect, author, and advocate of affordable, socially responsible and sustainable design. He has designed over 50 cohousing communities in North America and has consulted on many more around the world. His most [...]
Urban Arena Interview - Kristoffer Mattisson June 2023
PRACTICING RESEARCH/RESEARCH IN PRACTICE 03 JUL 2023
Learning: the missing link between urban experimentation and transformation. Professor James Evans, University of Manchester, 24 May 2023
URBAN ARENA TALK AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ’Learning: the missing link between urban experimentation and transformation’ Professor James Evans, University of Manchester LUX Aula, Helgonavägen 3, Lund Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 15:00-16:30 Cities have been experimenting, trialling, piloting and demonstrating new solutions to a range of urban challenges [...]
Learning from experiments to transform cities. How does that work? Luca Bertolini, University of Amsterdam, 3 May 2023
Learning from experiments to transform cities. How does that work? Luca Bertolini, University of Amsterdam CIRCLE, Sölvegatan 16, Lund 3 May 2023, 12:15-13:00 Learning is widely acknowledged as a key mechanism by which experiments impact system change in cities. However, there is a dearth of studies articulating what this learning might concretely [...]
LECTURE - 'Exploring Digital Space-Time in the City' Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University - 5 June 2023
LECTURE - 'Exploring Digital Space-Time in the City' Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University LUX Aula, Helgonavägen 3, Lund 5 June 2023, 10:15-11:45 Temporality infuses the logics and processes of the digital economy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the smart city. This lecture will chart how the digital is reconfiguring space-time, map the [...]
Seminar - "Living environments and health in the ageing societies in times of crises" 22 May 2023, 13:00-16:45
Seminar - 'Living environments and health in the ageing societies in times of crises’ 22 May 2023, 13:00-16:45 Pufendorf Institute, Biskopsgatan 3, Lund The Center of Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE), Urban Arena and Lund University's Proactive Ageing Profile Area are hosting a seminar to develop collaborations between Japan and Sweden on [...]
Urban Arena Talk and Roundtable Discussion Monday, 3 April 2023, 13:15-15:00
“Infrastructuring Conflicts: Contested Qualities of Urban Networks” Friederike Landau-Donnelly (University of Radboud)