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Urban Events at Sustainability Week in Lund (8-12 April 2024)

Sustainability Week in Lund is happening 8-13 April! A series of lectures, guided tours, debates, and exhibitions will be hosted by academics, practitioners, and residents throughout the city. All events are free but some require registration.

Formas Career Grant for Early-Career Researchers 2024

Formas has announced an upcoming funding call for early-career researchers on topics of Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. The funding is for three or four years and must include national or international researcher mobility. The average budget per year cannot exceed 1.5m SEK. The call is divided into two tracks: Track A: [...]

Urban Arena Interview with Johanna Sörensen - December 2023

Urban Arena Interview with Johan Pries - November 2023

Misagh Mottaghi - Public Defence 10 November - Carescape of Blue-Green Solutions in Everyday Life: Exploring the Socio-materiality of a Landscape Technology

Welcome to Urban Arena Lecture Series: Three Constellations | Place, People and Process | Guillermo Aranda-Mena, RMIT University | 31 October

  31 October 2023 10.15-12.00 A:4057 (4th floor) A-building, Sölvegatan 24, Lund    Dr. Guillermo Aranda-Mena is Associate Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and since 2012, Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, UNESCO Chair of Architecture in Mantua. Guillermo’s [...]

Doctoral Defense 6 October 2023 - Darin Wahl 'Experimenting with sustainability transformations: A study of Urban Living Labs in the food, water and energy nexus’

  Doctoral Defense - Darin Wahl - 6 October 2023, 13:15 'Experimenting with sustainability transformations: A study of Urban Living Labs in the food, water and energy nexus’ Place: Ostrom, Josephson, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund Supervisors: Barry Ness and Christine Wamsler, LUCSUS Opponent: Frank Sejersen, University of Copenhagen Scholars and [...]

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 [...]