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Book Launch - Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI - 18 September 2024
This book launch will provide an opportunity for the editors to introduce the book and engage in a roundtable discussion with the panellists and audience members about current and future issues related to urban AI.
Urban Arena Interview Session with Alexander Paulsson
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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 [...]