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Controlled Environments

Lucy Dunning
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Controlled Environments
March 19, 2018

An Urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Simon Marvin and Jonathon Rutherford have just had a paper published in Urban Studies (Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure) that sets out an urban research agenda on controlled environments.  Controlled environments create specialist forms of microclimatic…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled EnvironmentsGeneral
February 20, 2018

CITY MATERIALS, URBAN DIMENSIONS – The Institute for Culture and Society & the Urban Institute call for papers

The Institute for Culture and Society & the Urban Institute call for papers at the NZGS/IAG CONFERENCE There is a growing literature which grapples with the materiality of levels, surfaces, and dimensions within cities, and the theoretical possibilities and challenges…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled Environments
October 20, 2017

Culture & Climate Change: Future Scenarios Residency

Emma Critchley is a visual artist specialising in underwater photography and video. In June 2016 Emma was awarded a year-long residency called Culture & Climate Change, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The University of Sheffield, The Open University and the…
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Lucy Dunning
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BlogControlled Environments
July 19, 2017

Artificial environments are turning the world outside in, but that’s no way to save the planet

This blog post was written by Simon Marvin and Jonathan Rutherford and originally appeared in The Conversation. When meltwater breached the global seed bank near Svalbard in May, after unusually warm weather, it served as a stark reminder of the need to…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled Environments
March 13, 2017

New Project, Volumetric Urbanism

UI is working with Professor Donald McNeill at the University of Western Sydney on a new three year funded Australian Research Council on Volumetric Urbanism. This project aims to explain how global built environment and development firms 'push the envelope'…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled Environments
February 2, 2017

Exploring controlled environments in Sheffield

On a fresh, but sunny Tuesday morning in late January, the UI team with colleagues from Geography conducted a series of visits to three controlled environment sites in Sheffield. The aim of this ‘infralab’ was to develop the first step…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled EnvironmentsUrban Automation
February 2, 2017

Public Lecture at the IRI THESys Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Simon Marvin, UI Director, recently undertook a public lecture on "Managing urban turbulence: Atmospheric control and the modulation of infrastructure" on 19 January 2017, 17.15 pm, at Humboldt Universität's Grimm-Zentrum. Digital control systems enable the unpredictable ecology of the atmosphere…
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Lucy Dunning
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Controlled Environments
November 4, 2016

The Disruptive Innovation Festival: Regenerative Cities Animations

In collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Lenny Koh of the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre, Nick Taylor Buck has produced two short animations for inclusion in the ‘Regenerative Cities’ theme of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.…
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