Category: Bucharest
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Community groups in the lead: collaborations between academia and civil society
One of the main issues tackled in the UEL symposium dedicated to social mapping was the collaborative research between community organizations and academia. Maybe one of the most experienced researchers in this concern area is Just Space, London based community groups network. Richard Lee, whose presence at the UEL Symposium was a valuable gain in this debate, gave an overview of the…
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Top down vs. bottom up — a brief critical history of urban planning
How different configurations of power result in differently developed cities. We began our first fellowship meeting with some basics: placing urban planning theory and practice in historical context. With printed images of contrasting urban settlements at hand, we discussed and pinned each along a timeline sketched on the wall, outlining a visual history of urbanism. A…
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Meet our fellows
Six young researchers working with engaged citizens to create mutual learning for better neighbourhood living. As we’re approaching week 5 of our applied-research-meets-grassroots-initiatives programme, we want to share the profiles of the six fellows we’re prototyping this live learning set-up with. We’re excited to have this multidisciplinary mix of…
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Urboteca Fellowship is live
An applied research programme engaging neighbourhood communities in Bucharest. We ended 2017 on a high note. Mid-December, we welcomed the first generation to the Urboteca Fellowship Programme, a 14-week live-learning experience designed for graduate students and young professionals to explore how they can support neighbourhood communities to better act upon their urban environments, while embedding mutual…
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Meet the Bucharest team
Architects, urban researchers, anthropologists, political scientist, geographer and sociologist working together. Urban Education Live‘s Bucharest team is interdisciplinary, in true ATU spirit. We each have more than one professional hat and academic specialisation and have pooled our experience and knowledge into a team of passionate individuals, driven by the need to improve the way our city works…
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Introducing the Association for Urban Transition
A 16-year journey of researching all things urban. The Association for Urban Transition (ATU) is a Romanian non-governmental organisation with 16 years of experience in projects involving diverse spatial settings: historical centers, collective housing estates, slums, green infrastructure, rural microregions, brownfields. We function as a think-tank and work on defining methods, encouraging encounters and exploring alternative means of disseminating…