Tag: Urban Education
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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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Sheffield Network of Practices — a socio-spatial map of local initiatives and groups
Learning about space through socio-spatial mapping Urban Education Live Project partner Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) is currently working on a Sheffield-specific map of existing initiatives, groups, organisations and other local practices in an ongoing process throughout the duration of the research project. The initial aim of building this ‘Network of Practices’ is to explore the…
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2017 SSoA Live Projects
An educational initiative introduced in 1999 by the Sheffield School of Architecture, Live Projects are a pioneering collaboration between masters architecture students and local community groups, charities, health organisations and regional authorities. Urban Education Live team members from Sheffield and Bucharest were actively involved in Live Projects 2017, exploring and strengthening the innovative collaboration between…
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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…
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UEL Sheffield team
The University of Sheffield School of Architecture is one of the longest established architecture schools in the UK, opening in 1908. It is known for its strong social conscience, recognised nationally and internationally for its commitment to socially-engaged design and research. The students, staff and graduates are committed to working with community groups through teaching, research and…
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Presentation of the UEL Tampere team
Tampere School of Architecture provides a five-year integrated graduate programme of Architecture and a two-year international masters of Sustainable Architecture. Both programmes fulfil the EU requirements, thus facilitating free professional mobility in the Union. The School has 8 professors, about 40 members of staff and 400 students. In research, Tampere School of Architecture excels…