Tag: Urban Planning
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Urban Education Live final symposium and UEL Network Formation event 14 – 15 December 2020
UEL is happy to announce the Urban Education Live Final Symposium 2020. We kindly invite everyone to join our event on 14th and 15th of December 2020, to exchange our thoughts on the advancements of the consortium, on the current state of live education and to give a start for the new UEL working group…
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UEL:TAMP presents: we.city
We.City is a mobile application that has its aim to help communities to group up, to realize local initiatives and to find expert help. The idea for it was largely developed within the UEL Tampere team, but now it is being developed independently by the group of volunteers and enthusiasts from different fields. This…
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UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo
A video that goes more in detail with the PlaySalo game where University students would join high school students on the ground in Finnish city of Salo.
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UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo Context
A video that describes the practical and theoretical background for both the UEL project and more specifically the project of the Tampere Team: PlaySalo.
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Urban Education Live: How changing the role of universities can enhance urban equality
Shafayet Choudhury from JPI interviews Panu Lehtovuori from Urban Education Live team Tampere about the project: ”More people than ever before obtain a university education, but certain communities, such as the working class and ethnic minorities, are sometimes underrepresented in the university system. Ideally, universities should serve the needs of all members of society. However, universities shouldn’t…
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A Pedagogy of the Urban — Article published in the EUCANET eBook: City Agencies Working Papers
The Tamp team in collaboration with Swetha Rao Dhananka responded to a call for papers as part of the EUCANET project that looks into “City Agencies” Read the full article — from page 88 here Abstract While a common urban agenda at the supranational EU-level, as foreseen by the Amsterdam pact has been established, there are…
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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…