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‘Find the Gap’: can a multidisciplinary group of university teachers influence learning and teaching practice?
Jarvis, Joy; Thomas, Rebecca; Rosella, Tony; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Hodgkinson, Julia; Glass, Lesley; Clark, Karen; Barlow, Janet; Baker, Thomas (2017-07-20)This paper describes and analyses a year’s project undertaken by a small, multidisciplinary group of academic staff in a UK post -1992 university. The purpose of the group was to: take a scholarly and inquiring approach ... -
How can teaching focused staff contribute to creating an institutional strategy for ongoing professional learning in teaching?
Jarvis, Joy; Clark, Karen; Thomas, Rebecca; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Barlow, Janet; Rosella, Tony; julia, Hodgkinson (2016-06-28) -
Improving Public Engagement with Ethical Complexities of Assistive Robots
Menon, Catherine; Carta, Silvio; Foerster, Frank; Holthaus, Patrick (Springer Nature, 2023-08-24)In order for society to fully realise the potential benefits offered by assistive robots, a number of ethical challenges must firstly be addressed. Crucially, it is important to enhance public understanding of the ways in ... -
Light Texture and Volumes
Carta, Silvio (2023-06-08)In this section, we showcase three recently built single family houses in Mexico that embrace their distinct settings. Each house maximizes its unique location, whether nestled within a dense pine forest or boasting breath ... -
MOVE: a fun Playground
Pintacuda, Luigi (2023-04-27)“Most people, talking of their happiest childhood experiences, will describe places that were wild, overgrown, mysterious, hidden from adult eyes; trees where they built houses, undergrowth where they created smugglers' ... -
On the Move: Michel Écochard, Migration, and Transdisciplinary Exchange in Urban Design
Polimeni, Beniamino; Toler, Michael (2022-06-30)Trained as an architect, archaeologist, and urban planner, Michel Écochard was both a prominent proponent of Modernist architecture and a conservation architect with a deep appreciation of traditional construction methods ... -
RECOMM. Measuring resilient communities: An analytical and predictive tool
Carta, Silvio; Turchi, Tommaso; Pintacuda, Luigi; Jankovic, Ljubomir (2023-09-30)We present initial findings of our project RECOMM: an analytical tool that evaluates the resilience of urban areas. The tool utilises Deep Neural Networks to identify characteristics of resilience and assigns a resilience ... -
A Shift in Teaching Architectural Design Studio: Adaptative Reuse and Retrofit as the Main Focus to Prepare Students for Complex Challenges of a Changing Profession
Pintacuda, Luigi; Dimka, Nenpin; Trail, Thomas; Cherry, Monica; Polimeni, Beniamino (2023-04-28)“The greenest building is the one that already exists”, Carl Elefante stated in 2007). In the last few years, this statement has been strengthened and the approach to sustainability in architecture has been focused more ... -
Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory
Jankovic, L.; Basurra, Shadi (2016-09-09)The paper describes collaboration a between industryand academia in enhancing a Passivhaus certifiedsystem for retrofit and putting it onto a zero carbontrajectory. The system was initially developed for onsite stick ...