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About SCIBE

SCIBE explores the relationship between scarcity and creativity in the context of the built environment by investigating how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design, and how design-led actions might improve the built environment in the future. The research is based on the analysis of processes in four European cities: London, Oslo, Reykjavik, and Vienna. More details of the project can be found here.


Calendar

21 – 30 September 2012: SCIBE London to host the 3rd European Urban Summer School

The SCIBE London team will host the 3rd European Urban Summer School (EUSS), in collaboration with AESOP / ECTP-CEU / IFHP / ISOCARP, at the University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment. The EUSS, under the topic 'Times of Scarcity: reclaiming the possibility of making', aims to bring together postgraduate students, emerging and experienced academics and young and established design ...
Oslo/Reykjavik

Oslo

Following the discovery of North Sea oil in the late 1960s, Norway, which in the 1960’s was suffering a significant decline in its industrial base, had become one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Oslo was one of the main beneficiaries of this new wealth. From 1957 to 1980 while its population grew only moderately, tax revenues had increased ...

Vienna

SCIBE Vienna Team publishes focus issue of dérive

"The Vienna Model of Public Housing Provision - Superblock turned Überstadt" is the title of the focus issue of the Austrian Urban Research journal "dérive" (www.derive.at). In this issue of dérive the VIENNA team is able to present some of the findings of its research so far. Starting with a genealogy of publicly funded housing since the end of the World War ...

Oslo/Reykjavik

Scarcity and Creativity in the Reykjavík environment, a workshop

The Reykjavík team will be running an urban design research workshop with the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík August 22nd – September 2nd, 2011: Contemporary global socio-economic conditions and climate change pose an uncertainty regarding future development of the built environment. It is urgent to shift towards more resilient strategies for the urban development where an investigation into ...

EUSS

[6] EUSS Important Dates

31 May 2012 | Application deadline 15 June 2012 | Notification of selected participants 31 July 2012 | Final registration deadline (incl. payment of registration fee) 21-30 September 2012 | 3rd European Urban Summer School

STAF

[4] Scarce Times: Alternative Futures | Important Dates

14 May 2012 | Call for Entries 14 June 2012 | Registration deadline (registration form can be downloaded here). 2 July 2012 | EVENT ONE 23 July 2012 | EVENT TWO 30 July 2012 | Announcement of winning teams August 2012 | Start of collaborative project Download the full briefing document and registration form. [gallery link="file" order="DESC" orderby="rand"]

Oslo/Reykjavik

Icelandic Trends

The SCIBE team has explored in detail the relationship between Iceland's economic development, resource use and the built environment. Here more!  

Vienna

SCIBE at ‘Kooperativ Stadt Bauen’

Andreas Rumpfhuber from the SCIBE team in Vienna gave a talk at the ARCH+ Features, which took place in the course of the EXPERIMENTDAYS VIENNA on December 18-20. The event focussed on cohousing and sustainable and creative urbanism. Watch the video of the lecture and the debate here.

London

Scarcity Exchanges: Line-up

Scarcity Exchanges brings together some extraordinary speakers around a single, and very pressing, issue. It will open up the discussion as to what scarcity might mean, and its social, economic, and environmental implications. 11 May 2011: Economies of Scarcity Dougald Hine and Andrew Simms 18 May 2011: Cities of Scarcity Alfredo Brillembourg and David Satterthwaite 25 May 2011: Scarcity and Consumption Ed van Hinte and Steve ...

EUSS

[4] EUSS Application Process: Tutors

Experienced professionals and academics can apply to teach and tutor at the 3rd European Urban Summer School, 'Times of Scarcity - reclaiming the possibility of making'.  The organisers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation for those travelling from outside of London. Prospective tutors can apply by submitting their CV and a short outline of a lecture or workshop around ...

Oslo/Reykjavik

Redesigning Kariakoo: Scarcity, creativity in the South.

This is a studio course for 24 students to run in the Fall semester of 2011. The core focus of he studio will be the architectural and urban design challenges posed by Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam with a focus on the effects of scarcity/abundance on creativity. Students will undertake to: 1) map the morphology and social characteristics of Kariakoo; 2) ...