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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

Conference Podcasts Available

The highly successful conference, Within The Limits of Scarcity, is now finished, but the podcasts of the keynote speakers are now available here. We are very grateful to all our keynotes, who broke all conference conventions (!) and did not just talk about their own work, but really addressed the issues that the conference was raising. The quality of the ...
EUSS

[7] EUSS International Award for Young Planning Professionals 2012

Introduction The Directorate responsible for planning at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (I&M) is encouraging young planning professionals to provide new ideas on the forms, methods and possibilities in spatial planning needed to face present-day challenges facing our human settlements. It is therefore using the European Urban Summer School (EUSS) as the main forum to organise an International Young ...

Oslo/Reykjavik

SCIBE PhD position

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) is a specialist university providing education within architecture and design and awards the degrees of PhD, Master of Architecture, Master of Industrial Design and Master of Landscape Architecture. AHO offers experience based master’s degrees within urbanism, architectural heritage and IT-related subjects.  The school has a wide-ranging research environment in four institutes; AHO ...

Oslo/Reykjavik

Creativity in Abundance: Oslo’s vacant public buildings

Studio course for 24 graduate students to run in the Fall semester 2011 There are more than 30 major public buildings in Oslo which lie empty. The studio departs from the position that in the age of population increase and limited resources it is not an option, even in an economy of abundance, to have a stock of vacant public ...

Vienna

Michael Klein at Archtheo ’11 in Istanbul

Michael Klein from the SCIBE team Vienna will give a paper entitled ‘a few steps towards an operational notion of scarcity’ at ARCHTHEO 2011, an international symposium on the theory of architecture. The symposium will take place from 23-26 November at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul, for further details see here.    

London

SCIBE at the World Urban Forum VI | Naples, Italy

Participatory Design for Inclusive City Building Hosted by ASF-UK in collaboration with SCIBE, UN-Habitat and DPU-UCL On 5 September 2012, Isis Nunez Ferrera facilitated a training event on participatory design methodologies at the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy. These methods have been developed in action-research workshops in Brazil and Kenya and have been recently implemented as part of the fieldwork exploring scarcity ...

London

Publication for Occupied Times

Following Jeremy Till's lecture at Tent City University on the steps of St Pauls in November 2011, an abbreviated version of his talk has been published in The Occupied Times of London

London

London goes global

The London team are spreading their wings in June. Deljana Iossifova has been invited to join the debate at Richard Florida's Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. She will be participating in their Experience the Creative Economy event from 21-24 June 2011, and presenting a paper: Creativity under conditions of scarcity in the production of the built environment in ...

London

Scarcity Exchange Video and Podcasts

The wonderful Scarcity Exchanges are now over, but we have brought together the links to the various podcasts and videocasts in one place here. Dougald Hind and Andrew Sims Economies of Scarcity VIDEO / PODCAST Alfredo Brillembourg and David Satterthwaite Cities of Scarcity VIDEO / PODCAST Ed Van Hinte and Steve Broome Scarcity and Consumption VIDEO / PODCAST Iain Boal and Lyla Metha Concepts of Scarcity VIDEO / PODCAST Saskia Sassen Fabricating Scarcities VIDEO / PODCAST

Vienna

Andreas Rumpfhuber at ETH Zurich Symposium: Whose Participation?

Andreas Rumpfhuber will give a paper on 
"Participating Performatively" at the Symposium "Whose Participation? Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architecture" at the ETH Zurich.

EUSS

[5] EUSS Application Process: Participants

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24 JUNE 2012!!! Prospective participants - Young Planning Professionals* - can apply to the 3rd European Urban Summer School by submitting their response to the following task: Identify one instance of ‘scarcity’ in the context of the built environment and propose a physical or process-related response. Issues and responses may be presented as text, drawings, photographs, videos or in any ...