Category: London

The London project investigates ‘scarcities’ and the role of creativity in the production of the built environment. It aims to reveal and understand local, situated ecologies-actors, networks, flows, systems-within the urban context, and to use creativity to make this information accessible to the public. The project team will collaborate with communities and selected experts to suggest enhancements to urban ecologies through the redeployment of existing resources, rather than through the addition of more resources or the design of new equipment.

London

SCIBE at BSA Annual Conference 2013

On 3 April 2013, Deljana Iossifova presented a paper - The Notion of Scarcity: Lessons to be learned from a 'deprived' east London ward - as part of the Cities, Mobilities, Place and Space stream at the Annual Conference 2013 of the British Sociological Association in London. The abstract can be found here.
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SCIBE at RIBA Research Symposium

The SCIBE London team were invited by the RIBA to run the first ever student workshop as part of the annual RIBA Research Symposium, which this year looked at housing retrofit. Jeremy and Deljana ran a day-long workshop with fifteen students, taking a Erno Goldfinger tower block as the starting point. After a quick exercise that exposed the limitations of ...
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SCIBE at the 6th Urban Research and Knowledge Symposium in Barcelona, October 2012

The SCIBE London team will be presenting their work at the 6th Urban Research and Knowledge Symposium - Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future (Barcelona, 8-10 October 2012).  Deljana Iossifova will give a paper - 'Naming Scarcity: Sociomaterial, Transcalar and Translocal' - which traces how scarcity is produced across time, space and scales and how the concept relates to that of deprivation. ...
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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 ...
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SCIBE London and The Architecture Foundation to collaborate!

SCIBE London is delighted to be partnering with The Architecture Foundation on our open call for innovative strategies to address conditions of scarcity in the built environment! Based on the understanding that architects and designers hold the capacity to intervene in existing social, cultural, political, economic and environmental systems in ways that may exceed the production of objects alone, teams are invited to ...
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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
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AD on Scarcity is now out

Jon Goodbun, Jeremy Till and Deljana Iossifova of the London team have edited a special issue of Wiley's Architectural Design (AD): Scarcity - Architecture in an age of depleting resources., which is now available for purchase at bookshops and online. Leading thinkers and inspiring practitioners are among the contributors, including Erik Swyngedouw,  Ezio Manzini, Kate Soper, Jeremy Till, Rob Hopkins, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, ...
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Ten Theses on Scarcity

In November 2011 the whole team retreated to a former monastery in the Austrian countryside and spent four days brainstorming the structure and content of our collective book on scarcity. The process was lively and productive, helped by evening meals of wild boar and dumpling. The first airing of the result of this collective endeavour was a talk entitled "Ten ...
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SCIBE at the London Occupation

The SCIBE London team will be presenting their work at the Occupy London 'Tent City University". This University, run out of a tent on the steps of St Pauls Cathedral sets out to challenge notions of authority in education - saying that anyone can listen and anyone can talk. The SCIBE team will be presenting a provisional version of Ten ...
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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 ...