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FSEG GEO-SAFE Evacuation Workshop

The FSEG Team at the University of Greenwich invites you to participate in a one day workshop as part of the GEO-SAFE project, taking place 20th February 2020 at the University of Greenwich.

GEO-SAFE (Geospatial based Environment for Optimisation Systems Addressing Fire Emergencies) is a H2020 – MSCA-RISE project (n.691161), co-ordinated by FSEG of the University of Greenwich with 17 partners from 7 countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Netherlands and Australia) and is a four year project running from May 2016 to April 2020.

The aim of GEO-SAFE is to create a network enabling the two regions to exchange knowledge, ideas and experience, thus boosting the progress of wildfires knowledge and the related development of innovative methods for dealing efficiently with such fires.

Wildfires

The workshop will comprise of the following themes:

  • Identification and quantification of human behaviour in response to wildfire.
  • Role, requirements and capabilities of evacuation modelling in the planning and management of wildfires.
  • Development and application of Large Scale Wildfire Evacuation Models
  • Future directions for wildfire evacuation modelling.
  • The workshop consists of:
  • 7 invited lectures
  • 3 discussion panels
  • 1 hands on session using urbanEXODUS urban-scale evacuation simulation model
  • 1 demonstration session showing recent developments in coupling wildfire, pedestrian and vehicle models

The deadline to register is 14 February 2020, access EVENBRITE

This is a free event

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Students from the School of Arts and Design represent the University of Greenwich in Marseille exhibition

Representatives from University of Greenwich School of Design joined staff students and alumni from Cambridge School of Art (Anglia Ruskin University) and Marseille Mediterranean School of Arts and Design (ESADMM) in workshopping and mounting an exhibition of responses to le Corbusier’s Modulor. The Modulor is a system of scale le Corbusier devised for his buildings that is based on human proportions, a perfect example of which is found in his building “Unité d’Habitation” in Marseille, where many of the visiting exhibitors, including ourselves, stayed.

The resulting exhibition at Hors les Murs Gallery, Marseille opened on 7th – 22nd November. The University of Greenwich is represented by 2019 March graduate Daniella Yaneva, exhibiting a book and animation titled, “Morphogenesis Man inhabiting Apartment 50, Unité d’Habitation, Marseille”.

Daniella Yanev work as it was finally installed
The work being installed by the project participants
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WetlandLIFE shares project findings at the Royal Society, London

Last October, the final Valuing Nature (VN) Programme Conference was held at the Royal Society in London where the WetlandLIFE team represented the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich.

The VN Programme, supported by a consortia of UK Research Councils including the AHRC, ESRC and NERC, funded seven research projects orientated around two research enquiries; the impacts of potential ecological tipping points for natural resources within the UK and the importance of nature for human health and wellbeing for British citizens. The WetlandLIFE team have been involved in the latter research area, human health and wellbeing, through their collaborative work within the WetlandLIFE project, which is drawing to an end in January 2020.

Project leader Dr Tim Acott addressing delegates at the Valuing Nature Conference 2019

The VN conference was an opportunity for all the WetlandLIFE team to present their initial findings ahead of a synthesis of their overall research discussion and conclusions. Director of the Greenwich Maritime Centre, Reader in Human Geography at the University of Greenwich, and wetlandLIFE Principle Investigator, Dr Tim Acott helped to opening proceedings with a plenary talk summarising the overall impression of findings so far and focussing on the interdisciplinary nature of the project. A key feature of the wetlandLIFE project has been to use multiple ways of knowing to understand the diversity of values associated with wetlands, and the combination of disciplines involved has provided fertile grounds for additional discoveries to emerge. Tim then joined a lively panel discussion about lessons learned across the protfolio of Valuing Nature projects.

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Greenwich students participate in a Hackathon by Disrupt Normandy, France

Hackathon by Disrupt Normandy | Hack Central ­

A group of 5 University of Greenwich students participated in a Hackathon by Disrupt Normandy, 21 -22 October, in Caen, Normandy, France. Students from the University of Portsmouth also took part. ­

The five participating from University of Greenwich, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences were Claire Stretch, Daniel Gillette, Danny Roberts, Temor Al-Kaisi and Trevor Evans, had previously been involved in similar events. Two of the winning teams included students from the University of Greenwich – congratulations to Claire Stretch and Danny Roberts. All participants are deserving of recognition in participating in such a competitive hackathon.

Danny Roberts and Claire Stretch amongst the other winners
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The University’s School of Design promotes a string of events through October exploring digital culture

This month, Ghislaine Boddington, a Reader in Digital Immersion at the University of Greenwich School of Design is helping promote a number of events that explore the convergence of body, data , digital culture and space empower women in technology.

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Deputy Head School of Design Anastasios Maragiannis represents UoG at the LND Design Fair 2019

Anastasios Maragiannis

The diversity + inclusivity by Design: Empowering individuals: international exhibition was featured as part of the London Design Festival and in particular highlighted as part of the SE London design district. This research exhibition reviews the shifting correlation between the designer and the “other”. Our society is changing and as a result of various factors – political, economic and cultural disputes, -we change the way we co-exist; co-participate; co-feeling; co-design. LDN celebrating and promoting London as the design capital of the world. The school of Design participation to LDN 2019 is one among a number of research centres, HEIs, Museums and organisations, placing University of Greenwich among the best in the world.  LDN 2019 attracting more than 500,000 visitors over one week, every year.