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.
Dr Benz Kotzen from the School of Design gives his view to the BBC News about Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect
Bionic City design scientist Melissa Sterry visits Milan to assess Da Vinci’s legacy.

Melissa Sterry PhD student/ Associated Researcher at School of Design at university of Greenwich assesses how Da Vinci shared a futurist approach to design and planning, learning from nature to build a better urban environment.
Prestigious Arup teams up with University of Greenwich scholars in innovative ‘Green Infrastructure’ project GREEN ROOFS and LIVING WALLS CENTRE
Shelley Mosco and Benz Kotzen –This cutting edge work will be undertaken with the award winning multi-disciplinary company Arup.
The London première of a rediscovered masterpiece Dziga Vertov, Anniversary of the Revolution (Godovshchina Revoliutsii, 1918)
Co-hosted by School of Design University of Greenwich, UCL SSEES Russian Cinema Research Group, and Queen Mary University of London.
Introduced by Nikolai Izvolov (Museum of Cinema, Moscow), followed by a panel discussion with: Jeremy Hicks (Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London), Dr Maria Korolkova (Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies, University of Greenwich), Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (Lecturer in Modern Russian History, UCL SSEES) and Robert Service (Emeritus Professor of Russian History, Oxford University, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow).
Bauer Project. Practice-as-research project exploring gender and sexuality in early Russian film through sound and music.
Immersive Hyperreal Soundscapes – Andrew Hill
This is a collaborative project between the University and industry partner L-ISA
(a division of L Acoustics), this project investigates creative workflow practices involved in adapting linear timeline-based composition towards new object-based panning systems, such as those used in the new L-ISA multi-channel audio system.
Paula Fairfield The Sound Designer for Game of Thrones / LOST
is working with Andrew Hill (UOG) on this project.
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at the “2nd International Conference of Geomatics and Restoration GEORES 2019 This took place in Milan from the 8th to the 10th of May 2019.

Paper is titled “H-BIM AND THE DOMAINS OF DATA INVESTIGATIONS OF HERITAGE BUILDINGS CURRENT STATE OF THE ART
Continue reading “Ahmed Khalil”Ban recycling boxes to protect binmen, say occupational health experts – David Thomas

This project which has been reported in ‘The Telegraph’
Occupational safety and health of refuse workers. The work which has been undertaken over the last 4 years has recently been published by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
Dr David Thomas, an Academic Portfolio Lead in the School of Design at the University of Greenwich and a Member of IOSH’s Environmental and Waste Management Group Committee said:
Theorist-in-Residence for MA Media and Creative Culture.
MA Media and Creative Cultures hosted its first theorist-in-residence this year – Dr. Stefan Höltgen.
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