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Alumnus Carlo Ratti has been appointed Director of the Venice Biennale Architecture Department, tasked with curating the 2025 International Architecture Exhibition

7 February 2024

Professor Carlo Ratti, who trained as both an architect and engineer, is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Politecnico di Milano. He serves as the director of the Senseable City Lab and is a founding partner of the architecture and innovation firm CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati. Carlo...

Assistant Professor Dr Ramit Debnath wins a 300k grant from university's flagship AI mission called ai@cam

7 February 2024

Assistant Professor Dr Ramit Debnath wins a 300k grant from university's flagship AI mission called ai@cam for a interdisciplinary project titled: 'Decision-making with AI in connected places and cities: Developing an ethical and responsible innovation rooted approach for public value creation'. This project aims to...

Researcher Dr Philip Graham who won the 2023 Thinkhouse.org.uk Early Career Researcher Prize has had research on adjustable housing as a solution for housing problems in the UK featured in Inside Housing

2 February 2024

Philip Graham is a postdoctoral ‘UKRI Design Innovation Scholar’ at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He is also an architect at Cullinan Studio, London and a visiting lecturer in sustainable housing design at Tampere University, Finland. He is funded to write a book on...

The winner of the Urban Room ideas contest has been announced as Victoria Fabron, Eric Martin, Pawel Pietkun and Luciano Ingenito from the Cambridge studio of Allies and Morrison

2 February 2024

winner123.jpeg The Cambridge Association of Architects have announced the winner and runners up of the Cambridge Urban Room Ideas Competition and Logo Design. Praised by judges as a ‘beautiful, clear and accurate’ concept, the portable kit of parts could be used to furnish a permanent room for discussion or be ‘carried...

As a part of the University of Cambridge - Social Sciences & Humanities Access to Research Experience – SHARE programme, we invite applications for a 2-week, paid, summer research experience with the Cambridge Sustainable Design Group

23 January 2024

The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group programme is for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds, who are in their penultimate year of study, to postgraduate study and research in the humanities and social sciences. The programme is designed to engage with inspiring social science research staff and students at the...

Dr Darshil Shah at the Centre for Natural Material Innovation is a partner in the new UPWEARS project which has recently received 7.5 million Euros of funding for 2024-2028 through Horizon Europe

22 January 2024

The project aims to develop sustainable, circular solutions for smart, functional, and protective wearables and e-textiles and equipment in sport, through innovative and replicable value chains that uses EU biomass resource valorisation. The project gathers 13 academic partners from seven countries (including Alain...

Congratulations to all apprentices from the University of Cambridge’s MSt in Architecture Apprenticeship course, Urban Design Module 5

19 January 2024

apprenticeship-carousel.png The ten-day module focused on place-making narratives and strategies for mixed-use residential densification centred on the Ralph Erskine designed Studlands Park neighbourhood in Newmarket. Stephen Proctor and Andrew Matthews led the module with inspiring local and international contributions...

'Do fossil fuel firms reframe online climate and sustainability communication? A data-driven analysis': newly published research by Assistant Professor Dr Ramit Debnath is featured on the University website

8 January 2024

The paper is published by npj Climate Action, Nature Publishing and can be read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-023-00086-x The featured article 'Emissions and evasions: How Big Oil influences climate conversations on social media' can be read here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/emissions-and-evasions

Assistant Professor Dr. Michal Gath-Morad and Professor Koen Steemers awarded CambridgeZero grant to establish a Mobile Living Lab (MLL) to Enhance occupancy-energy synergy within collaborative spaces across Cambridge's historic estate buildings

18 December 2023

Assistant Professor Dr. Michal Gath-Morad and Professor Koen Steemers awarded CambridgeZero grant to establish a Mobile Living Lab (MLL) to Enhance occupancy-energy synergy within collaborative spaces across Cambridge's historic estate buildings ; The project employs a mixed-methods approach, comprising IoT sensors, a...

The latest issue of Scroope Journal 'The Quotidian and the Enchanted' is now available to download

15 December 2023

scroope_32_the_quotidian_and_the_enchanted_webpage.jpg Scroope 32 Theme : The Quotidian and the Enchanted Editors in Chief : Fatma Mhmood and Heather Mitcheltree Editors : Jerry Chow, Joshua Dimasaka, Hamideh Farahmandian, Juliet Harrison-Egan, Noor Mazhar and Michael Salka Design and Art Direction : Sam Aitkenhead...