Events
Previous Events
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18 June 2025 |
Addressing Barriers to the Long-Term Sustainability of Community Gardens: Workshop & Design Charrette |
A co-design and community engagement workshop was organised at the University of Huddersfield campus to further refine a practical design for the shelter on the Peace Pit Community Garden site, which would address the needs of the growing group while keeping within the constraints of the waste materials proposed for upcycling. Read more about the agenda for the day in the brochure here: |
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2 June 2025 |
Peace Pit Growing Space Site Visit and Meeting |
The research team from University of Huddersfield, including Dr. Yun Gao, Prof Adrian Pitts and Dr. Manas Murthy, members of the Peace Pit growing space, along with members from NaturalKirklees and Support2Recovery (S2R) reviewed plans for the proposed shelter and intervention at the community garden. See this document for pictures from the site: |
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8 March 2024 |
Climate Impacts in the Community |
The exhibition showcased understandings of the relationship between cultures of place, healthy living environments and climate change. One section showed challenges associated with lighting, temperature, and humidity in people's home and their neighbourhood. The second section explored how buildings and interiors relate to lived experiences. Climate Impact Exhibition: |
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23 February 2024 |
Workshop on Climate Change and Public Engagement |
The workshop titled "Public Engagement and Climate Change" was organized with the aim of fostering dialogue and sharing experiences among attendees from diverse nationalities and refugee backgrounds. Workshop Poster: |
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22 March 2024 |
Place-based Sustainable Living |
The 'Place-Based Sustainable Living', held in collaboration with the IDL Design Accelerator, sought to examine the intersection of community, environment, and sustainability. |
| 17 November, 2022 | Micro-climate urban design for better urban living in high density cities |
Organised by SLRC, this lecture is by one of the School's international collaborators - Prof Edward Ng from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Edward has a very distinguished international reputation and one of his other projects won World Building of the Year in 2017. |
| 28 June 2022 | Architecture and Built Environment that Support Sustainable Living Exhibition |
The exhibition concerned with diversity of living experience, heritage, tourism and zero-carbon approaches. Too often sustainability is seen as restricting human feature development when it should be embraced as a new opportunity to link research to users/stakeholders through knowledge transfer and feedback loops. Read more from the exhibition brochure here: |
| 28 June 2022 | Sustainable Living Environments and Cultures of Place Symposium |
The Launch of Huddersfield new Sustainable Living Research Centre. A symposium exploring sustainability in the context for Cultures of Place. Read more from the symposium's programme here: |