Public Events Beyond Studio

Organised by ArCCAT:

2022-2023

June 2024:

Second Annual University Wide SDG Workshop was held on Tues 4^th June. Ro Spankie and ArCCAT Reps were part of the organising team.

June 2023:

LFA2022 + ArCCAT: “The Common Stream” Experimental Walk

May 2023:

ArCCAT Student Representatives + Square Mile Farms: How to farm vegetables from hydroponic wall installed at Marylebone Campus

February 2023:

ArCCAT Screening: “The Oil Machine” | Westminster’s Schools of Architecture + Cities, the Humanities, Law, and the Social Sciences

November 2022:

ArCCAT Screening: “How to Save the Planet: Degrowth v Green Growth” with Jason Hickle, Samuel Frankhauser and Kate Raworth

2021 -2022

June 2022:

LFA2022 + ArCCAT Event: “Architecture Acts: A Climate Performance in Three Acts”

The Conversation, initiated by Sarah Ichioka, co-author of Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency (2021) and Elisa Iturbe, guest editor of Log 47, ‘Overcoming Carbon Form’ (2019), with Lindsay Bremner and Jeremy Till as respondents, discusses architecture’s implication in climate change and its potential for alternative action.

January 2022:

Sustainable Cities and the Urban Environment Research Community + ArCCAT: Panel Discussion “Good COP, Bad COP”

October 2021:

ArCCAT Climate Action Week

With Participation of ArCCAT Members:

2023-2024

June 2024:

THE GSDG Congress Bangkok: Ro Spankie & Pooja Basnett attended the THE GSDG Congress 10^th – 13^th June Bangkok. THE is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. It analyses data submitted by University’s entering their rankings based on engagement with the UNSDG’s. The SDGs giving a framework for institutional behavioural change. The congress was attended by 3000 delegates mostly from global south.

Ro Spankie: Sustainable urban planning: How are we creating cities for the future? | Shaping healthy futures: Effective policy pathways driving collaboration and impact

Pooja Basnett: A collective effort on research and innovation towards global restoration of biodiversity

University of Westminster to attend THE Global Sustainable Development Congress 2024 in Bangkok

Westminster leaves its mark on THE Global Sustainable Development Congress 2024 in Thailand

March 2024:

ArCCAT Reps Maja Kurantowicz, Wing Ting Vanessa Keung, Kristina Veleva and Sara Vannella went on a University-funded trip to Wales to attend the Student Climate Action Network Festival (StuCAN) from 16 to 17 March 2024.

2022-2023

August 2023:

“Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop” one of the finalists for 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland

June 2023:

ArCCAT members took part in University of Westminster’s inaugural annual Sustainable Development Goals Workshop