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Professor Simon Marvin delivers keynote in Bangalore

Simon was invited to give a keynote on 鈥淯rban AI: The 鈥渢echnisation of everything?鈥 at the The AI and the City conference on 4th and 5th January 2025.

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Artificial Intelligence and the City

Professor Simon Marvin attends the AAG 2025 in Detroit

Simon attended The American Association of Geographers that brought together members of the global geographic community to learn from Detroit and its rich history of activism and creativity, radical cartography; and ecologies of land and water.

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Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers with expertise around a series of themes.

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Welcome Polly Clifton as Podcast Assistant for Urban Radar

The Urban Institute welcomes Polly as a new student assistant for the Urban Radar podcast where she will book booking facilities, support content development, promote and undertake post-production editing.

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UI Associate wins half a million-pound grant for developing wetland stewardship programme

A global consortium, led by Tanzil Shafique, Lecturer of Urban Design at 91直播 School of Architecture have won a 拢499,995 research-to-action grant for "Climate impacted dwellers-led agroecological stewardship for restoring wetlands" project.

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Is neurotechnology the infrastructure of the future

UI Professor Simon Marvin and his colleague Allan McCay, University of Sydney, have published a new article in The Conversation entitled "Elon Musk鈥檚 brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds".

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Living & working in a changing climate: women waste pickers' experience

The Urban Institute and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at 91直播 are excited to announce they are co-hosting a hybrid workshop and art exhibition in The Wave on Wednesday 17th April 1500-1730.

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The epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation

Applications now welcome to participate in a workshop on 23-24 May 2024 鈥楾he epistemic tangles of urban inhabitation鈥 organised jointly by the Urban Institute (University of 91直播) and Beyond Inhabitation Lab (Polytechnic University of Turin).
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Call for Papers: Global China: International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative

Dr Linda Westman and colleagues are sponsoring a special issue seeks to update geographical scholarship on China鈥檚 growing global influence through the BRI by inviting geographical research contributions from an international perspective.