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Izabela Wieczorek’s project ‘The Cabinet of [Atmospheric] Curiosities: A Journey in Search of the Origins of Atmospheric Practice’

Izabela Wieczorek’s project ‘The Cabinet of [Atmospheric] Curiosities: A Journey in Search of the Origins of Atmospheric Practice’ exhibited at the WORKS+WORDS19 Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture at The…Read More >

Interview with Jacopo Torriti

University of Reading Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jose Luis Ramirez-Mendiola, interviews Jacopo Torriti about his work in Flexibility. What is demand side flexibility in simple terms? Demand side flexibility is the…Read More >

Dr Penelope Plaza speaks to Dr Dave O’Brien’s New Books in Critical Theory podcast

Dr Penelope Plaza speaks to Dr Dave O’Brien’s New Books in Critical Theory podcast about the relationship between oil, culture and city How do states use cultural policy? In Culture…Read More >

Dr Plaza’s Culture as Renewable Oil shortlisted

Dr Plaza’s Culture as Renewable Oil shortlisted for the Royal Geography Society Political Geography Research Group Book Award 2019-2020 Dr Penelope Plaza’s book Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic…Read More >

Time, flexibility and energy demand – postcards from a workshop

Whole Centre Workshop, September 2019 The CREDS programme includes projects that work across times scales ranging from seconds to centuries and that investigate the timing of energy demand during the…Read More >

A Win-win for Everyone? Demand-side flexibility and people’s activities

Flexibility of electricity demand is often seen as critical for balancing the grid when consumption is high and when there are drops in supply from renewables. The benefits of demand…Read More >

Reading 2050 Vision Workshop: 4th November 2019

University of Reading will be hosting the next Reading 2050 Vision Workshop on Monday 4th November 2019 in partnership with Barton Wilmore, to review progress and consider how we can…Read More >

Professor Lorraine Farrelly elected to Chair of the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture in the UK

Professor Lorraine Farrelly has been elected to Chair of the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture in the UK, an important leadership role within the architecture community. Her…Read More >

Reading 2050 Lecture by John Worthington

Reading 2050 Lecture: A personal perspective – the role of Reading in a dynamic knowledge economy 1980-2050 (John Worthington) Date: Thursday October 24 Time: 18:00 pm – 19:00 pm Venue:…Read More >

Influence of evaporative cooling by urban forests on cooling demand in cities

Recent work (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.07.023) by Dr. Shahrestani and Dr. Smith, in collaboration with Forest Research, demonstrated that trees in an idealised urban setting will impact on cooling loads of air conditioned buildings….Read More >