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We are pleased that the Department’s engagement work with children and young people has been recognised in the Thornton Education Trust Learning Connections Report published yesterday. https://lnkd.in/eKGnZiN6

Panel following from our private showing of Possible Landscapes produced by our extremely talented colleague @Tao du Four with Nathalie Melas.

Full House for today's cross-crit. #architecturestudy #architecturecrits #architecturedepartment

Excited by our whole school cross-crit today led by the fabulous Enrico Brondelli di Brondello! #architecturestudy #architecturecrits #architecturedepartment

Dr Fiona Smyth will be discussing her new book 'Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century' ‘in Anarchy and Acoustics’ on Australian ABC’s ‘The Music Show’ this evening. https://lnkd.in/ezMJw5_h

New blog post from ai@cam featuring Dr Ramit Debnath's funded project on using ethical design of AI for public value creation in cities.

PRIVATE FILM SCREENING: POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES   Directed by Kannan Arunasalam Produced and conceptualised by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas   Friday 21 March 3:00pm-5:30pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre Trinity College   Q&A with the filmmakers in conversation with Professor Emma Widdis and Dr Carlos Fonseca   Open to members of Trinity College and guests. Sponsored by Trinity College   AN ENQUIRY into intergenerational lived experiences of landscape and environmental change in the Caribbean, Possible Landscapes moves through sugarcane fields with their saccharine smells of burning cane, follows the contours of valleys that ascend into the mists of mountain ranges coloured by language, moves across the clear waters of seas that reveal dying coral reefs, sits in the quiet of unfinished domestic spaces that stretch into oil fields, carries us across the rough and tragic waters of the Atlantic. Filmed in Trinidad and Tobago across two seasons, we are led by the memories, narratives and labour of a few persons in their daily lives to consider the interlacing of post-independence aspirations and disappointments, legacies of colonialism and postcolonial nationalism, and changing forms of extractivism with today’s environmental crises.   A collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kannan Arunasalam and two scholars, Tao DuFour (Architecture) an architect and spatial theorist and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) a postcolonial comparatist and scholar of Caribbean thought, Possible Landscapes is the outcome of the team research project, “Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago,” funded through a grant from Cornell University’s Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge and the Mellon Just Futures Initiative.   The Possible Landscapes research project set out to develop methods of field research and representation, drawing on the visual and narrative resources of documentary film, that foreground intergenerational lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and to query the formation of environmental and climate imaginaries, with a view to getting at larger historical questions—of migration, plantation societies, extractivism, race, and the legacies of colonialism—that inform everyday practices in ways that are difficult to identify and to articulate, because they are concretely lived.   Watch the trailer for Possible Landscapes here:

We are pleased to announce that Flora Samuel, Irit Katz, Caitlin Shepherd and Public Map Platform team have been invited to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti. #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #IntelliGens @crassociati @labiennale

It was an honour to be invited as a panelist for the Women in STEMM celebration organised by the High Commission of India in London, in collaboration with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - Research, Science and Innovation, to mark #InternationalWomensDay2025. Being recognised by your own country #India for your work and passion is truly humbling. My research focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive, and equitable built environments for those who need the most, and gender equality remains central to this vision. Grateful to share this platform with such incredible trailblazers, shaping the future through innovation and leadership! #WomenInSTEMM #IWD2025 #GenderEquality #Sustainability #InclusiveLeadership Cambridge Architecture University of Cambridge Selwyn College, University of Cambridge The official page for the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge