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Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

I've been following the seminal work of Luis Bettencourt in complexity science and the urban environment closely since the publication of 'The Kind of Problem a City Is' in 2013 and more recently the work he did with his colleagues at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago, which included the Million Neighborhoods Initiative. In 2021 he published the book 'Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems', providing a novel approach to studying cities as complex adaptive systems. Subsequently, he developed a course that follows the book and includes themes such as worldwide urbanization and the challenge of sustainability, economics and sociology, cities as complex networks and what they predict, variation and statistics of urban quantities, cities in history and the origins of settlements, the structure and dynamics of systems of cities and the emergence of institutions and their functional roles in connected, interdependent societies. Needless to say, I'm very excited to share Luis' message that all course materials (slides, readings, code, data) for Introduction to Urban Science are now freely available on Github:  https://lnkd.in/dbzAcNCZ #cities #urban #complexity #complexadaptivesystems #sustainability #resilience

🔥At Unfolding Aliveness, we are always interested in discovering new ideas, projects, research that illuminate how more-than-human worlds contribute to our mutual co-becoming. 🌳The Critical Forest Studies Collaboratory: Forests as relational practice 💙Sharing this fantastic call for those of you (like us!) who are interested in the potential for sound to deepen our relationships with forests, trees, plants, soils and more. • Forests as sentient, interspecies learning communities (vegetal/animal/fungal/mineral) • Forests as places of intergenerational knowledge creation, languaging, and storying • Forests as places where different worlds, natures, cultures, politics, and sciences meet • Forests as places of urban and regional regeneration, decay, repair, and reimagining • Forests as sites of collective memory, trauma, history-making, and healing • Forests as ecologies of sensation, technicity, temporality, and speculation 👀👂 Check out the beautiful, interdisciplinary artwork, research, communities in this link: https://lnkd.in/gjk43gYQ ⁉️Consider submitting your own sound art, research, collaborations! Douwe-Jan Schrale Silke Schmid Matthew Bejtlich Charlotte Hankin #unfoldingaliveness #regenerative #education #soundecology #sustainability #multispecies #thriving #flourishing #regenerativeeducation #soundstories #planetaryhealth #ecologicaljustice #aliveness #unfolding #soundart #climatechange #justice 

Important topic that Franziska Görmar and I explored in a joint article on Industrial forever? Narratives, place identity, and the development path of the city of Zeitz, Germany. Read #openaccess https://lnkd.in/dyRT3rUf

🪴 😶🌫️ 📏 In our latest #BUandBoston, we sat down with Arden Radford, a BU Earth and Environment & Environment and BU URBAN PhD candidate studying air quality in cities. Describing the study of air quality as studying the ingredients of an “atmospheric blended-up soup,” Arden looks at not only the obvious sources of major air pollution but also those that are small individually that add up to season the previously mentioned air soup. Her interest in studying the air in cities is shaped by her upbringing in Texas and Hong Kong and her undergraduate studies in Astronomy and Quantitative Economics. She sees air as a social and policy issue affecting those without the choice to choose the soup they consume. To learn more about Arden and her research, read her #BUandBoston feature on our website: https://lnkd.in/d9AmiVZa

Say hello to our 2024/25 Earth Fellows! Next up in our profile series is Alys Daniels-Creasey - Postgraduate Earth Fellow: Woodland restoration research strategy development.   Alys is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh working in collaboration with the Scottish Land Commission.    Her research focuses on how investments in Scotland’s natural capital are impacting local communities and asks how these processes can align with visions of justice.    This research complements her work as an Earth Fellow, which involves understanding what knowledge needs woodland restoration practitioners have and co-developing a research strategy to address these needs. QN: What is your background and how do you think it will help you in your work as an Earth Fellow? My background is in sociology and arts-informed methods, and now I work across disciplines like human geography and economics. This gives me a broad oversight of the connection between social and environmental concerns and enables me to approach these issues in innovative ways; I think this background will support me to create a research environment which considers the topic in a holistic way and fosters co-development with woodland restoration practitioners. QN: What is your project at the Edinburgh Earth Initiative about, and what is your role within it? For my project, I am working in collaboration with a Steering Group comprising the Borders Forest Trust, Future Woodlands Scotland, and Trees for Life, alongside the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes and The Woodland Trust. We're aiming to understand what knowledge needs woodland restoration practitioners across Scotland have and co-develop a research strategy to address these needs. We hope to engage practitioners in a survey to gather perspectives from across the country, conduct some interviews for a more in-depth understanding, and then organise a workshop to bring people together to feed into the strategy. We hope that this will contribute to the bridging of certain gaps between the needs of those working on the ground and the development of future research agendas. Watch this space for updates on Alys’ work and explore the other profiles in this series to find out what our talented cohort of Earth Fellows are up to this year. #climatechange #research #postgraduate #earthfellow #woodland #restoration #humangeography #economics #naturalcapital #justice

What is urban densification? Rather than understanding it as a technocratic exercise and/or a target to achieve urban sustainability, I'd like to conceptualize it as a set of social relations that are connected to territories, property regimes and planning regulations or what Henri Lefebvre called "abstract space". I've written a paper about this theoretical approach and underlined that with a lot of empirical material from the Alpenrheintal/Alpine Rhine Valley! My hope is that this approach helps us to better understand how real estate markets in different contexts work in the fuzzy space between public and private spheres. The paper just got published in the journal "Urban Geography" and I'd like to thank Lindsay Blair Howe and Samuel Mössner for their support during the development of this paper. Furthermore, the research promotion fund of the Universität Liechtenstein made all this research possible in the first place! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dbJrPK9e

A research project by Adam Hamze (Radford University, Political Science) showcases the scientific method, and even more so, design thinking methodologies. Through observation, understanding, and interviewing, Hamze hopes to get a better understanding of the complexities of the Appalachian culture and the people that help form it. #designthinking #radford https://lnkd.in/eQtmdHT2