Design Camp this year went stellar. The biggest intake of students we've ever had, and quite possibly one of the most hectic but fun for the tutors. And yes, its about the students but really... the tutors have the most fun. Its hard to describe just what an amazing experience it is for us.
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I've been a bit remiss with this website for the past couple of weeks. Amidst the busyness in my last post I mentioned I would create a post on Green finance and the Future of Green Finance event I had been to. I began writing the summary and analysis and realised at about the 2000 word mark that it was becoming a seriously long read! Edit: posted.
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Last Wednesday I was lucky enough to be invited to attend The Future of Green Finance Event, held at the Guildhall in London City. Green finance is gaining rapid momentum within the financial community today. In 2014 to to 2015 it went from a $30 trillion to a $70 trillion industry.
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Land Hack is intended as a platform to inform, debate and progress the way we build and create the environment around us. Land Hacking is defined by innovative, radical and non-traditional ways of building our world.
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The Victorians with their belief in the physical, mental and ethical benefits of nature foresaw much of what we are now coming to understand is true of green space. And their foresight has equipped urban London with one of the greatest areas of green space in a modern city. Sadly with cuts in funding to many of these parks; the quality of space, especially those not in the remit of the Royal Parks movement are going to be hit.
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at the end of my internship in Denmark finally attending a discussion in which I understood the Danish being spoken and this same topic came up in the panel discussion, where firms, including my own at the time (COBE) spoke about how they were now taking their intelligence to other municipalities around the world. This is something that Jan Gehl has done for many years, but given the incredibly intelligent urban design that is cultivated in universities in the region, an increase in global expert exports makes perfect sense.
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