Investigating togetherness in a more-than-human society: taking some SUSPLACE lessons to the University of Lapland
By Sara Grenni & Angela Moriggi This past November, for the first time since our arrival to Finland, we brought some SUSPLACE vibes to Lapland! It took a pleasant 12 hours night train ride to get to Rovaniemi, where the annual colloquium of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences (YHYS) took place from November 21st to November 23rd, hosted by the University of Lapland. The theme of this year’s edition was “Naturecultures”, on the back of current discourses challenging the traditional notion of nature/culture divide and centred on one of the most critical questions of our times: how can we comprehend the co-existence of nature and society? The programme included a rich variety of thematic sessions, but the one that immediately caught our attention (at the time of the call for…
Publication: “Citizen Initiatives in the Post-Welfare State”
In the recently published article Citizen Initiatives in the Post-Welfare State , SUSPLACE researcher Diogo Soares da Silva reflects on the role of citizen initiatives in shaping sustainable places. The article…
Overcoming the fear of the page: the SUSPLACE Children Book’s learning journey continues.
Written by Angela Moriggi Editing and inspiration: Kelli Rose Pearson, Lorena Axinte, Alessandro Vasta, Anastasia Papangelou, Marta Nieto Romero. How can we convey the value of interdependence without falling into…
Kalnciema Quarter gathers sustainability scientists to discuss the development of Āgenskalna Market
By Baiba Bela (University of Latvia) and Darja Trizna (Kalnciema Quarter). Translated by Andris Šuvajevs. In the last week of September, SUSPLACE participants convened in Kalnciema Quarter, Riga to come…
Call for papers: Exploring places & practices through transformative methods, Tampere 8-10 May, 2019
Call for papers, panels and practice sessions: Exploring places & practices through transformative methods Tampere, Finland from May 7th to 10th, 2019 Which innovative, unconventional methods are being experimented with…
Finding inspiration at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2018
This year marked the return of the annual Royal Geographical Society (RGS) to Wales for the first time in 25 years, hosted by our Geography and Planning department at Cardiff…
SUSPLACE welcomes Alice Taherzadeh as researcher to the project
On August 1, 2018 Alice Taherzadeh started as a newly recruited ESR on the research project ‘Connected Learning Spaces‘. Alice will be joining us for the final 10 month of…