It's been a month since we announced how Bennetts Associates is currently using site subsoil as a construction material in one of our projects. Here's a digestible animation on the making of the Earth Block. Enjoy! Full story here: bennettsassociates.com/media/earth-bl…

Have a planet-centred design project you want funding between £40-80k? Innovate UK Design Foundations fund is for you - closing date 31 august! Can't wait to see what work emerges! …for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/12…

Just noticed the Danish/Norwegian word for barley here - “bygg”. In the olden days farmers would come into Newcastle to sell their barley at the … (you’ve guessed it) Bigg Market.

'The Future of Ageing' is now live the Design Museum 🎉🥳! Explore how can design can support the needs, aspirations, and interests of the UK's ageing population, and indeed your own future self, in our free exhibit, open until 25 Sept. Photos © Luke O’Donovan #weareallageing

We've had a wonderful week on our Summer School with British Library Learning, exploring treasures from Royal Institute of British Architects and British Library collections and responding in creative ways. All culminating in a mini exhibition. Huge well done to our artists!

Alongside five of our other sister professional bodies we have today launched a 45-point action plan to jointly improve equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Read the full story at orlo.uk/3ERcC Royal Institute of British Architects ICE Landscape Institute RICS Royal Town Planning Institute

We have a host of events 1-6 August with Great North Museum: Hancock as part of Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment BioDwelling project. How and why do we build with living materials? Who benefits? (How) do we care? Join us to find out more! ticketsource.co.uk/events-great-n…

Every 2 months, we bring out 450 Design Council experts together and draw on their collective intelligence to create learning blogs on various #designforplanet topics. Latest 3 on AI, data & planet; climate future & past; and immersion in nature 🌍👉 medium.com/@DesignCouncil

Good Homes Alliance Chair Lynne Sullivan OBE is speaking at the upcoming Futurebuild Hot Topic Webinar on #Overheating. Register for free and join the discussion on Thursday 4 August at 12 pm - invt.io/1txb8sky8sz

The missing link in the literature review process: 4 elements to look for when reviewing the literature buff.ly/3PMNW2o Stressed about going from Having Read All The Things to Structuring the Literature Review? This blog post offers 4 elements you can look to for help.

This is the legacy of coal mining in North Tyneside - Each black squiggle represents an area at high risk due to previous workings underground. You're pretty sound if you're in North Brunton, but apart from that... 😁 mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/…

This. An absolutely fantastic article in the The Architectural Review by Dominique Gauzin-Muller A new construction industry is emerging in France, reimagined & restructured around local supply chains that utilise a super adundant resource: straw architectural-review.com/essays/the-sho…

Join us on 28 September at the Common Room Newcastle, where architect and Passivhaus designer Mark Siddall will introduce the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge by using the award-winning Shepherds Barn as a case study. Get your in person or online ticket now! bit.ly/3bYQLz4

So Design Council is coming to #Newcastle for its Design for Planet festival Nov 8-9. If we were to organise tours of local #sustainability in #design projects, where should we go/who should we connect to? designforplanet.org

Green Market, Eldon Square Shopping Centre, 1978. Picture courtesy of Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection.

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Polly P 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 My favourite, for the time being anyway, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, artist, poet, etc. 1960's...

A sequential framework for teaching how to write good research questions buff.ly/2J06BaO

Our The British Academy Small Grants scheme has opened. We are doing a 3 year trial of partial randomised assessment, because we receive so many good applications. Awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Skimming articles using the AIC (Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion) Method, plus an AIC-> Synthetic Note Template for undergraduates (and graduates!) buff.ly/2MycOPY Want to teach your students how to skim articles using my AIC method? This post offers a template.