Florian Beigel dies, aged 76 architectsjournal.co.uk/news/florian-b… Devastated to hear that Florian Beigel has passed away. A great loss for the arch&education community. Florian introduced me to his architectural thinking while working for him and later as a friend. He will be sorely missed

Call for papers, panels and practice sessions: Exploring places & practices through transformative methods Tampere, Finland from May 7th to 10th, 2019.

The Fenham Pocket Park, led by researchers armelle tardiveau and Daniel Mallo continues to inspire local community change and progress ow.ly/c0Bo30mqvle

Join us for the Community, Design, Practice exhibition launch this Friday at 5pm at The Boiler House on campus, celebrating the Economic and Social Research Council funded Fenham Pocket Park and Scotswood Natural Community Garden projects led by Daniel Mallo and armelle tardiveau

A wonderful turnout at the Community, Design, Practice exhibition last evening at the Boiler House Newcastle Uni. Many thanks to friends, colleagues and those who believe in co-production projects @fenhampocketpark ⁦Newcastle City Council⁩

Very inspiring two days exploring with students at KU Leven ethical dilemmas in action research. Enlightening discussions around positionality, power, instrumentality and conflicts of interest

Great to be involved in temporary urban interventions by KU Leuven University students in Mortsel (Antwerp). We painted poetry on walls, leaves on the road and handed out apples to drivers to reconsider biodiversity in the city. Very inspiring action research debate and practice

Fenham Pocket Park phase 2 started on site this week. Great meeting yesterday with volunteers from Change Grow Live at Fenham Library who are very keen to engage in giving a hand to build the Park Newcastle City Council Rebecca Shatwell @NewCityFutures GLL Change Grow Live . More soon!

We can fight this pandemic only through a change in our life styles, solidarity and hopefully a stronger sense of citizenship. Be kind to each other, be respectful of physical distancing and don’t stock pile. Remember immune system needs fresh fruit and vegs... not toilet paper

Delighted that our paper ‘From non-place to place in post-suburbia: city-edge office parks as loci for nature-based micro- interventions’ co-authored w A Schoneboom, G Vigar and armelle tardiveau APL Newcastle has been published in the Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 1/2

Working at the intersection of design, ethnography and urban planning disciplines, the paper explores the potential of nature-based micro-interventions as examples of creative methods in tackling placelessness in city-edge office-parks 2/2

Difficult times for engagement, yet pleased to see that our paper: 'Design Activism: Catalysing Communities of Practice' has been published in arq DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S13591… co-authored w armelle tardiveau @RorieParsons critically reflecting on our practice at #FenhamPocketPark

Great opening yesterday of the exhibition “Close The Door On Past Dreariness”. Powerful photographs by Damien Wootten on the current homeless crisis in Newcastle. Stories of real people who live close to us yet invisible and accepted as the ‘norm’. At Newcastle Art Centre:

Great weekend at Fenham Pocket Park - fantastic exchange of ideas about social and climate futures at the first Fenham Futures Parliament hosted by AUP Newcastle APL 3rd year students. Community members shared wishes and desires for the area + temp reuse of nearby closed pool!

Thanks to everyone who came along to our #WorCulture event on Hyperlicalism yesterday, and to our fantastic speakers Iain Watson OBE Stephen Bishop CatherineHearne @jessj_hunt & Daniel Mallo

Residents who want to #keepwingrovesafe will be attending Newcastle City Council 's Full Council meeting on Wednesday 6/9/23 to ask why a functioning LTN that's halved the number of cars going through a residential area is being axed. Come along and support them if you can.

Ouseburn Cumberland Arms arms supportive of lecturers in architecture respecting picket lines! Very grateful for your generous support.

At KU Leuven today and tomorrow to talk about Methodological Considerations in Critical Spatial Practice as part of #IMSDP2018

Also thrilled to present research on design activism and spend sometime reviewing PhD candidates of the International Module of Spatial Development Planning #IMSDP2018

Appropriating the Ouseburn, exploring socio-spatial relations, sparking debate - great interventions of our final year Architecture and Urban Planning students Newcastle APL