Joe Ravetz, the Co-director of CURE, reports on the CURE annual forum that was co-organised with cities@manchester. The event took place in Manchester on the 24th of June 2015.
Category: Public engagement
Three cities in four days – announcing the EVALUATE stakeholder workshop ‘roadshow’
Following the completion of our neighbourhood surveys in April, the EVALUATE project team is organizing stakeholder workshops in three of our case study cities – Prague, Budapest and Gdansk. Read more about next week’s events here.
From austerity traps to devolution opportunities: the role of city foresight
Joe Ravetz, Co-director of CURE discusses the ‘City Foresight Platform’, an innovative platform for a strategic transformation of cities, economies, governance and technologies.
Foresighting a Future with Cities – a roundtable forum on future-oriented research-policy
Joe Ravetz, Co-director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy (CURE) announces our annual event.
Professor Gordon Walker (Lancaster University and DEMAND centre) to speak at CURE
Join us this coming Wednesday for a seminar that explores what it means to conceive of a right to energy, and how in doing so, it is necessary to consider what energy is for.
Stefan Bouzarovski to speak about geographies of domestic energy demand at IRS Erkner in Germany
Next week’s seminar will highlight the socio-spatial construction of energy demand in the home via the notions of energy services, subjects and vulnerability
CURE and cities@manchester to host double feature seminar with top urban researchers
Professor Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield) and Professor Steve Graham (Newcastle University) will give back-to-back talks featuring their recent scholarship on Tuesday next week.
Report from the ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic’ panel discussion
Craig Thomas summarises the discussions that took place during a event organised by the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester.
CHARISMA workshop report: Community retrofit for housing professionals
Jenni Cauvain, a team member of the CHARISMA project reflects on the current issues related to community retrofit and social housing in Greater Manchester, which were debated at the recently organised workshop.
Panel Discussion – Beyond the ‘fracking’ polemic: Energy Futures and Vulnerability
A reminder for our forthcoming event …
Urban Energy Transformations Hub 