Dundee - designing resilience into a fragile urban landscape

From Dundee Civic Trust :

Dundee, forever on the edge in both location and spirit, is faced with an immediate threat - climate breakdown. What lies ahead when our famed river rises? How will we meet the multi-challenge of increased storms, floods and droughts with extreme temperature swings in our neighbourhoods? What are the ways forward?

Dundee Civic Trust and a panel of experts invite you to an afternoon discussion, on 22nd March in the V&A Dundee, to explore and question the roles that design, business, science and education play in a community's resilience.

Please follow this link to book :

www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson/events/designing-resilience-with-dundee-civic-trust

All welcome - there is a small charge for refreshments.

Dundee Civic Trust talk - please see update at bottom of post #dundeewestend

Dundee Civic Trust's first public talk of 2025 takes place next Thursday - 16th January - at 7pm at the Dundee Art Society Gallery in Roseangle.

Professor Fionn Stevenson will speak about ‘Earth, timber, hemp and straw: the better way to build today’.

Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions today, and are drastically increasing climate change.

How can we build more benignly?

Biogenic construction offers an alternative set of robust materials to challenge the dominance of steel and concrete which are a major source of pollution. 

This talk will introduce you to international and local exemplar buildings and products that can be used for both new buildings and retrofit projects, with a nod to some traditional techniques too.

All welcome!

** UPDATE - 11th January 2025 ** We are advised that the talk on ‘Earth, timber, hemp and straw: the better way to build today’ will now take place on 20th February 2025.

The meeting next Thursday - 16th January - at 7pm at the Dundee Art Society Gallery in Roseangle will still go ahead and will, instead have a talk on The Wellgate Project by Dr Erin Farley of Dundee Libraries.

More details of this month’s talk is available at www.facebook.com/events/2924592624382478