Archive for: June, 2024

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News: Payment deadline for invoices 2 July 2024 for current SAM QR RKE Projects and IAA projects

Please send all payments to Karen Gainsford – K.Gainsford@brighton.ac.uk for start of day Tuesday 2nd July 2024 or if a regular supplier Tuesday 9th July 2024. Deadline should be worked to for all payment requests – from RKE Central Team Deadline is: End of June please. 31st July 2024 is the financial year end and we must have placed the order, received the goods, been invoiced for them and paid for them before 31st July 2024 . End of June gives us enough lead time to sort all this out If it’s an item from a ‘usual’ supplier (who send invoices regularly) and will be sent in a day or two then next week at the latest (5th July 2024) ”    

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News: Project report to The Forestry Commission – Community21 REG and contributions from other academic and technical colleagues

Project report to The Forestry Commission supporting local timber supply chain and product design into social housing. See here:Woods_to_Outcomes_Report_15MB Thanks go to our Community21 REG team, to academic and technical colleagues in two UoB schools, Research and Knowledge Exchange colleagues, University of Sussex and the engagement of Lewes and Eastbourne District Council and Woodland Enterprise, stakeholder organisations  and of course The Forestry Commission. Do get in touch with Nick Gant via email: n.a.gant@brighton.ac.uk if you have any questions / further interest. See http://community21.org/   Posted by Karen Gainsford

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EVENT: Public Art-From JOHN BECK AND MATTHEW CORNFORD: THE ART SCHOOLS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS | 16 MAY–28 JUNE 2024 AT MARTIN HALL GALLERY, LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

Billboard from the  temporary public art project to accompany the exhibition Art Schools of the Midlands, LU ARTS, Martin Hall Gallery, Loughborough University.. Billboard located on the corner of Belton Road and Derby Road, Loughborough. Image credit – Loughborough Billboard Project (photograph by Phil Wilson).   Posted by Karen Gainsford

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EVENT: Talk – Photographic Emphemera and cultural detritus by Annebella Pollen | 25 June 2024 7.30pm- at Southern Belle pub / Zoom

Free talk about some of my photography research in the back room of a pub in Hove (Southern Belle) as part of a series run by a local art / research group called Exploding Appendix. It is an informal thing, open to all, and it can also be attended on Zoom. The organiser asks the speaker ten questions, and participation in the conversation is encouraged. There’s more information here, including the Zoom info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photographic-ephemera-and-cultural-detritus-w-annebella-pollen-tickets-922169342327 Posted on behalf of Annebella Pollen Professor of Visual and Material Culture – School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton by Karen Gainsford

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EVENT: Innovate UK – Future Technology Deep Dives – Nature Inspired Materials | 27 June 2024 10-12pm – online 

During this event, expert industry and academic speakers will talk about using uniquely beneficial approaches and ideas from nature, and explore how they can be applied in technological material solutions that mimic the living world over a medium-long term (15-20 year) timeframe. Register here https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/future-technology-deep-dives-nature-inspired-materials/

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Opportunities: University wide (not School) R&KE Conference Fund 23-24 is open for applications now.

See R&KE Conference Fund 23-24   If you have any questions about this initiative, please email RaKEInitiatves@brighton.ac.uk The University wide R&KE Conference Fund offers financial support for research-active staff to attend conferences which support their ongoing research and knowledge exchange careers. The funding should be used to cover costs associated with attending the conference. The conference must take place before 31 July 2024. Applications received will be considered on a rolling basis throughout June and July. Note that this is different to the School Funds that are to be found here: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/researchknowledgebase/2024/03/14/sam-qr-rke-funding-application-forms/  

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Event: The Design Council will host the 34th World Design Congress in London at the Barbican Centre in September 2025.

World Design Congress London 2025 – Share the stories The Design Council will host the 34th World Design Congress in London at the Barbican Centre in September 2025. The event was last held in London in 1969 at the Southbank Centre with 1,000 delegates from 39 countries, the theme will be Design for Planet. There are so many incredible designers and businesses who are already leading the way in Design for Planet. The Design Council would love to help tell these stories as part of the World Design Congress campaign and event. If you have a great green design impact story to tell, send 100 words and high-res imagery to congress@designcouncil.org.uk