{"id":8581,"date":"2018-04-12T17:37:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:05:44","slug":"dust-to-dust-urban-design-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/12\/dust-to-dust-urban-design-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dust to Dust\u2019 urban design competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas for the future design and configuration of cities are being sought for a competition promoting greater sustainability in urban environments, as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/easternarc.ac.uk\/\">Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern ARC)<\/a> project organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/vis.html\">Dr Benjamin Vis<\/a>, Research Fellow in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/891804\/dust-to-dust-redesigning-urban-life-in-healthy-soils\">Dust to Dust: Redesigning Urban Life in Healthy Soils<\/a>\u2019\u00a0is an\u00a0urban design competition\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/environment\/17245\/kent-incorporates-un-sustainable-development-goals-into-its-operations\">support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0which include zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, responsible consumption and production, and climate action.<\/p>\n<p>Currently 98% of cultivable land on earth is being farmed and two thirds of the world\u2019s soils are\u00a0suffering degradation. The continued encroachment onto, and transformation of, soils resulting from urban sprawl will\u00a0significantly impact\u00a0the sustainability and resilience of urban life. As such, ideas are invited for urban designs, planning approaches, and tangible interventions that could be\u00a0implemented in real-life cases\u00a0of urban planning and development with successful designs promoting a close relationship between\u00a0urban life and soil ecosystem services.<\/p>\n<p>From the ideas received, the best will be invited to a charrette (an intensive design workshop) held at the\u00a0Prince\u2019s Foundation, London\u00a0on 16-18 July 2018. Selected teams will be invited to work with the researchers who are organising the competition and the curating team.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to exhibit the best ideas at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia to\u00a0inform and inspire greater sustainability\u00a0in the future development of cities as well as how we lead urban lives.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin said they look forward to receiving ideas \u2018outside the box\u2019.\u00a0 The competition arises from his\u00a0work on ancient Maya urban landscapes as a Research Fellow in Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/easternarc.ac.uk\/\">Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern ARC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To compete for a place, teams should apply by\u00a0developing and submitting outline ideas\u00a0by midnight on Wednesday <strong>9 May 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the competition, and to submit outline ideas, please visit the\u00a0Dust to Dust\u00a0website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dusttodustcompetition.org\/\">www.dusttodustcompetition.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or more information, contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dusttodustcompetition@gmail.com\">dusttodustcompetition@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas for the future design and configuration of cities are being sought for a competition promoting greater sustainability in urban environments, as part of Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/12\/dust-to-dust-urban-design-competition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}