Opening Worlds Arkotong Longkumer   A basket opens worlds. It is a receptacle that carries and holds many things. When you open the lid of a basket and peer inside, it can reveal heirloom materials, personal items, agricultural tools, food wrapped in plantain leaf, or even seeds to plant during the sowing season. The […]

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About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

by David Fox, Professor of Common Law, University of Edinburgh Introduction Lawyers are wary of providing universal definitions even of their most fundamental concepts. Money is a prime example. There is no authoritative definition of money that allows us to identify with certainty all those things that serve as money in the law and those […]

14.00-15.00 BST – Zoom Webinar  (Register via Eventbrite here) Urban conservation in France in a few dates: protections and paradoxes   Prof Samuel Drapeau Senior Lecturer in Architectural Cultures and History the National Higher School of Architecture and Landscape in Bordeaux Jointly organised with SA+WH Schools of Architecture + World Heritage network This masterclass will offers an overview […]

This session was delivered by an external provider, and was the first in a series of four workshops. So far, it was the least engaging. This session had the most “buzz words” and least amount of concrete and actionable insight. That saying, there were two things I took away from this session, which I want […]