Ita is currently studying for a PhD in Archaeology. This is a typical day. 6:30 AM – Time to get up. Maybe the time seems extremely early (if we consider the stereotypical ideas about student life), but I do find that starting the day early works better for me. So, what do I do after getting […]

Art in Translation (AIT) publishes the best writing from around the world on the visual arts, architecture, and design in English translation. The journal was launched on 26 February 2009 with generous funding from Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. Initially published three times a year, Art in Translation increased its frequency to four times a year, starting […]

In this extra post, Sabina Savadova shows how she created a practical and confidence‑building study skills mini-course for students of the BA Childhood Practice programme, which is part of the widening participation strategy at the University of Edinburgh. Sabina is a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Practice at Moray House School of Education and […]

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 […]

March has arrived with birdsong, sunshine and new shoots. Today I am walking with Carol, who got in touch after hearing about the project through Walk Run Cycle East Dunbartonshire. Carol had originally suggested meeting a couple of weeks ago in the hope that her granddaughter would accompany us during the half term school holidays. […]

We have recently acquired a facsimile boxed set of Archigram magazine: the Archive. Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box! Published by Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British […]