Glasgow Events + Talks : 2010

Re-Making the City: Tram and Train Spotting in Edinburgh and

Galashiels : SCHOP

Scottish + Glasgow Events coming soon in 2010

EDINBURGH: Architecture Abroad
22 Sep
An exploration of Scottish Architects' planned interventions in Cuba and India with Ian Parsons and James Simpson. EAA Event

EDINBURGH Architecture and Design along 18 National Tourist Routes: a Tourism and Environmental Model for Scotland
One-Day Conference
5 Oct 9am - 5.20pm
The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh

In recent years a series of small but extremely high quality projects have appeared along tourist routes in Norway with the aim of providing functional objects – lookout points, picnic areas, services and rest areas – that enhance the overall visitor or tourist experience. They punctuate the journey through the landscape with memorable stopping places and display to the traveller the range and diversity of architecture and design in Norway today. Many of these facilities has been designed by young architects with the overall project organised and financed by an innovative collaboration between the National Tourist Routes Project, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and Norsk Form, the Norwegian centre for architecture and design.

Scotland’s primary tourist routes offer many similar opportunities to those that have been developed in Norway and the experience gained there in site identification, design briefing, competition organisation, collaboration between organisations and project financing are all things Scotland can learn from and, with political will and determination, apply here.

Edinburgh Napier University’s Forest Products Research Institute, together with the Royal Norwegian Consulate in Scotland, is holding a one-day conference on this important initiative on Tuesday 5 October 2010 at the Hub on Edinburgh’s Castlehill. The event is aimed at national and local politicians, key decision makers within local authority planning and transport and their peers in tourist authorities and environmental agencies with a view to stimulating debate on how ideas generated in Norway can be positively transferred to the Scottish situation, particularly through architectural competition.

More details at Edinburgh Events

EDINBURGH: Lean Construction Workshop
12 Oct 12 - 4.30pm
The Scottish Construction Centre is pleased to invite you to a lean construction workshop taking place in Edinburgh on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 (12.00 – 16.30).

This workshop will introduce delegates to the concept and practice of lean construction and process waste elimination and is aimed at CEOs, operations directors and managers, project managers, housing officers, clients, construction managers, maintenance managers and anyone responsible for improving operations in a construction setting.

Cost: £50 + VAT per person

Further information and booking details can be found on the SCC website, www.scocon.org

EDINBURGH: EAA Annual Lecture
27 Oct
Passivhaus Institute Scientific Research and Implementation.
EAA Event

EDINBURGH: Architecture and Film
24 Nov
Joint CPD and film night.
EAA Event