In 2022, the students in the School of Architecture + Cities received the funding from the Green Fund Scheme to install the hydroponic (green) wall at Marylebone Campus. The University of Westminster’s Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI) set up the Green Fund Award […]
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“Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop” one of the finalists for 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland
The Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing: Co-design Workshop, led by the Assistant Head of School and the ArCCAT lead Dr Ro Spankie, was one of the three projects from the University of Westminster that were named finalists for prestigious 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & […]

ArCCAT members took part in University of Westminster’s inaugural annual Sustainable Development Goals Workshop
Westminster academics, University colleagues and postgraduate researchers came together on Tuesday 6 June to explore what the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mean to them, to share best practice and to discuss ideas on how to overcome challenges while embedding them into the curriculum and their […]

ArCCAT + LFA: “The Common Stream” experimental walk
On Friday, June 23 an ‘experimental walk’ organised by ArCCAT (Corinna Dean and Diana Periton), as a part of London Festival of Architecture 2023, took place along the River Lea. The walk started at Bromley-by-Bow and ended at Cody Dock, where the group gathered in […]

Film Screening: “The Oil Machine” | Friday, February 24, 2023 at 13:00 (GMT) in Regent Street Cinema
When: Friday, 24th of February 2023 at 1pm Where: Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW To book tickets please go here. Join the University of Westminster’s Schools of Architecture + Cities, the Humanities, Law, and the Social Sciences for a screening of […]

ArCCAT Screening: “How to Save the Planet: Degrowth v Green Growth” with Jason Hickle, Samuel Frankhauser and Kate Raworth | Tuesday, November 8 at 4pm (GMT) in M309, Marylebone Campus
When: Tuesday, 8th of November, 16.00 – 18.00 Where: M309, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS ArCCAT will be screening the recording of How to Save the Planet: Degrowth v Green Growth, a debate between Jason Hickle and Samuel Fankhauser moderated by Kate Raworth. The […]

LFA 2022 + ArCCAT | Architecture Acts: A Climate Performance in Three Parts | University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, June 24, 2022, 14:00-17:00
When: Friday, 24th of June 2022 from 2pm to 5pm Where: University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS Architecture Acts asks participants to think beyond carbon calculations as architecture’s response to climate change. It is predicated on the understanding that architecture acts […]

The bee hotels and a monitoring station installed on University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus
Big thank you to Ro Spankie, Tony Madgwick and Chris Meloy for realising this initiative. Now awaiting their first guests!

Announcing the new ArCCAT reading group
The Architecture + Cities Climate Action Taskforce is starting a monthly online reading group. We will begin with Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn. This will take place on 2nd March, 16.00 – 17.30. If you wish to join the […]

ArCCAT flag flies outside Regent Street campus
Thanks to the support of our VC Peter Bonfield, and the efforts of Dain Son Robinson and Matt and Jessica in the University’s design team, an ArCCAT flag has been produced and is hanging outside the Regent Street building this week. Once it is taken […]