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InsectCity

A research workshop was held to explore the relationships between insects and cities on 25th October 2011, 10am-6pm. 
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Insects are barometers of the wider political, economic, social and technological factors that shape urban environments. In this one-day workshop a multi-disciplinary group of researchers will examine relationships between insects, cities, and citizens. Speakers from a range of arts, humanities, entomological and medical disciplines will present illustrative examples that elicit how a range of insects - e.g. ants, beetles, bedbugs, cockroaches, dustmites, mosquitoes, moths, termites - interact with the built environment and urban populations, and have agency in the production of the city and urban experience. 



A report by Dr Matthew Ingleby of UCL Urban Laboratory's one-day research workshop exploring relationships betweeninsects and cities across the arts and sciences. Insect City was convened by DrMatthew Beaumont(UCL English Department) and Dr Ben Campkin (UCL Urban Laboratory) and held on25th October 2011 at the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology and Arup Phase2 Gallery.