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Insect City

A research workshop exploring relationships between insects and cities.



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. 



Venues: UCL Grant Museum of Zoology (morning session) and London Animal Estates HQ at Arup Phase 2 Gallery (afternoon session), in association with artist and architect Fritz Haeg’s project ‘Animal Estates 8.0: London’. 



The event is free but please RSVP to:  Urban Laboratory 

OFWAT Chairman Seminar

Philip Fletcher will give a seminar on 'Reform, Change and the future of Ofwat: the Cave Review, the Ofwat Review, the Future Price Limits Consultation.' He will also focus on the in regulation of water markets, both for bulk water and at the local catchment level, as well as abstraction licence trading.

4th November 2011

Roberts 309, 12.30-14.00
To register please contact: Julien Harou