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Clare Melhuish runs workshop at Engage 2014 conference

1 December 2014

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Clare Melhuish (Urban Lab Research Associate) joins forces with Kim Townsend, UCL's Public Engagement Co-Ordinator (East), Andy Karvonen, Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Manchester, and Sam Wilkinson, Director of InSite Arts, to run a workshop at the <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://publicengagement.ac.uk/nccpe-projects-and-services/engage-conference">http://publicengagement.ac.uk/nccpe-projects-and-services/engage-conference" target="_self">Engage 2014 conference in Bristol on Wednesday 3 December, from 2-3pm.

The theme for this year's conference, run by the National Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, which helps universities engage with the public, is 'Captivating places; Captivating ideas; Captivating people: Unlocking the potential of curiosity-driven engagement'. The workshop will compare and explore the different approaches taken by university institutions - UCL, Manchester and Cambridge - to engaging with stakeholders of various kinds on their spatial development projects, emphasising the embedded nature of the institutional presence in physical place and space. 

It will present UCL's research and community engagement work relating to the plans for UCL East, and Beacon Bursary-funded public workshop around data visualisation in Brixton. It will contrast these approaches with Manchester's environmental sustainability initiative, Living Lab, run by Andy Karvonen, and University of Cambridge's public art strategy at its North West Cambridge development, co-ordinated by Sam Wilkinson. It is hoped the workshop will attract a mix of public engagement professionals and estates professionals from other universities as well as community partners and academics working in the field of urban regeneration, alongside external stakeholders, as well as those directly involved in visioning, planning and evaluating new campus initiatives within their own institutions.

Further details here: publicengagement.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publication/engage2014_final_small.pdf