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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...architecture, which now adds the Hangzhou Ecopark to its list of attractions. The local landfill site incorporates China’s first industrial landfill gas power plant, where gas from the anaerobic decomposition of waste is collected through a network of pipes and burned to generate electricity (Liu, 2011). This is part of the visitor attractions, which include sculpture...
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...architecture and urban planning, states: Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. (Alexander et al., 1977) At its core, a pattern has three parts: a problem...
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...architecture, amenities and furnishings – undoubtedly made the asylum seem a more pleasant place to the families of the insane, these reforms seem to come too late to explain the growth in asylum numbers. Similarly, improvements in the status of doctors dealing with asylum patients (which owed little to their ability to cure patients) came in the second half of the...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...architecture and performance spaces’, in M. Stöckli and A.A. Both (eds) Flower World: Music Archaeology of the Americas / Mundo Florido: Arqueomusicología de las Américas, Vol. 2. Berlin: Ekho Verlag, pp. 11–35. Suits, B.H. (1998) ‘Tuning: Frequencies for Equal-Tempered Scale, A4=440 Hz’, Physics of Music – Notes. Available at:
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History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...architecture and experience of imprisonment at Lincoln Castle Gaol. Watch this video now, and try to write down some brief notes about the ideas being presented in it. You will refer back to these later in this session. [GENTLE MUSIC] ROSALIND CRONE This is the chapel at Lincoln Castle Gaol, which was constructed in 1848 as part of the renovation and enlargement of the...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...architecture as well as consumer products. It will also examine the process of designing, including a critical appraisal of some of the accepted models of design. The term innovation is widely used today and this course reflects on what constitutes innovative design and innovative designing. Design is an essential part of engineering, and, in a competitive world,...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...architecture of new social housing projects, and the use of modern art and design by a range of political movements on the right and left (including the Republican government in Spain and the Fascists in Italy). If ordinary people were not conversant with modernism, many, especially in urban environments, were aware of it. We will not look at modernist art in any great...
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...architecture; or visit world-class museums such as the Louvre or the Musée d’Orsay. Take your companions to the Centre Pompidou or walk up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe. Look in at the luxury shops along the way (good for some window shopping!). When you reach the Arc, take a moment to pause at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, before climbing the monument...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs