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New research film highlights the environmental crisis from a post-colonial perspective
Published Nov 23, 2023On 14 November, visitors got a sneak premiere of the film "The Lindeka: When a Book Ate a City" at Accelerator, Stockholms Universty —addressing the environmental crisis through the active remains of ...
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"We Swedes need to get our house in order"
Floods in Sweden are causing more and more damage. The picture shows an incident in Hallsberg in August this year (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Nov 10, 2023Embankments and motorways collapse. Damage from extreme weather events is getting worse while knowledge of how to protect ourselves from them is lagging behind. Johan Silfwerbrand, professor in concre...
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Sara Wilkinson explores how to use ESG scorecard to lower the vacancy level in commercial buildings
Visiting professor Sara Wilkinson develops a strategy to deal with under-occupancy as a low-level intervention. The STAR toolkit project is an alternative option to mothballing and demolition, while a new, longer-term user can be found. Published Nov 07, 2023In a recent research seminar, visiting professor Sara Wilkinson at KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment presented a new way to think about how to tackle the situation of underused and ...
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Stockholm first to get the EU Mission Label
Photo: bruev / iStock Published Oct 31, 2023In October, it was announced that Stockholm is one of the cities to have its climate plan approved by the EU, making it the first city to receive the EU Mission Label. KTH was one of the organisations...
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STRC 2023 Brought Together Transport Researchers from Across Sweden
Johan Olstam, VTI & Erik Jenelius, KTH. Photo: Albania Nissan, KTH Published Oct 19, 2023Since 2012, the Swedish Transport Research Conference (STRC) has been an annual gathering for transport researchers from all over Sweden. Participants have had the opportunity to gain insights into on...
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DIG-IT Lab aims to leverage benefits of digitalisation for more efficient and sustainable buildings
The new virtual testbeds that are being planned within Dig-IT Lab. Published Oct 10, 2023Several researchers from the Architecture and the Built Environment field will participate in the new DIG-IT Lab research centre, an evolution of KTH Live-In Lab. The centre's purpose is to reduce the...
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KTH researchers part of this year's Sustainability Forum
Image by Freepik Published Oct 04, 2023On Wednesday 4 October, this year's livestreamed Sustainability Forum was arranged by the University Alliance Stockholm Trio - a place where people meet, build networks, and create collaborations for ...
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KTH students learn to design and construct a material-efficient wooden bridge
Construction is in full swing in a laboratory hall at KTH Campus. Carl Lagerkvist, a fifth-year student in the architecture program, and Samuel Auger, in the fifth year of the engineering program, are working on connecting a part of the bridge structure. "It has been fun but challenging at the same time due to the material delays we have experienced. It's like real life," they say. Photo: KTH. Published Jun 15, 2023Architecture students and engineering students are working side by side in a practical project aimed at designing and building a wooden bridge with a 10-meter span.
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Electric scooters less popular since introduction of new parking rules
The parking ban that was introduced last autumn led to changed travel patterns among users of electric scooters. (Photo: KTH) Published May 26, 2023Fewer e-scooters and parking racks a long way from the user’s destination. These may be a couple of reasons why the use of e-scooters has decreased with the introduction of new parking rules last autu...
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The Ocean – a contemporary history
A "gummy squirrel" sea cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, living at a depth of 5,000 meters. Image courtesy of the DeepCCZ expedition/NOAA Published May 02, 2023Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...
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Sustainable energy consumption via boosting or nudging - what works best?
Boost interventions were communicated using QR codes posted next to the microwave, shower, and refrigerator. Published Mar 20, 2023"We are not as rational as we think but need help to make wise decisions in everyday life. That's why we need nudges, interventions that guide our decisions in a certain direction", says the nudge adv...
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New research centre shaping the future of food
Francisco Vilaplana and Rebecka Milestad have worked on starting KTH FOOD for several years. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Mar 02, 2023KTH FOOD is a new research centre for sustainable and healthy food systems which aims to engage and align the education, research, and outreach competences at KTH towards a sustainable and healthy foo...
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Taking learning out of the classroom
Luigia Brandimarte winner of this year’s KTH Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans Published Feb 01, 2023“Be creative, cross discipline boundaries and take learning out of the classroom”. This sums up KTH Associate Professor Luigia Brandimarte’s outlook on education methodology. And that outlook helped h...
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He works for increased innovation through procurement
The visualization shows a preliminary design of the Ostlänken, part of the new main lines, in the Boksjö area in Norrköping. It shows the tunnel mouth through the Kolmården escarpment and the E4 highway is visible on the left hand side. Illustrationen by the Swedish Transport Administration Published Dec 08, 2022With order volumes of 60 billion annually - around 1 percent of GDP - the Swedish Transport Administration is one of Sweden's largest procurement organizations. Per Erik Eriksson collaborates with the...
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Light serves art at the Nobel Week Lights
Published Nov 30, 2022Go for a night stroll and experience Stockholm’s annual light festival Nobel Week Lights. During December 3-11 you can enjoy light installations in which KTH plays different roles.
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How do we think about environmental issues in the Arctic and Antarctic?
“I like when the questions are big. Some answers to questions that we posed in the project really raised more questions. Overall there is so much still to learn from looking more closely at the politics of natural scientific research in polar environments,” says Peder Roberts. Published Nov 16, 2022In February 2017, historian Peder Roberts and colleagues started the ERC project "Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic". The research group...
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Anna Hrdlicka examines how citizen dialogues and planning processes turn out in practice
Anna Hrdlicka works at the Division of Real Estate Planning and Land Law, which is one of five divisions at the Department of Real Estate and Construction Management. At KTH, she teaches courses in land development, and Property and Urban Development. Anna has been politically active on Gotland for 12 years, most recently as a member of the regional council. Published Oct 20, 2022“Why does it have to be so difficult!” is the working title of Anna Hrdlicka's doctoral dissertation, which she will publish later this fall. The dissertation takes a closer look at how citizen dialog...
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The film festival Crosscuts – another way to communicate research
Illustrations by happypocketknife Images: Jörg Bachmann Published Sep 27, 2022Artists, researchers and activists come together with a wide audience to share a diverse film repertoire within the field of environmental humanities at the annual Crosscuts Film Festival.
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Drone camera and scanned structures laid the foundation for models of Kiruna’s new railway station
Point cloud of the suggested site for a new railway station based on a drone flight Image: Ulrika Knagenhielm-Karlsson & Erik Swahn Published Sep 13, 2022In the master studio Northern Grounds, the students were given the assignment to suggest a design for a new railway station in Kiruna. The station had to be adapted to the location and the assignment ...
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The School of Architecture and the Built Environment represented KTH at the Baltic Sea Festival
The panel on the Berwaldhallen stage Photo: Arne Hyckenberg Published Sep 01, 2022The Baltic Sea Festival is an annually recurring event that takes place in Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm. It is a meeting place for superb concert experiences and initiatives that contribute...
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