18 September 15:00-17:00

E-building, Room 1426, John Ericssons väg 2, LTH campus

This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. The contributors draw upon theories and methods from urban geography, planning, architecture, science and technology studies, sociology, and political science to examine case studies of autonomous vehicles, urban robots, platforms, algorithms, and city brains. The findings reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on society, infrastructure networks, governance processes, and urban transitions. 

This book launch will provide an opportunity for the editors to introduce the book and engage in a roundtable discussion with the panellists and audience members about current and future issues related to urban AI. 

Panellists 
Andrew Karvonen, Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University, (Chair)

Robert Willim, Digital Cultures, Lund University

Lorena Melgaco, Human Geography, Lund University

Otello Palmini, Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Ferrara

James White, Technology and Society, Lund University

For more information and to register, please visit

ai.lu.se/2024-09-18/registration

Title: Queer as a city: Unsettling coherence in ‘sustainable urban development’

A-building, Klas Anshelms väg 16, 223 62 Lund

Lecture Hall A:C at 13:00. 

Visual Communication IV | Industrial Design Programme | Bachelor level, year 3

The architectural profession is constantly trying out new approaches as each project can have different conditions. However, sometimes we need to free ourselves from conventions and our own limitations. In the Design Process and Prototype course, we will complete an idea from sketch to relatively finished result through cross-disciplinary work at a manageable scale. We will benefit from other disciplines' approaches/methodologies. Cross-border encounters can generate new unexpected results and constraints can result in more creativity than free work without a framework. Study the world around you with open eyes and learn from others' discoveries and approaches. Challenge yourself! Remember that there are no failures, only lessons learnt.

We take the opportunity when the Exhibition Hall is dressed for festivities and invite students, former students, employees, former employees and collaboration partners to our mingle 11 October from 6:30 PM.  

Exhibition Hall, A-building, Klas Anshelms väg 16, 223 62 Lund.  

Fritte Fritzson, Swedish comedian and architect, trained at our school, will be our host for the evening. The programme is currently being prepared and will be presented on this page in due course.

Maybe you want to settle a class reunion with fellow students from the past? Take the opportunity to meet old and new friends!

We create the environment and the conditions, you bring out the party mood and join us.  

Industrial Design students are exhibiting the course assignment Miniatures during the period of 14 October to 16 October in the Black Box. Miniatures deals with sitting furniture in scale 1:5. The aim of the assignment is to apply an experimental approach to design method, furniture form and function, as well as furniture materials, and invent a novel piece of sitting furniture. The small scale is chosen to allow students to try out many different solutions throughout the design process. By working with a miniature furniture, the students will also improve their abilities to deal with scale models. The experimental research process and the design process are both documented and reflected upon in a folder.

More information to come. 

Housing Futures, a roundtable discussion on current housing research in the department. 

"Almost 60 years of dancing: collaborations between environmental psychology and architecture" 

Interrogating the Built Environment: New Approaches to Understanding Urban Change

Roundtable discussion with PhD students to discuss the methods they are employing to study architecture and the built environment. How do researchers understand and engage with urban dynamics in different ways?

Klas Anshelm (1914-1980), architect and since 1973 an honorary doctor at LTH, was the man commissioned to build a new technical college in Lund in a short time. He was himself an engineer's son and had some artistic dreams, trained as an architect at Chalmers.  When he set up his own architectural practice in Lund in 1947, he embraced a modern function-based style of brick and concrete. The Swedish state became a major employer and gave him large commissions for the universities in Lund and Gothenburg.

This photo exhibition has been compiled by architect Per Qvarnström, a former student at the school. Per Qvarnström has organised a number of exhibitions and written a book on Klas Anshelm's work.

You can see the exhibition, outside our library.  during the period 9 September to 20 December 2024.

Sponsors: 

With this poster exhibition we describe current research projects at our department. 

You can see the exhibition, outside our library from 9 September to 20 December 2024.