Sustainability Spotlight Learning Circle Term 2

In-person Workshop: Developing Interdisciplinary Research Proposals

Wednesday 30th April 2025

WESIC and the Sustainability Spotlight have set up a learning circle which will meet termly to support our research community to develop interdisciplinary research projects. This is open to staff involved in research at all career stages.

The second informal workshop will take place on Wednesday 30th April from 12pm - 3pm, in the Library Wolfson Research ExchangeLink opens in a new window

Nerea Calvillo (she/they) is an architect-scholar, based at the research Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK), director of spatial design office C+ arquitectas and funder of In the Air, an ongoing collaborative project to sense air(pollution). She works at the intersection between spatial design, feminist technoscience, queer and environmental studies, and her current research is on toxic politics, AI natures, atmospheres and queer urban political ecologies. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Royal Academy of Arts, Canadian Centre for Architecture or the Shanghai Biennale; and published in interdisciplinary journals like Social Studies of Science, Journal of Extreme Events or Public Culture. She is author of Aeropolis: Queering air in Toxicpolluted worlds.

Following the talk there will be lunch, networking, discussion of potential project ideas and the opportunity to build project teams.

Agenda:

12.00 Welcome – Professor Gary Bending

12.05 Dr Nerea Calvillo, Inter/un/disciplinary Collaborations around Air Pollution

12.50 Lunch and networking

13.30 Project starter pitches (<5 min each)

14.00 Project-building discussions

14.50 Summary and close – Professor Gary Bending