# Matthew Gandy

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City Visions: UCL Urban Laboratory Launch

The inauguration of the UCL Urban Laboratory. The UCL Urban Laboratory, established in 2005, is a university wide initiative to bring together the best urban teaching and research at UCL. Their activities build on the full spectrum of work at UCL across the arts and sciences ranging from civil engi…

An Academic Lens on Urban Ecology (w/ Matthew Gandy)

This week we sat down with Professor Matthew Gandy, a Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at Cambridge University. Professor Gandy provides us with an engaging conversation about his work in cultural, urban, and environmental geography, looking at social and environmental elements of urb…

Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night

The moth is an insect that’s almost 200 million years old. Throughout human history, its attraction to light, its amazing ability to camouflage, and its nocturnal activity have given rise to myths, spiritual beliefs and been the inspiration for art and literature – especially the genres of horror a…

002 Matthew Gandy

Matthew Gandy is a geographer, urban field ecologist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is Professor of Geography and Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. EPISODE LINKS: Matthew Gandy’s Website: https://www.matthewgandy.org/ Rethinking Urban Nature: https://www.re…

Natura Urbana and Urban Ecology with Matthew Gandy

I'm joined by Matthew Gandy to discuss his text Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space, alongside discussions on urban ecology and nature. Book link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046282/natura-urbana/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠https://t…

Imagining a new—human and nonhuman—grammar of urban life.

“There is always some moment when other-than-human life bursts into presence amid the clamor of urban routine.” —Maan Barua, Lively Cities One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. The book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology departs from con…

Gender and Borderlands with guests Caleb Bailey and Deborah Toner

Send us a Message We Googled “Why are dates important in History,” but fear the results may not have been peer-reviewed.  For peer-reviewed sources on other matters: Information about the publication of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/…

The Afterlives of Cybernetics - 17 November 2017 - Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data

Public Lecture Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) 'Communications, control and cybernetics in post-war British systems: rail, post and telecoms' Discussant: Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge) Convenors Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge) Poornima Paidipaty …

Cities on the Brink, Faster Than You Think

Hello Interactors, Every week it seems to get harder to ignore the feeling that we're living through some major turning point — politically, economically, environmentally, and even in how our cities are taking shape around us. Has society seen this movie before? Spoiler: we have, and it has many se…

Queer-trans ecologies in fieldwork with Cleo Wölfle Hazard

How do you notice the world around you? And how reciprocally can you live with it? In this episode, CWH discusses "queer and trans ecologies", which describe ways of being with non-human species and environmental processes that relate to non-normative embodiment and critical, reparative politics. C…