Horizons Institute events
This page lists events hosted by the Horizons Institute and members of the research community. All events are open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.
Spaces into Places guided walk
Tuesday 25 March, 10am – 4.15pm, Stage@Leeds to Meanwood Farm
Join the Spaces into Places team for a guided walk from the Alec Clegg Studio, Stage@Leeds, to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm.
This is an opportunity engage with arts-based research methods and experience how they change urban spaces into places. Along the way you’ll encounter a series of site-responsive performances and take part in creative activities led by artist Simon Whitehead. Tender Stones Studio will host a graphite workshop after a light lunch at The Barn Coffee Shop and the afternoon will conclude with a group discussion and clay sculpting.
The route will require you to walk across some uneven surfaces so appropriate footwear is advised. We will also be outside for the first two hours of the session so dress warmly and bring a waterproof. While every effort has been made to make this opportunity accessible, safe-guarding regulations at MVUF means that the afternoon’s workshop isn’t on the ground floor and there is no lift in the building.
Places are limited so please ensure you are available for the whole day. To book a place email Ben Skinner pcubs@leeds.ac.uk and include a sentence about why this opportunity appeals to you.
Polycrisis Network seminar: A systemic approach to polycrisis
Thursday 27 March, 12 – 1pm, Baines SR 2.15 and online
The global polycrisis entangles crises among multiple global systems. To respond effectively, we need to work across disciplinary silos using systems thinking.
Join Dr Michael Lawrence, of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, to explore a distinctly systemic understanding of crisis as the product of slow-moving stresses, and fast-moving trigger events that push a system out of equilibrium, in a way that creates human harms.
This Stress-Trigger-Crisis model offers a helpful tool to track crisis interactions between global systems, but it also reveals a dilemma between responses intended to improve systemic resilience and those pursuing systemic transformation. By exploring these dynamics, this presentation advocates better systems thinking for an era of global polycrisis.
UKIEG Conference
Thursday 19 June, 9am – 5.30pm, Maurice Keyworth Building G.02
The Healthy Buildings Network will be hosting this year’s UKIEG conference on the University of Leeds campus.
This event will spotlight cutting edge studies, case examples and forward thinking solutions that address pressing public health and environmental challenges in buildings. It will also provide opportunities to network with experts across disciplines and to explore how we can champion wellbeing in the built environment.
Submission for abstracts is open until 14 April 2025. Authors will be notified of acceptance by the beginning of May 2025.