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Copenhagen to Athens to Kos: A hop, skip, and a jump from SEFI to ICL
Copenhagen Following last week’s meeting of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) in Copenhagen, I enjoyed a post-conference dinner with colleagues, explored Copenhagen’s old town in...
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Working Hard, Playing Hard: London city models, maker spaces, and materials...
Sums up the week. Getting back on track after a vacation is always hectic. A road sign I passed today announcing “CHANGED PRIORITIES” summed up the ironies I’ve faced. My first week back (after a...
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Basking Joyfully in Southern France
I’m currently on a writing retreat, working from Dublin and doubling down on my extensive to-write list. I worked straight through two weekends here because my flat here is so peaceful and sunny. Now,...
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Meeting Grafton Architects: Irish Ladies Leading the Way!
Shannon Chance with Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Dublin-based Grafton Architects. I finally got to meet Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, founders of Grafton Architects and designers of my...
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Meeting my bosses at London DIT Alumni’s annual chapter gathering
Maintaining professional connections is important, and although I’m on a Marie Curie fellowship in London, I still meet frequently with leaders from my home institution, Dublin Institute of Technology...
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Learning London: A day of cream tea and BauBax testing
Soho at Christmas–but it is lit this way year round! Aongus and I aim to make the most of every free day we have in London. I’m back at Gatwick now, flying to a speaking engagement in Dublin, and...
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Open House Dublin: An architect’s delight
I have several blogs in my files that I’ve not yet shared. The info below is no longer “news” but it should be interesting and helpful to some, so I’m posting it for you today. Happy holidays! The...
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Marie Curie Fellowship, Interim Report
I’ve produced a report of the work I’ve done in the past year, and thought that readers of this blog might be interested to see it. Not the most thrilling reading, but it might be useful to other MSCA...
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Learning London: Barbican and the Design Museum
We took things pretty slow last weekend — but in addition to reading a couple of journals manuscripts in my queue to peer review, I hit the town with Aongus en route to two design exhibitions....
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The Many Senses that Matter in Transportation Design
Attending the 2019 opening session of “Design of Accessible Transport Systems” reminded me of the need for designers of all sorts to consider a wider array of senses than the five that normally come...
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Learning London: Enjoying the (bus/fellowship/research) Journey
When you’re supervising a Ph.D. student, s/he usually comes to you for meetings. In my case, however, I travel over to LSBU twice a month to meet with my supervisee, Thomas, and his primary supervisor,...
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Learning London: How office trivia aboard a double-deck tour landed me “The...
I’ve been spell bound all day by Dayan Sudjic’s 2016 book, “The Language of Cities.” I purchased the book after work yesterday to keep my knowledge of city-building fresh and up-to-date. I made that...
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Learning London: At the lovely Bethnal Green library
Aongus and I stopped by the public library in Bethnal Green over the weekend since I wanted to show him its glorious architecture. It’s in the park we traverse en route to the Central Line Tube...
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Learning London: Birthday Celebrations with Weekend Excursion to Oxford
Last week at UCL’s Engineering Front Office we celebrated birthdays, for my colleague Inês, and for me as well. A group of us had lunch out together on Wednesday and we also enjoyed lunch in the office...
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Learning London: Enchanting Holland Park and Victorian House Museum
A couple of weekends ago, we visited Holland Park on both Saturday and Sunday. There was too much to see in the area for just one go. We had to spread it out. In fact, we’d also visited a weekend...
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Celebrating International Women’s Day Building Arcade Games in Dublin
Photo credit: http://stbrigidsthecoombe.ie/engineering-video-games-workshop In Dublin last week, to conduct interviews with architecture and civil engineering students on their conceptualizations of...
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Directors of TU Dublin’s MSc in Transport + Mobility Visit UCL to Compare Notes
When my colleagues at Technological University Dublin announced to me they were launching a new Master’s degree in Transport and Mobility (student handbook available here), I immediately invited them...
View ArticleVivacious Vienna: Exploring the City
During my February trip to Vienna for the MCAA General Assembly, I had the chance to look around the city center as well as some sectors not far from the center. Vienna is an architect’s dreamland,...
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Vivacious Vienna: Hundertwasser
I was an exchange student to Switzerland in 1994, and my first host “mom,” Esther Sterchi-Wyss, loved the architect Hundertwasser. I arrived at her home never having heard of the designer despite...
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Fostering Inclusivity in Engineering Education in the South African Context
I spent the first week of July in South Africa, facilitating a two-day Master Class on “Fostering Inclusivity in Engineering Education in the South African Context” and then attending the Research in...
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