@lucaknorr
Landscape architect, art historian, Professor at Liverpool School of Architecture interested in history, gender and climate futures. Mum of two great kids and a vizsla. PI Women of the Welfare Landscape https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/womenofthewelfarelandscape
Very excited to host the wonderful Tim Waterman tomorrow at the Liverpool School of Architecture! His talk, ‘Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries’, is open for all and you can also look around our new home! @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture...
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
I think about this post every day 🧪
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
RIP Jane Goodall, 1934–2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Woman designer behind a drawing board working on a plan
Really excited to see the program of the program of the online ‘Women Architects under State Socialism Symposium’ organised in collaboration with the @eahn2005.bsky.social Women and Gender in Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group! Have a look and register to join us! eahn.org/2025/09/wome...
The cover illustration and title of the book, showing a dam at the head of a large reservoir, edged by trees and surrounded by hills
Ladybird book in the Spotlight
‘Public Services: Water Supply’ 1969
[Deep sigh]
Artist: John Berry
The SAHGB is pleased to announce that we are now an Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) accredited CPD provider. IHBC members now have the opportunity to attend our paid events at a preferential rate.
@ihbc.bsky.social
sahgb.org.uk/whats-on
Don’t forget to submit your abstract y the 1st July!!
Photo looking through two large concrete tunnels at a golden sunrise in the still darkened and empty desert
Land artist Nancy Holt,
Sun Tunnels (1973),
Great Basin Desert, Utah at sunrise #WomensArt
#SummerSolstice
Submissions are now open for the SAHGB Dissertation Prize.
The prize celebrates outstanding work in architectural history being carried out by students on taught Masters-level courses in UK universities.
Entries must be made by a named academic nominator.
sahgb.org.uk/dissertation-prize
If you’re interested in using archives in teaching #landscapearchitecture do come along to this hybrid seminar at @themerl.bsky.social on 17th June! It’s free but you need to teguster here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/teachi...
Many fossil fuel execs like to say they are full of caring for people suffering from energy poverty and just want to help. If this was true, they would support solar.
Awesome video about how solar has replaced diesel for Indian salt farmers.
🦖 Happy National Dinosaur Day, from Teessaurus Park!
📝 Free writing workshops with the inspiring author and performer Dr Rommi Smith at Harewood House. These are part of the exhibition Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter. Book your place: harewood.org/events/write... #Austen #Turner #AustenandTurneer
The Liverpool School of Architecture has celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its new extension with a traditional ‘topping out’ ceremony, marking the point at which the building reaches its uppermost point.
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/16/l...
Screenshot of a Guardian news article with the headline: “Wildlife charities urge Labour to scrap ‘licence to kill nature’ in planning bill.” The subheading reads: “Conservationists say part of bill allowing developers to avoid environmental laws by paying into nature fund should be ditched.” Below, a protest photo shows handmade signs in woodland. One reads “BAT FACTS – 14 species of bat in Buckinghamshire. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.” Another says “FAT CATS KILL BATS” in bold letters. The image underscores public anger and the scale of opposition to the proposed Planning Bill.
Labour promised to restore nature. ❌
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'. of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
Call for Papers:
Uneven Progress: women, education, institutions and careers in the built environment eahn.org/2025/05/unev...
Articles submission:
Tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special focus on educational institutions.
⏲️ two weeks left
Details below if interested 👇
#women #education #builtenvironment
Two weeks left to submit your abstracts to this special issue, that focuses on women’s work in educating future built environment professionals!
📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:
‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’
Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!
#PhD #postgraduate
www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
The Society of Architectural Historians of GB is searching for its next Chair. This is a great opportunity for an experienced architectural historian. The new Chair can help shape the Society and influence the field.
Further information, below:
www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs
We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨
This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available!
Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...
Thanks to the good folks at @londonplay.bsky.social for sharing this photo story on London adventure playgrounds from the @londonmuseum.bsky.social
Maxine "Blossom" Miles in 1930s in polka dot dress standing beneath aircraft in arty B&W photo
Maxine "Blossom" Miles #aviator #engineer #socialite & #businesswoman. From family of #actors, 1920s got into #aviation, married flight instructor FG Miles & founded Miles Aircraft Ltd. She was the company draughtswoman. Women's Eng Soc member d. #OTD 6 Apr 1984 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_...
CFP for our panel on future impacts of extraction in the context of this year‘s AHRA conference now online: www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/?fb...
PLANNING PERSPECTIVES 'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980 Sally Watson School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ABSTRACT Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy, abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering, reductions in traffic management budgets following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and practices.
Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.
Sheep standing in front of military domes in a snowy landscape
One of the highlights of researching landscapes around infrastructure is the wealth of photos one can find about infrastructure and sheep!
Very excited to be involved in a Special Issue for Women’s History Today: the Journal of the @womenshistnet.bsky.social focusing on the experiences and careers of women in built environment education! #womeninarchitecture #womenshistory #womenineducation womenshistorynetwork.org/uneven-progr...
