Conferences and events

Centre for Lean Projects @NTU and LCI UK - Last Planner® System Masterclass
Monday 14 May 2 – 5 pm at Nottingham Trent University, City Site

This event will feature Glenn Ballard, the inventor of LPS and collaborative planning, co-founder of the International Group for Lean Construction in 1992 and co-founder of the Lean Construction Institute 1997.

The Masterclass is for people who have experience of collaborative planning and the Last Planner System.

• Numbers are strictly limited to 20 participants
• Free to members of LCI UK and Centre advisory board members
• Other attendees £30 including VAT

More information is available from Christine Pasquire

To attend this event please book online.

 

Perspectives on the Material World
3rd Annual Art & Design and Built Environment Research Conference and Festival
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 9 am 6 pm
Exhibition-Newton Central Gallery
Conference-Newton LT3, LT37, LT33 and LT32

Welcome 9 am - 9.30 am in Newton Central Gallery

All University staff, students and guests are invited to come along to this exciting research conference and festival. The conference has a series of parallel sessions of papers organised round research groups, as well as an exhibition.

This year’s innovations will include workshop sessions on the seven candidate REF impact case studies, as well as the involvement of the Future Factory. Video art, production engineering, sustainable consumption, C18 textiles, concrete, knitting… all these and more will be the origin of papers in this year’s Art & Design and Built Environment College Research Conference and Festival. This rich collection of research has a common concern to understand and shape our relationship to the material world; physically, socially and philosophically.  Join us; you are sure to find work of interest.

NTU Staff and Research Student presentations on:

• Heritage
• Real estate
• Design & visual culture
• Wearable devices
• Art & belief
• Sustainable consumption
• Construction processes
• Medical devices
• Academia-industry
• Education & practice
• Art & intermedia
• Product design

It is an opportunity for researchers, staff and PGR students to come together to share good practice and develop skills through peer support.

If you would like to book a place please contact the ADB Research Team, or tel: +44 (0)115 848 2177.