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SUMMARY:Thermal Delight in Open Spaces: Can It Enhance our Adaptive Capaci
 ty under Climate Change? - Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou   Professor in
  Sustainable Architecture\, Kent School of Architecture\, University of Ke
 nt
DTSTART:20110608T121500Z
DTEND:20110608T131500Z
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CONTACT:Peter Armitage
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Open spaces can play an important role in cooling 
 our cities.  By providing networks of clean air and helping us to escape t
 he heat of the built environment\, they can be viewed as effective climate
  regulators.  Focusing on the concept of adaptation\, this talk tries to e
 xplain how it influences outdoor comfort\, enabling us to inhabit and get 
 satisfaction from outdoor spaces.  Understanding people’s thermal experi
 ence in urban spaces can inform our vocabulary of independent physical int
 erventions. Ultimately\, such knowledge can enable us to use design constr
 uctively to improve environmental quality and increase our adaptive capaci
 ty under climate change.\n\n*Biography:* Marialena Nikolopoulou is Profess
 or of Sustainable Architecture at the University of Kent.  Prior to that s
 he was Director of the EDEn research unit at the University of Bath and Re
 search Associate at the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources\, where she le
 d the EU-funded project “Rediscovering the Urban Realm and Open Spaces
 ”.  Her work on outdoor thermal comfort has received international recog
 nition\, including the Human Biometeorology Scientific Award by the Intern
 ational Society of Biometeorology\, and stimulated field surveys in open s
 paces across the world.\n
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture\, 1-5 Scroope 
 Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB2 1PX\, www.arct.cam.ac.uk.
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