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KTH students learn to design and construct a material-efficient wooden bridge
Published Jun 15, 2023Architecture students and engineering students are working side by side in a practical project aimed at designing and building a wooden bridge with a 10-meter span.
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Electric scooters less popular since introduction of new parking rules
Published May 26, 2023Fewer e-scooters and parking racks a long way from the user’s destination. These may be a couple of reasons why the use of e-scooters has decreased with the introduction of new parking rules last autu...
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The Ocean – a contemporary history
Published May 02, 2023Tirza Meyer is a contemporary historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and History, who has come to devote her work to the ocean. After studying how the United Nations C...
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Sustainable energy consumption via boosting or nudging - what works best?
Published Mar 20, 2023"We are not as rational as we think but need help to make wise decisions in everyday life. That's why we need nudges, interventions that guide our decisions in a certain direction", says the nudge adv...
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New research centre shaping the future of food
Published Mar 02, 2023KTH FOOD is a new research centre for sustainable and healthy food systems which aims to engage and align the education, research, and outreach competences at KTH towards a sustainable and healthy foo...
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Taking learning out of the classroom
Published Feb 01, 2023“Be creative, cross discipline boundaries and take learning out of the classroom”. This sums up KTH Associate Professor Luigia Brandimarte’s outlook on education methodology. And that outlook helped h...
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He works for increased innovation through procurement
Published Dec 08, 2022With order volumes of 60 billion annually - around 1 percent of GDP - the Swedish Transport Administration is one of Sweden's largest procurement organizations. Per Erik Eriksson collaborates with the...
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Light serves art at the Nobel Week Lights
Published Nov 30, 2022Go for a night stroll and experience Stockholm’s annual light festival Nobel Week Lights. During December 3-11 you can enjoy light installations in which KTH plays different roles.
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How do we think about environmental issues in the Arctic and Antarctic?
Published Nov 16, 2022In February 2017, historian Peder Roberts and colleagues started the ERC project "Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic". The research group...
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Anna Hrdlicka examines how citizen dialogues and planning processes turn out in practice
Published Oct 20, 2022“Why does it have to be so difficult!” is the working title of Anna Hrdlicka's doctoral dissertation, which she will publish later this fall. The dissertation takes a closer look at how citizen dialog...
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The film festival Crosscuts – another way to communicate research
Published Sep 27, 2022Artists, researchers and activists come together with a wide audience to share a diverse film repertoire within the field of environmental humanities at the annual Crosscuts Film Festival.
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Drone camera and scanned structures laid the foundation for models of Kiruna’s new railway station
Published Sep 13, 2022In the master studio Northern Grounds, the students were given the assignment to suggest a design for a new railway station in Kiruna. The station had to be adapted to the location and the assignment ...
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The School of Architecture and the Built Environment represented KTH at the Baltic Sea Festival
Published Sep 01, 2022The Baltic Sea Festival is an annually recurring event that takes place in Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm. It is a meeting place for superb concert experiences and initiatives that contribute...
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The DiSa lab opens the gate between models and reality
Published Aug 16, 2022In the School of Architecture and the Built Environment's new lab, DiSa, there are digital tools for the built environment available to students, researchers and teachers. In addition to software for ...
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An introduction course that builds on the students' experiences
Published Jun 22, 2022During an intense two-month introduction course, the students in the interdisciplinary master’s programme Sustainable Urban Planning and Design make the Lounge their home at KTH. They meet fellow stud...
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The model ambassador who counts on ecosystem services
Published May 24, 2022By including relevant aspects of sustainability and having a longer time perspective it is possible to get a better view of systems and how they can be used sustainably. This insight is one of the fou...
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Newly inaugurated Trimble Technology Lab provides students with a competitive edge
Published May 12, 2022On 5 May, Trimble Technology Lab at Teknikringen 78 could be officially inaugurated, one year after the sneak opening during the pandemic. During mingling, presentations and ribbon-cutting, those invi...
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He paves the way for sustainable transport with a combination of data sources
Published May 11, 2022Imagine an app that could plan your trip, combining different modes of sustainable transport, and guide you in real time to arrive at a specific time while maximizing shade from tree canopies along th...
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KTH contributes to rock-solid constructions in Sweden and the EU
Published May 05, 2022Within the EU there is a common set of standards, regulating how to build and verify the safety of structures, to facilitate for companies in the construction industry and to contribute to the harmoni...
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She studies cultural heritage in the polar regions and polar futures
Published Apr 26, 2022Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt has a PhD in history and researches the polar history and polar futures, focusing on the intersection of environment, science, cultural heritage and critical geopolitics...
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