Tag: fieldwork

25.10.2024

How to promote sustainability in a 1970s' suburb?

Every spring, the students of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) at Tampere University have an opportunity to bring theory into practice in two phenomenon-based courses: Urban Lab 1: Living in the city and Urban Lab 2: Planning policy and Infrastructure. In spring 2024, Kaukajärvi-Annala, a garden suburb from the 1970s in western Tampere, acted as an urban lab. The SUD students developed new and fresh ideas on how to promote sustainability in the area.

31.7.2023

Hackathon in Kylemore Abbey

During the fieldtrip in Ireland, we spent four days going around the West Coast of Ireland by bus, learning about the current environmental issues there. Finally, on Friday, it was time to process all this new knowledge by focusing on one problem and developing solutions to it.

26.6.2023

Local Cooperation A Key to Successful Nature Preservation on Ireland's West Coast

In April, we embarked on a unique opportunity to broaden our horizons and traveled to the west coast of Ireland. Our weeklong field trip took us to the County of Mayo, where we had the chance to explore captivating landscapes and learn about environmental change and its drivers, as well as the challenges of environmental management and climate change. Throughout our journey, we gained a deeper understanding of the dynamics of human-nature interaction and the environmental and societal challenges.

6.6.2023

Ireland field trip: Time to concretize those skills

In April 2023, eleven SUD students and two teachers embarked on a field trip to the West of Ireland. In this blog, SUD student Severi Kaarnakorpi writes about the experience of doing fieldwork and studying sustainability with students from Dublin City University, Tampere University and Utrecht University.