The City is a Thinking Machine - events to celebrate Sir Patrick Geddes

PASCAL subscribers may be interested in some of the events that have been organised this year from the Geddes Institute in Dundee to mark the centenary of Sir Patrick Geddes' most comprehensive work, Cities in Evolution (1915).

The Scottish polymathic planner and botanist, Sir Patrick Geddes, was able to articulate conceptual frameworks – what he called ‘thinking machines’ – for understanding the evolution of cities and democratic social organisations. Our program of research dialogues, culminating in a public exhibition of work drawn from the Geddes archives, evaluated the relevance of Geddes to contemporary thinking on cities and their regions.

You may also be interested in some of our other work including our Youth Camp project working on design projects with schools in the east of Scotland.