Greg Keeffe

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  Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  Greg is an academic and urban designer with over 30 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. I am interested in the city, warts and all. I think the city is a superorganism, and definitely the most complex thing man has designed. I like the way it is full of wicked problems, and these intrigue me. My work continually engages with the difficult and the impossible. My particular focus is broadly around sustainability and resilience. I started my career looking at low energy buildings, but recently my work has become more and more holistic. I am a designer, I use a research by design methodology to not only understand the complexities of urban contexts, but also to unlock new exciting trajectories that are latent in the the spatial/content mix of the existing city. I see design as a way of making things better. I see the city as a network of flows: flows of resources; flows of people and flows of information. I visualise these flows as sitting on discreet, but over-lapping scapes. I'm interested in the architecture that brings these together, and the synergies created when this arises. The focus of this work is the productive city: I like the idea of food and energy being produced near where it's needed, this will help build resilience. I am particularly interested in new productive technologies; how they are usead and what potentials they might unlock. A good example of this would be aquaponic food-production on and in buildings,or algaeculture in the city. In light of this, I designed and built the UK's first building-based aquaponic system (the Biospheric Project as part of Manchester International Festival) and I also designed a scheme for Liverpool (Bio-Port) which would make it the World's first algae-powered city. I feel privileged to be a designer and an academic, and I want to make a difference. I endeavour to work with communities, using design as a tool to make things better. Queens University Belfast

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  Greg Keeffe currently works in the
  Queens University Belfast

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  Greg is an academic and urban designer with over 30 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. I am interested in the city, warts and all. I think the city is a superorganism, and definitely the most complex thing man has designed. I like the way it is full of wicked problems, and these intrigue me. My work continually engages with the difficult and the impossible. My particular focus is broadly around sustainability and resilience. I started my career looking at low energy buildings, but recently my work has become more and more holistic. I am a designer, I use a research by design methodology to not only understand the complexities of urban contexts, but also to unlock new exciting trajectories that are latent in the the spatial/content mix of the existing city. I see design as a way of making things better. I see the city as a network of flows: flows of resources; flows of people and flows of information. I visualise these flows as sitting on discreet, but over-lapping scapes. I'm interested in the architecture that brings these together, and the synergies created when this arises. The focus of this work is the productive city: I like the idea of food and energy being produced near where it's needed, this will help build resilience. I am particularly interested in new productive technologies; how they are usead and what potentials they might unlock. A good example of this would be aquaponic food-production on and in buildings,or algaeculture in the city. In light of this, I designed and built the UK's first building-based aquaponic system (the Biospheric Project as part of Manchester International Festival) and I also designed a scheme for Liverpool (Bio-Port) which would make it the World's first algae-powered city. I feel privileged to be a designer and an academic, and I want to make a difference. I endeavour to work with communities, using design as a tool to make things better.

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• Which industries has Greg Keeffe previously worked in?   

  Greg Keeffe has prior experience in the following industries:
  Queens University Belfast , Queens University Belfast , Leeds Metropolitan University , Ort , Manchester School Of Architecture

• What is Greg Keeffe’s work experience?  

  Greg Keeffe has the following professional experience:
  Queens University Belfast , European Union , Cornell University , Queens University Belfast , Queens University Belfast , Queens University Belfast , Leeds Metropolitan University , Ort , Tu Delft , Manchester School Of Architecture , Cornell University .

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  Greg Keeffe works at
  Queens University Belfast