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Aug 18, 2022
Join us at the Sensory Supermarket!
Are you interested in learning more about how businesses and organisations could make places more enabling for autistic people with...
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Aug 18, 2022
E-Scooter Sounds Experiment: now recruiting participants!
Image: Tier Scooters UCL PEARL is undertaking some research for Tier Scooters in collaboration with Transport for London to explore the...
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Aug 9, 2022
How PEARL thinks
In creating the PEARL facility, we have created a building in which we can express and develop our thinking about how to design, create...
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Jul 17, 2022
Our Vision and Objective (1 year on...)
The Vision that we set out when conceiving PEARL was "to create a better world for a future in which people and the environment can...
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Jul 16, 2022
Hundreds of school children get insight into London’s booming film industry at PEARL!
Figure 1: 700 school children got an eye-opening insight into the many careers available in London’s booming film and TV industry at...
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Jul 13, 2022
Participate in our London Bus Design Experiment!
Update: Thanks to all those who expressed their interest. As experiments have now started, applications are now closed. If you are...
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Jul 2, 2022
So, what do you see?
This week we have been talking a bit about lighting. A major infrastructure owner came to see us to find out if we could help them find...
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Jun 7, 2022
PEARL featured in the Architects' Journal
The PEARL facility, designed by London-based architecture firm Penoyre & Prasad, has just been featured in the Architects' Journal. Check...
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May 27, 2022
Constructing Nature
Research exploring the effects of spending time in nature and natural environments has consistently reported a wide range of both...
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May 20, 2022
Looking for our new Community Engagement Assistant!
PEARL is looking for our new Community Engagement Assistant - could this be You?! Do you have experience in public engagement, community...
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May 14, 2022
Public Transport that breathes
At PEARL, in addition to doing the research and our teaching, dissemination and community participation activities, we also consider how...
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Mar 21, 2022
PEARL's magic tree...
We are about to undertake some experiments which require a park to be created in PEARL. The park has four large screens around it, which...
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Mar 17, 2022
Press Release : Innovate Audio and UCL PEARL Announce Strategic Partnership
Innovate Audio, creator of the panLab 2 spatial sound design and mixing tool, and UCL’s PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research...
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Jan 29, 2022
Scooting along with PEARL
This week we are starting a project to examine the sounds that might be used for e-scooters to alert pedestrians of their presence. In...
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Dec 18, 2021
PEARL and autocatalysis: how a laboratory actively helps its researchers to collaborate
This image is of a savanna - in this case in Zimbabwe. The human species has evolved to enable us to live successfully in such an...
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Oct 24, 2021
Innovating urban design
Last week, it was announced that PEARL is one of the finalists in the National Urban Design Awards 2021 in the Innovation Category. You...
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Oct 17, 2021
Why do we do what we do?
The philosophy that drove the design of the PEARL facility is that we act based on our perception of the world. PEARL was designed to...
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Aug 12, 2021
PEARL @ Open House London!
PEARL will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of September 2021 as part of Open House...
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Jul 3, 2021
PEARL Lighting
Last week, I talked about how the absence of sensation could be a useful way of understanding how we sense the world. This week we can...
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Jun 27, 2021
PEARL sensations
This week we have been testing the ability of PEARL to achieve a full blackout. This capability is important, as it gives us a baseline...
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Jun 19, 2021
PEARL is coming closer...!
As we move through June, the snagging in the building is progressing and the details are beginning to emerge. This week we have seen some...
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