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Congratulations to Barbara Penner and the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôºoo Festival team for winning the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Communications and Culture Award for best public event of 2013. The award was presented by Professor Michael Arthur (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº President & Provost) at an awards ceremony on 2 April in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Bloomsbury Theatre.  

¹û¶³Ó°Ôºoo was a two-week festival running at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and around Bloomsbury last winter. The impressive programme of events accompanying this included a filth-themed Bright Club, a toilet makeathon, and a tour of local toilets.

The event was featured in as a lead news story, reaching an estimated readership of 227,000. The festival also inspired an episode of the BBC Radio 4 Costing the earth programme, entitled , which featured The Bartlett's Barbara Penner.

Barbara Penner, Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, comments on the winning the award: "We won alongside a truly stellar group of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº researchers, including Steve Fossey for the supernova discovery, so we felt very honoured by it."

Image: Sarah Bell (Faculty of Engineering) and Barbara Penner (The Bartlett School of Architecture)