THEMATIC GROUPS
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In September 2021, IRDR will launch a brand new degree programme aimed at understanding and tackling some of the world's most pressing challenges: the Global Humanitarian Studies BSc. In advance of this launch, the IRDR's annual Humanitarian Summit will offer some provoking debate and discussion around how climate change, conflict and other global phenomena are shaping both the humanitarian sector and humanitarian studies as a field of research and teaching, and vice versa.
We welcome staff, students, alumni, policymakers and the public to join the debate.
The one-day online event will be split into two themes:
10:00-12.30: Humanitarian work and research at risk
In the morning sessions, guests will discuss the increasing risks humanitarian workers and researchers are facing in "the field", with increasing targeting, experiences of harassment/violence, state restrictions, and also COVID-19 related impacts on mobility. A key question will be: What do these violence and "access" challenges mean for the future of humanitarian work and humanitarian studies?
14:00-16:00: “New risks” and old approaches, or vice versa? Interrogating gender and climate security rhetoric
Climate change is the “new” global threat and climate security is a new way of framing the risks posed by climate-related hazards in economically and politically fragile settings. Is this narrative undermining development approaches that aim to address the underlying causes of climate change and environmental degradation e.g. fossil fuel based-economies or gender and race inequalities? Is this yet another distraction to avoid challenging hegemonic discourses on controlling (and destroying) the environment and controlling populations? These afternoon sessions will discuss whether current discourses around climate change adaptation and mitigation have come some way (if at all) in integrating alternative, often more feminist, perspectives to frame the problems and solutions.
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Join SDI next week at the 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA15). CBA15 brings together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors working at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future. It is a space to explore the importance and urgency of locally led adaptation and address this pivotal moment in climate action. In our continued efforts to ensure that the voices of the urban poor are at the forefront of these discussions, SDI has been actively involved in the hosting and coordinating of a series of sessions during next week’s event. We invite you to join us by registering for CBA15 today. The above events are outlined in more detail below. We hope to see you there! |
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Innovation for adaptation by urban communities: the transformative power of citizen led data 15 June at 09:00 CET Hosted by SDI, Huairou Commission and Practical Action, this session will explore how community-led data collection can increase the bargaining and negotiation power of communities (e.g. improving the design of urban water and sanitation) and build social cohesion. The session will promote discussion using examples from PA, HC and SDI on how data is collected and used by communities – the processes, transparency, ownership and use. Specifically: What is potentially transformative about citizen led data collection? What impact is this work already having? What institutional mechanisms are necessary to improve impact? |
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What Women Want: How Grassroots and Urban Poor Women are Impacting Change in Climate Adaptation Policy and Practice 16 June at 09:00 CET This session will highlight how grassroots needs are being articulated, and open discussions around financing solutions for the urban poor. SDI and Huairou Commission will showcase how grassroots and urban poor women are effectively innovating, engaging and advocating for changes in policy and practice that speak to their priorities and needs. The session will highlight the methods they are using, and how this work pushes forward adaptation efforts that are truly community based in order to effect change from the local to global levels. |
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Climate 101: Climate information for community-based practitioners 17 June at 13:00 CET Working in climate adaptation means applying complicated science to everyday livelihood activities. It can be intimidating. This course will help you answer the following questions: Why is it critical for adaptation to combine managing current climate variability with adapting to long-term climate change? What type of climate information is out there, and how can it help me make more informed decisions? How much should I trust climate information and forecasts ? This session, aimed at practitioners without prior climate training. It focuses on key concepts that adaptation practitioners need to understand and some common misconceptions that need to be dispelled in order to communicate more effectively with scientists and data providers to use climate data and information effectively. It will introduce the terminology needed to understand basic climate science, explore various types of climate data and information, uncertainties associated with climate forecasts, and identify how relevant past, present and future climate information can inform decision-making processes to promote adaptation. |
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Locally Led Action Principles - How can we see them driving real impact? 16 June at 13:00 CET The “Principles for Locally Led Adaptation” are a set of 8 principles that guide the adaptation community as it develops funding, programmes and new practices toward adaptation that is increasingly owned and led by local partners. This second session on the 8 Principles for Locally Led Adaptation will explore principles 5-8. The principles explored in this session include: 5) Building a robust understanding of climate risk and uncertainty 6) Flexible programming and learning 7) Ensuring transparency and accountability 8) Collaborative action and investment This is the second of two sessions exploring what the Principles 4-8 for Locally Led Adaptation are and look like in practice. principles in depth. This will include exploring:
The session will begin with an introduction to each of Principle’s 4-8, to help improve the CBA Communities’ understanding of them. Each Principle will be introduces via plenary interview from a formal endorser. They will also help the CBA community to understand what this Principle means for their organisation, including what it means to do things differently. Following the introduction of each Principle, break-out groups will discuss two questions:
These discussions will help contribute to a 10 year effort to see the principles widely implemented and creating a space for meaningful, locally owned impact in climate vulnerable communities. |
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The contributors collectively argue that the processes for making and implementing decisions play a large part in determining whether outcomes are socially just, and examine various value systems and strategies adopted by individuals versus authorities. Considering perceptions of risk, the volume offers a unique way to think about economic assessments in the context of resettlement and draws parallels between different country contexts to compare fully urbanised areas with those experiencing urban growth. It also provides an opportunity to re-think how disaster risk management can better address the accumulation of urban risks through urban planning.
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TG NTP Event
Friday, Jun 11, 2021, 14:00 – 18:00 CET (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, ..)
The RSA global festival "Regions in Recovery" will host a special session on “New Technology in Planning: Addressing Global Challenges in Emergency Contexts ".
AAA video-recording of the session https://youtu.be/w4EtHuvCng8?t=5
Attendance is free of charge. More details and access link at: https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/1135811
The session is chaired by Michele Campagna (University of Cagliari) Paulo Silva (University of Aveiro), and invited speakers include Carl Steinitz (emeritus, Harvard, GSD), Stan Geertman (Utrecht University), Zorica Nedovic-Budic (University of Illinois Chicago), and Ana Clara Mourao Moura (Federal University Minas Gerais). The session will be opened by AESOP Secretary General Angelique Chettiparamb (university of Reading).
The session is organized by the AESOP Thematic Group New Technologies and Planning (NTP)
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Within the Regions in Recovery Building. Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival, 2nd-18th June 2021, the Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Culture has been invited to organize and chair the SS44. AESOP V – What’s going on in Public Spaces and Urban Cultures? Updates on Current Research, Policy and Practice
The SS44. AESOP V session, held on June 15 from 10:00 am to 18:00 pm CEST is divided into three sub-sessions:
*SS44 I AESOP. Struggles Around Inclusive Public Space: Gender, Care and Safety*
Tuesday, June 15, 10:00 AM – 12:00 AM CEST
Chair: Tihomir Viderman, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
Stefania Ragozino | National Research Council of Italy
CaSa.Di. Women’s Network for an Inclusive Place-Making
Giuliana Di Mari | Politecnico di Torino
What Diversity Wants: The 'W' Point
Karina Landman | University of Pretoria
Unravelling the Fluidity of Identity in Public Spaces in South Africa through an Adaptation of the Genius Loci
Giulia Luciani | University of Rome La Sapienza
Ca.Sa. - Ca.re and Sa.fety, Feeling at Home in Urban Spaces
*SS44 II AESOP. Infrastructure of Inclusive Public Spaces*
Tuesday, June 15, 13:00 PM – 15:00 PM CEST
Chair: Christine Mady, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon
Antonio Coviello | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IRISS)
The Sarno Riverscape: Opportunities for Environmental Remediation and Economic Development at Local, Regional, and European Scales
Łukasz Drozda | University of Warsaw
Pandemic Urbanism from a Global Perspective: Between Urban Policy and Design
Anubhav Goyal | University of Lisbon
Flood Resilience in Urban Slums: Learning from Dharavi
Andreas Savvides | University of Cyprus
Regeneration of Enclaved and Underutilized Industrial Areas in the Urban Core - a Report from Cyprus
Dana Taplin | NYC Department of Environmental Protection
The Optimism of the Urban Landscape Park: Examples from Brooklyn and Boston
*SS44 III AESOP. The Making of Inclusive Public Spaces*
Tuesday, June 15, 16:00 PM – 18:00 PM CEST
Chair: Stefania Ragozino, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, Italy
Giulia Ciliberto| CNR-IRISS National Research Council of Italy
Prima-Vera Campana and Migrants’ Access to Social Services: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Foster the Enjoyment of their Socio-Economic Rights
Beatrice Galimberti | Politecnico di Milano
Public Spaces within Uncertainty: Exploring the Antifragile Strategies of Contemporary Design Processes to Discuss our Present Time
Aseem Inam| Cardiff University
Co-Designing Publics
Kundani Makakavhule|University of Pretoria
The Meaning of Democratic Public Space in South Africa: Going Beyond the Critique
Description
Regions and cities appear to have been shaped through responses to a series of challenges and crises, including health or climate hazards, interruptions in economic growth, political upheavals or social transformations. Urban scholars and policy-makers frequently observe and engage with public spaces as arenas which embody both the challenges and responses. The challenges have been articulated in themes such as accessibility, healthy living, democracy, justice, social movements. Against a seemingly bleak outlook, public spaces and urban cultures also nurture optimistic responses. ‘The New Urban Agenda’, adopted by the UN-Habitat Conference, Habitat III, promotes public space as a key ingredient of ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities (UN Habitat, 2016).
This special session on “What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures? Updates on current research, policy and practice” asks how public spaces can inform research, policy and practice towards creating ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities.
Contributions are invited, but are not limited to address one of the following topics:
- Changing typologies and roles of players and actors: multiplicity of publics and public space cultures, arenas for rebuilding participation
- Public spaces and changes: climate change, social movements, circular economy;
- Changing needs and roles: homelessness, refugees, immigrants and integration, age, gender, social, cultural, ethnic and religious considerations and urban justice;
- Questioning the global north-south divide and public space dynamics;
- Changing role of public spaces in political conflict zones;
- Changing environmental awareness: public space as a buffer zone, contribution to public health (mental and physical well-being);
- Changing intangible cultural heritage: adapting the genius loci to multiple and dynamic cultural identities;
- The impact of technological innovation on public space research and practice.
The E-Festival includes a rich program accessible here
Registration is required to take part in all E-festival events. You can do it (free of charge) here
- What’s going on in Public Spaces and Urban Cultures? Updates on Current Research, Policy and Practice
- Climate Action in Planning Education and Practice: Information Session and open call
- Governing the Pandemic: The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis
- AESOP TG ETHICS, VALUES & PLANNING - OPEN SPACE event: “What are AESOP’s shared values?”, June 8th from 4.00 to 6.00 pm (CET)
