THEMATIC GROUPS
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- Category: Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies
- Key note speech: Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and how they contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals : Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, Global Disaster Resilience Centre, University of Huddersfield University, UK
- Making Cities Resilient 2030 – _How organisations and partners can support cities in building their urban resilience : Ms Helena Monteiro, MCR2030 Secretariat for Europe and Central Asia, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – _Europe and Central Asia
- Disaster Resilience Scorecards and Local Resilience Strategy Development: The Central Asia Initiative : Ms Olga Shashkina, Specialist on Local Resilience Building United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – _Europe and Central Asia
The concept of the module, its agenda and key speakers can be found here. http://isepei.org/sites/default/files/02072021_mcr2030_ceu_concept_note.pdf
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We are a team of colleagues from the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies thematic group, working on the ‘Climate Action in Planning Education and Practice’ project, aimed at reviewing how European Planning Schools are addressing climate change and climate action in their urban or spatial planning courses. The results will be presented in the upcoming World Urban Campaign ‘Urban Thinkers Campus’ on this topic in November 2021 and a potential journal publication.
We are currently looking for planning practitioners and researchers willing to collaborate with us on an online survey and review of higher education programmes delivered by Planning Schools in European countries (plus Turkey) listed on the AESOP "members directory" website. The data will be collected using the online platform/app Epicollect5.
This is a great opportunity to tackle an urgent topic and increase your professional and academic networking, while adding research experience to your curriculum. We also anticipate several ways to disseminate our findings, including a potential presentation in the Urban Thinkers Campus event.If you are interested in collaborating in our project please join us on 28th of June at 11.30 am UK / 12.30 pm EU, on Zoom link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/93893438285,
Meeting ID: 938 9343 8285
For event registration, follow the link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-climate-action-in-planning-education-and-practice-tickets-158705547565
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- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
2021
Date: 14/10/2021
Title: Presentation of the AESOP TG PSUC at the TU Wien
Institution: Technische Universitat, Wien, Austria
Local organizers: Sabine Knierbein, Olivia Kafka, Angelika Gabauer
AESOP TG Representatives: Christine Mady (Lebanon), Stefania Ragozino (Italy), Tihomir Viderman (Germany)
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Date: 22-23/10/2021
Title: AESOP TG PSUC Conference Thessaloniki “Between THE HOME & THE SQUARE. Bridging the boundaries of public space”
(http://southeuropean-cities.arch.auth.gr/en/betweenthehomeandthesquare#callforpapers2021)
Institution: School of Architecture, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Local organizers: Evie Athanassiou
AESOP TG Representatives: Sara Santos Cruz (Portugal), Burcu Yigit Turan (Sweden)
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2022
Date: April/May 2022
Title: AESOP TG PSUC Workshop Cardiff “Knowledge Exchange Workshop in Public Realm Design Research and Policy”
Institution: Cardiff University, UK
Local organizers: Patricia Aelbrecht, Hesam Kamalipour, Nastaran Peimani
AESOP TG Representatives: Stefania Ragozino (Italy), Tihomir Viderman (Germany)
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Date: 06/2022
Title: AESOP TG PSUC Conference Uppsala “What is the problem now? Searching for the radical turns in theory and praxis of public space”
Institution: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Local organizers: Burcu Yigit Turan, Mia Ågren, Johan Pries
AESOP TG Representatives: Sabine Knierbein (Austria), Mohamed Saleh (The Netherlands)
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Date: 25-29/07/2022
Title: AESOP Annual Congress Tartu “Space for Species: Redefining Spatial Justice”
TRACK #2 CULTURE: Reinterpreting the spatial value of culture, heritage and tourism
Institution: Estonian University of Life Sciences
AESOP TG Representatives: Stefania Ragozino (Italy), Tihomir Viderman (Germany)
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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. |
