Designing Green Cities – Ecological Urbanism
Last year, we organised a successful lecture series on designing green cities. This year, we are continuing this successful formula. In autumn 2023, we will organise a series of three lectures with once again with engaging, international speakers.
This lecture series offers designerly perspectives on greening cities and bridges theory and practice in landscape architecture, urban design, urban forestry and urban ecology. The series addresses the integrative and exploratory capacities of design through illuminating discourses that take the landscape as basis to create healthy, climate proof and socio-ecologically inclusive cities. Speakers from practice and academia exchange ideas and showcase practical applications of landscape-based urbanism, forest urbanism and ecological urbanism.
The speakers for this session were:
Ecological Urbanism intro
Dr. Nico Tillie, Head of the Urban Ecology and Ecocities Lab, TU Delft
Rewilding Manhattan
Prof. Greg Keeffe, Professor of Architecture + Urbanism in the School of the Natural and Built Environment at Queens University, Belfast, UK and Visiting Professor at Cornell University, USA
Biodiversity is dwindling, what actors in construction industry can do?
Miimu Airaksinen D.Sc.(Tech), Senior Vice President, Development, SRV Group Plc. Helsinki, Finland
Landscape First
Matthijs Hollanders, Nature-sensitive Landscape Designer De Urbanisten, Rotterdam.
You can read the day’s report here (PDF).
There were around 55 interested people for this lecture.
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