A cycle of discussions about the city and the environment

Together with colleagues from MARCH Architecture School, Bauhaus University Weimar and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Jun.-Prof. Daniela Zupan is launching a series of online discussions about the topic Changing cities in a changing climate. The web talks highlight the importance of cities over human wellbeing and the biosphere and how building materials and planning practices and routines interact with ecosystems in order to best shoulder the responsibility of cities' outsize role in a sustainable future. The aim of the web series is to promote a dialogue between actors, practitioners, architects, urbanists, planners, researchers and theorists from Russia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland and to understand how theories and practices of "green", low-carbon, socially just and inclusive urban development bear transformative potential in the XXI century.

Everyone is invited to join! More information can be found online.

October 26 | 18:30 (CET)
Cities in a Post-Growth era
On the practical application of the concept of post-growth to urban planning and construction practices in Germany and Russia.

November 9 | 17:30 (CET)
Environmental participation
How citizens participate in the city's environmental politics by creating their own parks, community gardens, and supporting practices of sharing and efficient consumption in Germany and post-Soviet cities.