Transforming places together: citizens and community engagement responding to climate change

Datum

12.01.2022

Zeit

16:00 - 17:30

Sprecher

Prof. Dr. Lummina Horlings

Zugehörigkeit

University of Groningen, Department of Spatial Planning and Environment Groningen, Netherlands

Serie

IÖR-Forum

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh.

Andere Themen

Bauing., Architektur, Umwelt, Wirtschaft

Beschreibung

The simple evidence of global ambient temperature rises, changing rainfall patterns and more frequent and extreme weather events are indisputable and will severely impact communities and society as a whole. Incremental adaptation and coping strategies (such as building higher dikes) may not be enough to protect communities from greater risks in the future. Scholarly attention has therefore shifted to the concept of transformative adaptation to address the root causes of climate risks, shifting systems away from unsustainable, unjust and unequal trajectories. The key topic which will be discussed is how transformative citizens initiatives and resourceful communities take the lead in transforming places together. An emergence of citizens initiatives in the field of food, energy and nature can be witnessed taking matters in their own hand within the ‘do-it yourself’ democracy. This creates dilemma’s when collaborating with spatial planners. Networked movements such as transition towns and eco-villages contribute to the ‘up-, out- and deep-scaling’ of community strategies, while engaging in capacity building and different dimensions of transformation. A conclusion so far is that key conditions for the development of place-based transformative responses to climate change are capacity building, inclusive governance, place leadership, ‘inner’ transformation and scaling of successful practices. Co-Presentation by Dr. Franziska Ehnert (IOER Dresden) Reframing places, communities and identities: The contextualisation of social learning processes in urban experimentation Urban experimentation has emerged as a transdisciplinary and co-creative research approach, which seeks to harness the potential of proximity. However, there is limited understanding of the contextualisation of experimentation in local settings and the reframing of places, communities and identities. Adopting a relational understanding of space, this research seeks to shed light on the meanings attached to artefacts and spaces, and illustrate social learning processes in socio-material contexts.

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Letztmalig verändert: 06.01.2022, 16:33:04