OUR MAIN FOCUS LAYS ON
''IMPLEMENTATION OF URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN IN KUALA LUMPUR''
RUPD with its German and Malaysian partners ''Mannheim City'', ''Urbanice Malaysia'' and ''The National University of Malaysia'' organized a virtual Urban Thinkers Campus hosted by Mannheim City, Germany.
The second phase of Kuala Lumpur #Urbanthinkers (KLUTC2022) with the theme of ‘’Implementation of Urban Climate Change Action Plan in Kuala Lumpur’’ will be hosted virtually by Mannheim City in Germany on 11 Feb. 2022. The KLUTC2022‘s aim is to achieve the 2030 Agenda by knowledge sharing and learning from each other how to overcome the existing obstacles which we are facing to implement the climate action plan.
The first phase of KLUTC, with a focus on urban climate change issues, was held in December 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. It was a collaboration between different partners like Resilient urban planning and development (RUPD) GbR in Germany, the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the Climate Change Institute at the National University of Malaysia, Urbanice Malaysia, and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. It was a successful campus with the main aim of localising SDGs related to urban climate change issues. Various stakeholders have been brought together successfully, different voices have been heard and the challenges have been discussed in multi-levels and prioritised to take action as well as the potential measures have been suggested.
We kept track and continue our collaboration in different forms and constantly inviting potential partners into our platform to exchange, learn from each other and together try to overcome obstacles and bridge the gaps from different perspectives in order to eventually implement the climate action plans on the ground and achieve the goal of the 2030 agenda and Paris Agreement.
To continue our journey, Dr. Peter Kurz, the mayor of Mannheim City supported us to organise the 2d phase of KLUTC. We have a great honour that Mannheim city which successfully developed the ‘’Local Green Deal’’ hosts this campus. Mannheim is among the German cities which are constantly working on green and sustainable infrastructures to makethe city carbon-free by 2050.
By organising the Urban Thinkers Campuses, we are aiming to start initiatives to support each other to take action and be climate-resilient cities, since we all share the same boat and benefit from our actions.
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PARTNERS
''THINK INNOVATE ACT FOR URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE (TACTFUL)''
RUPD with its Indian partners ''Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, (VNIT) Nagpur, India'', ''Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA) India'', ''Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management'', ''Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee'', ''India-Japan Laboratory'', ''Keio University, Japan'', ''ARISE India FICCI'', and ''IRDR ICoE'' organized a virtual Urban Thinker Campus hosted by VINT, Nagpur.
The theme of the campus was the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon with the cross-cutting theme of COVID-19. Over 90% COVID cases are in urban areas. The urban areas in India face the problem of overcrowding and lack of open spaces. Both of these factors add to the risk of UHI and COVID-19. The theme caters to enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management. One of the strategies to mitigate the UHI effect is increasing the Green and Blue spaces. Further, the issues of water and sanitation directly impact the COVID-19 preventive measures.
The aims of the campus were to deliberate on issues of reducing the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and biomedical waste management, specifically focusing on COVID-19 waste management.
The campus addressed:
1. SDG 3 (Good Health & Wellbeing);
2. SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation);
3. SDG 9 (Industry & Innovation);
4. SDG 11 (Inclusive, Safe and Resilient Cities);
5. SDG 13 (Climate Action); and
6. SDG 17 (Partnerships for Sustainable Development).
The campus through its multi-stakeholder partnerships aimed for localization of SDGs through implementation of solutions which are local and unique to the area. The campus’s idea on reducing the financial, environmental and public health costs of congestion, air pollution, UHI effects radiate with the aims of New Urban Agenda.
The campus theme discussed in the three urban labs and one Round table divided in 3 days. Each urban lab included representatives from the different partner groups. In addition, the Action Day focused on identifying possible innovative solutions on the current issues of Urban Heat through the innovation challenge. The Challenge covered the principles of the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals to provide implementable urban solutions and overlapping areas such as urban planning, space planning, digitization, water and sanitation, waste management, health infrastructure etc. The Innovation Challenge focused on low cost, unique and socially inclusive solutions to tackle the Urban Heat and its effects and provided a platform for youth and young professionals for encouraging creative ideas and enhancing their participation in tackling with issues of Urban Heat.
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PARTNERS
''COMBATING THE URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW URBAN AGENDA''
RUPD with its Malaysian partners ''Institute of Climate Change at the National University of Malaysia (UKM)'', ''Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL)'', ''Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT)'', URBANICE Malaysia as well as GIZ Thailand and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organized an Urban Thinker Campus in Kuala Lumpur (KL) as one of the most important hubs and emerging cities in the South-East Asia.
The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, conceived as an open space for critical exchange between all stakeholders and partners aims to promote sustainable urbanization. It is also envisaged as a platform to advocate for enlightened planning and design, community engagement, good urban governance and management of our cities as advocated in ''The City We Need'' and propose urban solutions in addressing urbanization challenges to urban futures.
The KL Urban Thinker Campus held, from 7th to 9th Dec. 2019 with the aim of achieving an ''Implementable Urban Climate Change Action Plan'' to combat Urban Heat Island (UHI) Phenomenon with the objectives of: 1. Raising awareness; 2. Involving different stakeholders; 3. Sharing and getting implementation-oriented knowledge; 4. Gathering the organizations commitments; 5. Localizing the SDGs related to urban climate change; 6. Prioritizing the issues and identifying the stakeholders related to each issue; 7. Achieving a manifesto, which leads us towards implementing the ''Urban Climate Change Action Plan'' on the lines of NUA.
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PARTNERS
''URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE: WITH FOCUS ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON''
RUPD with its Iranian partners in Tehran and Qazvin cities like ''Ministry of Roads and Urban Development'' and ''Qazvin Province Road and Urbanism Office'' organized two international symposiums to share and collect new ideas and concepts to integrate relevant and appropriate mitigation and adaptation measures.
The main aim of the symposiums was to introduce new approaches of resilient urban climate change planning. In addition, round tables and discussions organized to achieve significant and unique ideas of solving problems and share it with different countries.
The objectives of the workshop include:
PARTNERS
''SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING''
RUPD has been invited to contribute to the symposium on ''Sustainability and Resilience in Architecture and Urban Planning''. RUPD's training course focused on the issue from urban planning perspective titled ''From Stability to Dynamic: Urban Resilience and Sustainability''.
The purpose of this symposium was to make practical use of the potential of design disciplines in the face of technology, modern science and interdisciplinary communication and other specialized sciences in the new millennium.
Setting up this collection of meetings for the idea maker and its organizer (Designer Magazine) is therefore valuable and important because it puts the creation of a correct and logical knowledge as well as the analysis of the current design market on its agenda and makes every effort to transfer it.
RUPD has been invited to contribute to the training courses of the Centre for Rural Development (SLE) since 2016. The theme of the courses is ''Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Mainstreaming''. SLE is an organization of the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
Experts in international cooperation from around the world participate in these courses. RUPD contributes with the Urban Heat Island theme and share its knowledge and experience with the participants.
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Parisa Kloss joined SLE at Humboldt University Berlin as external lecturer for series of lectures “The Urban Heat Island Effects and Mitigation Strategies“ in Berlin, Germany (06 October 2016- Now)
RUPD has been invited to organize an intensive training course at Tehran University, Architecture and Urban Planning Department in May 2016. The course theme was ''Climate Adaptive Architecture and Urban Planning Countering Urban Climate Change''. Students and professionals from different organizations especially Tehran Municipality have been participated.
The objectives of the workshop include:
SERIES OF TRAINING COURSES
''CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE''
Parisa Kloss has been invited to teach a course titled ''Cities and Climate Change''' in different universities and organizations like Urban Management Department, Technical Universität Berlin, Art University, Architecture and Urban Planning Department, and Tehran Urban Research and Planning Centre at Tehran Municipality. The aim of the course was to discuss the urban challenges regarding to climate change with focus on urban heat island phenomenon.
The objectives of the workshop include:
RUPD's training course on “Cities and Urban Climate Change“ at Art University, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design in Tehran, Iran (22 May 2016)
RUPD's training course on “Cities and Urban Climate Change“ in Tehran Urban Research & Planning Centre at Tehran Municipality, Iran (02 May 2016)
Lecture by Parisa Kloss on ''Cities and Climate Change'' for Master students at Technical Universität Berlin, Urban Management Department in Berlin, Germany (9 December 2013)
SUMMER SCHOOL ON ''CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AND URBAN RESILIENCE''
''MEANING OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND FOR PLANNING''
RUPD has been invited to hold one of the lectures of the summer school organized by Bauhaus Universität Weimer in August 2014. The RUPD's contribution was on discussing the integration of urban heat island into the urban planning process.
The summer school discussed how far different man-made and natural factors are influential on our built environment and in how far research tools and instruments can respond to develop a deeper understanding in creating more resilient cities. The course systematically approached an understanding of urban resilience that both connect man-made as well as natural conditions in the urban context, including scales from the urban to the building level.
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Lecture by Parisa Kloss on ''Meaning of Urban Heat Island for Planning'' for ''Cultural Landscape and Urban Resilience'' Summer School at Bauhaus Universität Weimer, Germany (19 August 2014)
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