GREEN CITY -seminar is organised by STUE. We welcome practitioners and researchers from all fields to join – from urban planning to health, technology and social sciences.
Join us on 4.11.2021 either online or face-to-face at G Livelab Tampere (Puutarhakatu 1, Tampere). Due to COVID-19 the face-to-face participation is open for only 50 participants. Keynotes are given in English and workshop is held both in Finnish and English.
Register for face-to-face participation by 27.10.2021
Register for online participation by 2.11.2021
Keynotes:
Professor Matthew Gandy, cultural, urban, and environmental geography, Cambridge UK
Citizens, denizens, and urban ecology: sharing space with non-human others
Assistant Professor Elisa Lähde, landscape architecture, Aalto University
Urban green – where are you going?
Programme:
9.45 Morning coffee/tea (for F2F participants)
10.00 Opening words, Sofie Pelsmakers & Nina V. Nygren
10.20 Keynote: Prof. Matthew Gandy
11.10 Questions for prof. Gandy
11.20-11.30 Short break
11.30 Keynote: Assistant prof. Elisa Lähde
12.20 Questions for assistant prof. Lähde
12.30-13.30 Lunch break (lunch served at Frenckell for F2F participants)
13.30 Workshop
14.30 Wrap up of solutions
15.00 Closing words, Sofie Pelsmakers & Nina V. Nygren
15.10 Cocktails (for F2F participants)
16.00-18.00 Evening event as part of EVERYTHING NEEDS TO CHANGE public lecture series: How to make cities wilder?
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Nina V. Nygren, Tampere University – Negotiating more-than-human urban spaces
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Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University – Why greener cities? Findings from ADELE-projects
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Laura Uimonen, Tampere University – The lifecycle of urban trees and microclimate supporting biodiversity
More information:
Research Coordinator Alisa Vänttinen, alisa.vanttinen@tuni.fi