Workshop “A Multidisciplinary Geodesign Workshop for Strategic Climate Change Mitigation for Campania”
21-22 novembre 2024
Abstract
Climate change is an existential crisis. It is a harmful global phenomenon, and no nation or local region controls its own climate. All nations must act in global collaboration if climate mitigation to below zero is to succeed. This requires looking and thinking ahead in time, globally to locally to globally (GLG), and planning now to act now for the future. This is the aim of the GLG strategy that all academics, disciplines, and citizens should consider as top priority. It should be the context for serious academic research, experimentation and teaching, and real international public action.
The International Geodesign Collaboration has initiated and developed a geodesign project directed at making and testing the technological support to make a science-guided global design directed at mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sinks so that the climate can be changed to below 0 carbon emissions. The IGC Global to Local to Global Geodesign (GLG) team, working with assistance from Esri and Geodesignhub.com, has designed, developed and initially tested a new workflow and support technology for geodesign moving from global to local to global scales, and in projected changing conditions between now and 2050.
This 2-day workshop will expose participants from all schools, departments and disciplines to an emergent data-driven geodesign framework for designing feasible strategies to substantially reduce GHG emissions, the single most important action available for countering cataclysmic global warming at all scales, and in all global regions. Participants will consider Campania Region as a national ‘climate-region’, focusing on a menu of possible climate mitigation project types, and their local and global spatial and temporal interconnections (What must come first? What might come second? etc.). These will be based on the best available global to local projections for climate and land use land cover (LULC) to 2050. Based on the initial proposed project-timelines of actions (Gantt charts) produced in Day 1, off-site computer simulations will be used to predict likely climate modification outcomes to 2050. In Day 2, negotiation techniques will be used to find incremental improvements, resulting in an initial “Campania Strategic Plan to 2050 for Carbon Reduction’’.
Modalità di iscrizione:
- Possono iscriversi PhD student D.ARC e HabiT, nonché gli studenti del Master in Pianificazione e Progettazione Sostenibile delle Aree Portuali;
- Possono iscriversi stakeholder campani;
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Carl Steinitz short Bio
Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He began his affiliation with Harvard in 1965 as a research associate in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. He is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. His applied research and teaching focus is on methods to design for the future of large and highly valued landscapes that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. He is principal author of Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes (Island Press, 2003) and author of A Framework for Geodesign (Esri Press, 2012). Professor Steinitz has lectured and given workshops at more than 180 universities. He has received several international and professional honors and is a co-founder of the International Geodesign Collaboration. He coordinates the IGC Global to Local to Global climate mitigation project.
Michele Campagna short Bio
Michele Campagna is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari (Italy), where he teaches geodesign. Author of over 140 publications, his research concerns the use of Information and Communication Technology in Spatial planning, Planning Support Systems, Metaplanning, Volunteered and Social media Geographic information, and Geodesign. He is coordinator of the Thematic Group New Technology and Planning at the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP). He coordinated several research, education, or practice oriented geodesign studies in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the International Geodesign Collaboration, and team member in the IGC Global to Local to Global climate mitigation project.
Tess Canfield short Bio
Tess Canfield is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (UK). She holds a Master in Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded a Frank Knox Travelling Fellowship for study of Patrick Geddes’ work in Britain and India. For ten years she practiced landscape architecture under Edward L. Daughtery, FASLA, in Atlanta, GA, where she also served on and was Chairman of the City’s Urban Design Commission. The Commission is responsible for design review of all City funded projects, including the then new airport and the MARTA metro system, as well as for designation and management of the city’s historic zoning districts. She has held teaching positions at Harvard and at the University of Edinburgh. For the past twenty five years she has worked closely with Carl Steinitz on large landscape planning studies and geodesign workshops, and their documentation. She edited Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes (Island Press 2002), and has written on landscape history and change.
