Green city seminar | Tampere universities

Green urban spaces are crucially needed for our well-being, tackling biodiversity crisis, and building resilience to climate change. Some efforts for urban greening are taking place, but the scale is not sufficient yet. How can we match the challenge of making our cities green? Tampere university’s research community STUE – Sustainable Transformation of Urban Environments invites you to learn and create solutions for scaling up greening of our cities, for the benefit of humans and non-humans alike.

GREEN CITY -seminar offers inspiring keynotes and the possibility to discuss and find solutions together in a thought-provoking scenario-based workshop. 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.

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?

Nina V. Nygren, Tampere University - Negotiating more-than-human urban spaces
Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University - Why greener cities? Findings from ADELE-projects

Laura Uimonen, Tampere University - The lifecycle of urban trees and microclimate supporting biodiversity

Further information

Research Coordinator Alisa Vänttinen, alisa.vanttinen@tuni.fi