Lectures and debate with José Renato Nalini (Secretary of Climate Change), Edmilson Dias de Freitas (Institute of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences USP-Brazil), Maria de Fátima Andrade (Institute of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences USP-Brazil). Mediated by Renato Anelli (Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Curator of the 14th BIAsp) and Judith Johanna Hoelzemann.

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Lectures and debate with Tércio Ambrizzi (Institute of Environment and Energy USP-Brazil), Stelio Marras (Institute of Brazilian Studies USP-Brazil) and mediation by Maria de Fátima Andrade (Klimapolis coordinator)

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Researchers: Judith, Jean, Thallysson, Ricardo, Roney

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The research proposes the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for systematic urban air quality monitoring in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. The methodology is based on the installation of standard, low-cost equipment capable of recording data on air pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10). The project organization includes the acquisition, calibration, and continuous operation of these sensors, as well as the structuring of a monitoring network strategically distributed across critical points in the urban area, with an emphasis on areas of greatest social vulnerability and high vehicle traffic. 

The project adopts a transdisciplinary approach, integrating knowledge from atmospheric physics, environmental modeling, public health, and Sanitary and Environmental Engineering. This interdisciplinary approach is crucial for understanding the dynamics of pollutants at an urban scale, their sources, dispersion, and direct and indirect effects on population health. Mathematical and computational modeling of the collected data allows for the simulation of future scenarios and supports emission control and mitigation actions, especially in response to changes in land use and occupation, urban growth, and mobility policies. 

Among the main urban challenges faced by the project are: (1) the lack of a consolidated culture of air quality monitoring at the municipal level; (2) the difficulty of incorporating these data into effective public policies for atmospheric emissions control and urban planning; and (3) the lack of community involvement in actions aimed at environmental sustainability. Therefore, one of the project's goals is to establish a local culture of participatory environmental monitoring, with future strategies for involving the community, schools, and public and private institutions. 

From a sustainability perspective, the project directly addresses three fundamental pillars: sustainable cities, the environment, and public health. By promoting accessible and continuous air quality monitoring, the project hopes to produce evidence that supports more inclusive and effective public policies, contributing to reducing exposure to pollutants and their impacts on respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases, especially in more vulnerable populations. 

The experiment directly relates to the city by proposing the creation of a territorial logic for environmental monitoring, using the data obtained to support decision-making by public authorities and civil society. The results may indicate critical pollution zones and periods of greatest risk to 

health and potential nature-based or green infrastructure solutions for mitigating air and noise pollution. 

Finally, the project also aims to build a robust scientific foundation that can be replicated in other medium-sized Brazilian cities and to foster student training in areas strategic to sustainable urban development. By combining science, technology, and citizen participation, it seeks to consolidate a more resilient, healthy, and environmentally balanced city model, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDGs 3 (Good Health and Well-being), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), and 13 (Climate Action).

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Researchers: Sarah de Andrade e Andrade, Ruth Maria da Costa Ataíde, Venerando Amaro Eustáquio, Zoraide Sousa Pessoa

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The project entitled “Climate change and experiences and knowledge in the local space: a Real World Experiment in Ponta Negra, Natal/RN” – shortened, for reference, by the word VIVERES – is linked to the extension project Fórum Direito à Cidade** and the research project “Brazilian urban areas in a transdisciplinary perspective: assessment, scenarios and solutions for adaptation to climate change and sustainable development” by INCT Klimapolis. 

The changes in climate behavior generated by anthropogenic activity have had significant impacts on human and non-human life around the world. It is no coincidence that the most vulnerable countries, territories, cities, and spaces, which typically contribute little to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, are those that suffer most from extreme events (ECLAC, 2011). This is compounded by the material and immaterial consequences of a predatory (almost universal) model of urbanization that impedes, especially in Brazil, the achievement of sustainable urban development. 

Faced with the challenge of adapting contemporary lifestyles, especially in cities, to cope with such events, applied research—such as that developed in Real World Laboratories (RLLs)—is an important tool for developing science-based solutions while respecting the identity, reality, and experiences of those living in the territories under discussion. 

In LMRs, Real-World Experiments (RMEs) are developed, an approach that combines diverse types of knowledge to empower leaders to drive improvements in their communities, driving sustainable urban development at the local level (Real-World Experiment, n.d.). Despite maintaining their terminology, Laboratories and Experiments do not take place within the confines of traditional scientific laboratories. Rather, they seek to study and experiment in environments that cannot be controlled, considering the inherent complexity of social, environmental, and technological systems, for the exchange of knowledge and the co-production of knowledge. Therefore, both the product—the prototype, simulation, policy, plan, project, construction, etc.—and the process and the learning it provides are important. 

In this sense, the VIVERES project is supported by the intention of creating a shared environment for reflection and development of adaptation solutions for the neighborhood and the Ponta Negra Beach shoreline. There, in 2024, the 

largest climate adaptation project in the city of Natal – capital of Rio Grande do Norte – the hydraulic landfill or expansion of Ponta Negra Beach. 

The process that resulted in the project, initiated in 2012, was a gateway to deepening contacts and strengthening ties between professors, researchers, and extension workers from the Department of Architecture, Public Policy, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. This connection, along with the similarity in the methodological approaches used in their respective projects, led to the partnership between the Right to the City Forum extension project and the INCT Klimapolis. These institutions form the "academic core" of the EMR. 

The project's "community core" is made up of social agents engaged in organizations and grassroots groups fighting for better living conditions in the neighborhood and in Vila de Ponta Negra, one of the local Special Areas of Social Interest (AEIS), as well as for their voices to be heard in the planning and management of the territory. Faced with this problem—the government's disregard for local experiences and knowledge in the implementation of the Ponta Negra Beach hydraulic landfill—these groups co-created (Schäpke et al., 2018) as a coping strategy, a science-based grassroots planning and urban management instrument to address the ecological crisis. This is the Urban-Environmental Sectoral Plan in light of the climate emergency. 

Beginning its second year of activities, the VIVERES project has been conducting a series of workshops, guided by social mapping tools, as a co-production exercise (Schäpke et al., 2018) of the Popular Sectoral Plan. This is because the lived and desired/future scenarios—elaborated through a different way of occupying/living space—presented in the dialogue workshops serve as the fuel for the development of territorial adaptation measures. These will be systematized by academic agents and validated (or not) in feedback workshops by the EMR agents. 

Regarding the experimental nature of the proposal – seeking to go beyond the generation of theoretical knowledge, without dispensing with it (Schäpke et al., 2018) – it is understood that this will be given by the design/project/simulation of the sector's adaptation measures, a stage that has not yet been carried out. 

Regarding the roles of agents and their impact on methodological procedures, it is important to note that, apparently, the international literature on LMRs and EMRs almost always focuses on "professional" local agents, with some technical knowledge and experience in the research field. Here, however, we are dealing with a heterogeneous group of residents, workers, and socio-environmental activists seeking to create a product that represents them in the context of governance for sustainable development. 

Considering the potential for promoting local impact and empowerment actions, the close relationship/dependence between context, process, and product ultimately limits the potential for generalization of the strategies adopted by the VIVERES project. This limitation, however, is not unique to the project and is also documented in international literature. From this perspective, the project evaluation process should "[...] involve weakening classic quality criteria, such as reliability and external validity, in the name of greater ecological validity (the study context is closer to the real world)" (Schäpke et al., 2018, p. 106). 

Concluding this brief reflection on the co-creation/co-production/co-evaluation cycle (Schäpke et al., 2018) of the VIVERES project, we understand that, due to the nature of the methodology and its starting point—a real problem—evaluation processes focused solely on tangible and documentable results may not achieve their true impacts. Therefore, it is also important to focus on/evaluate the limits and possibilities of the listening methodology; the strength and quality of the relationships developed between the participating agents; the promotion of processes of popular engagement and empowerment of local leaders, as well as the incorporation of new activists into the climate change agenda; the consolidation or expansion of knowledge about climate change; the appropriation of urban governance tools, among others. 

** Anchored in the Housing Laboratory – LabHabitat of DARQ/UFRN, its activities are based on the principle of democratic city management, working with the residents of Natal's popular communities to develop strategies to, on the one hand, reaffirm and enforce, through public authorities, institutionalized social achievements in the form of the right to housing, transportation, leisure, etc., and, on the other, contribute to the strengthening of community-based policies capable of building creative, counter-hegemonic narratives and actions. Since its creation in 2018, the Forum has maintained a partnership with the Institute of Public Policies (IPP/UFRN) and the INCT Observatory of Metropolitan Areas Natal Center. More recently, since 2023, it has also partnered with INCT Klimapolis.

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Researchers: Venerable Eustáquio Amaro, Afonso Celso Vanoni De Castro, Ana Marcelino 

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Brazil's coastal areas, of high ecological and socioeconomic importance, are vulnerable to climate change, especially sea level rise, which exacerbates erosion, flooding, and saline intrusion, affecting infrastructure, agriculture, and fishing communities. In the Northeast, wave energy is intensifying, with extreme events such as storm surges and heavy rainfall, threatening mangroves, estuaries, and coastal infrastructure. 

Rio Grande do Norte stands out for not having recognized Indigenous territories. In this context, families from the coastal area of Sagi, Baía Formosa, are demanding recognition as the Potiguara de Sagi ethnic group. The process at FUNAI faces obstacles such as a lack of consensus on territorial boundaries and the effects of the pandemic. The historical lack of studies on Indigenous people in Rio Grande do Norte contributes to this situation. 

The Sagi Trabanda community, with 232 families, has an economy based on fishing, agriculture, and tourism. Environmental degradation threatens these activities, with mangrove deforestation, expansion of sugarcane monoculture, damming of lagoons, and pesticide contamination, in addition to the construction of infrastructure that impacts tides and access to fishing resources, compromising their survival. 

The Sagi Jacu community, with 41 families, occupies a riverside area on the banks of the Pau-Brasil River. Difficulties with access and basic services have led residents to move closer to the city. They face land conflicts with agricultural and shrimp farming companies, which affect their agricultural production and subsistence. The lack of formal territorial demarcation creates constant insecurity. 

Finally, the integrity of coastal ecosystems is vital to the subsistence of traditional communities. Land demarcation and respect for the rights of these populations are essential for preserving biodiversity and ecological resilience. A sustainable development model must integrate traditional and scientific knowledge, with territorial planning and effective environmental management. 

To this end, a group of geologists and architects, guided by Indigenous leaders, conducted studies of the territory, defining areas at risk from tides and sea level rise, and determining safe and immune areas for relocating the tents. The team developed co-creation workshops with the community, applying the EMR methodology. 

Considering the socio-environmental conditions, we worked in partnership with indigenous communities seeking to build dialogues that rescued ancestral knowledge and proposed SBNs for the installation of tents. 

Considering the risk vs. cost ratio, it was decided that rigid structures (such as kitchens) must be protected outside of risk areas, while soft or flexible structures (such as service and lounge balconies) can be closer to the beach, eliminating the need for physical integration between kitchen and service areas. 

In indigenous culture, the management of spaces and resources is generally communal and articulates collective and family management rules, hence the development of the hypothesis of a “central kitchen”, preserving an individual space composed of a kitchen and storage for each family, as in a fish market. 

This kitchen will have sanitary infrastructure consisting of Evapotranspiration Basins (BET) or Evapotranspiration Tanks (TEVAP) with absorption and evapotranspiration from plants, such as banana trees, to filter wastewater, helping to reduce pollution in the region's aquifers. Other NBS devices will be implemented, such as green roofs, a cistern system for storing rainwater for garden irrigation, floor cleaning, and other uses that do not require potable water. 

Regarding construction techniques and materials, the use of vernacular techniques is proposed: clay constructions, structures in raw native wood and roofing with natural straw; with adaptations to meet safety and health requirements. 

By adopting decolonizing alternatives to maintain the Sagi Indigenous communities that challenge the dichotomy between nature and culture, the proposal promotes resistance and racial and environmental justice.

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Researchers: Loyde Vieira De Abreu Harbich, Mariana Zuliani Theodoro de Lima, Sasquia Hizuru Obata, Anny Cardeli, Ariella Cristine Cabezas Piffer, Pérola Felipette Brocaneli, Andre Luiz Nery Figueiredo, José Alonso Pajuelo Bravo, Thiago Oliveira Leite, Taizy de Jesus Santos, Luan Fagner de Almeida Esteves, Julia Tiemi Martins Goia

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To address the challenges of water scarcity, university outreach activities play a strategic role in promoting sustainable solutions and connecting researchers with vulnerable communities. In Portada de Manchay II—an urbanized area on the outskirts of Lima, Peru—local leaders sought support from the Universidad Científica del Sur to develop a public space redevelopment project with a focus on sustainability. As a unique feature, atmospheric fog collectors were incorporated as an alternative irrigation solution. 

The central objective was to create a functional and resilient green area, connecting academic knowledge to the real needs of the population and contributing directly to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the UN as 1, 2, 6, 9, 11 and 13, 17. 

The methodology for this real-world experiment involves the steps: 

Stage 1: Participatory landscape and territorial planning 

This phase consisted of participatory meetings between teachers, students, community leaders, and other stakeholders to map the common use needs of Portada de Manchay II—including community gardens, a playground, multipurpose spaces, restrooms, a sports court, walking areas, and the preservation of the Santo Grotto. The needs program was aligned with SDGs 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Health and Well-being), 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), 11 (Sustainable Cities), 13 (Climate Action), and 15 (Life on Land). Considering the steep slopes of the terrain, a system of ramps was proposed to connect the court, the multipurpose spaces, the gardens, the Santo Grotto, and the viewpoint, improving pedestrian circulation. The main challenge identified was local water scarcity: although the 60 families receive water from water trucks, irrigating the gardens and maintaining the green areas require more permanent solutions.

Stage 2: Applied research on fog water collectors. 

In the theoretical scope, the prototype based on carbon nanotubes developed by Ouellet (2020) at the Polytechnic University of Montreal revealed gaps in the study regarding the impact of climate, pollution and wind on nanotubes, in addition to 

its tendency to absorb pollutants. At the same time, the Lima Metropolitan Plan 2040 identified that districts such as San Juan de Lurigancho, Lurigancho, Villa María del Triunfo, and Lima Balnearios del Sur suffer from a drinking water deficit due to a lack of distribution networks and insufficient supply. These problems are exacerbated by the SUNASS report, cited in El Peruano (2024), which highlights the degradation of the Rímac, Chillón, and Lurín rivers due to illegal occupation, industrial contamination, and disorderly urban expansion in areas far from treatment plants. 

Step 3: Field-tested prototypes 

The prototyping phase consists of building experimental models, testing hydrophilic materials, aerodynamic structures, and drainage mechanisms. At this stage, techniques such as 3D printing and computer simulations help visualize and fine-tune the device's performance. This phase involved undergraduate Architecture and Urban Planning students from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and UCSur. The prototypes developed by FAU Mackenzie students are now in the testing phase. 

Step 4: Real World Experiment 

The team found that the original mesh didn't retain enough vapor and replaced it with a 35% Rashel to improve collection efficiency. On June 5, 2025, during a technical visit to Portada de Manchay II and surrounding areas, it was found that fog forms between 750 and 900 meters above sea level, a range incompatible with the location. Therefore, the prototype was installed in the backyard of a resident of Buena Vista de Manchay, at an altitude of 850 meters and with humidity levels close to 100%, which allowed the device to be tested under real-world conditions and collected field data. 

Under the coordination of Professor José Alonso Pajuelo Bravo, these experiments validated the design and clarified the microclimatic variables crucial for implementing fog collectors in peripheral areas. The team subsequently developed a second prototype, and two collectors are currently in operation in Portada de Manchay II, supplying water to two families' biogardens. 

Conclusions 

Studies on fog water harvesting have shown that conventional collectors work well in humid conditions but lose efficiency in the dry season. To address this, professors Pérola F. Brocaneli and Verioska V. Urquizo created a landscape design using a low-cost and low-complexity "atrapaniebla." Mackenzie undergraduate students, supervised by Prof. Loyde A. Harbich, iterated on new prototypes using 35% Rashel mesh, 3D printing, and computer simulations—resulting in greater vapor retention. 

Field tests at altitudes of 750 to 900 m, with humidity levels close to 100 %, and trials with residents of Buena Vista de Manchay confirmed continuous water collection. A video tutorial demonstrates how to build collectors at home to supply biogardens and green spaces. The patent application at the Universidad Científica del Sur protects the technology, and authorization to install a prototype on-site represents a milestone in the validation and future expansion of this sustainable solution.

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Opening ceremony

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Researchers: Karinne Deusdará, Jonathan Mota, Coca and Vanessa, Joana Darc de Medeiros, Adelena Maia, Sandra Saad, Andreia Lema, Heber, Wagna Moura

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INTRODUCTION: Real-World Laboratories (RWLs) are experimental spaces in real territories, focused on the production of transdisciplinary knowledge and the development of sustainable solutions with active public participation. In them, the shared understanding of problems and the processes of scientific and social learning are as relevant as the practical results achieved (Kohler et al. 2021; Bernert et al. 2024). This approach recognizes that, beyond technical data and institutional capacity, it is essential that the communities involved collectively identify the structural causes of the challenges, favoring more equitable and feasible solutions (Parodi et al. 2023).

In this context, the LMR in the Pitimbu River basin, in the metropolitan region of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, was created to address water security challenges posed by urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change. The basin suffers from disorderly land use, water pollution, and weak governance structures, with low social participation and limited action by the basin committee. These factors jeopardize the water supply of a significant portion of the population of Natal and Parnamirim (NATAL 2024). 

The laboratory's main objective is to develop participatory management and governance strategies aimed at protecting water resources and enhancing ecosystem services. To this end, it seeks to: (1) assess the impacts of urbanization and climate change on the basin's water resources; (2) develop environmental education and social mobilization initiatives; (3) strengthen community participation in water governance bodies; and (4) propose a payment for environmental services (PES) program aimed at conserving the river's headwaters. 

METHODOLOGY: The LMR adopts a transdisciplinary approach, combining technical and participatory methods. For goal 1, hydrological modeling with the SWAT model and instrumental monitoring are applied. Goal 2 activities include workshops, field classes, and educational materials. Goal 3 advances through discussion groups and coordination with the committee. The PSA proposal for goal 4, still under development, is based on socio-environmental assessments and dialogue with residents of the source. 

PARTIAL RESULTS AND FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The partial results demonstrate that the LMR approach has contributed to integrating scientific data and local knowledge, promoting advances in both knowledge production and social engagement. Hydrological modeling activities, still underway, indicate critical areas for surface runoff and reinforce the importance of the basin's recharge zones. River level sensors have been installed, enabling continuous monitoring and reducing the historical data gap. 

The educational activities revealed a low level of local identification with the Pitimbu River, but demonstrated a high potential for transformation through continued action. During the field trip, the inappropriate use of construction waste as an improvised means of containing stormwater erosion was observed. This practice, while demonstrating local effort, poses significant environmental risks by contributing to the silting and pollution of the watercourse. 

The outreach to the source community, especially Quilombo dos Palmares II, demonstrated a strong willingness to embrace conservation practices, paving the way for the collective development of a PES program. These actions demonstrate that LMRs can drive fairer and more effective solutions to water management challenges, especially in vulnerable urban and peri-urban regions. The continuity and deepening of governance strategies, combined with institutional and financial support, will be essential to guarantee the progress already made and expand the positive impacts on the region's water security.

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Climate Urbanism and Resilience

Simultaneously with the energy transition and environmental regeneration, which, even if fully implemented now, will only have an impact in the medium and long term, we need to transform our cities and territories and change the way we build them quickly, removing as few people as possible from their communities. Today, our cities are covered in concrete and asphalt, which prevent water from penetrating the ground, increasing its accumulation and velocity. It is urgent that climate adaptation be achieved through the use of multifunctional urban resilience infrastructures, using the natural elements of terrain, vegetation, and water as construction technologies combined with the precise application of hard materials, such as concrete. This allows water to penetrate the ground, be absorbed by vegetation capable of swelling, slowing its velocity, and accumulate in areas designated for flooding, along with constructed drainage networks or sea-level rise protections, such as parts of public green spaces, while increasing the number of trees to reduce urban temperature and pollution. These same infrastructures must also be capable of storing water, enabling it to be squeezed back to the surface during prolonged droughts. They must be coupled with investments in water reuse, sanitation, urban reforestation, and clean energy, integrating adaptation, mitigation, and inclusion. The synthesis of these practices, along with the Social Urbanism of Medellín and new resilience technologies developed in Parque Sitiê by a team from Harvard and MIT with the community of Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, is called Climate Urbanism. A strategy developed by the creators of these initiatives in partnership with leaders from the Bloomberg administration in NYC, this same group developed a tool for urban anticipation in the Rio de Janeiro favela: 4D Modeling technology.

Technical Sheet:
> Pedro Henrique HF de Christo: Principal +D, 4D and Coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Diane Davis: Charles Dyer Norton; Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Co-coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Carlos Leite: Director of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Mckenzie Presbyterian University and Coordinator of the Harvard Climate Urban Resilience Brazil Group
> Elena Tudela: ORU-Office of Urban Resilience
> Paulo Artaxo: IPCC-UN and CEAS-USP

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Every city transforms. At the household level, children grow older and move out, freeing up rooms that become offices; parents age, abandoning homes to return to live with children or caregivers. Small changes in the master plan cause houses to lose their real estate value and become seen merely as land—major demolitions make way for new residents or the investment market. In the commercial sector, shopping mall stores rotate at high speed to keep up with trends while corporate offices close and open with the immaterial fluidity of the stock market. Behind a contemporary so-called digital world, to which immaterial words like clouds and liquids are associated, there persists a material universe that, for convenience, we forget.

The term "urban mine" has become popular in discussions about ecology, sustainability, and the circular economy. The concept—that the extraction spaces of the future will be located within the city itself—is, however, a distant reality. We don't know how to desire and transform what we have; we design from what exists. The discussion with circular economy leaders in the context of architecture and design aims to illuminate strategies for building with what already exists.

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Maarten Gielen is a Belgian designer and researcher dedicated to transforming the way materials are used in architecture and construction. In 2006, he co-founded the Rotor studio and, in 2014, the associated firm Rotor DC (Deconstruction). He currently works at the design studio Halfwerk. Maarten received the Maaskant Prize for Young Architects, one of the most important of its kind in the Benelux. He frequently teaches at architecture and design schools in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Jörg Schröder:
Jörg Schröder has been a professor of spatial design and urban planning at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) since 2012. His research addresses innovative dynamics in the interactions between space and society, focusing on innovation processes toward sustainability and climate neutrality, as well as social, economic, and cultural transformation. He currently coordinates the CiD Circular Design Innovation Alliance, funded by the European Union, which works on how to position the circular economy for urban regeneration.

Pedro Alban (mediator):
Pedro Alban (Salvador, 1993) is a visual artist and architect who graduated from the Federal University of Bahia and earned a master's degree from the Catholic University of Chile. His research focuses on the world of construction and its practical and subjective processes—material flows, ecological implications, and questions of memory. The experience of being the last to enter buildings before they cease to exist informs his most recent work. Since 2020, together with Natália Lessa and Fernanda Veiga, he has coordinated Arquivo, a project dedicated to facilitating and popularizing the reuse of materials in architecture.

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Anthropogenic land-use changes, driven by rapid urban expansion and rising population pressures, have significantly exacerbated climate change, intensifying the urban heat island effect (UHI) and raising levels of airborne pollutants. Global forests, indispensable carbon sinks that sequester up to approximately 7.6 gigatons of CO₂ annually, play a vital role in moderating local microclimates through evapotranspiration, wind, and albedo modulation, enhancing thermal comfort, improving air quality, and supporting ecological and human well-being. However, their extensive decline throughout the Anthropocene has substantially heightened urban vulnerability to a spectrum of environmental and climatic stressors. This study employs a comparative framework utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling to assess the efficacy of reforestation and forest structural designs in reducing land surface temperature (LST), increasing evapotranspiration, and generating localized 'urban cool islands'. Supporting integrative climate adaptation strategies that alleviate climate-driven heat stress while fostering urban resilience and ecological integrity.

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From point to network: designing Turin's future through its rivers
Jowita Aleksandra Tabak and Riccardo Ronzani

Cities, Infrastructure and Adaptation to Climate Change (CIAM Climate)
Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli and Ana Paula Koury

Revaluation of the industrial landscape for the urban regeneration of the city of Tumán, 2023
Aurora Isabel Marchena Tafur

Are biogardens a strategy to reduce heat stress in desert climates possible?: Case of Portada de Manchay II, Peru
Loyde Vieira de Abreu Harbich, Jose Pajuelo, Perola Felipette Brocaneli and Andre Luiz Nery Figueiredo

Urban microclimates: thermal constructions of socio-environmental imprints
Mariami Maghlakelidze

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Urban mobility is an essential component of people's everyday activities, and is directly affected by the rapid increase in the urban population, unplanned urbanization, and the changing socioeconomic conditions. It is a major determinant of quality of life, public transit, employment, education and health care. Furthermore, having access to efficient urban mobility systems remains one of the fundamental issues for policy makers, especially in large cities and densely populated neighborhoods. To address some of these challenges, shared mobility – urban planning nexus offers opportunities for enabling spaces for collaborative urban planning and governance practices. Such nexus can serve as a vehicle to explore the changing dynamics of urban challenges during which experimentation is used to inform urban practice. Our session focuses on how the application of this approach in cities can contribute to the sustainable transitions of urban mobility systems while promoting active mobility and energy transition in public transport.

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Toward inclusive transitions: gender-sensitive street design and public bike-sharing as drivers of shared mobility in Oaxaca
Luis Alfonso Barraza Cardenas

Social and urban regeneration Rua Rainha Ginga
Julio Abrantes

Urban disconnections and inequalities nexus: voices from the ground
Ana Paula Koury, Jessica Souza and Luciano Abbamonte da Silva

Urban sounds and mobility
Pedro Silva Marra

Shared mobility – Urban planning nexus for accelerating urban mobility system
Aksel Ersoy and Diego Hernando Florez Ayala

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Cities worldwide are increasingly confronted with the obsolescence of office buildings, particularly those constructed between the 1960s and 1980s. Often functionally redundant and technically outdated, these structures—much like the abandoned factories of earlier decades—now represent a latent resource. This session explores adaptive reuse as a critical architectural and urban strategy, capable of transforming such buildings through minimal intervention and maximum retention. Positioned between heritage conservation and climate-conscious transformation, adaptive reuse offers a meaningful alternative to demolition by engaging with the embodied energy and material continuity of the existing fabric. We welcome contributions, including case studies, theoretical reflections, or interdisciplinary perspectives that address the architectural, environmental, and social dimensions of reusing vacant office stock. Of particular interest are projects that reimagine these buildings for housing, public infrastructure, or hybrid programs through design, policy, or technical innovation. The session aims to frame adaptive reuse as a proactive, low-carbon response to today's urban and ecological urgencies.

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Rehabiting the gallery: Recovery of commercial galleries as urban activators of the microcenter of Rosario
Cecilia Carreño Serein

Beyond vacancy: adaptive reuse of office landmarks as a low-carbon urban housing strategy
Mariolina Affatato

Office buildings as hybrid factories
Nina Rappaport

The entangled histories of Belgrade's Western City Gate: a journey from public to private spatial capital
Dalia Dukanac

Office-to-residential conversion in NYC: a critical atlas of adaptive reuse of modernist skyscrapers
Elena Guidetti and Caterina Barioglio

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The thematic session proposes to discuss experiences and methodological strategies in the development and implementation of popular planning instruments aimed at promoting socio-environmental and climate justice in popular territories, such as community plans for climate risk reduction and adaptation and neighborhood plans – instruments that operate at different scales, based on participatory processes. The session will address the urgency of integrated solutions to address climate challenges, which articulate technical knowledge and local knowledge, and which actively involve communities in all stages of the process to strengthen their autonomy and build collective response capacity in the face of extreme climate events. Advances and challenges of these initiatives will be presented, valuing both methodological lessons learned and practical impacts on the territories. The debate will bring together diverse experts (researchers, public managers, urban planners, representatives of social movements, universities and civil society organizations) combining structured presentations with open dialogues.

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Community planning in Fortaleza, Ceará (Brazil): Vulnerable territories, local practices and resilience
André Araújo Almeida

Portraits of the floods, 2025
Laryssa Nunes dos Santos

Popular participation in the development of the Municipal Risk Reduction Plan: challenges and potential in Itaquaquecetuba, SP
Alexandra Martins Silva, Ana Paula Leal Pinheiro Cruz, Luiz Antonio Bongiovanni and Talita Gantus-Oliveira

Participatory community planning of evacuation routes: social mapping for risk reduction in hydrological and climatic disasters
Talita Gantus-Oliveira, Henrique Candido de Oliveira, Alexandra Martins Silva, Ana Paula Leal Pinheiro Cruz and Luiz Antonio Bongiovanni

Who envisions the future? Popular planning in international cooperation for climate adaptation on the islands of Porto Alegre
Raquel Hädrich Silva, Amanda Kovalczuk, Camila Kuhn and Julia Boff

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In light of the climate and social emergencies of the Anthropocene, this session proposes rethinking the role of the architect as an agent of territorial transformation and incorporator of futures. More than designing buildings, it is about acting with political and ethical responsibility on urban land, articulating design, incorporation, spatial justice and regeneration. Based on practices that cross architecture, urbanism, activism and real estate development, we seek to bring together theoretical and practical works that express this action: social housing led by architects, regenerative occupations, sustainable retrofit, new methodologies of social impact and approaches that integrate aesthetics, ecology and viability. In this way, it seeks to stimulate critical reflection on professional autonomy in the face of concentrating models, the possibilities of mediating conflicts, acting with innovation and regenerating urban ecosystems. An invitation to think and discuss new imaginaries and horizons, with responsibility and creative power to regenerate what (and for whom) is possible (and beyond the possible).

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Katahirine: new Oikos to reforest the imagination
Luciana de Paula Santos

Landscapes of transition: urban regeneration and new ecologies in deactivated areas
Karla Cavallari, Alessandro Tessari and Alessandro Massarente

Every territory is an invention: memory, heritage and the imaginary of the forest
Laura Benevides

Hybrid economies / ecologies: countering territorial violence in the Bekaa
Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem

A blank sheet of paper: architects as developers of futures
Evelyne da Nobrega Albuquerque, Paulo Almeida and Ricardo Avelino Dantas Filho

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The session invites papers that critically analyze how urban, territorial and housing planning instruments have (or have not) contributed to addressing the challenges of the climate crisis in vulnerable territories. We are interested in exploring the articulation — or lack thereof — between master plans, housing policies and adaptation strategies, especially in contexts marked by socio-spatial inequalities, occupations in environmentally sensitive areas and lack of infrastructure. We start from the recognition that these territories are the most exposed to the impacts of extreme events and, at the same time, the least covered by effective public policies.

Based on the concept of urban resilience — understood as the capacity for adaptation, transformation, and reorganization in the face of ongoing crises — we seek contributions that question the limits of traditional planning and propose integrated, fair, and transformative alternatives. Experiences and analyses that articulate the right to housing, climate justice, and territorial restructuring will be valued, expanding the scope of public policies beyond risk mitigation.

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Risks of risk measurement
Renata Maria Pinto Moreira

Geotechnical maps of risk susceptibility and urbanization suitability as tools for disaster risk prevention and management in the context of climate change
Nicole Pavaneli Oomura and Edson Quirino dos Santos

The master plan for territorial ordering and urban design as a motivator of communal visions, projects and specific financing. The case of the GEF Humedales Costeros Rocuant-Andalién pilot
Nelly Paulina

Urban policy and climate crisis in Fortaleza: a look at precarious settlements on riverbanks
José Almir Farias and Mariana Araújo de Oliveira

Risks and vulnerabilities associated with climate emergencies. Impacts and waterborne diseases
James Miyamoto

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The impact of a warmer world on coastal cities will be even greater. It's inevitable that we'll learn to live with rising sea levels and obsolete infrastructure. This will be true for urbanized coastal regions, a cross-cutting theme of this thematic session, whose territories are desperate for innovative and radical architectural solutions. The five proposed themes will be covered in the session, which will address topics such as the need to expand port services while preserving forests and mangroves, the historical and contemporary approach to drainage infrastructure, real estate booms and the insistence on road-based solutions, and housing experiences from different political and ideological spheres.

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An amphibious and poikilothermic territory: Baixada Santista as a study
Godoi

Green and blue infrastructure: nature-based solutions for mitigating heat islands in Baixada Santista
Janaina C. Botari, Poliana F. Cardoso and Adriana B. Alcantara

High water: climate adaptation and coastal resilience in Santos
Nathan Lavansdoski Menegon

Conflict management as a practice in urban planning: the experience of the Arquipélago Project in Porto Alegre/RS
Camila Mabel da Cunha Kuhn, Raquel Silva, Amanda Kovalczuk and Julia Boff

Adaptation in crisis: discourse dissociated from practice in João Pessoa – PB
Renato Régis Araújo and Ruth Maria da Costa Ataíde

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This session proposes a decolonial shift in the debate on African heritage and climate emergency, focusing on the cosmologies and resistance practices of traditional communities. We question hegemonic models of adaptation, which empty their political potential for insurgency against environmental racism and the historical disorder that consolidates socio-spatial segregation.

Communities such as Aldeia Guató, the Mebengokré nation, Candomblé terreiros and quilombos, despite being exposed and vulnerable, demonstrate that resilience emerges from radically situated epistemologies, intrinsic to their memory and the way they build and inhabit. We seek approaches from a diversity of traditional sites and communities in Brazil and Latin America that reveal ways to map cultural values (cartographies, orality), assess risks (impacts and threats) and develop climate action plans (strategies, policies).

This session invites a radical transformation, regarding the role of (bio)cultural heritage in combating climate extremes (chaos) and the becoming of inhabiting the Cosmos (order). More than “including” traditional knowledge in current architectural or urban models, we aim for a complete reorganization of adaptation. What forms of spiritual climate governance emerge from the integration of ancestral knowledge and community practices? How can the cosmoperceptions of traditional peoples translate into more just, inclusive and resilient cities? How can climate action be reimagined based on the ethics of care, reciprocity and justice for permanence in the territory?

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The memories of the water of Iquitos. Moronacocha case
Moses Porras

Community space for the Huarpe de Aguas Verdes community: Fragmented territory, knowledge in resistance and climate action from community architecture
Mauricio Vellio and Martín Ezequiel López

Who pays the climate bill? Afro-Brazilian spiritual governance between worlds – Morro da Pedra de Oxóssi and Highway BR 030
Maria Alice Pereira da Silva, Fernanda Viegas Reichardt, Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi, Bruno Amaral de Andrade and Celso Almeida da Silva Cunha

In search of the Land without Evils: a proposal for design intervention based on the Guarani Mbyá indigenous cultural heritage
Ana Helena Leichtweis

Tide of struggle: the re-existence of quilombola heritage for climate adaptation
Liane Monteiro dos Santos and Thiago Assuncao dos Santos

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In the Brazilian federal system, the successful implementation of climate action at the frontline depends on coordination between actors at different levels. This involves setting climate goals, strengthening capacities and creating instruments that are aligned with the variety of regional, municipal and territorial contexts and that consider the impact of climate on historical situations of inequalities and socio-spatial vulnerabilities that are evident in the challenges of transportation, housing, waste management, among other issues.

This exercise requires bringing together different interlocutors. The proposal is to organize a debate and a workshop over a period of time, bringing together: (i) representatives of the federal government (cities and environment department), (ii) organizations that have worked on the theme of Brazilian climate federalism, such as FNP, ABM, GIZ, C40, ICLEI, WRI and the ZeroCem Institute itself, (iii) members of academia that have developed research on the theme, such as FGV, and (iv) socio-environmental movements with local perspectives.

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Land use and occupation management in the Guarapiranga Basin: conflicts, monitoring and challenges in the face of climate change
Carlos Alberto Pinheiro de Souza

Challenges and innovations in Brazilian city planning in the context of the climate emergency
Renata Maria Pinto Moreira, Angélica Benatti Alvim, Andresa Ledo Marques and Luciana Varanda

Environmental urban planning: the articulation between the Mananciais Program, the São Paulo Strategic Master Plan (PDE) and the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)
Viviane Manzione Rubio, Thiago Ferraz do Amaral, Caio Albuquerque Escaleira and Luana Siqueira Bernardes

Disputed Field: The Advancement of Wind Power Projects and the Right to Housing in the Quilombo de Macambira (RN)
Rani Priscila Sousa, Jessica Bittencourt Bezerra, Maria Dulce Picanço Bentes Sobrinha and João Marcos de Almeida Lopes

Let's put culture on the agenda in the territories and technical assistance on construction sites.
Claudia Teresa Pereira Pires

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The climate emergency imposes new paradigms on architecture, which must reconcile sustainability, innovation, and social impact. The panel "Contemporary Architecture and Climate Emergency" is based on the premise that public and private sectors intertwine in environmental responsibility. KAAN Architecten's work seeks to create buildings that positively impact people and nature, integrating sustainable materials, climate adaptation, and cultural appreciation. We reuse existing structures, promote urban densification with active pavements, and build spaces valued by the community. During the session, Renata Gilio, Vincent Panhujsen, and Marco Peixe will present concrete examples organized into five themes: low carbon, community integration, structural reuse, urban densification, and reflection on regulatory changes. The examples presented will be: Lagoa do Sino Library of UFSCar in Buri/SP, Strijp S – Matchbox in Eindhoven (Netherlands), Court of Nancy (France), Utopia – Library and Academy of Arts in Aalst (Belgium), Court of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ecomuseum of Parque Orla Piratininga in Niterói/RJ, NBB National Bank (Belgium), FAMA – Fábrica de Arte Marcos Amaro in Itu/SP and Lumière in Rotterdam (Netherlands).

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Building with stabilized earth: the importance of the global south for land use in construction
Rodrigo Amaral

Solar neighborhoods and climate architecture: integrated urban strategies for a warming world
Ricardo Calabrese

What can a museum be at the edge of?
Maria Eugenia Cordero

Climate Change and the ESG Agenda: Public Policies as Drivers of Resilience and Vulnerability Reduction?
Marcio Valerio Effgen

Between thunder and earth: architecture for climate justice in Pedra de Xangô Park – Salvador, Bahia
Fernanda Viegas Reichardt, Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi, Bruno Amaral de Andrade, Celso Almeida da Silva Cunha and Maria Alice Pereira da Silva

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How can we intervene in cities so that nature plays a leading role in urban well-being? Preserving forests and reforesting cities requires radically incorporating carbon flow and biodiversity into cities as a strategy for creating resilient microclimates. This session proposes reflections on how to configure multifunctional and multi-scale urban forests, constituting green infrastructure networks capable of intensifying essential ecosystem services – such as primary production, nutrient cycling and soil formation. The absence of these services in cities results in heat islands, floods and disasters, the result of the gap between urban planning and ecology. Bringing these two fields together is essential, considering perspectives on planning and managing urban vegetation and soil throughout the open space system. The goal is to inspire new paradigms of urban afforestation that promote well-being and strengthen climate resilience by integrating the forest above and the forest below.

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Views and reflections for the renaturalization of the territory and landscapes of Iquitos
Moses Porras

Tree planting in climate mitigation and adaptation in cities: new paradigms
Rubens do Amaral

Manifesto-Shelter: Microarchitecture for Major Disruptions
Clarisse Jacobi Brahim do Vale, Giulia Teixeira da Silva Botelho, João Victor Mello Mansur Moreira and Pedro Barbosa de Souza

Urban permaculture: an essay on city transformation
Sabrina Hennemann

Urban forest acupuncture: housing as climate and community repair
Luciana Varkulja and Nastassja Lafontant

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This session proposes a reflection on the transformative role of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) in the ecological, symbolic and social reconfiguration of urban public spaces. Inserted in the second thematic axis of the 14th BIAsp – Living with waters –, the proposal is based on experiences that combine architecture, urbanism and landscaping with the regeneration of ecosystems, valuing strategies that strengthen territorial resilience and climate justice.

Initiatives ranging from the renaturalization of water bodies and slope stabilization to urban redesign and community co-creation of public spaces will be presented, discussing the application of NBS as a strategy for climate resilience, environmental justice, and reconnecting the city with its water systems.

Among the highlights will be project experiences related to the proposed topic, developed by the firm Ecomimesis Soluções Ecológicas, represented by its partners Amanda Saboya, Caroline Fernandes, and Pierre-André Martin. In particular, the Realengo Susana Naspolini Park in Rio de Janeiro will be presented, a project that encompasses a wide range of Nature-Based Solutions aimed at managing rainwater and mitigating the effects of climate change.

The session also invites participation from other national and international experiences – urban, peripheral, or natural – that address coexistence with water as a tool for urban restructuring, environmental regeneration, and social inclusion, contributing to a broad agenda of innovation in territorially sensitive ecological infrastructure.

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Urban Sustainability: Mapping Green and Blue Connections Around Realengo Park, RJ
Pierre-André Martin, Amanda Saboya and Caroline Fernandes

Wetland Living Lab: water as a generator of a post-carbon landscape
Oriana Alessandra Durán del Valle, Mariela Martínez Álvarez and Andrea Reyna Aguilar

Bamboo containment experiences for slopes in the municipality of Franco da Rocha – SP
Nathalia da Mata Mazzonetto Pinto and Marcos Paulo Ladeia

From the Jaguaribe River Basin to Climate Justice: Public Spaces Supporting Nature-Based Solutions and Water Compensation in João Pessoa
Bruna Ramos Tejo and Ruth Maria da Costa Ataíde

Nature-based community solutions in the Uberaba Stream Basin, São Paulo/SP
Elisa Ramalho Rocha, Lara Cristina Batista Freitas and Luis Octavio PL de Faria e Silva

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The session proposes to discuss the multiple forms of production and transformation of social housing in popular territories, with a focus on socio-environmental inequalities and the impacts of climate change. Studies will be brought together that analyze both the actions of the State — whose large-scale housing production has often generated unsustainable and vulnerable spaces — and the autonomous initiatives of the population. The proposal includes research on public policies, territorial conflicts, adaptation strategies and social participation, with special attention to the experiences of socially and politically marginalized groups, such as women, the elderly and racialized populations. By promoting the exchange of diverse perspectives, the session seeks to contribute to the critical debate on climate justice and the right to housing, emphasizing the strategic role that the housing fabric plays in the discussion by aggravating or mitigating the climate crisis.

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Popular territories, administrative innovation and climate justice: lessons from Democratic and Popular City Halls in Brazilian urban planning
Pedro Freire de Oliveira Rossi

Carnival and the climate emergency: everything that glitters wants to circulate
Juliana Lisboa Santana

Microplanning as spatial critique: possibilities and limits in peripheral territories of São Paulo
Leonardo Pires Luiz and Mariana Wilderom

Socio-spatial justice in participatory urban planning: strategies and challenges in the Arquipélago Project (Porto Alegre/RS)
Amanda Kovalczuk, Julia Boff, Camila Mabel Kuhn and Raquel Hädrich Silva

Precarious housing and the precariousness of housing policy
Maria Isabel Imbrunito and Patricia Rodrigues Samora

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Climate change research is based on observations of environmental phenomena and is fundamentally based on scientific data measured at specific sites, indicated in previous mappings as points of special interest. This information is transformed into scientific content in the most diverse areas of knowledge, including architecture and urban planning. Our proposal is to highlight the importance of fieldwork, such as monitoring the climate situation. We consider monitoring based on cross-methodologies. Consequently, as an unfolding of this specific knowledge, we highlight the steps involved in these research processes: the development of devices and sensors; data collection; subsequent analyses; data models and proposals based on previous monitoring. Thinking about sustainable development encompasses transdisciplinarity and collective work, without which urban planners would not approach the environmental complexity faced today. We invite you to debate monitoring as part of a consistent and transversal contribution to planetary emergencies.

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The contribution of monitoring Alameda de Talca to the Río Claro Basin Study
Silvia Maciel Sávio Chataignier, Carlos Esse and Rodrigo Santander

The Christmas Real World Experiment (RME)
Jean Leite Tavares

Microclimate monitoring from open data: a case study in the Maré Complex (RJ)
Carolina Hartmann Galeazzi

Climate variability and trends in temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation in the states of São Paulo and Rio Grande do Norte: temporal analysis and regional implications
Camila Fernanda Aparecida Silva and Marcia Akemi Yamasoe

Climate change research starts from observations of environmental phenomena
Rodrigo Mendes de Souza

Possibilities and contradictions of urban and environmental instruments to face the climate crisis in Natal-RN
Sarah de Andrade e Andrade, Ruth Maria da Costa Ataíde, Venerando Eustáquio Amaro and Larissa Nóbrega Sousa

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This session will examine how different scientific disciplines – urban and regional planning, urban design, sociology, geography, interdisciplinary projects – can support, accompany or even initiate the transformation of former industrial and infrastructure areas into sustainable use. Case studies as well as theoretical and methodological studies are needed. The focus of the presentation will be on the question of the interaction between scientific analysis and practical implementation by non-scientific partners. The methodological and theoretical context should also be clearly highlighted in the case studies. The session will not only be interdisciplinary, but will also provide intercultural insights. Therefore, special attention will be paid to the transferability of solutions between different countries or even continents.

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Floodplain ecologies for planetary health: collective learnings in conversion areas in the city of São Paulo
Laura Kemmer

How can science support the sustainable reuse of conversion areas in metropolises? The example of the EUREF Campus in Berlin
Jonas Fahlbusch and Martin Gegner

Real-World Laboratory for Water Security in the Pitimbu River Basin: Participatory Science and Adaptive Governance
Karinne Reis Deusdará-Leal, Jonathan da Silva Mota, Judith Johanna Hoelzemann, Osmar de Araújo Coelho Filho, Andrea Leme da Silva, Zoraide Souza Pessoa, Jose Luiz Attayde, Joana Darc Freire de Medeiros, Ana Paula Koury

Recognize and rehabit the iron port heritage of the city of Rosario
Celeste Garaffa

The Science of Planning and the Art of Negotiation: How to Support the Sustainable Reuse of Conversion Areas in Metropolises?
Ana Paula Koury, Luciano Abbamonte da Silva and Jessica Souza Fernandes

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