Urban Resilience (Summer School)
Academic Study Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Teaching language: English
EKA: T900021102
Censorship: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Summer school (spring)
Level: Bachelor
Course ID: T900021101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 08-01-2021
Duration: Intensive course
Version: Approved - active
Course ID
Course Title
ECTS value
5
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Responsible study board
Administrative Unit
Date of Approval
Course Responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Henrik Brøner Jørgensen | hebj@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering, Institut for Teknologi |
| Sasha Isabelle Bisschop | saib@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
Teachers
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberto Innocenti | alinn@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering, Institut for Teknologi | |
| Katarzyna Alicja Wieszczeczynska | kawi@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering, Institut for Teknologi | |
| Nicola Tollin | nto@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering, Institut for Teknologi |
Programme Secretary
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mette Elise Jørgensen | mejo@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
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Mandatory prerequisites
The summer school welcomes bachelor, master, and early Ph.D. students with different disciplinary backgrounds with completed of at least two academic years in the fields of engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, economic, social sciences, and related fields.
Recommended prerequisites
Students should be interested and have previous experience in climate change, disaster risk reduction, urban development, sustainable development, and sectorial matters as water, energy, health and food.
Learning objectives - Knowledge
- The basis of urban resilience science, and the development of resilience research in different disciplinary contexts.
- International policies (Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement, New Urban Agenda and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction).
- National policies regarding climate adaptation and mitigation, including urban content of Nationally Determined Contributions and urban aspects of National Adaptations Plan and Policies.
- Urban resilience practices from cities world-wide, including strategic plans, action plans, and technological solutions.
Learning objectives - Skills
- Systems thinking.
- Stakeholders analysis, mapping of socio-economic, environmental, and physical elements of a system with understanding and mapping interdependencies and interrelations.
- Analysing current future trends and drivers, at local and global level, defining the most realistic future scenarios.
- Defining the key elements and principles that constitute the best desirable futures.
- Describe desired realistic future leading to target future with key milestones (from the future to present).
- Define and describe strategy supporting target future.
- Develop and identify strategy and a set of actions (governance/management - finance, policies; physical- technologies actions) that can lead to transition in a systemic way.
Learning objectives - Competences
Competencies to develop informed policies, strategies, plans and solutions for urban resilience.
Content
Introduction
Cities as facing major global challenges such as: unsustainable development patterns, rapid and unplanned urbanization, climate change mitigation and adaptation. At the same time Cities are also major centres of economic activity, social life and culture, innovation and knowledge-creation.
Urban resilience aims at increasing the ability of urban systems, to respond systemically and dynamically to present and future shock and stresses related to the major global challenges.
Urban resilience is instrumental to address both causes and effects of these mayor global challenges, rethinking the way in which cities are designed, planned and managed, at the same time fostering innovation.
The scientific research on urban resilience has been exponentially growing in the last decade, parallelly a growing number of cities worldwide started developing resilience related plans and actions, following the recommendations and prescriptions national and international policies, as: Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement, New Urban Agenda and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The key challenge for urban resilience is to co-develop and harmonize scientific and practice led knowledge to support informed and science-based decision and policy making, to enable our cities to evolve and innovate.
Course main objective
The summer school will look at understanding the resilience of cities facing global crisis, from climate change to pandemic; it aims specifically at systematically analyse and understand which are the key lessons learned derived from COVID-19 emergency and how to use these knowledge to make cities more resilient in face of other global crises as climate change.
The summer school goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary knowledge and perspectives, from science and practice, on the different global and local challenges faced by cities, and to provide a process design methodology and the necessary skills to developed informed policies, strategies, plans and solutions for urban resilience.
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Teaching Method
The course is conceived as a highly engaging activity, where students will develop a Resilience plan for Odense.
Multiple form of instructions will be involved:
- Lectures,
- Workshops with process design methodology,
- Supervision of group based-workshop in regard to developing urban resilience recommendations in face of global crises.
The lectures will provide an overview on major international policies in relation to urban resilience (Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement, New Urban Agenda and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction), key practices worldwide including those developed in the frame of major international organizations (e.g. UNFCCC Secretariat, UNDRR, UNESCO, UN-Habitat City Resilience Profiling Program, ICLEI, WWF), and the latest developments and perspectives for research.
The lectures will also address key cross sectorial and thematic issues, including: multi-level governance, finance, generation of co-benefits, nature-based solutions, appropriate technology, participatory processes and stakeholder’s involvement, urban metabolism, circular economy, planning and design.
Time of classes: 2 weeks in August.
Number of lessons
hours per week
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Examination regulations
Examination
Name
Examination
Examination is held
In the end of the course
Tests
Examination
EKA
T900021102
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Examination
Description
Examination condition:
Participating in class (80 %)
Examination:
Examination: The grade is meant to reflect involvement in the course. The evaluation will be based on all the aspects of the course, e.g. lectures, group work and discussions, and specific deliverables.
Form of examination
Oral examination
Censorship
Second examiner: Internal
Grading
7-point grading scale
Language
English
ECTS value
5
Additional information
The enrollment is limited to 15 students.
If more applicants than places, applicants who meet the mandatory requirements are prioritised according to the below selection criteria:
- Undergraduate and graduate students from partner universities (exchange); international undergraduate and graduate guest students (fee-paying); undergraduate and graduate students from other Danish universities.
- Ph.D students from partner universities and other international Ph.D. students; other applicants.
Students are prioritised on a first come, first served basis, i.e. according to the time we receive your complete application.
In case a course is filled up, we try to offer you an alternative course from your list of priorities. All final decisions about admission will be sent out continually.
Professor mso Nicola Tollin is responsible for the course and can be contacted for professional questions regarding the course at email: nto@iti.sdu.dk