SUPD presents: Resilience Day (Sep 26)

RESILIENCE DAY: CULTURES OF RESILIENCE

9:00      coffee

9:15      welcome and introduction by Meike Schalk

SYSTEMS, VISIONS, STRATEGIES OF RESILIENCE

9:30      Göran Finnveden: 'The Resilient Concept and its Role at KTH'

10:00    Lars Marcus: 'Building Resilient Cities with Spatial Form'

10:30    Maria Wahlberg: 'Future Scenarios 2031 by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency'

11:00    panel discussion led by Ramia Mazé

11.30    lunch break

RESILIENT PRACTICES

13:00    Dante Hellström: 'Forest gardens'

13:30    Rebecka Milestad: 'Building Resilience at Framer's Markets in Sweden'

14:00    coffee break

14:15    Andreas Lang:'R-urban and "common objects" '

15:00    workshop in cross-disciplinary teams

Göran Finnveden is professor in Environmental Strategic Analysis and Vice-president for sustainable development at KTH where he is responsible for sustainable aspects in research and education.

Dante Hellström is an expert in urban gardening. He works for the social enterprise, Odla med solen, belongs to the network, Tillväxt, and has engaged in numerous school gardens around Stockholm.

Andreas Lang is an architect, researcher and educator, and the co-founder of public works, an art and architecture practice working in, with and towards public space, located in London. Public works projects engage user relations as in the project R-urban and vary from the scale of "common objects" and temporary and mobile structures to the design of public space.

Lars Marcus is an architect and professor in Urban Design at KTH. He is the director of the research group Spatial Analysis and Design (SAD) and partner in the firm Spacescape. He is co-author of Q-Book Albano 4: Sustainability, which explores principles of socio-ecological urban design with the development of an alternative vision for the Albano area in Stockholm.

Rebecka Milestad is a docent and researcher at the Division of Environmental Strategies Research, KTH. Her research covers the links between production and consumption, the emergence of local food markets and a resilient food system.

Maria Wahlberg is an analyst at the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency, responsible for the agency's strategic foresight program. She has worked with future scenarios showing how society might develop up to 2032.

The Resilience Day is hosted by the KTH  Master's programme in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design (SUPD).