Online Training ‘Sustainable Urban Planning & Development’

04 Feb

During my employment at the ISOCARP Institute, the research institute of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), I organised and contributed to an online training on Sustainable Urban Planning & Development for nearly 200 participants from South and Southeast Asia as part of the CRIC project (www.resilient-cities.com). In six sessions, topics such as SDGs, NUA, Economic Prosperity, Environmental Sustainability, Social …

Seminar: Urbanisation & Mobility

06 Jan

As part of my PhD research at the Anthropolis Chair, a seminar on urbanisation and mobility was organised on 7 December 2020. The session explored how urbanisation and urban mobility influence and shape each other. The discussion centred around some key concepts, events and trends of the past, the present, and the future. The following discussion explored some individual futures. With …

Methodology of Storytelling Workshops

30 Oct

The approach for Storytelling workshops was developed in October 2019 as part of the work for ISOCARP Institute on the EU Horizon 2020 funded project +CityxChange. Download the report. “This deliverable describes the approach for the Storytelling workshops and reports on the results of the first workshop in Vienna in April 2019. The workshop was planned back-to-back with the PED (Positive …

ISOCARP YPP Workshop in Jakarta/Bogor, Indonesia

08 Sep

In September 2019, I coordinated together with Michael Stott, Rene Fu, Hailey Philipps, and the local coordinators Bima Purnama, Adipandang Yudono, Inez Darmalia, and Arya Lahasa Putra the Young Planning Professionals’ workshop which preceded the 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. More information.

UNOPS Urban Vision Workshop Curaçao

05 Nov

“During the Planning Week in Curaçao, a group of local and international planning experts – including three ISOCARP members – developed ideas for a new vision on how to localize the New Urban Agenda to the small island state. Willemstad, the only city on the island, houses around 75% of the total population and it has spread out over nearly …

ISOCARP YPP Workshop in Bodø, Norway

30 Sep

During the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, I acted as team leader for the Young Planning Professionals’ workshop in Bodø (NO). “As defined in the agenda of the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, the future of civilisation now more than ever depends on the way we plan and manage our cities and towns. While this agenda calls for aggregate efforts …

ISOCARP YPP Workshop in Durban, SA

11 Sep

My first Young Planning Professionals’ workshop attendance of the International Society of City and Regional was during the 52nd ISOCARP World Planning Congress in September 2016 in Durban (SA). This event marked simultaneously the 25th anniversary of the format initiated by the late Estefania Chavez Barragan which I had the honour to meet in person, my transition towards the urban …