TALKING ABOUT URBAN RESILIENCE. What changes for cities during WEBINAR a global crisis?

h. 5pm - 7pm | Webinar Zoom Room

Webinar Zoom Room https://zoom.us/j/96508235507
To request the password, please write an email to ombretta.caldarice@polito.it

What is resilience? From a physical and natural sciences perspective, it implies the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while changing to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. But as a planner and geographers dealing with space, interested in transformative potentials rather than vulnerabilities management, resilience has something additional to and yet distinct from reworking and resistance. The COVID-19 emergency shows that now it is the time for transformative resilience. The COVID-19 shock is so extreme in its duration and intensity that it is simply impossible to address it through absorptive capacities or a simple adaptation of the system. Therefore, it should become an opportunity to progress and “bounce forward” through adaptation and transformation. In light of these considerations, the webinar “Talking about Urban Resilience. What changes for cities during a global crisis” introduces some first thoughts on the interlinkages between pandemic and climate change in the frame of urban resilience.

Host
Ombretta Caldarice (Politecnico di Torino, R3C, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning)

Speakers
Sara Meerow (Arizona State University, School of Geographical Science & Urban Planning)
Roberto Rocco (TU Delft, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment)
Stefano Cozzolino (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Department of Spatial Planning and Urban Design, Dortmund and Lecturer at RWTH Aachen University)
Nicola Tollin (University of Southern Denmark, Civil and Architectural Engineering)

Seminar Program (2 MB)