As knowledge partner of the Hannover Messe, ISOCARP will again organize a Planner Workshop at Metropolitan Solutions – this year the partner of the Hannover Messe is The Netherlands. The ISOCARP Workshop will take place in Hannover, Germany, on 10 April 2014, starting at 9.30.
Sustainable urban development needs to be supported by innovative technical assistance.
ISOCARP has, in cooperation with companies such as Siemens, Philips and Fraunhofer Institute, and in the framework of several research projects, discussed the use of the technology to solve environmental problems in city-regions. In cooperation with multinational organisations, ISOCARP could gather essential experience in applying these technologies.
During an open workshop on “Metropolitan Solutions 2014”, ISOCARP intends to evaluate and discuss how urban technologies can help to address liveable cities and at the same time minimise environmental problems of cities and city-regions. The central aim is to identify good examples and potential alliances. The fair shall be profitable in establishing direct contact with developers, manufacturers and applications of urban technologies.
The starting point of the discussion of the workshop will be “selected ingredients of livable cities” defined at an Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT) partnered with the Philips Center for Health and Well-being in Singapore. See UPAT report “Livable cities in a rapidly urbanizing world” on the ISOCARP website.
Workshop Program
09:30: Introduction to the workshop, Dirk Engelke, ISOCARP
11:00: Input: Experiences in the field of urban development and technologies
– “New urban technologies for urban development – urbanAPI”
Joachim Rix, Fraunhofer Institute IGD, Darmstadt
– “ISOCARP activities 2015 – Reinventing Planning”
Peter Jonquiere/Andries Geerse, ISOCARP
12:00: Fair walk: Tour and discussion with exhibitors on urban technology
12:30: ICLEI Green Talk with Lanxess moderated by Dirk Engelke. Lunchtime
14:00: Workshop synthesis
16:30: Workshop closing
Place: Convention Centre, Room 105/106
Organisation
All registered participants will be sent electronic tickets by mail. If you haven’t registered yet please send an email to: isocarp@isocarp.org to get your free entrance to the Hannover Messe.
Be part of the ISOCARP activities at Metropolitan Solutions at Hannover Messe 2014, the world’s largest industry fair!