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Department of Spatial Planning

BMBF networking workshop Sustainable Urban Regions and LIRLAP research in Manila

Prof Dr Mathias Garschagen, Dr. Barbara Demeterova, Liss Bethany and doctoral student Lena Grobusch (all LMU Munich), Hannes Lauer, IREUS, University of Stuttgart, and Dr. Wolfgang Scholz, IRPUD, TU Dortmund  took part in the SURE Status Seminar 2023 in Bangkok at the end of September 2023. All ten BMBF-funded projects of the Sustainable Urban Regions (SURE) program met there and discussed their project progress, highlights and further upcoming work steps until the beginning of 2025. Dr Wolfgang Scholz also gave one of the two input presentations for the panel discussion "Urban Planning and Decision-Making Towards Sustainability". The focus was on the role that urban planning in the global South can play in climate adaptation measures and how resilient, livable and inclusive cities can be created through forward-looking urban planning. However, the problems of climate adaptation under conditions of poverty and informality must also be recognised as crucial.

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In addition to the exchange with the other projects, which also work in cities in Southeast Asia, the LIRLAP team was also pleased to see the project partners from Thamassat University Prof. Dr. Wijitbusaba (Ann) Marome and Nontarit Bejrananda again and took the opportunity for intensive work phases.
Following the two-day conference in Bangkok, the LIRLAP team travelled on to Manila for project work. Here, Dr Wolfgang Scholz discussed with Dean Prof. Dr Dina Magnaye and the head of the PhD program Prof. Dr Karen Ja-goon on further steps of the joint doctoral program of the Faculty of Spatial Planning with the School of Urban and Regional Planning and to explore funding opportunities for students with the local representative of the DAAD. In preparation for the pilot study on resilient resettlement areas and the ongoing F-project F03, Hannes Lauer discussed options for collaboration with Analyn Borbe, Vice President of the local Montalban Action Group and with the BASE Bahay Foundation, which is funded by the Hilti Foundation.