City Resilience Design and Management

12/07/2023

Here our series of Alumni Interviews, we are happy to share the experience of Manon Dangelser after graduating from the cohort of the 4th edition 21/22 at Architecture UIC

Here our series of Alumni Interviews, we are happy to share the experience of Manon...

04/07/2023

In this video of the series of Climate Pills, recorded here at Architecture UIC during the workshop on Climate Design on the city of Sitges in collaboration with UCCRN EducationUCCRN Education​, we chat with Pellegrino, Senior Lecturer, from GERS - Gustave Eiffel University, Head of M2 Sustainable Urban Development and member of Lab'Urba, Urban Engineering Department

Here she gives us an overview on urban infrastructure, services and flows in the city and their need to be rethought in strategic manner to better embed them in the life on inhabitants. Particular focus is also brought on the crucial time for climate transition, where it is important to anticipate actions rather than waiting.

We thank her for her time and wish to see her here soon again.

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28/06/2023

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Great celebration for the 25 years of Universitat Internacional de Catalunya at the Fundació Orfeó Català - Palau de la Música Catalana. Join us and be part of the community here at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture to discover how to:

- Become a member of a Global Community of Practice on

Take a look to know more!

Great celebration for the 25 years of Universitat Internacional de Catalunya at the Fundació Orfeó Català - Palau de la Música Catalana. Join us and be part of…

21/06/2023

In this video of the series of Climate Pills, recorded here at Architecture UICC during the workshop on Climate Design on the city of Sitges in collaboration with UCCRN Education, we chat with Christian Valentin, emeritus soil scientist of the Institute of Research for Development, currently working at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Paris.

His work covers topics such as land use which are related to areas like environmental change, Erosion control and Soil management. Here he gives us an overview on the risks associated with water today, taking us to understand which are the sectors that utilises it the most and then explaining other risks involving water.

Link here: https://youtu.be/N9tl74U4BhA

In this video of the series of Climate Pills, recorded here at Architecture UIC​ during...

20/06/2023

LAST CALL FOR APPLICATION

Deadline moved to July 3rd, 2023!

The International Program and was framed by the Urban Resilience research Net (URNet - leading global research network in urban resilience) hosted by Architecture UIC and supported by key international partners.

Take a look at our website (https://masterurbanresilience.com/) to see how it is structured, and you'll see that is far beyond being just a university master degree.

Join us in at the International University to to discover how to:

- Become a member of a Global Community of Practice on U.R.

- Learn from more than 35 international professors and dozens of international partners

- Have access to past and future classes and seminars thanks to our "Continuous Education" program

- Bridge theory and practices thanks to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, teaching you through papers, tools, assessments and workshops.

- Learn about Critical infrastructure, Green infrastructures, community resilience, climate resilience, disaster resilience, and how to integrate everything in a consistent way

- Join one of our more than 75 international partners for 5 months internship opening to you the perfect career path.

- More on our website CITIES and BlogPost sections...

🗓Starting Date: October 16, 2023

📍Location: Barcelona

⏰ Deadline for submitting documents: 7th July, 2023

✨Skype interviews (if required): July 6th to 12th, 2023

Communication of results and enrollment: July 14th, 2023

📮https://masterurbanresilience.com/

09/06/2023

We here are publishing the great work of one of our students as part of this year thesis repot focusing on the Urban Planning and Design Ready for 2030 (UP2030) project which is co-funded under the Horizon Europe framework of the European Commission.

The aim of UP2030 is to ‘support cities in driving the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets by leveraging urban planning and design’. As seen below in the figure, the 5-UP Approach provides an innovative methodology which tools and methods can be applied to specific cities and projects.

The key objective of this paper, prepared by Rose Dagg, masters student at Architecture UIC, is to undertake a benchmarking activity in relation to a tool that will be developed as part of UP2030. Take a look to know more!

UP2030 Benchmarking Activity We here are publishing the great work of one of our students...

06/06/2023

In this third video of the series of Climate Pills, recorded here at Architecture UIC during the workshop on Climate Design on the city of Sitges in collaboration with UCCRN Education, Jacques Gignoux, academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure, illustrates Ecosystem Functioning methodologies and reflects on the collective life activities of plants, explaining how they work and the effects these activities have on conditioning the environment. Applying system thinking to this matter we can then translate it to cities for a better understanding, to reach climate neutrality.

Video here: https://youtu.be/nSngu9t_riY

In this video Jacques Gignoux, academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure, illustrates Ecosystem Functioning methodologies...

25/05/2023

Through back to Montreal, and the incredible work by our former student and now Alumni Riwa Abdul Khalek. We want to share with you and give more visibility to these reports and city collection, wishing to provide a global overview about different cities’ experience in resilience, and how this is evolving.

The series is titled “Exploring Urban Resilience Pathways” and each report was prepared by a student of our Int. Msc. City Resilience Design and Management ( and Architecture UIC) during their time here at the master, the first semester, as a learning outcome of the acquired analytical skills – to find, understand, organize and communicate different perspectives, approaches and models of urban resilience implementation in a determined city.

Here link to the pdf to know more on Montreal:

https://masterurbanresilience.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Montreal_2021.pdf

Through back to Montreal, and the incredible work by our former student and now Alumni...

22/05/2023

In this second video of the series of Climate Pills, recorded here at Architecture UIC during the workshop on Climate Design on the city of Sitges in collaboration with UCCRN Education, Mattia Federico Leone, PHD, Architect and Professor at the University of Naples Federico II | UNINA and Coodirector of the UCCRN European hub, illustrates the UCCRNedu methodologies and tools used to implement climate design and to shift to climate neutrality.

Linke here: https://youtu.be/6435fGjjXUs

In this second video of the series of climate pills, Mattia Federico Leone, PHD, Architect...

17/05/2023

In this video Gerald Mills, physical geographer based at University College of Dublin gives an overview on cities and global climate change, urban climate and urban heat islands, the way they form and its consequences.

Him and his expertise helped us developed here at Architecture UIC a framework for heat resilience, and an integrated strategy for this year`s workshop in the city of Sitges together with pilot projects proposal for the city. You can find the work and the full report titled "A Heatwave Resilience Roadmap for the City of Sitges"on our webpage in the section learnings.

This video is part of a series of interviews on climate design experts in collaboration with the Erasmus+ project UCCRN Education .

Link to video here: https://youtu.be/c7OmoB3SoE0

In this video Gerald Mills, physical geographer based at University College of Dublin gives an...

12/05/2023

Through back to the work of former student and now alumni Alex Couling, and her incredible overview and analysis on New Orleans. We want to share with you and give more visibility to these reports and city collection, wishing to provide a global overview about different cities’ experience in resilience, and how this is evolving.

In the post you can find the link to the report know more on New Orleans.

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Through back to New Orleans, and the incredible work by our former student and now...

11/05/2023

Students have submitted in these last days this year`s report! Thesis commitee, this year composed by, new academic menthor Cynthia Echave, Enzo Falco from University of Trento (UNITN), and our Director Lorenzo Chelleri have assisted their presentation and reviewing now the work.

This year here at Architecture UIC, the task was different from the previous years. Moving on from analyzing cities under the frameworks of the 100 city resilient cities the aim instead was to provide an overview and critical discussion on specific “tools” part of the European Project UP2030. In the framework of H2020 RESCCUE project (www.resccue.eu) a prioritization methodology and tool were developed to assist decision makers to select the most efficient measures in terms of both their costs and the degree of risk reduction that they can guarantee.

The objective of this tools are to support decision makers to select the most efficient
measures to adapt cities to flooding, storm surges, combined sewer overflows, drought or heatwaves episodes; to combine technical and economic im pact assessment when selecting the most efficient climate change adaptation strategies; to extend current database and tool with mitigation measures.

The best reports will be published on our website and will be for you available to take a look at. Stay tuned!

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Students have submitted in these last days this year`s report! Thesis commitee, this year composed...