Climate change has turned cities globally into uncertain milieus. This results in increasing pressure on education and research to support through interdisciplinary collaborations towards transformative sustainable solutions. In the QUORUM project, we explore co-designing an interdisciplinary module to address water-related challenges and focus on revisiting urban rivers as culturally embedded components and ecosystem service providers.
The Unite! seed fund enabled an interdisciplinary, international team to initiate the QUORUM project, which will explore innovative learning to address resilient water-related solutions within uncertain urban milieus
The project’s outcome is a co-designed graduate-level student module plan, which is offered within different programmes, to support students’ collaborative, multicultural, interdisciplinary activities in addressing urban rivers’ sustainable transformations.
Partners
The team includes experts from five Unite! partner universities. The team members are actively engaged in interdisciplinary research and teaching related to climate crisis.
- Christine Mady, Senior University Lecturer, Aalto University
- Paulo Pinho, Senior University Lecturer, Aalto University
- Elena Comino, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino
- Sérgio Proença, Assistant Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
- Álvaro Clua, Tenure-track lecturer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech
- Arnold Pears, Professor, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
More information
- Contact: Christine Mady,
Project Coordinator, Aalto University