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On 12 November 2024, Bunleng Se, Group Leader of Climate Change and Water Group at the Department of Geography and Land Management of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and Build4People Work Package “Urban Climate” member, was invited to give a presentation on “The Role of Urban Climate Map in Urban Development” to member of technical working groups of the Cambodian Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) to enhance their knowledge based on evidence-based scientific research.

The topic of his training session was generally about the role of urban climate maps in regard of urban development. In detail, he presented about urban climate analysis, urban climate simulation models, urban climate design strategies, guidelines for urban climate design and finally also about a case study of urban heat islands in Phnom Penh.

The knowledge of the urban climate is important to the process of the urban  design and planning  as well as the neighbourhood design. The information and knowledge of urban climatology will be taken into consideration for current and future urban planning.

This training was only the first of a series which will get further implemented by Bunleng Se with support from other Build4People team members such as Prof. Dr. Lutz Katzschner and his team from INKEK, the Institute for Climate and Energy Concepts, which is a sub-project partner within the Build4People project.

On 08 November 2024, Dr. Michael Waibel represented the collaborative SURE project Build4People in the panel discussion “Collaborative Alliances for Sustainable Urban Regions (SURE) – German-Asian transdisciplinary research” at the German Pavilion at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt. The session got moderated by Dr. Sarah Vogl and Paula Hüttl from TÜV Rheinland Group.

Together with two other panelists, Prof. Anke Hagemann, representing the SURE project Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) and Bernd Gutterer, representing the SURE project PolyUrbanWaters, there was a fruitful discussion which tools we use in our projects to engage with stakeholders and which are the main challenges we face during the implementation of our research activities related to transdisciplinarity.

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We are very happy to inform you on a recently published video clip at our Build4People YouTube channel.

It is about the graphic storytelling of the methodology and outcomes of the first Build4People Sustainable Building Arena (SBA) at Impact Hub Phnom Penh back in 2022.

The first SBA served to gather local frontrunners of sustainability from different spheres to empower them as change agents into the planning process with the aim to create a future vision of Phnom Penh and to jointly develop transformative knowledge how to implement this vision.

To support this, a local artist, Penkuro, was employed to accomplish a visual narrative because we are convinced that art can be a great transmitter between science, society and the policy-making level.

On 06 November 2024, Dr. Michael Waibel, Build4People representative, had the honor to join a panel discussion facilitated by Agota Barabas and Dr. Katharina Borgmann from HafenCity University Hamburg during an Urban Library event at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) in Cairo, Egypt.

It served to introduce about the SURE Solutions magazine, Volume #1, a publication dedicated to addressing challenges with innovative, practical solutions to support sustainable urban growth in Southeast Asia and China.

Together with Prof. Anke Hagemann, Xhesika Hoxha, Vivienne Mayer, Anika Slawski and Katharina M. Borgmann approaches like co-visioning workshops or building arenas were discussed which aim to empower change agents and to bring local transformative knowledge into the planning process.

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