On 03 December 2025, Build4People organized a multi-disciplinary public lecture and training session with the topic “Introduction to digital urban planning and public participation tools: Insights from the Build4People project” at Raintree Phnom Penh.
On this occasion, our local project management partner, Dr. Tep Makathy, Director of the Cambodian Institute of Urban Studies, gathered more than 50 students from three different schools, from Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, from Norton University and from Royal University of Agriculture to get them acquainted with state-of-the-art digital urban planning approaches.
These digital urban planning approaches are centered on the use of data-driven methodologies and advanced technologies to create sustainable, resilient, and inclusive cities.
We as Build4People want to use digital urban planning approaches to develop a dynamic digital urban model on the scale of neighbourhoods fulfilling our sustainability criteria.
Among others, we want to train students and professionals in the context of our Build4People Transition Manufactories which we regard as training lab for the tools of the B4P Transformation Toolbox applying criteria, guidelines and innovative digital planning.
Eventually, this shall lead to the development of criteria-based design proposals based on digital scenarios, and the evaluation, optimization and interactive presentation of alternative visions of sustainable neighbourhoods based on a real site in urban Cambodia.
The event started with a warm-up session moderated by Neele Worthmann from Magdeburg University who did ask the participants to join a Mentimeter survey with three questions covering their use of digital tools, at the moment.
This was followed by introduction inputs by Dr. Michael Waibel (Hildesheim University), Lisa Schmechel (CityLAB Berlin), Dr. Anke Blöbaum (Magedeburg University), Anja Jannack (TU Dresden) and Rolf Messerschmidt (Eble Messerschmidt Partner).
After this Anja Jannack guided training session, jointly prepared with Sebastian Wiesenhütter from TU Dresden.
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