UrbanA Community Conversations

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. They are a core part of the UrbanA Community of Practice. Each Community Conversation, CoCo for short, involves one or more short presentations of the work of an UrbanA fellow, followed by a participation section for guests to explore the themes explored. All CoCos reports and videos can be found on our blog on Medium and by following the #UrbanACoCo on social media (twitter, instagram, facebook).

Past Cocos

1. Designing a local climate adaptation plan (April 7th, 30 participants) João Dinis, from Cascais Municipality in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal, gave a rich and exciting presentation on Cascais’ local climate adaptation plan, the very first in Portugal. (See video & slides)
2. Everyone can Wiki — online meeting provides practical hands-on experience (April 21st, 30+ participants) Tom Henfrey of UrbanA partner ECOLISE, began with a short background piece on commons and their importance to the theme of sustainable and just cities. Karlijn Schipper of UrbanA partner DRIFT, then gave participants a tour of the wiki and facilitated practical exercises in creating a wiki user page and setting up a new wiki page.
3. Transformative Cities: linking local and translocal perspectives on sustainable and just cities
4. Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital
5. How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice
6. Addressing poverty via food solidarity in cities
7. Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities (July 21, 70 participants)