Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban sustainability: communicational challenges and future development prospects towards sustainable cities and communities


 
 
 

PIs

Liliana De Simone, Universidad de Chile

Henrik Rahm, Lund University

 
 

Participants

Nils Peter Ragnar Sjöström, Lund University

Bernadett Kiss, Lund University

Alexander Paulsson, Lund University

Linus Zhang, Lund University

Jennifer Leijon, Uppsala University

Lazaro Moreno, Stockholm University

Kay Bergamini, P. Universidad Católica

Claudia Labarca, P. Universidad Católica

Lake Sagaris, P. Universidad Católica

Patricia Junge, Universidad de Chile

Catalina Amigo, Universidad de Chile

Laura Gallardo, Universidad de Chile

Maria Christina Fragkou, Universidad de Chile

Rodolfo Sapiains, Universidad de Magallanes

Lennart Mårtensson, Kristianstad University

 

Results

The purpose of this workshop was to discuss both past and planned initiatives in Sweden and Chile regarding urban sustainability and its communicational challenges, successes, and failures to engage local communities in mindset changes. In discussions with municipal officials Punta Arenas and Umeå, the workshop recognized the need to reinterpret the links between academic research and local practitioners. Their main goal was to explore value systems on sustainability and ecosystems from multidisciplinary perspectives towards identifying and building new narratives on promoting behavioral changes towards the sustainable goals of agenda 2030.

During the workshop, the group met with municipal officers from Punta Arenas and Umeå, visiting Punta Arenas as part of EU financed project on urban planning in three European and three Latin American municipalities.

There was an enhanced understanding for differences in governance and the importance on cooperation between academia and municipalities on an equal basis with benefits for both parties.

The group identified internal and external funding – seed money, initiation grants, cooperation projects, national funding, international funding