Tasfin Aziz, Lecturer, Department of Architecture participated in the BLOXHUB Summer School on Urban Resilience 2020 organized by Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark,
Aalborg Universitet København - AAU CPH and Bloxhub. The course was designed for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers in June, 2020. 25 participants from of nationalities joined from 14 time zones to discuss about the future outlook of urban resilience. The summer school intended to provide multi-disciplinary knowledge and perspectives on the different global and local challenges for urban resilience in the Global South and North. The training is organized as a series of lectures and work in small groups to respond to a problem-based challenge to gain necessary competences to develop informed policies, strategies, plans and solutions for urban resilience, at the time of COVID-19
The partners in this endeavor are United Nations Human Settlement Program UN-HABITAT, ICLEI World Secretariat, UNESCO Chair on Sustainability at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR, International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), World Wildlife Fund, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), CTCN, Università Iuav di Venezia, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft, Nordic Urban, Resilience Institute (NURI), Responsible Risk Resilience Centre R3C - Politecnico di Torino, RECNET. Recycling the City Network, Imperial College London, Intergovernmental Hydrological Program IHP of United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization UNESCO, Climate Technology Center and Network CTC-N, Recycling Cities Network RECNET, Association Adapt-Chile, Nordic Urban Resilience Institute NURI, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center adpc, ARUP.