Live Podcast: The One Minute City and the Internet of Nature! (en)

with Tommaso Bassetti

program | saturday, 27.02.2021 | 15:00 – 16:00

Moderator:
Tommaso Bassetti, Urban and Climate Policy Consultant (C40, UN ECE)

Guests:
Dr. Nadina Galle, Ecological Engineer and pioneer of the ‘Internet of Nature’ concept, Amsterdam
Andrea Balestrini, Head of LAND Research Lab, Milano

With less or no access to offices, bars, restaurants, museums and others, urban quality of life has never been so dependent on the spaces that lay in front of our doors. Together with Dr. Nadina Galle, Ecological Engineer and pioneer of the ‘Internet of Nature’ concept and Andrea Balestrini, Head of LAND Research Lab, we will explore how to rethink ordinary urban streets in a way that benefits its residents also post-pandemic, while at the same time increasing resilience to an accelerating climate crisis by green performance.

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to design and deliver inclusive, green and quality public open spaces has become clear to all. As cities reconsider traditional ways of planning and embrace new paradigms to adapt to the health, economic and climate crisis, the centrality of urban green infrastructure has the potential to really take off all around the world.

In the need to upgrades of the urban street space from transit to high-quality, green and functional neighbourhoods, designed for and with the key input of its residents is a vivid discussion today. As urban spaces and green infrastructures such as trees face quick decay, it also becomes key to understand innovative ways to best manage these areas. Nadina Galle recommends using sensors, satellite imagery and computer algorithms to help us understand how to best manage urban green spaces. She calls this approach the “Internet of Nature” and it should support cities to become a well performing “Biosphere of Humankind”.

With this session we want to introduce the Urban Landscape Lab Podcast with Tommaso Bassetti, Urban and Climate Policy Expert, and by this providing a platform for the discussion of experiences, innovative ideas and projects at the intersection between urban quality of life and green performance and quality. lala.ruhr – the landscape laboratory – aims to (re-)integrate urban nature in the design of our cities.

How do these concepts correlate and how can they be integrated for the planning of cities during and post-COVID-19? Join the discussion on “The one Minute City and the Internet of Nature!”  #thinklandscape