The IOER Forum is a series of events organised by the IOER to promote dialogue and exchange with society. Every year, in a spring and an autumn series, we dedicate ourselves to current topics of sustainable development and transformation of neighbourhoods, cities and regions with different event formats. Guests from Germany and abroad include actors from research, public administration, companies, planning practice, politics, business, associations and civil society. The IOER Forum is open to all interested parties. Participation is free of charge, registration is not required. To enable as many people as possible to attend our events, most of them will be broadcast live.
Reinventing sustainability:
The role of science, policy and space
Sustainability represents the dominant paradigm for overcoming the global social-ecological crises. It is the core guiding principle of overarching policy strategies at all levels (local to UN), as well as for cross-domain spatial planning practice, development concepts of science organisations, and the inter- and transdisciplinary field of sustainability sciences.
However, since its adoption on the international policy stage back in the 1990s the concept of "sustainability" has also always been subject to fundamental criticism. This ranges from questioning its ontological premises and ethical ambiguities (e.g. dualistic human-nature relation, vague justice notion, strong/weak variations, inherent growth orientation, unclear spatio-temporal reference, etc.) to recognising its limited procedural substance for guiding the transformation of complex socio-ecological-technological systems.
In the context of the Anthropocene such criticisms have become further reinforced. In view of a rapidly declining habitability of the planet and the outstanding spatial disparities this implies, calls for a paradigm shift to guide transformations have multiplied. At the same time, the sustainability sciences have fostered the reflection on the ways in which science-society interactions and their spatial configurations affect transformations - typically requiring to deconstruct sustainability.
Against this backdrop this IOER Forum series aims to advance the critical debate on sustainability as a guiding science and policy paradigm. It strives to outline contours of much needed alternative goal concepts for the future that may help to replace "sustainability" and to shape a good Anthropocene.
Key questions to be addressed will therefore be:
- What are ontological and ethical requirements for reinventing the sustainability paradigm?
- How does space affect and become affected by the sustainability paradigm (shift)?
- What are implications of the sustainability paradigm (shift) for sustainability sciences and policy?
Concept and presentation:
Marc Wolfram
Mai
31
IOER Forum
Title: Starke Nachhaltigkeit in Raum und Zeit: zum Skalierungsproblem
Speaker: Prof. Dr Konrad Ott, Kiel University
YouTube Video
JUN
27
IOER Forum
Title: The dark side of Sustainability. Elements for a deep critique
Speaker: Dr. Iván González Márquez, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia/CIESAS (Social Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology), Mexico
Venue: online
Language: English
YouTube Video
AUG
27
IOER Forum
Title: The Future of Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene: In Search of an Alternative Paradigm
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Louis Jacobus Kotzé, Faculty of Law at North-West University, South Africa
Venue: online
Language: English
YouTube Video
SEP
5
IOER Forum
Title: Nachhaltigkeit, Recht und Politik
Speaker: Prof. Dr Dr Felix Ekardt, Director of the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy in Leipzig
Venue: online
Language: German
YouTube Video
SEP
9
IOER-Forum
Title: Dilemmata der Nachhaltigkeit
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anna Henkel, Universität Passau
Venue: online
Language: German
YouTube Video
SEP
13
IOER-Forum
Title: Transformative sustainability science as a lever for sustainability transformation(s)
Speaker: Prof. Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Kassel Institute for Sustainability
Venue: online
Language: English
YouTube Video
DEC
19
IOER Forum
Title: Connected Urban Twins – AI & Smart City
Speaker: Julia Friske, University of Leipzig
Input from the IOER: Dr. Verena Maleska
DEC
5
IOER Forum
Title: Hybrid Modelling and Simulation for Transdisciplinary Science
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Navonil Mustafee, University of Exeter (UK)
Input from the IOER: Dr. Sujit Sikder
YouTube-Video
NOV
28
IOER Forum
Title: Understanding Urban Form and Function using Urban Analytics
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Arribas-Bel, Alan Turing Institute (UK)
Input from the IOER: Dr. Robert Hecht
YouTube-Video
NOV
23
IOER Forum +++ Cancelled +++
Title: Gemeinsam die Zukunft des bundesweiten Biodiversitätsmonitorings gestalten
Speaker: Dr. Petra Dieker, Leiterin der Zentrale des Nationalen Monitoringzentrums zur Biodiversität am Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
Input from the IOER: Dr. Ralf-Uwe Syrbe
NOV
14
IOER Forum
Title: Nachhaltigkeitsmonitoring - Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
Speaker: Susanne Assfalg, Amt für Bürgerservice und Informationsmanagement, Stadt Freiburg
Input from the IOER: Dr. Ramona Voshage
OCT
24
IOER Forum
Title: Towards a Science of Cities
Speaker: Marc Barthélémy, Institute of Theoretical Physics (FR)
Input from the IOER: Dr. rer. nat. Hendrik Herold
YouTube-Video
OCT
17
IOER Forum
Title: Geosimulation and Optimization of Human-Environment System
Speaker: Dr. Judith Verstegen, University of Utrecht (NL)
Input from the IOER: Dr. Mathias Jehling
YouTube-Video
SEP
26
IOER Forum
Title: Land-saving Planning – 10 years after the legal focus on internal development in Switzerland
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anna Hersperger, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (CH)
Input from the IOER: Dr. Tobias Krüger
YouTube-Video
SEP
5
IOER Forum
Title: Turnaround in Transport Policy – Rethinking Transport Areas
Panel discussion with e.g. Frank Fiedler, Project Manager Dresden Mobility Plan 2035+
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Venue: Wissenschaftsforum COSMO im Kulturpalast Dresden, Schloßstraße 2, Dresden
Jun
28
IOER Forum
Title: The Anthropocene Engine
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manfred D. Laubichler, Arizona State University and Santa Fe Institute
YouTube-Video
Jun
20
IOER Forum
Title: Green Transition, opportunity spaces and change agency in peripheral regions
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller, University of Greifswald
Input form the IOER: Bridging the old an the new sustainability transitions, Dr. Franziska Ehnert
YouTube-Video
MaY
30
IOER Forum
Title: Social Innovations in Sustainability Transformation. A critical reflection
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Raj Kollmorgen, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
Input of the IOER: Participatory Governance in Structural Change as a socio-political Innovation ǀ Dr. Sebastian Heer
YouTube-Video
APR
19
IOER Forum
Title: Matching platform for collaborative living
Speaker: Karin Demming, bring-together, Leipzig
Input of the IOER: Transformative learning for sustainable and active neighbourhoods | Anna Baatz, Franziska Ehnert, IÖR
YouTube-Video
APR
3
IOER Forum
Title: Towards a challenge-oriented approach to regional innovation policies
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michaela Trippl, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
Input of the IÖR: Transformative capacities and regional innovation systems | Prof. Dr. Artem Korzhenevych, IOER
YouTube-Video
June
27
IOER Forum "Science-Dialogue"
Title: From growth-oriented to sustainable regional development
Speaker: Dr. Markus Grillitsch, Lund University
Input of the IOER: Sustainability and Well-Being: What to Measure? How to Measure? | Dr. Jonathan Morris, IOER
Time: 15:00 - 16:30 pm
Language: English
YouTube-Video
MaY
18
IOER Forum "Science-Dialogue"
Title: Dare Urban Wilderness - Preserve, Use and Manage!
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jürgen H. Breuste, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
Input of the IOER: Wilderness on urban wastelands – an annoyance or a paradise for biodiversity? | Dr. Juliane Mathey, IOER
Time: 2 to 4.30 pm
Venue: IÖR / online
Language: English
YouTube-Video
April
13
IOER Forum "Science-Policy Dialogue"
Title: Auf dem Weg zur integrierten Raumstrategie 2038+ für das Rheinische Revier
Speaker: Prof. Christa Reicher, RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Urban Design and Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism
Input of the IOER: Vier Zukünfte für die Lausitz – Einblicke in das Planungslabor "Raumbilder Lausitz 2050" | Jessica Theuner, IOER
YouTube-Video
JAN
12
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Title: Transforming places together: citizens and community engagement responding to climate change
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lummina Horlings, University of Groningen, Department of Spatial Planning and Environment Groningen, Netherlands
Input of the IOER: Reframing places, communities and identities: The contextualisation of social learning processes in urban experimentation | Dr. Franziska Ehnert, IOER Dresden
YouTube-Video
Dec
8
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Title: Biodiversität und Gesundheit Ökosystemleistungen
Speaker: Frau Prof. Aletta Bonn, Head of the department of Ecosystem Services of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH (UFZ)
and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Input of the IOER: Gesunde Ökosysteme – Gesunde Menschen | Dr. Karsten Grunewald, IOER
Language: German
YouTube-Video
NOV
24.
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Title: Geosimulation und Nachhaltigkeitsziele. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Flächeninanspruchnahme und Landnutzung
Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Koch, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, FB Geographie und Geologie, AG Sozialgeographie
Input of the IOER: Qualitatives regionales Wirkungsmodell zum Einfluss der Boden- und Immobilienmärkte auf die Flächenneuinanspruchnahme in angespannten Wohnungsmärkten – Ein Werkstattbericht | Denise Ehrhard und Dr. Martin Behnisch, IOER
Language: German
YouTube-Video
NOV
10
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Title: Vom Messen und Maßhalten in der Raumplanung: Können Grüngürtel und Grenzwerte helfen, die Zersiedelung zu verringern?
Speaker: Dr. Jochen A.G. Jaeger, Associate Professor from Concordia University, Montréal (Canada), Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
Language: German
YouTube-Video
Nov
3
IOER Forum "Science-Policy Dialogue"
Title: The Challenge of Growth, Structural Change and Employment. The "Mitteldeutsche Revier" area (Mining District) in German between "End of the Age of Brown Coal", Industrial Heritage and "Post-Coal Landscapes".
Speaker: Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Berkner, Head of Regional Planning Office Leipzig
Input of the IOER: Reflexionsebene Lausitz - Erkenntnisse aus den Arbeiten des IÖR | Prof. Dr. Robert Knippschild, IOER
Youtube-Video
Oct
15.
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Title: Die große Transformation zum nachhaltigen gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsel: Die Bedeutung von Gebäuden und Infrastrukturen
Speaker: a.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Input of the IOER: Zirkuläres Bauen in Städten voranbringen – Materialkataster als Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle? | Dr. Georg Schiller, IOER
YouTube-Video
Sep
8.
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Topic: Current challenges of urban development policy in Germany: Between growth pain and needs of revitalisation
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock, Kassel University, Department of Urban Renewal and Planning Theory
Input of the IOER: Resolving the need for revitalization with urban experiments? Experiences from Görlitz | Prof. Dr. Robert Knippschild
Time: 2 p.m.
Venue: virtual
Language: German
YouTube Video
Jul
14.
IOER Forum "Science Dialogue"
Topic: Resilience, Sustainability, and Circularity: A Collaborative Systems Approach
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Joseph Fiksel, The Ohio State University, College of Engineering
The co-lecture on the topic “Urban Environmental Acupuncture: An approach toward expanding greenspace in dense European cities” will be held by Dr. Jessica Hemingway from the IOER.
Time: 4 - 6 p.m.
Venue: virtual
YouTube Video
Jun
30.
IOER Forum "Science-Policy Dialogue"
Topic: Perspectives of landscape planning – current trends and future development
Speaker: Matthias Herbert, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), head of the BfN branch office in Leipzig
Input of the IOER: The spatial impact of landscape planning - brief review of results from the DFG project LANALYS | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende
Time: 2 to 4 p.m.
Venue: prob. virtual
Language: German
YouTube Video
May
19.
IOER Forum "Scientific Dialogue"
Topic: Electromobility and autonomous transport - Transport policy challenges in the context of individual decisions in an urban and social environment
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte, Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Economics, esp. Transport Policy and Spatial Economics
Input of the IOER: Sustainable urban transport: insights from the transformation arena in Dresden | Prof. Dr. Artem Korzhenevych
Time: 2 to 4 p.m.
Venue: virtual
Language: German
Record on YouTube
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