Climate Adaptation in Urban Areas

Initiated by staff members from the Departments of U and AE&T, this research and design project is a collaboration with the Faculties of Industrial Design Engineering, Civil Engineering & Geosciences, and Technology, Policy and Management, and the Municipality of Rotterdam. In this course, a group of students with different disciplinary backgrounds work together on climate adaptive solutions (both spatial, technical, and strategic) in an urbanized area in Rotterdam. Based on a challenge-based approach, issues related to urban heat, drought, air pollution, and flooding are addressed integrally, uncovering possible conflicts and synergies, and taking multiple spatial and temporal scales into account.