Tuesday 01 Jun · 2021 16:30-17:30 CEST

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Tuesday 01 Jun · 2021 17:30-18:30 CEST

Measuring Sustainable Infrastructure with Envision

The achievement of a sustainable future requires commitment, communication and collaboration. The Envision framework is quickly becoming the leading methodology for delivering sustainable infrastructure. Envision is a comprehensive sustainability framework being used by engineers, planners, architects, contractors and other stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry to improve the sustainable performance of infrastructure projects of all types and sizes. The presentation will include an introduction to Envision and its relevance to the industry.

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Tuesday 01 Jun · 2021 18:30-21:30 CEST

Discussion hosted by: Heather Rogers, Santiago Perez, Aodhan Newsholme, and Malgorzata Lekan

What does the future hold? Uncertainty challenges our ability to make informed decisions, yet the interconnected and complex nature of natural and socio technical systems is such that, over time, every intervention has consequences in particular realms of society. At the same time, these interconnections pose a great possibility to foster synergies between those systems. This is where the Circular Economy and the Circular Society paradigms are worthy of recognition as they help to explore such synergies from an interdisciplinary perspective. While it is often impossible to predict the implications of our actions today, there are tools that can help us overcome the creative-block of uncertainty and explore possibilities that lie ahead.

This session will explore uncertain futures through a collective storytelling exercise inspired by science fiction prototyping. Such methodology allows us to creatively explore the possibilities and implications of future scenarios. To begin with, the organisers will propose a baseline scenario created from their academic (and empirical) experience as researchers. That scenario will be the starting point of a collective science-fiction narrative, which will uncover our most profound questions, worries, dreams and strategies. Such an exercise enables us to co-create visions of resilient and sustainable futures when facing uncertainty. The interactive session will be followed by an engaging discussion revolving around the outcomes of the previous activity. All participants will be encouraged to contribute to the analysis of the co-created future sustainable scenarios, which may spark some of the following guiding questions:

• What recurring themes arise in the stories?
• What bottlenecks are in our co-envisioned road to circular economies and/or circular societies?
• What might some of the unintended consequences of our interventions be?
• How might our social systems adapt to manage the dangers/risks identified in the stories?
• What strategies for managing uncertainty can we see in these stories?

List of activities Pre-conference: - Meeting with the purpose of getting to know all the participants of the discussion session. - Sharing the relevance of the chosen methodology, its scientific foundations and its expected impact for research and practical work. - Collective reflection on the potential “paths-to-action”.

Conference: - The 4 organisers will share the baseline story with all the participants in the room. The room will be divided into four groups. Each group (maximum 5 persons) will collectively write a science-fiction narrative using the science fiction prototyping methodology. Each group will have an organiser in the room to “guide” the activity (time-keeping, solidarity). - Groups will be reconfigured and the stories will be shared among a new group of participants, followed by a guided discussion. . - Together, the 4 organisers will open the room for discussion. - Collective reflection on potential “paths-to-action”.

Post-conference: - Define the path(s)-to-action and start putting it together. - Final reflection on how this methodology can be useful for the participants' professional activities. - Feedback from the participants.

Path(s)-to-action: - Scientific article to be published - Application to a “call for projects/action” in partnership with local associations. - Vlog-post of the reading of the different fictions co-created (illustrated/animated?) - Podcast featuring co-created scenarios

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Wednesday 02 Jun · 2021 11:00-12:00 CEST

Max Song is Founder and CEO of Carbonbase, an Asia-based climate tech startup building enterprise solutions for measuring, managing and reducing carbon emissions.

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Wednesday 02 Jun · 2021 12:00-14:00 CEST

Session description Transportation is an integral part of society and the economy, providing people with access to jobs and opportunities, moving goods that are needed. Making sure transport options are available to all members of society is an important part of achieving sustainable transport. Achieving inclusive transport will require equity considerations to be incorporated early into transport policy and planning. Participants in this session will reflect on the concept of transport equity in the cities that they are familiar with. We will then collaborate and consider some possible measures of equity in urban transport, and creative ways to visualize them.

Session objectives - To discover the topic of transport equity in cities and promote inclusive transport planning. - To generate ideas to assess and visualize equity.

Facilitators Lynette Cheah, Associate Professor Lih Wei Yeow, Senior Research Assistant Both from Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Meeting ID: 933 8443 4636

Passcode: HBz7&NyA

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Wednesday 02 Jun · 2021 14:30-16:30 CEST

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Outline: The session will elaborate visions of a future city fully aligned to sustainability criteria and, starting from this, backcast the role that Urban Metabolism (UM) studies could (or should) have for achieving it .

Goal: Develop ideas about how to create impact and how to maximise the contribution that UM studies can make to supporting the socio-economic transition

Description: In an interactive workshop format and in small groups, participants will use their vision of future urban and interurban mobility as starting point for elaborating on the following questions: • How do people and goods move in an ecologically reconciled future ? • What were the main technological and societal transitions that have been required for achieving this? • What was the role of UM studies and research for supporting and fostering this transition? • What are the concrete action points for UM research that can be distilled from that (these would be basis of the path-to-action document)

Deliverable: Path to action document (white paper)

Pre-conference activity: A pre-conference activity will be scheduled for the week before the conference where a problem analysis will be done (brainstorm) and, based on the identified urban mobility related problems, utopia of a future city will be developed where the identified problems are solved. These utopic future cities will be the basis of the backcasting activity within the main discussion session.

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Wednesday 02 Jun · 2021 17:30-20:30 CEST

All the initiatives for the reuse of materials have the dilemma of setting the scope of action, defined by the type of materials accepted, the type and size of the installations, means of transportation, etc. This discussion topic aims to conduct a rapid and structured rationale to define what are the regional priorities in terms of production-consume-disposal and given these priorities how to design reuse facilities.
In Latin America, there are few countries with robust industrial production, despite the dominance of large agriculture, livestock and raw materials production. Latin America also faces a lack of efficient transportation, so the destination of waste is not optimized comprehensively. Goods are imported ready-to-use and a few years later land-filled or in the best cases shipped as no added-value. An excellent way to address the waste management challenges is by creative reuse of materials and objects in manufacturing cycles. We are not aiming to study the integration of these facilities to large-scale industries but enforce the local technical capacity to design a new wave of manufacturers who fully understand the risks and potentials of each material.

The activities that we propose to conduct are:

• General review (discussion) of the macroeconomic flow of materials and goods.
• General review (discussion) of production and manufacturing capacities by macro-region, technical and professional needs and issues for reuse facilities.
• Interactive mapping and classification of initiatives.
• Priority definitions by multi-criteria assessment.
• Preliminary impact-estimation of reuse facilities in the focused-topics and scales.
• Mapping of barriers and leverages to scale up reuse centres worldwide.

Path-to-action contribution:

• White paper with the main findings
• Website with data repository and
• Short-video addressed to local authorities and key players.

Organizers:

Sucata Quântica - São Paulo Creative Reuse Initiative Hamilton Ortiz (Director, MSc Mechanical Engineer).

Participants need to register (free) in Lucidspark to run our discussion there: https://lucid.app/lucidspark/invitations/accept/inv_d2a28d97-7cd0-41b3-a39f-88119dee9860

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Wednesday 02 Jun · 2021 20:30-22:30 CEST

Complex ecological problems question all scientific disciplines. Sustainability and the study of technical systems for sustainability must be understood in a holistic way, otherwise some issues will be missed. The segmentation of science into disciplines can be a hindrance to dialogue between different scientific fields, making dialogue between different disciplines an additional effort for the researcher. Interdisciplinarity, in theory and practice, is often perceived as a risk for researchers (e.g. perceived as a difficulty of identification in a community). In order to make interdisciplinarity less abstract and demystify it, we propose an artistic workshop on it. This workshop would be two hours long, reproducible in any academic setting. The objective is to bring together researchers from different communities and make them reflect on a specific socio-technical system: the tomato. The tomato is a transversal object known to all. This object may seem very simple to anyone not working on it, but in fact hides a certain complexity that is not apparent at first glance. Researchers will be encouraged to : (1) individually graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity, (2) immerse themselves in the role of a tomato researcher (discipline assigned at the beginning of the workshop), (3) propose research questions that would allow researchers to interface with each other around a common scientific effort, (4) collectively graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity. A comparison of before and after graphical representations would allow us to see how a role play could decentralize the researcher from his own research to take him out of his daily problems and show the interest of interdisciplinarity. Finally, the objective of the workshop is to show the added value of an interdisciplinary approach around a research object. Afin d’assurer une immersion des participants dans leur rôle de chercheur spécialiste sur la tomate, une page internet sur un centre de recherche fictif sur la tomate avec la spécialité des participants académique sera mise en place. The reproduction of the workshop in different academic contexts will enable us to consolidate the workshop process and maybe identify key elements to ensure an understanding of interdisciplinarity added value. The path-to-action contribution that is expected will be a web page where we will find the workshop proceedings and the results that will be obtained. The different graphical representations will be available online and will allow researchers to understand the academic understanding of interdisciplinarity.

Organizer : Claudine Gillot and Lou Grimal.

Link of the miro board with the different session : https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lMi0fVA=/ Thanks to all participants

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Thursday 03 Jun · 2021 10:00-12:00 CEST

Complex ecological problems question all scientific disciplines. Sustainability and the study of technical systems for sustainability must be understood in a holistic way, otherwise some issues will be missed. The segmentation of science into disciplines can be a hindrance to dialogue between different scientific fields, making dialogue between different disciplines an additional effort for the researcher. Interdisciplinarity, in theory and practice, is often perceived as a risk for researchers (e.g. perceived as a difficulty of identification in a community). In order to make interdisciplinarity less abstract and demystify it, we propose an artistic workshop on it. This workshop would be two hours long, reproducible in any academic setting. The objective is to bring together researchers from different communities and make them reflect on a specific socio-technical system: the tomato. The tomato is a transversal object known to all. This object may seem very simple to anyone not working on it, but in fact hides a certain complexity that is not apparent at first glance. Researchers will be encouraged to : (1) individually graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity, (2) immerse themselves in the role of a tomato researcher (discipline assigned at the beginning of the workshop), (3) propose research questions that would allow researchers to interface with each other around a common scientific effort, (4) collectively graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity. A comparison of before and after graphical representations would allow us to see how a role play could decentralize the researcher from his own research to take him out of his daily problems and show the interest of interdisciplinarity. Finally, the objective of the workshop is to show the added value of an interdisciplinary approach around a research object. Afin d’assurer une immersion des participants dans leur rôle de chercheur spécialiste sur la tomate, une page internet sur un centre de recherche fictif sur la tomate avec la spécialité des participants académique sera mise en place. The reproduction of the workshop in different academic contexts will enable us to consolidate the workshop process and maybe identify key elements to ensure an understanding of interdisciplinarity added value. The path-to-action contribution that is expected will be a web page where we will find the workshop proceedings and the results that will be obtained. The different graphical representations will be available online and will allow researchers to understand the academic understanding of interdisciplinarity.

Organizer : Claudine Gillot and Lou Grimal.

Link of the miro board with the different session : https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lMi0fVA=/ Thanks to all participants

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Thursday 03 Jun · 2021 12:00-14:00 CEST

Risk management as been one of the major deterrents to the spread of innovative urban ecology practices.

In the domain of circular economy for instance, the extension of the lifespan of a product through repair or reuse for new tasks, generates a major disturbance in the reliability models of finished goods used by technical controllers and insurance companies. In « circular » building projects, as well as in some urban water reuse projects, studies have been provided to evaluate risk. But the fact that each project has its very own material specificity (material degradation depends on contextual environmental and use conditions - water quality varies every day) requires new studies be performed often, along with an important communication effort.

Whether it takes place within specific professional practices (such as insurance business, land management, or administration) or through widely spread social norms (inadequate judicial responsibility standards, « zero risk » tolerance, bad reputation, etc.) there is a problem of « risk management » related to urban sustainability projects, which significantly increases the cost for local innovative projects and sometimes even prevents the spread of new urban standards.

A scientific and yet « actionable » discussion of this problem could follow three steps:

A first step could be to reflect on case studies for a variety of sustainable innovative urban projects and compare their development processes and results with intuitively associated risk standards (set by risk professionals or the general public). This step would allow us to qualify the type of disturbance in risk evaluation activities induced by these projects. Ideally three or four projects in different areas of urban ecology, circular economy, or other fields would generate a fruitful discussion. Having many types of qualitative documents (monographs, schemes, and even personal anecdotes of researchers) and quantitative evaluations (technical and risk analyses, balance sheets and budgets,…) at hand would help for this step.

A second step of the discussion could be to challenge these qualifications with other types of projects (including scientific studies applied to policy projects, social organizations, or businesses) in order to discover the boundaries of the first model.

A third step could be to brainstorm the most appropriate strategies for overcoming these problems, for instance by answering such questions as : • Do communication techniques work in most cases? • Could somes breaches in risk standards in different countries be used ? • What are the most used « reassuring » strategies used by local actors?

A leaflet could be produced after the discussion panel based on its key results in order to widely inform about this problem, and to offer key solutions. ISO and other standardization boards, international insurance unions, and associations could be the main targets of this document.

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Thursday 03 Jun · 2021 14:30-16:30 CEST

Submitted by: Shauhrat S Chopra E-mail: sschopra@cityu.edu.hk

Discussion hosted by Shauhrat S Chopra, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, David William VON EIFF

The next-generation engineer must be skilled in urban sustainability to lead the transition towards smart, green, and resilient cities. There is a need to develop urban sustainability curricula and courses at the high-school and undergraduate-level to introduce the complexities in urban social-ecological-technical systems. This need is especially exemplified in megacities from the global south, where the sustainability challenges are most evident and concerning. With the expansion of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platforms, such as edX, we find an opportunity to co-design an urban sustainability course with members from AScUS. The conference's international nature will allow us to stitch together a collaborative e-learning course that democratizes fundamental theoretical urban sustainability knowledge and shares successful infrastructure systems case-studies from cities across the globe.

Urban Sustainability is a complex field covering a wide range of topics from different fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This discussion session will engage attendees to develop an interdisciplinary urban sustainability MOOC. The session organizers will start the discussion by sharing their experience in this area. The same would be expected from the attendees as well. All participants will be encouraged to share their expertise with respect to the following questions: • What topics are key role players in building sustainable and resilient cities? • Whether these topics collectively form a curriculum? If so, what should be the basis or prerequisites? • Can it be offered as an e-minor to engineering Bachelor's degree programs at Universities and Colleges?

List of activities

Pre-conference: - Meeting to get to know all the participants in the discussion session. - Sharing the relevance of the chosen topic. - Identifying the skills that we consider essential to urban sustainability and resilience.

Conference: The three organizers will share the basic information about the skill gap in the context of urban sustainability. The room will be divided into four groups. Each group (maximum of five persons) will collectively discuss their views on a specific skill set related to urban sustainability with the aim to brainstorm the design of individual modules (theory, case-studies, speakers, activities, potential citizen science projects, etc.). Each group will have an organizer assigned to their breakout room to "guide" the activity (time-keeping and consensus building). Post-conference: - Define the path(s)-to-action and start putting the course together. - Final reflection on curriculum preparation. - Feedback from the participants.

Path(s)-to-action: - Application or proposal to launch a MOOC in partnership with a network of international organizations (such as ICLEI, ISIE, etc.) and universities.
- A perspective article to be published on urban sustainability education

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Thursday 03 Jun · 2021 17:30-18:30 CEST

Adedoyin Adeleke is the Founder-cum- Executive Director of the International Support Network for African Development (ISNAD-Africa) in Ibadan, Nigeria and currently doctoral researcher and research fellow within the UNESCO Chair in Energy for Sustainable Development at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

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Thursday 03 Jun · 2021 18:30-20:30 CEST

Developed as a concept to better understand material and resource flows in cities, urban metabolism was first introduced in the 1960s, and with advancements in the late 1990s to include the wider anthroposphere, urban metabolism studies continue to be developed today and include applications for sustainable urban design, greenhouse gas emissions and policy analysis. A historical review of the early urban metabolism diagrams points to the various ways of tracking material and resource flows, which include some of the early studies of 19th century Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Brussels, as examples. A learning activity in an upper year engineering course that introduces urban metabolism to students, invites them to draw urban metabolism diagrams for cities of their choice to demonstrate current conditions and for future conditions that include population growth by 2050. This learning exercise encourages students to identify linear flows, and introduce resource efficiency, technological innovations and sustainable infrastructure to turn linear flows to circular flows. This discussion topic will review elements of urban metabolism models, including some earlier examples of urban metabolism diagrams, compare current and future diagrams in global cities, and reflect on its application in engineering sustainable cities, and in urban planning and design.

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Friday 04 Jun · 2021 10:00-13:00 CEST

Discussion hosted by: Heather Rogers, Santiago Perez, Aodhan Newsholme, and Malgorzata Lekan

What does the future hold? Uncertainty challenges our ability to make informed decisions, yet the interconnected and complex nature of natural and socio technical systems is such that, over time, every intervention has consequences in particular realms of society. At the same time, these interconnections pose a great possibility to foster synergies between those systems. This is where the Circular Economy and the Circular Society paradigms are worthy of recognition as they help to explore such synergies from an interdisciplinary perspective. While it is often impossible to predict the implications of our actions today, there are tools that can help us overcome the creative-block of uncertainty and explore possibilities that lie ahead.

This session will explore uncertain futures through a collective storytelling exercise inspired by science fiction prototyping. Such methodology allows us to creatively explore the possibilities and implications of future scenarios. To begin with, the organisers will propose a baseline scenario created from their academic (and empirical) experience as researchers. That scenario will be the starting point of a collective science-fiction narrative, which will uncover our most profound questions, worries, dreams and strategies. Such an exercise enables us to co-create visions of resilient and sustainable futures when facing uncertainty. The interactive session will be followed by an engaging discussion revolving around the outcomes of the previous activity. All participants will be encouraged to contribute to the analysis of the co-created future sustainable scenarios, which may spark some of the following guiding questions:

• What recurring themes arise in the stories?
• What bottlenecks are in our co-envisioned road to circular economies and/or circular societies?
• What might some of the unintended consequences of our interventions be?
• How might our social systems adapt to manage the dangers/risks identified in the stories?
• What strategies for managing uncertainty can we see in these stories?

List of activities Pre-conference: - Meeting with the purpose of getting to know all the participants of the discussion session. - Sharing the relevance of the chosen methodology, its scientific foundations and its expected impact for research and practical work. - Collective reflection on the potential “paths-to-action”.

Conference: - The 4 organisers will share the baseline story with all the participants in the room. The room will be divided into four groups. Each group (maximum 5 persons) will collectively write a science-fiction narrative using the science fiction prototyping methodology. Each group will have an organiser in the room to “guide” the activity (time-keeping, solidarity). - Groups will be reconfigured and the stories will be shared among a new group of participants, followed by a guided discussion. . - Together, the 4 organisers will open the room for discussion. - Collective reflection on potential “paths-to-action”.

Post-conference: - Define the path(s)-to-action and start putting it together. - Final reflection on how this methodology can be useful for the participants' professional activities. - Feedback from the participants.

Path(s)-to-action: - Scientific article to be published - Application to a “call for projects/action” in partnership with local associations. - Vlog-post of the reading of the different fictions co-created (illustrated/animated?) - Podcast featuring co-created scenarios

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Friday 04 Jun · 2021 13:00-14:00 CEST

Hanna plays an active role in driving the circular economy in Scotland as a Senior Consultant for waste and resources consultancy Resource Futures. She has over 10 years’ experience in behaviour change and sustainability projects.

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Friday 04 Jun · 2021 14:30-16:30 CEST

The focus of the discussion topic proposal is the concept of Transformative Urban Projects (TUPs). With this session we propose to initiate an interdisciplinary interdisciplinary discussion among a variety of disciplines with the aim to co-develop a transdisciplinary proposal for an action plan for a selected TUP. To stimulate the discussion, we start with a conceptual map that will be enhanced, enriched and fine-tuned during the session. The debate would focus on efforts to 1) identify and better understand the multiple links and synergies among the different fields and disciplines, 2) suggest measures for facilitating inter-/transdisciplinary work, and 3) select a relevant TUP for joint work, according to the specific competences of the group members and the singularities of the cities (i.e, Madrid and Barcelona). Dedicated group dynamics techniques will be used to structure and facilitate the debate. These deliberative dynamics must adapt to the limitations posed by a virtual event.

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Friday 04 Jun · 2021 14:30-17:00 CEST

Complex ecological problems question all scientific disciplines. Sustainability and the study of technical systems for sustainability must be understood in a holistic way, otherwise some issues will be missed. The segmentation of science into disciplines can be a hindrance to dialogue between different scientific fields, making dialogue between different disciplines an additional effort for the researcher. Interdisciplinarity, in theory and practice, is often perceived as a risk for researchers (e.g. perceived as a difficulty of identification in a community). In order to make interdisciplinarity less abstract and demystify it, we propose an artistic workshop on it. This workshop would be two hours long, reproducible in any academic setting. The objective is to bring together researchers from different communities and make them reflect on a specific socio-technical system: the tomato. The tomato is a transversal object known to all. This object may seem very simple to anyone not working on it, but in fact hides a certain complexity that is not apparent at first glance. Researchers will be encouraged to : (1) individually graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity, (2) immerse themselves in the role of a tomato researcher (discipline assigned at the beginning of the workshop), (3) propose research questions that would allow researchers to interface with each other around a common scientific effort, (4) collectively graphically represent their vision of interdisciplinarity. A comparison of before and after graphical representations would allow us to see how a role play could decentralize the researcher from his own research to take him out of his daily problems and show the interest of interdisciplinarity. Finally, the objective of the workshop is to show the added value of an interdisciplinary approach around a research object. Afin d’assurer une immersion des participants dans leur rôle de chercheur spécialiste sur la tomate, une page internet sur un centre de recherche fictif sur la tomate avec la spécialité des participants académique sera mise en place. The reproduction of the workshop in different academic contexts will enable us to consolidate the workshop process and maybe identify key elements to ensure an understanding of interdisciplinarity added value. The path-to-action contribution that is expected will be a web page where we will find the workshop proceedings and the results that will be obtained. The different graphical representations will be available online and will allow researchers to understand the academic understanding of interdisciplinarity.

Organizer : Claudine Gillot and Lou Grimal.

Link of the miro board with the different session : https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lMi0fVA=/ Thanks to all participants

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Friday 04 Jun · 2021 17:30-19:00 CEST

Wrapping up and Closing Session:

• Resume of the principal outcomes from each Discussion Session and presentation of the (envisioned) Path-to-Action
• Voting of Best Discussion Session, best Conference Contribution and Most active Participant
• Award Ceremony - Awards for Best Discussion Session, best Conference Contribution and most active Participant
• Next steps and next year's conference

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The Topical Discussion Rooms act as a space for discussing your work and the conference contributions you submitted with people with similar interests. We will be using the wonder.me platform for this purpose, allowing people to stroll around in a virtual environment and to gather around landmarks ("rooms") that mark the topical area.

The following topical areas are available (though these are only indicative):

• Built environment
• Energy
• Food and Agriculture
• Sustainability
• Urban Transport
• Water
• Other

Just enter the room by clicking on the link and move around. When approaching another person, a conversation is established, indicated as a circle. Each conversation circle can hold 15 people, just like in offline events where most circles stay much smaller than 15 persons since guests appreciate more intimate conversations. When the circle is full, any user who wants to join is informed about the max and not allowed.

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We will be using the wonder.me platform for getting together in the breaks and after the official conference program has ended. It allows to spontaneously form groups for conversation and to approach people for a chat by strolling around in a virtual room.

So make sure you do not switch your computer off after the last session but to grab something to drink, connect to the bar room and have fun!

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