Climate-oriented Planning – From tipping points to shifts in planning

Climate change is becoming increasingly tangible for humans and regions. In the UN Action Plan "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development," the member states of the United Nations committed to working toward 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030 - at the national, regional and international level. In this context, cities and municipalities are important partners for the implementation of climate protection and climate change adaptation measures. As part of spatial development planning, municipalities define medium- and long-term goals such as intended development areas (settlement development), future building land requirements, the functional arrangement of open spaces as well as planned measures in the fields of technical, social and cultural infrastructure, and communicate these through a plan.

In this course, integrative spatial planning projects developed by students in their previous project work are merged with information from climate modeling, tested and evaluated for their climate suitability based on self-developed criteria. Building on this retrospective evaluation of their own planning decisions under the aspect of climate protection, the planning is reworked with the objective of "100 percent (priority for) climate protection". True to the motto "We must now do the seemingly impossible" which Greta Thunberg has issued.