Note: Registration is Closed.
Multidisciplinary Geodesign Workshop Jan. 21 & 23, 2025
Note: Registration is Closed.
Multidisciplinary Geodesign Workshop
for
Strategic Global Climate Change Mitigation
No prerequisites except willingness to think BIG; basic computer skills will be sufficient. You will need a laptop computer with WiFi.
Open to all Harvard Community, from all disciplines and all geographic regions. In-person at Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. For questions or more info,
email: geodesignclimateworkshop@gsd.harvard.edu
1/20 Registration is Closed.
Workshop Schedule
1:30p - 6:30p
Overview of the Workshop
The International Geodesign Collaboration has initiated and developed a geodesign project directed at making and testing the technological support to make a science-guided global design directed at mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sinks so that the climate can be changed to below zero carbon emissions.
The IGC Global to Local to Global Geodesign (GLG) team, working with assistance from Esri and Geodesignhub.com, has designed, developed and initially tested a new workflow and support technology for geodesign moving from global to local to global scales, and in projected changing conditions between now and 2050. See https://igcglg.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
The workflow and technology which GLG has developed supports making global to local, multi- jurisdictional geodesign studies. It recognizes multiple, independent decision models and their designs based on sub-regional climate-defined planning units or jurisdictions of any study area, including if there is only one such decision model.
On Day 1, Tuesday Jan 21, participants will be assigned to represent different specific global regions, and will use computer software to assign viable climate mitigation actions to their assigned regions over the entire globe, in a timetable based on a menu of choices and data provided by the GLG team. Over Wednesay, Jan 22, consultants will remotely prepare a global climate mitigation design based on the several local Gantt charts developed on Day 1. On Day 2, Thursday Jan 23, we will analyze and discuss that global plan, and then engage in one round of negotiation and improvement, evaluating trade-offs and dilemmas in the process, thus simulating the multiple-jurisdictional planning which would be necessary to prepare and potentially fund and implement a Global Climate Change Mitigation plan.
Carl Steinitz
Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He began his affiliation with Harvard in 1965 as a research associate in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. He is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. His applied research and teaching focus is on methods to design for the future of large and highly valued landscapes that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. He is principal author of Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes (Island Press, 2003) and author of A Framework for Geodesign, (Esri Press, 2012). Professor Steinitz has lectured and given workshops at more than 180 universities. He has received several international and professional honors and is a co-founder of the International Geodesign Collaboration. He coordinates the IGC Global to Local to Global climate mitigation project.
Stephen Ervin
Stephen Ervin is the (retired) Assistant Dean for Information Technology, and Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He has taught and published on applications of information / technology in landscape planning and design; co-authored Landscape Modeling: Digital Approaches (McGraw-Hill 2001); received a Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Geodesign Pioneer” from Esri (2012); and has co-taught geodesign workshops and studios worldwide together with Carl Steinitz for many years.
Pedro Arsénio
Pedro Miguel Ramos Arsénio is the Coordinator of the Portuguese Herbarium João de Carvalho e Vasconcellos (Index Herbariorum Code: LISI), and teaches at the University of Lisbon - School of Agronomy, Department of Landscape Architecture. As a Researcher in LEAF – Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Centre, as well as its associate Laboratory TERRA, his research mostly focuses on applied geobotany, namely flora and vegetation mapping. As a member of the Portuguese Vegetation Science Association (PHYTOS), he has organized several scientific meetings and geobotanical excursions. He is the scientific co-editor of a book on Portuguese flora and co-author of 26 articles in international scientific journals. He is a member of the International Geodesign Collaboration, and team member in the IGC Global to Local to Global climate mitigation project.
Tijana Dabović
Tijana Dabović is Full Professor at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Geography, Serbia. Her research spans the fields of spatial planning theory, planning education, land use planning and geodesign. She is the author of the National Spatial Development Strategies (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, 2008), and the Planning Theory textbook (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, 2017), and author or co-author of 100 articles. She participated in spatial planning projects at all levels in Serbia, and coordinated several geodesign studies in Serbia and abroad. She is the 2023 – 2026 Chair of the Excellence in Education Board of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the European representative in the International Geodesign Collaboration (IGC) since 2021. She received the Danubius Mid-Career Award from the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe and the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Research in 2021. She is a team member of the IGC Global to Local to Global climate mitigation project.