University of Stuttgart, Institute of Sport and Exercise Science / Chair of Sports and Health Sciences, 08./09.11.2017: “Shaping the city of the future: Lifelong mobility independent of weather conditions”. Meeting organized by the junior research group “autonomMOBIL”.

Conference Content

08.11.2017

Morning:

• Satellite Workshop: “Building Bridges for Sustainable Urban Health”
  (Prepared by the project “UrbanHealth” in the research program “City of the Future – Healthy, Sustainable Metropolises”, in cooperation with the Committee “Urban Health” of the Society for Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Prevention – GHUP)

Afternoon:

• Keynote, Atiya Mahmood (Vancouver, CA): “Growing old in a changing climate”
• Research groups and other projects, funded in the research program “City of the Future” (Bielefeld, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Berlin)
• Public lecture, Jan Gehl (Copenhagen, DK): “Liveable cities for the 21st century”
  

 09.11.2017

• Sites of action – visiting, exploring and experiencing them:
  • Places of Stuttgart
  • “Damn hot here” (exercise lab, equipped as climate chamber)
  • New pathways in the district
  • A new neighborhood emerges
  • Fishbowl Format: Exchange of experience
• Panel discussion involving science, practice and the audience: The future of the city in the light of “great societal challenges”

Related Links:

• Event Flyer
• Conference-Poster on the website of the junior research group autonomMOBIL (archived version, 25.04.17)
• The conference on the website of the junior research group autonomMOBIL (archived version, 18.11.2018)