“TRANSFORMERS. Steering urban transition towards sustainability and resilience”

is about the role and agency of cities to reach climate neutrality, combining this change with social and economic progress. The project focuses on the interrelation and dynamics between urban fabric and society, and establishes a joint search for new transformative knowledge.

•Circular Urbanism: asks for new knowledge and models of design-thinking and co- design for a circular paradigm on an urban level and for urban regeneration, using bio- innovation in terms of bio-regional systems, linked to the green transition of the larger design and construction sector.

•Community Making: asks for new knowledge and models for community activation, engagement, and participation linked to urban transition processes and a sustainable turn in architecture, and targets in particular attractiveness for young people, integration of new inhabitants, and social entrepreneurship in green and digital business models. •Architecture for Just Transition: asks for new knowledge and models to redesign, renovate, and reactivate public buildings, housing, and public space, to realise energy-efficiency in particular in historic centres, and to answer to social inclusiveness, accessibility, new digitally driven models of life and work, and a new aesthetic of shared common spaces.

Thank you for the invitation to Università degli Studi di Palermo Barbara Lino Maurizio Carta Federica Scaffidi Daniele Ronsivalle Annalisa Contato,

to Leibniz Universität Hannover Jörg Schröder,

to Univpm Università Politecnica delle Marche Maddalena Ferretti and to Giuseppe Cacioppo major of Sambuca for hosting us.

Partners:
Leibniz University Hannover
Faculty of Architecture and Landscape
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
University of Palermo
Department of Architecture
Cooperating partner:
City of Sambuca di Sicilia