Building urban resilience through the QUORUM project
The increasing frequency of natural disasters, especially in relation to water and climate change, emphasises the need to consolidate interdisciplinary collaboration towards transformative sustainable solutions. The project Quest for Urban Obdurate Resilience in Uncertain Milieus (QUORUM) addresses water and climate challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration. It has received funding from the Unite! Seed Fund for Teaching and Learning to design a study module plan addressing water-related urban challenges
Climate change has turned cities globally into uncertain milieus. This results in increasing pressure on education and research to support through interdisciplinary collaborations towards transformative sustainable solutions. In the QUORUM project, we explore co-designing an interdisciplinary module to address water-related challenges and focus on revisiting urban rivers as culturally embedded components and ecosystem service providers.
The Unite! seed fund enabled an interdisciplinary, international team to initiate the QUORUM project, which will explore innovative learning to address resilient water-related solutions within uncertain urban milieus
Christine Mady, Senior University Lecturer, Aalto University
The project’s outcome is a co-designed graduate-level student module plan, which is offered within different programmes, to support students’ collaborative, multicultural, interdisciplinary activities in addressing urban rivers’ sustainable transformations.