Join us for a screening of a film that highlights issues at the intersection of urban change and climate change.
This film was produced by a group of students led by Dr Giulio Verdini and it featured at a Pre-COP26 meeting in Milan 'Youth 4 Climate' in September 2021.
At this in-person event, the students involved and Dr Verdini will tell us more about this SCUE funded project and its outcomes. This will be followed by a general discussion about how built environment professionals, academics and students can work effectively with urban communities to design climate-resilient cities.
About the speakers
Giulio Verdini
Giulio Verdini is Reader at the School of Architecture and Cities of the University of Westminster and Director of the BA Designing Cities: Planning and Architecture. He is moreover Visiting Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Ben Guerir, in Morocco. Prior to that, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China (2010-2016), and founder Co-Director of the XJTLU Research Institute of Urbanisation (2013 – 2016). His research is broadly focused on culture and sustainable urban and rural development, with a particular focus on China and the Global South. He is the Editor of the Routledge Book Series 'Planning, Heritage and Sustainability' and a member of the editorial board of 'Built Heritage'.
He regularly serves as an expert for international organisations such as UNESCO, WHITRAP Shanghai, UN-HABITAT. He was one of the lead contributors of the UNESCO Global Report 'Culture for Sustainable Urban Development' (2016) and principal investigator of the UNESCO Report 'Culture 2030 I Rural-Urban Development. China at a glance' (2019). He is currently an affiliate of the UN-HABITAT 'Planners for Climate Action' Initiative.
He was a visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale, CNRS - Centre d'Etudes sur la Chine Moderne et Contemporaine in Paris (2013); a visiting research fellow of the Alfa Program, EU-Latin America Cooperation, at the Institute of Urban Theory, Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay (2005); Visiting Scholar at XJTLU, in China (2016-2019).
Over the years, Dr. Verdini has combined his research activities with planning consultancy in Europe and China. He graduated in Architecture and holds a PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara in Italy.
