The Challenge

There is a growing understanding of the urgency for planning-related actors to tackle the complex issues relating to climate change, the overuse of resources, and the associated local and global urban health impacts, and in parallel, to strengthen their own resilience. Furthermore, although the planning community experiences that urban planning can facilitate a change of paradigm towards sustainability, it still faces barriers in producing work that tackles climate-change issues and encourages environmental sustainability. The primary challenge in this goal is the lack of systemic collaboration in planning-related higher education with their surrounding knowledge ecosystems of practice and policy actors to co-create the crucial knowledge on forward-looking transdisciplinary planning perspectives and the required green, digital, and intercultural skills to address climate change and urban life in the post-pandemic city.