Date:  6th - 10th April, 2015

Location: University of São Paulo (USP) - FEA, IRI, FAU, IEE

 

Transforming large cities into sustainable and livable regions represents one of the greatest challenges of our times. Rapid and compact urbanization courses of action have been responsible for the creation of a myriad of megacities around the globe. This development has led to heavily populated areas with a significant public overload on urban intrastructure. The sacrifice of green areas is intrinsically connected with the damage of natural environments for cities in terms of climate change, biodiversity, water management and food production, not to mention the rise of serious socio-economic problems emanating thereof.

 

Berlin is Germany’s largest city and has a long tradition in urban gardening, recycling, solid waste management, as well as wastewater recycling. For this purpose, the Humboldt University and the University of São Paulo have created  a forum of research and discussion - KOSMOS Workshop - comprised of professors and students, in order to assess the challenges of livable and sustainable cities, from the viewpoint of risks, challenges and opportunities.

 

The KOSMOS Workshop will introduce integrated green technologies geared towards the preservation and creation of green infrastructure and biodiversity in urban areas, including sustainable food production teamed with energy, water and waste management, as well as innovation, ecological design and urban farming. Solutions can only arise from a joint effort at the economic, political government and individual levels, in a close relationship with academic research. Therefore, international scientific cooperation in environmental education is necessary in order to explore the new challenges and to unveil joint solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Auditório FAU

 

Welcome Profa. Dra. Maria Angela Faggin Pereira Leite, Director FAU-USP

 

Introduction USP  Profa. Dra. Maria Cecilia Loschiavo, FAU-USP

 

Introduction HU      

Prof. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, President of Humboldt University

Prof. Heide Hoffmann, HU Berlin, Focus: Ecological and urban agriculture

Prof. Cornelia Oschmann, HU Berlin, Focus: Urban Green

Prof. Marcel Robischon, HU Berlin, Focus: Environmental Education

Prof. Frank Riesbeck, HU Berlin, Focus: Energy and Waste

Jasmin Sepahzad, HU Berlin, Researcher at USP IEE

 

SP KOSMOS Program  Eng. Volker Minks, M.A. Agricultural Engineering, PhD candidate HU Berlin

 

 

 (discussion of possibilities of cooperation between USP and HU with professor, researchers and students from USP)

 

Presentation Prof. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, President of Humbokdt University

 

Moderation Prof. Joaquim Guilhoto, Deputy Dean FEA-USP

                    Dr. Gerson Damiani, Executive Coordinator

 

 

 

FAU - Sala da Congregação

 

Introduction  Prof. Paulo Pellegrino, FAU-USP

 

               Eng. Volker Minks, M.A. Agricultural Engineering, PhD candidate HU Berlin

 

Green areas are the natural habitats of flora and fauna, but are constantly in danger of being destroyed. The use of urban land has become ecologically unbalanced, with currently affects the biodiversity as well as the relationship between city, people and the environment. The lecture introduces the students to forms and effects of green urban design, innovative ecological design technologies and possibilities for urban agriculture and horticulture production for food security that helps render the urban environment sustainable, crucial to addressing the economic, demographic, social and environmental challenges in cities such as the case of Berlin.

 

Discussion

 

                 Prof. Cornelia Oschmann, HU Berlin

 

The lecture introduces students to the impacts of Climate Change on green areas, and adaptation strategies (i.e. selecting new street trees in urban areas, based on Berlin). Other topics include extensive green roofs substrates for filtering of heavy metals, storage and re-use of water.

 

Discussion

 

 

Location: Meet in front of the Centro Cultural São Paulo

 

                    Green roof project with a community garden on the tp

 

Moderation Prof. Martin Grossmann, Director IEA-USP

                    André Biazoti, Project Coordination Institute 5 Elementos

 

 

 

Location: FEA1, Sala da Congregação

 

Welcome Prof. Marco Antonio Zago, President USP

                 Prof. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, President HU Berlin

 

Introduction Prof. Joaquim Guilhoto, Deput Dean FEA-USP

                       Dr. Gerson Damiani, Executive Coordinator

 

Prof. Heide Hoffmann, HU Berlin

         

Green within the city - opportunities and limits of agriculture in urban ecosystems. The todays urban challenges and opportunities concerning space, contamination hazards, ecological, economical and social aspects. Urban agriculture and horticulture provide multiple functions and benefits to urban dwellers and cities. Their advantages are manifold: improved climate, biodiversity, healthy nutrition, reduced loss of food due to inadequate transport and storage, poverty reduction through income opportunities and possible own consumption, education, leisure, and a greener livable city with all its ecological benefits. This lecture discusses the potential and the specific situation of agriculture and horticulture activities for food production in cities.

 

Moderation TBA

 

Commentator Prof. Maria Cecilia Loschiavo, FAU-USP

 

 

Location: IEE, Sala de Seminários

 

Prof. Cornelia Oschmann, HU Berlin

 

Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role to protected wild capture fisheries and in contribution to global food security. Presently almost half of the total fish and shellfish consumption is produced by aquaculture. The challenge is to provide sustainable production to meet the increasing demand for nutritious food. Aquaculture also has its risks through overload and destruction of mangroves forests. Sustainable and innovative methods are required in order to produce greater quantities of high quality food and adapt to climate change and increasing resources scarify. Aquaponic gardening links aquaculture with hydroponic vegetable production.

 

Henrique Kefalás and Joaquim Alves da Silva Junior, Project Initiators and Master Students at PROCAM/IEE/USP

     

 

 

Location: IRI, Sala da Congregação

 

Prof. Suani Teixeira Coelho, IEE-USP

 

Prof. Frank Riesbeck, HU Berlin

 

Biomass as alternative energy resources is worldwide in focus of discussion in the context to food and energy production from agricultural areas. Municipal, rural or agro industrial organic residues to use for energy production is a more acceptable solutions for energy production from biomass! The workshop will discuss chances, possibilities and technologies with worldwide examples.

 

Discussion

                         

Prof. Marcel Robischon, HU Berlin

 

This lecture discusses the potential and the specific roles of gardens and areas subject to mostly natural dynamics as learning spaces in environmental education.

 

Discussion

 

Location: TBA

 

Trip 2     Option 1 - Horta das Corujas (Horta Comunitária, Vila Beatriz)

              Option 2 - Parque do Ibirapuera (Viveiro Manequinho Lopes)

 

 

 

Location: IRI, Sala da Congregação

 

Prof. Marcel Robischon, HU Berlin

 

Environmental education aims at enabling learners to be future decision makers in an environmental context. Considering the systemic character of human-environmental systems there is, however, an extreme uncertainty in decisions and actions - an aspect environmental education has to take into consideration.

 

Discussion

 

Prof. Heide Hoffmann, HU Berlin

 

The Lecture gives an overview on the philosophy and the application area of Permaculture. In the outdoor exercise, students will experience the philosophy of Permaculture. We will train the planning stages, according to a permaculture point of view. Group work.

 

Discussion

 

Group and individual meetings and student consultations.

 

 

 

USP - FEA/IRI    Dr. Gerson Damiani 

USP FAU            Prof. Dr. Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos

USP FAU            Prof. Dr. Paulo Pellegrino

USP IEE             Prof. Dr. Sylmara Lopes F. Gonçalves Dias

HU Berlin            Priv. Doz. Dr. Heide Hoffmann

HU Berlin            Dipl. Ing. Agr. Volker Minks