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Urban Climate in Megacities Symposium, Friday, May 12 
and Urban Climate Walk, Saturday, May 13

Fung Global Fellows Program
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)

 

Venue: Room A17, Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building / JRR, Princeton University

 

Programme: Friday May 12

11:00 – 13:00

Session 1: Understanding urban climate through modelling and measurements.

11:00 Introduction: Tania Sharmin, Fung Global Fellow 2022-23, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University

Speaker 1: Elie Bou-Zeid, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

                Title: A new skin for the city: innovations in materials to improve urban microclimates

Speaker 2: Andreas Matzarakis, Professor and Head, Research Centre Human Biometeorology, German Meteorological Service, Germany.

Title: Human-biometeorological facets in the success factors of Heat Health Action Plans

Speaker 3: Forrest Meggers Associate Professor, Architecture; Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

                Title: The Radiant Built Environment: The hidden dynamic nature of hot surfaces and the intense thermal radiation that goes overlooked in our cities

Speaker 4: Negin Nazarian, Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia

Title: TBC

12:15 – 13:00 Q/A and Discussion

 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

 

14:00 – 16:00

Session 2: Case study and context of megacities and challenges

14:00 Introduction: Tania Sharmin

Speaker 1: Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed, Professor, Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Bangladesh

Title: TBC

Speaker 2: Heba Allah Essam El-Din Khalil, PhD, Professor of Sustainable Urbanism, Department of Architectural Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

Title: Advocating for urban climate responsive interventions in megacities: Cairo Case

Speaker 3: Marialena Nikolopoulou, Professor of Sustainable Architecture, Kent School of Architecture & Planning, University of Kent, UK.

Title: Commodifying the thermal dimension of space; addressing adaptive capacity and social inequality in cities

Speaker 4: Anu Ramaswami, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Title: TBC

15:15 – 16:00 Q/A and Discussion

 

16:00 – 16:30 Tea

 

16:30 – 18:00

Session 3: Solutions and opportunities: How research can help

16:30 Introduction: Tania Sharmin

Speaker 1: Koen Steemers, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK.

Title: Experiencing the Urban Climate

Speaker 2: Gerald Mills, Professor School of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Title: Current and projected climate risks in large global cities

17:15 – 17:50 Q/A and Discussion

17:50 – Concluding remarks by Gerald Mills

 

 

Urban Climate Walk, Saturday, May 13

 

Venue: meet in PIIRS, room 161; Louis A. Simpson International Building; Princeton University

Programme: Saturday, May 13

 

10:00 – 13:00

Moderated by – Gerald Mills, Professor School of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Co-ordinated by - Tania Sharmin

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