workshop series
Forest-City-River: Transforming Regional Climate Models into Local Climate Knowledge for Decision Making
bielefeld university
germany
The workshop series inquires how science transforms society by looking at how regional climate models are translated into knowledge that can be used to adapt forest, cities, and rivers to the climate crisis. While philosophers have analyzed the trustworthiness of and uncertainty in regional climate models within science, sociologists of science have focused both on the co-production and the usability of such models at the interfaces between science, politics and society.
Inter and transdisciplinary dialogue
Climate science
Dr. Philip Lorenz
Prof. Silha Klepp
Policy-Urban and spatial planning
-Dr. Martin Kowarsch
- Sophie Holtkötter, MA
- Dr. Jörg-Peter Schmitt
Philosophy and sociology of science
- Prof. Anna Leuschner
- Dr. Rick Hölsgens
- Prof. Dr. Holger Straßheim,
- Prof. Dr. Silke Beck
-Dr. Joe Russos
-Dragana Bojovic
- Dr. Corey Dethier
- Dr. Liam Heaphy
-Dr. Marina Baldissera
- Constanze Schmidt, MA
Movement -driven research
-Meera Karunanathan
About the participants
The goal is to provide doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy or sociology of science with the status quo in debates about downscaling climate models, usefulness and trustworthiness of climate science, co-production of climate knowledge, interdisciplinary collaborations and transdisciplinary approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation. Participants will improve their skills to analyze case studies, exchange ideas across disciplinary boundaries, and connect to knowledge translators and knowledge users in forestry, urban planning and water management.
Pascal Renaud
Pascal is a PhD researcher at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy at the University of Freiburg. He is part of the collaborative EU research project “LEARNFORCLIMATE – Learning to realize multiple forest policy objectives under climate related stress and disturbance”, which compares case studies in Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden. His research focuses on public policy analysis and collaborative learning processes related to climate change mitigation and adaptation in European forests.
Scholars
Eva Backhaus
Eva is a philosopher, psychologist and biologist. She finished her PhD in 2022 with a thesis on action, perception and entanglement. Currently, she works as a post-do at the CRC „Intervening Arts“ at FU Berlin.
Francesco Nappo
Francesco is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematics at Politecnico di Milano, specializing in the ethics and epistemology of mathematical modeling in science. Starting June 2023, Francesco will be a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Politecnico di Milano with a new project on the ethics of mathematical modeling, with specific reference to integrated assessment models of climate change.
Claire Gallacher
Claire is doctoral fellow at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School working on the topic of urban heat and thermal comfort mapping for evidence-based urban planning. She aims to create an interdisciplinary and user-friendly approach for the case study of Dresden, Germany which uses both meteorological data from a novel, low-cost mobile climate monitoring device and mobile pedestrian thermal comfort questionnaire.
Clarissa Ai Ling Lee
Clarissa is presently a visiting fellow with the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen: Cultures of Research at RWTH-Aachen University. She works at the intersection of STS, history and philosophy of science and technology, media studies and cultural studies. Her research at the RWTH will focus on how climate disasters within the Southeast Asian context has always been transnational, further augmented by how social media platforms have become the tool for crowdsourcing ‘informal’ climate disaster data.
Ryan Habeeb
Riyan is a PhD research scholar at Faculty of Architecture, TU Dresden under DLGS Fellowship funded by Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development. Prior to this he was working as an urban planner and architect in the field of research, academia and professional practice in India. His work focuses on action-based research on climate change adaptation and resilience through nature-based solutions and alternative building technologies integrating social and ecological responses in urban planning, policy and praxis.
Killian Jörg
Kilian works at the multimedia interfaces between art and philosophy. Academically trained in both fields, he employs the expression of text as well as those of installation, performance, and music. His main field of research is that of ecological epistemology and life forms, as well as the trans-disciplinary borders between arts, philosophy and science. He is part of the performance research clusters “Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration” and im_flieger and his PhD was titled “Affirmation of Ecological Reasonings – What to do with Reasonability in the Anthropocene?“.
Eduardo Prado Gutierrez
Eduardo is currently a doctoral fellow at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School, He is a candidate for a doctoral degree in Sociology, and is currently researching the interaction of science and policy networks in processes for long-term climate planning in municipalities. Eduardo also holds a MA in Sociology and a BA in Economics, both awarded by the State University of Campinas (Brazil), where he has previously participated in interdisciplinary research groups concerned with the social dimensions of global environmental change.
Workshop I: Uncertainty and the co-production of usable climate knowledge in forestry and urban planning
Day 1
March 8,
2023
The production, translation, and use of climate knowledge in forest
planning
Day 2
March 9, 2023
Philosophy and sociology of climate science and the case of urban
climate models
Day 3
March 10, 2023
Social innovation and epistemic issues in using urban models for
decision making
Workshop II: Climate science and water management in times of epistemic and
political uncertainty
Day 1
July 13,
2023
Prediction of and protection from flood events under uncertainty
Day 2
July 14, 2023
Limits and prospects of interdisciplinary approaches to climate risks
in water areas
Contact Us
Organizers
Dr. Philipp Haueis, Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science, University of Bielefeld
Contanze Schmidt M.A., Scientific Advisor Strategic Research Field Development Climate Adaptation,
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Karla Garcia M.A., Student Assistant, University of Bielefeld
With the support of
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