Transforming the Built Environment Implementing Change and Transformation in the Built and Urban Environment to Meet the Unsdgs

Join us for a dynamic workshop where stakeholders from academia, business, government, and NGOs explore sustainable transformation strategies for the built environment to achieve the UN SDGs by 2030. Develop actionable roadmaps for regional contexts.

Holger Wallbaum

Facilitator

November 7, 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00

Multipurpose room 16

Chalmers University Gothenburg

Sweden

English

Reference:

TE 16-03

WUF12

Training Events

Summary

Through a facilitated discussion in a workshop format, participants will collectively explore and learn about implementation strategies and measures for transforming policy and practice in different regional contexts. The event aims to develop adapted transformative roadmaps to transition from current practices to the built and urban environment scenario envisioned for 2030, with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achieved. Beneficiaries include experts from various fields connected to the Built Environment.

Objectives

The participants will develop an understanding (a scenario) of what the built and urban environment would be like if the UN SDGs were met in their world region in 2030.
Learning objectives:
- Rethink approaches to processes and methods concerning buildings and urban development.
- Identify and respond to barriers and successes of strategic change related to the implementation of the SDGs in the built environment.
- Encourage cities and local communities to develop Voluntary Local Reviews of SDG progress