UNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage and UrbanismUNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage and UrbanismWorldwide, cities and regions are affected by structural changes and face comprehensive transformation processes. Adaptation to climate change, rural exodus, management of resources and resilience as well as the co-productive design of city and regions count fort he major challenges for a sustainable and inclusive transformation.
Thus, cities are victims and causes of many problems likewise the climate crisis. The provocations, going along with this, do not come to a halt at the boundaries of countries. The universities have to carry more than ever the role to develop bases of knowledge for resolving burning problems and to generate concepts for implementation – beyond individual interests and with a lot of foresight.
Envisaging this background, the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Urbanism aims to strengthen the education of students, the funding of scientific offspring and of the exchange of knowledge about methods for assuring the material and immaterial cultural heritage in the context of global challenges for urbanization and sustainability.
The goals of the UNESCO may be mediated to the next and second next generation by a well set entanglement of education, research and appliance; they may equally become a self-understood aim of designing the future of our cities and regions.
Questions about the identity and appropriateness for future need to be responded in a valid way by a position of close joining forces with the origins of built form and of culture in place.
Christa Reicher, Head of Chair
UCCU wants to face the challenge, to support and develop the transfer of knowledge about the symbiotic relationship between questions about space, building culture and the (im-) material heritage of built structures on all the levels of scale of urban transformation and of urban and regional planning.
Head of Chair
Coordination
Coordination
Coordination
Dr. Fabio Bayro Kaiser, Canan Çelik, Prof. Dr. Veronica Donoso, Dr. Andrea Haase, Christine Hahn, Sarah Hermens, Dr. Liliana Iuga, Prof. Annelie Klasen-Habeney, Stefan Krapp, Andreas Klozoris, Marc Maurer, Nicole Maurer, Margrit Miebach, Christian Larisch, Dr. Javier Ostos Prieto, Hanna Potulski, Dr. Antonia Rubarth, Dr. Ceren Sezer, Anne Söfker-Rieniets, Dr. Maram Tawil, Caner Telli, Laura Vonhoegen, Dr. Jannik Wendorff, Prof. Rolf Westerheide
According to the international agreements about climate protection and sustainability, the UCCU provides already to date essential contributions within the three fields Teaching, Research and Transfer towards the space-becoming of the futures of tomorrow, specifically oriented on the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der AGENDA 2030.
A „culture of sustainability“ means imagining, formulating and negotiating new values, attitudes and ways of living through cultural processes.
Christine Merkel and Lutz Möller, German Commission for UNESCO 2017
Team Competencies of the UCCU Team
The foci of the individual team-member enrich the bundled team competence of UCCU and thus become a win-bringing contribution to sustainable development.
