How to combine cultural heritage protection with climate and sustainability strategies
This course unit presents sustainable urban renewal strategies in quarters of historical and cultural significance. It showcases how urban renewal and development can happen within the existing stock of buildings which either keep their original function (e.g. housing), or are converted for new functions (e.g. formerly administrative buildings). The intention is to preserve history while preparing them for a more resource efficient, resilient and carbon-neutral future. The unit discusses interdependencies of ecological urban renewal and cultural heritage. It showcases both, “High Culture” as much as “Daily Life Culture”, the latter shaping behaviors of people and identities of places, thus being an important potential to increase awareness for ecological transformation.