Global and rapidly growing urbanization leads to numerous challenges and problems, but also fosters innovative and sustainable opportunities and solutions. A new generation of creatives embraces these opportunities for transformation, using research, participative planning methods, and art and design as action tools.
The International Affairs Dossier of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) would like to look into these phenomena as part of an event dedicated to the transformation process of cities from different aspects and in different regions. To that end, three experts will present their approaches that imply urban and environmental transformation, which both enable social development.