Webinar #13 in the RECLAIM Network Webinar Series took place on the 7th June 2023.
Webinars will share best-practice and facilitate knowledge exchange between practitioners, researchers, policymakers, businesses, environmental groups, charities and individuals interested in implementation of green-blue-grey infrastructure for making our vulnerable living spaces more healthy, sustainable and resilient.
Speakers
Dr Andrea Berardi
Co-Director,
Cobra Collective CIC
Title of the talk: “GBGI participatory co-design with marginalised communities ”
Biography
Dr Andrea Berardi successfully spearheaded the inclusion of a 'Green Corridor' policy within Neighbourhood Planning through a community-led participatory process. In this secondment, he has worked with Spelthorne Borough Council to scale-up his participatory GBGI co-design approach at borough-level in order to engage with the needs and desires of local stakeholders, especially low-income and vulnerable communities. In this seminar Andrea will present his GBGI participatory and systemic co-design approach and will showcase videos produced by community members of the co-design process.
Gillian Dick
Spatial Planning Manager - Research & Development Glasgow City Council
Title of the talk: “Taking a Place-based approach using nature-based solutions to create climate adaptive places”
Biography
Gillian has a BSc (Hons) in Town Planning from Heriot-Watt University and BSc (Hons) in Human Geography from the Open University. She is a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and currently the Chair of the Partnership and Accreditation Panel. She is the RTPI nominate rep on the Technical University Dublin Partnership Board, where she is the vice-chair. She previously had a similar role with Queens University Belfast.
Gillian had a lead role for the Council within the Horizon 2020 Connecting Nature project, where Glasgow was one of the front runner cities. Gillian was also on the European practioner review panel for the IPCC 6 Climate Change report summary for practioners .
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