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Program

October 17th

08:30
Registration
09:30
Official Conference opening (CMP/UP)
  • Cláudia Fernandes – Chair of the Organizing Committee
  • Filipe Araújo – Vice Mayor Porto City Council
  • Ana Cristina Freire – Dean of the School of Sciences, University of Porto
  • João Ceregeiro – President of the Landscape Association of Landscape Architects
10:00
Nigel Dunnett

Transformational Urban Gardens: A 'People-First' Approach to Nature in Cities.

10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Claudia West

Rebuilding Abundance: Shaping Future Nature with Planting

11:45
Salvador Rueda

Urban renaturalization with the superblock model

12:15
Questions and Answers

Facilitators: Frederico Meireles and Catarina Teixeira

13:00
Lunch free
15:00
Anna Lena Hahn

Maintenance is Mastery: Bringing Design into Action in Urban Green Spaces

15:30
Noel Kingsbury

Wild in the City? The potential and challenges of Mediterranean vegetation in urban environments

16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
Robert Ryan

Urban Greening to connect people to place: challenges and opportunities for healthier cities

17:00
Joan Nassauer

Making urban greening sustainable by anticipating public response

17:30
Questions and Answers

Facilitators: Isabel Martinho da Silva and Gonçalo Andrade