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- Dynamic Language Demands for Ecological Transition of Cities
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- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology : Inviting Cultural Vernaculars
- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology: Real-Time Updates to the Evolving Language of Urban Practice in Ecological Transition
- Innovation in Urban Transition Practice: Putting Transition in Place in Arcueil and the Plateau de Saclay
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Join SFU’s Centre for Sustainable Development on Friday, May 8, for a talk by Dr. Christian Lamker visiting from the University of Groningen (NL). Spatial planning debates attribute an increasing role to citizens in shaping urban futures, ranging from early participation to co-creation and citizen science. Citizens share or take over roles of professionals in research and practice, both opening tensions and productive pathways to sustainable futures. The talk will ponder on challenges for spatial planning to redefine roles between citizens and public professionals by zooming into urban green spaces in Groningen and the Netherlands. To conclude, it seeks to position citizens in realising post-growth planning futures in the Netherlands and wider Europe.
Contact: c.w.lamker@rug.nl, www.raumplaner.net
Social Media: @raumplaner
University staff profile: https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.w.lamker/
When: May 8 2026, 12 pm - 1:15 pm
Where: Harbour Centre Room 7000, Simon Fraser University
BYO lunch
Please join us on Monday, May 25, for a talk by Dr. Amanda Crump, Associate Professor of International Agricultural Development at University of California, Davis. Dr. Crump's team works to understand the kinds of policies that increase resiliency and empowerment among vulnerable agricultural populations, identify which resiliency strategies are already working, and develop novel extension and training approaches that lead to climate change resiliency.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Amanda Crump is Associate Professor in International Agricultural Development at University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the impacts of compounding disasters on vulnerable farmers. She and her research team work to create greater understanding of the constraints faced by vulnerable people who are involved in agriculture, research better strategies to increase the uptake of agricultural technologies by vulnerable groups, and develop better teaching strategies that increase critical thinking skills for U.S. university students who will become development practitioners and for farmers who engage in agricultural extension activities. Dr. Crump has managed over $40 million in international and domestic agricultural research projects and her mentees now work as gender equity specialists, program managers and evaluators throughout the world. She earned a PhD from University of California, Davis, a M.S. degree from Colorado State University, and a B.S. from the University of Idaho. Originally from a farm, Amanda spends her free time listening to music and playing with her dog Sam.
When: May 25 2026, 12 pm - 1:15 pm
Where: Harbour Centre Room 2270, Simon Fraser University
BYO lunch