Urban Heat Island Living – Designing Sustainable Urban Futures
Urban Heat Island Living – Designing Sustainable Urban Futures
First signs of urban heat islands were observed as early as 1810, but it was not until the great heatwave of 2024 that people started creating their own ways of dealing with them.
In this futures-based workshop, we will co-create sustainable urban futures and bring them to your city.
Wearing happy compression socks, pulling sun-reflecting curtains closed, and wild mushroom foraging in urban microclimates were just a few of the examples of their new creations and activities. How did these play out?
Urban Heat Island Living is a futures-based workshop that invites the audience to co-create sustainable urban futures and bring them to their city.
Requirements for participants
Zoom.us application for video streaming with free account. Working from a laptop (rather than a smartphone or tablet) is recommended.
Please check your Zoom setting before the event starts - https://zoom.us/test
Juli Sikorska
Juli is an independent researcher, strategic & experience designer. On a quest to understand what a complex issue like the climate crisis mean for us, she takes cues from creative fields like product and critical design to generate actionable insights and identify opportunities for interventions within systemic issues. She enjoys creating products, services and stories to envision and immerse ourselves in more desirable futures.
In the product design world, she has led an ethnographic research project on clean energy and microfinance, worked on an open innovation platform at the MIT Climate CoLab, and strategic design projects in investments and telecommunications for established global players and tech startups alike.
Her creative practice has led Juli from music journalism at a German public-service alternative radio to turning citizens’ feedback to the German Chancellery into visual stories, to designing out noise in cities. Her work has been exhibited at the Design Museum (UK) and South London Gallery (UK).
Juli studied human-computer-interaction and environmental studies at LMU and MIT and graduated from the CDTM entrepreneurship program.