Project description
Understanding the temporality of urban transitions
Cities are required to respond to climate change challenges by ensuring sustainable use of resources and adopting long-term policies to mitigate global warming. Current networked data infrastructures facilitate the daily management and meet climate goals. However, the finding of recent research reveals that these infrastructures are not able to block irreversible damage from climate change, and that climate plans must be revised and sustainability targets subjected to new scenarios. The EU-funded INFRATIME project will develop an advanced method to understand in combination the temporality and rhythm of urban transitions and smart urbanism. It will provide adequate knowledge to better re-temporalise urban transformations and adaptability to meet the new climate targets.
Objective
The agenda set by climate change is urgent and accelerating, and cities are at the forefront to respond to climate change effects, to harness the resources for sustainable transitions and to adopt long-term policies and strategies for viable urban futures by 2030-2050. At the same time, existing networked data infrastructures allow the everyday management of cities (e.g. mobility, energy, water) and also interact with the efforts to achieve the climate targets. Yet, most recent scientific evidence shows that the sustainability efforts are jeopardised by existing infrastructures and a further effort is needed already by 2030 to stop irreversible damage from climate change. Subsequently, cities need to revise their climate plans, anticipating their actions and aligning their sustainability goals to the new scenarios. The tensions between the urgent agenda of climate change, the testing of sustainable urban futures and the actual ICT infrastructures already in place for urban management produce multiple temporal interferences that influence the paths towards sustainability. Through INFRATIME, I will develop an innovative approach to understand the combined temporality and rhythm of urban transitions and smart urbanism. In so doing, I intend to offer relevant insights to better re-temporalize urban transformations to the climate change agenda. The partnership between the University of Bologna (IT) as Beneficiary and the University of Tokyo (JP) as Third Country organisation, including the planned inter-sectoral secondment in Nordregio (SE), will offer the ideal platform to pursue the research objectives. The Fellowship will thus ensure international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary training and supervision at the highest standards, allowing me to deliver scientific excellence, to increase my employability across academic and non-academic sectors in a European and global context, and ultimately achieve a leading position in the field of sustainable smart urbanism.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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40126 Bologna
Italy
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