Minutes Tuesday, 22nd of January 2013

Session Recording and Materials

Seminar theme: Working with climate change through ecologically resilient planting design

Speaker: Lecture by Dr. MaryCarol Hunter|University of Michigan, USA

Seminar Recording:

• Recording 'Working with climate change through ecologically resilient planting design'
• Presentation slides

Further Links:

• Nature for Cities Project(University of Michigan)
• Robert Gifford: The Dragons of Inaction - Psychological Barriers That Limit Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, May–June 2011, American Psychologist

Tasks for the next session

Assignment 2

• Working group O to complete assignment 2 before January 28
• Working groups Q + R to complete assignment 2 before February 4

Assignment 3

• prepare for your presentation talks
• the time limit has been extended to 10 minutes
• we will have two parallel presentation slots
• however, take care that you keep this limit (you may test beforehand)
• preferably, all group members should present one slide
• please use headphones during presentation to avoid echo effects

Assignment 4

• please start revising your pre-seminar concept map
• more details here
• post-seminar concept maps can be submitted by e-mail until February 4

Seminar Evaluation

• You will receive an invitation to do the seminar evaluation, please complete this anonymous form within the next 10 days

Preparation for the next session

• The next session will be on January 22, usual time. Our speaker is MaryCarol Hunter from the university of Michigan.