Eine Straße führt durch eine grüne Landschaft mit grünen Wiesen und Bäumen.

Street Experiments for Sustainable and Resilient Cities

Language: Englisch
Location: Remote
Duration: 4 weeks
Start: Variable, self-paced
Cost: 45 €
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Our streetscape is an ideal place to experiment. We have come to accept traffic movement as the default function of the street. Therefore, we need to rethink its design and spatial distribution, return to its original and basic function, and see them as public spaces – transforming them into places for social activities, where conversations can take place, and places where children can play.

Designing urban space effectively with Experimental Thinking
This course shows you examples of remarkable changes and gives you a toolbox to implement and evaluate street experiments yourself.

In this fast-paced world, infrastructure is growing rapidly and with it comes a new problem of how to use public space. This course is apt for the people who want to bring a change in our built environment and help using the public space effectively. It uniquely combines research and practice: We invite you to reimagine what is possible when we dare to use our public space differently.

 

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Benefits

Improve the quality of life in your city district through street experiments

  • Learn without time pressure

    Designed in a blended learning format with online videos and exams, the program is ideal for flexible learning without time constraints.

  • From theory to practice

    This program offers you hands-on learning through street experiments, allowing you to directly engage with urban sustainability and resilience concepts in real-world settings.

  • Future Skills

    This program provides you with the relevant knowledge to make cities more sustainable and resilient in the future.

Program Overview

You can find all the important information about the certificate program here. Below you can find out the objectives of the program, the exact details of the process, what you will learn and which lecturers will teach you the content.

Aims of the certificate course

Here you will find information on the aims of this course and its content.

You will acquire and strengthen the following skills with this course:

  • Critical thinking
  • Designing an experimental design
  • Urban design
  • Urban mobility
  • Urban planning

Details

Here you will find information on dates, requirements and other general conditions for the certificate program.
Program:Street Experiments for Sustainable and Resilient Cities
Graduation:After successful completion of the final exam, participants will receive a certificate from Coursera and the Technical University of Munich.
Academic Responsibility:Dr. Benjamin Büttner, Head at TUM Research Group Accessibility Planning Ana Rivas, Associate Researcher at TUM
Target Audience:People who have a keen interest in Design thinking, Experimental Thinking and are ready to gain the skills of how to effectively use the public spaces and distribute them so that people can have better standard of living and have a happy living.
Participation fee::When you decide to purchase a Certificate for 45 Euro, you get access to all course materials, including graded assignments. Upon completing the course, your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page – from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.*
Language:English
Study location:Online
Format & Timing:Online course, self-paced, 4 weeks
Access Requirements:Recommended Background:
– Urban planning
– Transport planning
– Engineering
– Placemaking or general interest in grassroots urbanism
* Based on our experience, the German tax benefits help many of our participants to self-finance their education as these can be worth of up to 50% of tuition fees and program related travel costs. Please, consult your personal tax advisor for more details. For participants of our programs residing outside Germany this might be applicable, please check the situation with the local tax authorities in your country of residence.

Lecturers

Get to know our experienced lecturers who will teach you the certificate content and with whom you will work.
Dr. Benjamin Büttner,
Head at TUM Research Group Accessibility Planning
Ana Rivas,
Associate Researcher at TUM

Structure

Find out here how the course is structured and what the individual modules of the certificate program contain.

Part 1 – Raising Awareness

Part 2 – Getting to Know Street Experiments

Part 3 – Implementing Street Experiments

Part 4 – Evaluating Street Experiments to Achieve Systemic Change

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