Training on participatory methods for urban adaptation

Training on participatory methods for urban adaptation

BC3 has organized a training workshop at its facilities in Bilbao within the framework of the ACCLISHE Sherpa Project, which aims to develop a series of novel approaches to examine how the distribution of urban climate shelters affects the capacity of urban residents to access and benefit from them.

External experts from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Pratt Institute, and Pompeu Fabra University provided the ACCLISHE research team at BC3 with training on the methods they aim to combine and implement: Thermal Walks and Climate Relief Mapping.

On the first day, researchers with expertise in urban adaptation, transdisciplinarity, and health gathered for a hands-on training activity led by the invited external experts on the two methodologies. The second day was dedicated to in-depth discussions between the external experts and the ACCLISHE team to explore how to best merge the two approaches and apply them in the context of climate shelters planning.

ACCLISHE aims to integrate different methodologies (city-wide GIS analyses with on-the-ground participatory fieldwork) in order to generate rich insights into how people may be affected by the distribution and design of Bilbao’s climate shelters.

In addition, the project is framed as an exploratory process where capacity building and experimentation are central, with hopes of expanding on the work in the future through fully funded opportunities and partnerships.

The initiative is a Small Sherpa Project (SSP), a BC3 internal project that seeks to explore innovative emerging ideas with funding from the center. These projects promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research integrated across all the labs and research groups.