Urban Climate Transitions: Questions of Justice and Pathways to Commoning

On January 23, 2025, students from the MSc programme Environmental Governance (MEG), Amanda Galusha, Gabriela Puschel Cassigoli, Ghita Faiad, and Darius Lee organized a compelling hybrid event exploring the intersection of climate resilience, social justice & urban governance. The event included impulse presentations and a panel discussion followed by an on-site screening of "The Green Divide", a film by researchers at Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The event came together as a collaboration between MEG students and Dark Matter Labs’ work at Trees-as-Infrastructure (TreesAI). Attendees heard presentations from Canadian and European perspectives including Nadha Hassen, PhD MPH, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, PhD, Dr. Shahrzad Enderle, Austin Gage Matheney representing Barcelona Labs and Sebastian Klemm from Dark Matter Labs. Special highlights included hearing Indigenous perspectives on seven generations urban design on Turtle Island from Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook and experiences of racialized park perceptions from Nadha Hassen’s photovoice project in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Shahrzad Enderle shared insights on the panel about her experience with Bike Bridge, a program that started in Freiburg and has spread to other EU cities which aims to strengthen social participation through spatial mobility with a focus on refugee and migrant women.