Urban Design and Climate Resilience CPD
The School of Architecture (SAUL) at the University of Limerick’s School of Architecture and Product Design (SAPD) is pleased to introduce a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course in Urban Design and Climate Resilience in conjuction with Building Change. This free course serves as a foundation for those interested in urban design principles, offering a series of six expert-led evening lectures alongside recommended readings to build a broad understanding of the field through March and April.
This CPD is a precursor to the new MSc in Urban Design and Climate Resilience, launching in September 2025. The MSc will work in tandem with with the School of Architecture in Kharkiv, with its first year dedicated to supporting the rebuilding programme for the city of Kharkiv. UL and Kharkiv schools of Architecture have worked together over the past three years on initiatives under the Building Back Better programme, exploring how urban design and climate resilience can shape the reconstruction of Ukraine cities.
The CPD provides an essential introduction for professionals and students looking to deepen their understanding of urban design challenges in the face of climate change.
The aim of the CPD course is to develop Architects and other real estate and planning professionals knowledge of contemporary Urban Design issues and how they relate to Climate Resilience. The course will develop over six sessions the professionals knowledge in six core area of Urban Design and Climate Resilience. This includes Sustainable Mobility, Designing Policies, Sponge City Principles / Nature based solutions, Ecologies for Climate Resilience, Spatial Justice and Communication. On completion of this course attendees should have a knowledge of principles of Urban Design as it relates to Climate Resilience. This course will bring attendees up to date with the latest theories and ideas in the fields that make up urban design and climate resilience best practice. Students with an interest and the general public are welcome to attend.
The course will be based on weekly topics with required reading followed by a lecture by an industry expert on the subject topic and a discussion group each week.
The events will be held online on the following dates:
Tadhg Daly, Planner, – The Land Development Agency – Designing Policies – 5th March,
Alan Kenna, Civil Engineer – ORS – Sponge City Principles – March 12th,
Antony Rifkin, Architect and Urbanist – Allies and Morrison – Engagement – 2nd April,
Clifford Killeen, Transport Engineer – Systra – Sustainable Mobility – April 16th.
Grainne Hassett, Architect and Urbanist, Hassett Ducatez, Spatial Justice – TBC April 23rd,
Ruth Minogue, Ecologist – Minogue and Associates – Designing Ecologies – April 30th.
All Sessions will start at 18.00 sharp and follow this format:
18.00 – Introductions
18.10 – Lecture
19.00 – Break
19.15 – Discussion on papers and lecture
19.45 – Thanks and close.
