This document announces a workshop on climate responsive urban planning and design in the Netherlands. The workshop will be held on June 18, 2010 from 9:00-12:00 at the Gaia Building. It will feature presentations from leading researchers in urban climate research on their current work. Afterwards, there will be a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of climate responsive urban planning and design in the Netherlands. Attendees are asked to RSVP to the secretary by using the response buttons in the email. The program includes presentations from professors and researchers from Wageningen University, TU Eindhoven, Universität Kassel, Guelph University, and Göteborg University.

1. Workshop Climate responsive urban planning and design in the Netherlands -
chances and challenges
Friday 18th of June 2010, 9.00 – 12.00 hrs
Gaia Building
Gaia 1
We would like to invite you for a workshop preceding the PhD thesis defense of Sanda Lenzholzer
on urban microclimate, perception and design. For this occasion we host some leading figures
in urban climate research. We would like to use this opportunity to give these specialists the floor
to present their current research. Afterwards, we would like to discuss the chances and challenges
of climate responsive urban planning and design for the Netherlands with you and our research
community.
We would appreciate your presence at this workshop. Please let our secretary
Audrey Raijmann-Schut (audrey.raijmann-schut@wur.nl) know if you will attend this workshop.
You can use the voting buttons in the email.
Programme
9.00 Welcome and coffee
9.30 Opening by prof. dr. Adri van den Brink
9.35 Prof. dr. Bert Holtslag, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
"Urban climate observations and some model results for Dutch Cities"
9.55 Em. prof. dr. Martin de Wit, TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands
“Wind research in the unit of Building Physics and systems of the department”
10.15 Prof. dr. Lutz Katzschner, Universität Kassel, Germany
"Urban climate knowledge for urban design"
10.35 Coffee
10.55 Prof. dr. Robert Brown, Guelph University, Canada
"Designing Thermally Comfortable Outdoor Spaces on Top of the New York
Times Tower, Manhattan"
11.15 Dr. Sofia Thorsson, Göteborg University, Sweden
“Potential change in heat and cold stress in Gothenburg, Sweden due to climate Change:
the Influence of urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort”
11.35 Reflection and discussion lead by prof. dr. Jusuck Koh
12.00 Lunch offered by the Landscape Architecture Group