August 28, 2025 | 5:30 PM
08/25
Kaja Šprljan Bušić
/ Kreativni krajobrazi /
Ines Hrdalo
/ Faculty of Agriculture /
Ljuba Južnič
/ Castellum /
The autumn cycle of Sustainable Hour at Urania – Space of Creation, opens with the theme Greenery and Climate, which highlights the urban landscape as an active infrastructure of resilience in a time of increasingly evident climate challenges.
Cities of the 21st century face challenges that go beyond the traditional frameworks of urban planning. Climate change, increasingly frequent heat waves, risks of flooding and soil erosion, and the loss of biodiversity demand that architects, landscape experts, urban planners, and citizens rethink the relationship between the city and nature.
Sustainable Hour: Greenery and Climate, which will take place on Thursday, August 28 at 5:30 PM, will focus on the role of green spaces as key urban infrastructure. Greenery is no longer merely an aesthetic element or a luxury, but a functional axis that can mitigate the effects of climate change and increase the resilience of cities. Parks, tree-lined streets, private gardens, and green rooftops form an invisible network that reduces the urban heat island effect, lowers CO₂ concentrations, regulates stormwater, and prevents erosion. Sustainably planned greenery thus becomes an integral part of urban infrastructure, as essential as transport or energy networks.
The panel will feature three experts whose work bridges theory, design practice, and individual initiatives:
The discussion will explore how urbanism must redefine its relationship to natural systems. In the context of climate change, the landscape is seen as a dynamic and adaptive matrix – one that must respond to overheating cities, stormwater retention and infiltration, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of residents’ mental and physical health.
A special emphasis will be placed on a paradigm shift in design: from static, representative green areas to ecologically functional landscapes; from hierarchical planning to co-creative processes that involve citizens and communities in shaping space.
In this way, Urania will become a space for open dialogue between professionals and the public, where examples, experiences, and expert insights will help discuss how to design urban landscapes that are not merely the city’s backdrop, but its ecological engine.
The number of seats is limited, so please reserve your spot here. Admission is free!
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