Activities

How can European regions become climate-neutral? This is the central question of the new project “TRANSFORMER: Designing long-term systemic transformation frameworks for regions – Accelerating the shift to climate neutrality,” which the EU is funding with approximately 2.3 million euros as part of the Horizon Europe program. Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is coordinating the project … Read more

As part of the academic symposium, KoMet invited participants in the Metropolitan Innovation Summit Ruhr 2022 and members of the interested public to Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) on September 3, 2022, for an in-depth discussion of metropolitan innovation ecosystems in the context of the sustainability transition from the perspective of (transformative) research. The day began … Read more

The fourth event in the TC series, originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, took place on September 19 and 20, 2022, in a hybrid format at the Max Kade Center at the University of Cincinnati. In this edition, sponsored by the Emschergenossenschaft, the comparative focus was on … Read more

The Urban Systems Group was proud host of an early career researchers workshop in the context of the 4th KoMet-Tag 2022, which continues to be great inspiration! As a team, we extend a big vote of thanks to the University Alliance Ruhr KoMet-Tag organisers for their valuable sponsorship, and to our honourable speakers for their thought-provoking … Read more

In 2022, the Competence Field of Metropolitan Research (KoMet), with support from the Mercator Foundation, the Emschergenossenschaft, and NRW.BANK, hosted the 4th KoMet Day on the topic of “Urban Complexity: Perspectives from Complexity Science and Transformation Studies on Sustainable Urban Development.”Cities are complex adaptive systems. A defining feature of these systems is the diverse interactions … Read more

Rainer Liedtke (ed.), Takahito Mori (ed.), Katja Schmidtpott (ed.):The Making of the 20th Century the City: Towards a Transnational Urban History of Japan and Europe.Published 2023 in Franz Steiner Verlag Broadening the global perspective is at the top of the agenda in current urban historical research. In contemporary Japanese urban history, it is widely held … Read more

In her master’s thesis titled “Constructing an Index to Assess Small-Scale Potential for Physical Activity in Urban Environments,” Pauline Scheunert addressed an important yet often underdiscussed topic in urban transformation: the shift toward making our cities healthier—or even health-promoting—places. The thesis develops an index to measure the small-scale potential for physical activity in urban environments. … Read more

The one-day event, originally scheduled for 2020 and postponed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, “Transforming urban regions: Lessons from Turin and the Ruhr“ took place on Friday, May 5, 2023, in Turin. The morning began with a workshop discussion based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the Emschergenossenschaft (EG) and the … Read more

The Productive City (Re-) Integration of Urban productionPublisher:in: Stefan Gärtner, Kerstin MeyerPublished 2023 in the Springer-Verlag GmbH This collection presents the Urban production, as an essential part of the Productive city. He provides an Overview of the idea of stories, current debates, concepts, definitions, measurability, relevance, and potential of manufacturing processes in the urban space. Necessary … Read more

Title of the workshop with World Café: Transformation Talks 1.0 – Urban Transformation from the Perspective of the Next Generation The Transformation Talks took place for the first time on June 2, 2023. The KoMet team chose HIER IST NICHT DA (Bochumner Straße 138, 45886 Gelsenkirchen)—a sociocultural center—as the venue. The Transformation in Metropolitan areas … Read more