TreesAI

Delighted to share first insights on how one of our tools, the Trees-as-Infrastructure (TreesAI) Location-based Scoring, is applied in Stuttgart to synthesise existing data for assessing climate risks & coping capacities spatially and support the prioritisation of urban nature-based solutions ↳ https://lnkd.in/ex7H8VWw TreesAI Location-based Scoring provides an overlay and weighting process of location-based vulnerabilities to both climate risks in the city - like heavy rainfall hazards, air pollution and heat islands - as well as vulnerable populations, and helps decision-makers assess the most effective locations for maintaining and increasing green infrastructures to mitigate climate risk across the city. Further, TreesAI Stuttgart will enable the quantification of benefits trees provide - for which Stuttgart is adapting GUS which is essentially a comprehensive, AI-powered platform created to support stakeholders in forestation projects. It accommodates various forest types, scales, and geographic locations, maintaining scientific rigour with its peer reviewed framework ↳ https://lnkd.in/eyDfwAZ6 In Stuttgart, TreesAI is being implemented in partnership with several city departments and municipal facilities: the Stuttgart climate protection unit, the urban planning department, the civic engineering office, the health department, the tree management teams for city trees, and trees on state premises in Stuttgart. None of this would have been possible without the valuable collaboration of various partners in Stuttgart: Bernd Junge, Clemens Hartmann, Ekkehard Schäfer, Elisabeth Bender, Fridtjof Harwardt, Hauke Diederich, Holger Wemmer, Jan Kohlmeyer, Johannes Wolff, Juliane Rausch, Katja Siegmann, Niels Barth, Sophie Mok, Sven Baumstark. TreesAI Stuttgart is cofunded by Stuttgarter Klima-Innovationsfonds and, supported by The Nature Conservancy in the Efeu (Ivy) funding line for nature-based solutions. - We extend our gratitude to the funders, the jury of the Stuttgarter Klima-Innovationsfonds, and our amazing guide Sophie Mok. Shoutout to our wonderful TreesAI Stuttgart team: Sofia Valentini, Chloe Treger, Arianna Smaron, Alizé De Buck, Cynthia Mergel, Gurden Batra, Jake Doran, Oguzhan Yayla, Roni Bulent Ozel, Sebastian Klemm #naturebasedsolutions #urbanplanning #urbandesign #health #resilience

La semana pasada acogimos la Asamblea General del proyecto europeo URBREATH Horizon Europe Project en Madrid 👏 🤝 Como parte de un gran equipo local, formado por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Basurama Collective, Centro de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano itdUPM y Dark Matter Labs, hemos organizado una jornada de 3 días para compartir los avances que estamos haciendo en el Distrito de #Villaverde con el resto del consorcio europeo. 🗨️ En el seno de esta jornada, realizamos una sesión y taller técnico-politico con 9 departamentos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para abordar transformaciones urbanas en torno al #cambioclimático. #URBREATH es un proyecto que busca impulsar Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza #SbN combinando metodologías y tecnologías que mejoren la toma de decisiones en la administración pública. En #Madrid, estamos trabajando para diseñar e impulsar una metodología de innovación pública, que busca construir un grupo de trabajo interdepartamental en el Ayuntamiento, capaz de abordar la adaptación climática desde diferentes enfoques. 🌱 Trabajamos para construir una visión de distrito que permita coser Villaverde, un distrito fragmentado y con importantes retos socioeconómicos. Lo haremos pensando en itinerarios, o corredores verdes, que integren mejoras en la #movilidad, el espacio público, la revitalización del comercio, el empleo, y la #regeneración de áreas industriales. Durante la semana pasada tuvimos la suerte de disfrutar de La Nave y el International Lab , así como de organizar una cena en el #Mercado de Villaverde Alto, enseñando a nuestros partners europeos la riqueza de nuestro pequeño comercio y la importancia de pensar en ellos cuando hablamos de renaturalización. 👇 Podéis leer más aquí: https://n9.cl/wlr4ro [ENG] Last week we hosted the General Assembly of the European #URBREATH project in Madrid. As part of a great local team, made up of Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Basurama Collective, Centro de Innovación en Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano itdUPM and Dark Matter Labs, we organized a 3-day event to share the progress we are making in the District of #Villaverde with the rest of the European consortium. Within this day, we held a technical-political session and workshop with 9 departments of the Madrid City Council to address urban transformations around #climatechange. URBREATH is a project that seeks to promote Nature-based Solutions combining methodologies and technologies that improve decision making in public administration. In #Madrid, we are working to design and drive a public innovation methodology, which seeks to build an interdepartmental working group in the City Council, able to address climate adaptation from different approaches.

Delighted to share a recap of events from Placemaking Europe by Marcial Silva who presented on our Dark Matter Labs‘ Trees-as-Infrastructure (TreesAI) work where we revalue nature as critical and investable urban infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/e_k2AX9x

Today marks the first of three days of the general assembly of the URBREATH Horizon Europe Project in Villaverde, Madrid! 37 organisations from 12 countries have come together to promote urban regeneration and climate resilience through Nature-Based Solutions. Madrid, along with Aarhus, Athens, Cluj-Napoca, Kajaani, Leuven, Parma, Pilsen & Tallinn are exploring how to leverage technology and participatory processes to promote the systemic adoption of Nature-Based Solutions for urban regeneration. In Villaverde, Madrid, Ayuntamiento de Madrid and supporting partners Dark Matter Labs, Traza Consultoría, Basurama Asociación and Innovation and Technology for Development Centre - itdUPM, aim to design, implement and evaluate a new approach for cross-departamental, public-realm interventions that provide cool corridors, ecological connectivity, increased accessibility and social and economic benefits in the district. Dark Matter Labs with TreesAI, aims to support Madrid in testing a cross-departmental approach to urban planning, utilising new digital tools, data sharing processes, and innovative civic-public maintenance strategies. We are keen to hear from other cities and organisations working on similar innovations! #URBREATH #NatureBasedSolutions #NetZeroCities #UrbanInnovation #SustainableCities #HorizonEurope

Register now for next TDAG online seminar, 24 September 2024 at 2pm Local authority investment in trees and green infrastructure for multiple benefits Trees, despite their multiple benefits, may not get the priority spending needed, but trees have moved up the agenda from ‘nice to have’ to key players in future urban climate change resilience and healthy placemaking. How do we resolve these conflicts to provide a better environment for trees and people? Register at https://lnkd.in/emz64C_W A great line of speakers including Julia Thrift (Chair) from Healthier Place-making, Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), Adrien Baudrimont, CIRIA, Ingo Schüder, Brillianto, Chloe Treger, TreesAI Dark Matter Labs and Christopher Engel, Coed Caerdydd, Cardiff Council. Full programme Chair: Julia Thrift, Director, Healthier Placemaking TCPA Demonstrating the cost benefit for trees and green infrastructure using CIRIABest Adrien Baudrimont, Project Manager, CIRIA Making the case for local authority investment in green infrastructure Dr Ingo Schuder, Director, Brillianto TreesAI - What we've learned in Glasgow and beyond Chloe Treger, TreesAI UK Lead, Dark Matter Labs Coed Caerdydd – a 10-year programme to increase tree cover Christopher Engel, Project Manager, Coed Caerdydd, Cardiff Council With thanks to Landscape Institute, Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), Urban Design Group and Institute of Chartered Foresters brought to you by TDAG Seminar organised by Sue James and Emma Ferranti with a little help from me.

We'd be happy to connect with you in Rotterdam: Meet Marcial Silva who will present about Trees-as-Infrastructure on September 25 as part of Placemaking Europe ↳ https://lnkd.in/eHAPi9MT Date: September 25, 3:45pm CEST Venue: New Grounds, 's-Gravendijkwal 58B, 3014 EE Rotterdam #nature #urbandesign #investing

Just transition to climate resilient communities "requires a scalable, yet standardized method to accelerate economic transitions one place at a time."* At Trees-as-Infrastructure, we are seeding a corresponding Community of Practice to evolve Public-Private-Commons partnerships that intensify care and accelerate novel financing approaches to maintain nature as critical and investable urban infrastructure: Along technical guidelines we define high-quality project development for urban nature-based solutions to vitalize financing opportunities in such. Here, we consider a systemic financing approach for the complementary transformation of interconnected urban sectors to unlock the combinatorial effects of climate change mitigation and adaptation. ↳ Reach out if this interests you. 🔎 Find out more about our work in Stuttgart ↳ https://lnkd.in/eXjRHcw3 🌍 On September 25 in Frankfurt Main, join our colleague Sebastian Klemm to exchange about Transformation Finance at the 'DGNB Ideenlabor' event (in German), initiated by DGNB German Sustainable Building Council, cofacilitated by the Institute of Applied Research (IAF) at HFT Stuttgart. ↳ https://lnkd.in/eXAJB9jc 🌍 On September 25 in Rotterdam, meet our colleague Marcial Silva who will present about 'Trees-as-Infrastructure: Valuing and Investing in Nature Beyond Carbon' at Placemaking Europe conference. ↳ https://lnkd.in/eHAPi9MT 🌎 On September 25 in Tribeca NYC, join our colleagues from Dark Matter Labs, The Peace Department, Metabolic, Open Earth Foundation for an exchange about Place-based Transition Funds as a strategy to tackle climate change, social inequality, and economic instability by building resilience in local communities. ↳ https://lnkd.in/gNZ9_Bcr *from "Place-Based Transition Funds: A playbook for systemic portfolio construction" ↳ https://lnkd.in/eHCfP29B https://lnkd.in/ebEuTJXQ #naturebasedsolutions #urbandesign #investing #ClimateWeekNYC

Will we meet you here? We're honoured to share about our Trees-as-Infrastructure work for Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart at the Smart City Solutions Network Talks at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart on October 23.   Sebastian Klemm will share about our Trees-as-Infrastructure Stuttgart project and our ambitions for urban nature investing. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Breuste / HFT Stuttgart will share about "Adaptation to climate change on site level" at the case of Linz in Austria. Together with Politics for Tomorrow, members of citizens' initiatives & the Stuttgart City Council, we look forward to meeting with you as well as students, alumni, lecturers and members of the advisory board of the Master Smart City Solutions programme, to explore public-private-commons development opportunities for improving climate resilience in cities and distributing costs & benefits equitably. 🌱 We look forward to bond with all interested: We are seeding a Community of Practice to evolve Public-Private-Commons partnerships that accelerate novel financing approaches to maintain nature as critical and investable urban infrastructure. For our work in Stuttgart, Trees-as-Infrastructure has been supported by the Stuttgarter Klima-Innovationsfonds and The Nature Conservancy - read on ↳ https://lnkd.in/evfM5Sct cc: Verband Region Stuttgart, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH (WRS), Boerse Stuttgart Group, Innovationsmetropole NEW Stuttgart, Internationale Bauausstellung 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA’27), Städtetag Baden-Württemberg, InnoLab_bw, Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg, Deutscher Städtetag #nature #urbandesign #investing

We are delighted that Trees-as-Infrastructure team members Sofia Valentini and Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, PhD will co-lead this workshop at the Evergreen Conference 2024 on October 10 ↳ https://lnkd.in/eMW7v2Y5 This workshop was developed by Evergreen Canada, Davis Pier Consulting, Pier Labs and Dark Matter Labs & TreesAI and introduces two key measurement tools designed to assess and transform public spaces: ↳ The Open Public Space Resilience Tool: This public space inventory assesses the performance of individual public spaces in terms of climate resilience and community health and wellbeing impacts -- including Indigenous Reconciliation and cultural considerations. ↳ The Subjective Wellbeing Tool: This tool captures aspects of personal happiness, life satisfaction, and emotional states and their connection with placemaking indicators. Participants will learn to customize and apply these tools to their specific needs and use data to advocate for more vibrant, reconciliation-centered, and sustainable public spaces. This session is essential for municipal government officials, placemakers/placekeepers, community advocates, and city building practitioners aiming to enhance public spaces. We look forward to inspiring exchange with all interested. #EvergreenConference2024 #nature #urbandesign #resilience #wellbeing

We're excited to announce that 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄-𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 project is now active on X (formerly Twitter)! 🌍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄-𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 is a Horizon Europe project focused on creating, validating, scaling, and sustaining Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for climate resilience. Join us on X: https://lnkd.in/ddFF4z4w and visit our website: www.nature-demo.eu 🤝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬: DigInnoCent s.r.o., Institute of Structural Engineering (IKI) | BOKU Vienna, alchemia-nova, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Universität Rostock, Deutsches Zentrum für Schienenverkehrsforschung (DZSF), Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.), Fundación Andaluza para el Desarrollo Aeroespacial, TNO, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov, Propark Fundatia pentru Arii Protejate, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovak Republic, IBM Research, Telespazio UK, Dark Matter Labs, Regional Development Fund Region of Eastern Macedonia & Thrace 🔗 #NatureDemo #HorizonEurope #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #NatureBasedSolutions