3-Day Summer School Overview: Cities & Biodiversity
Theme: How can cities foster biodiversity?
Day 1: Framing Urban Biodiversity
- Expert lectures on biodiversity challenges in cities
- Workshops on species, habitats, and ecological value
- Guided ecology tour by the City of Amsterdam
Day 2: Technology & Biodiversity
- Hands-on sessions on sensing and computer vision for species monitoring
- Demos of AI tools and citizen science platforms
- Nightwatch: Evening field trip to observe nocturnal urban wildlife
Day 3: Designing Urban Ecological Research
- Pressure cooker: team-based research design challenge
- Develop and pitch your own urban biodiversity study
- Interdisciplinary feedback and group reflection
Keynote speakers: Fabio Duarte, Titus Venverloo, Ase Hatveit, City of Amsterdam, Naturalis and Wageningen University & Research
Organized and hosted by MIT Senseable City Lab
Applications are closed.
Want to know more or looking to collaborate?
