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That is what the SAUD 2010 conference in Amman, Jordan, is about. The closing ceremonies will be on Wednesday 14th of July. The topics for the conference are:
– Sustainable Construction Materials & Technologies
– Design with Nature
– Sustainable Housing and Neighborhoods
– Low Energy Architecture
– Eco-Mobility: Sustainability in Transport
– Vernacular Architecture and Sustainability
– Sustainability Assessment & Buildings Performance
– Sustainability in Developing Countries
– Vernacular Architecture and Sustainability
– Urban Sustainability and Low Carbon Development
– Urban Design and Sustainability
– Reflections on Sustainability
– Sustainability in Arab Countries
– Cultural Heritage and Eco-Tourism
– Sustainable Renovation and Restoration
– Urbanism in the Middle East
– Sustainable Design Issues
– Landscape and Ecological Sustainability
– Sustainability Assessment Methods, Applications and Limitations
– Ecological, Social and Cultural Sensitivity
– Eco-Tourism and Sustainability
– Low Energy Architecture
– Ecological, Social and Cultural Sensitivity
– Traditional Architecture and Sustainability
Jula-Kim Sieber will be talking tomorrow at Session 4C on Reflections on Sustainability about “UNESCO = Walt Disney?”.

We have been organising an event to celebrate multiculturalism in small scale cities. We invite you to our picnic this SUNDAY at the city gardens in Darmstadt called HERRNGARTEN from 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm in between Herrngarten-Café and Goethe statue you will find us. Besides the picnic there will be a colourful, active cultural entertainment.

Listen to our radio session on Radio Darmstadt.

The interaction among cultures have contributed to the enjoyment of more spicy lives!
On june 20th you are invited to celebrate multiculturalism in Darmstadt and participate at the Picnic!

Thinking and talking about multiculturalism is an important way to create an open and receptive society where different cultures are respected and integrated. We have produced a colourful, active program and are looking forward to your participation. It would be nice, if you bring along some traditional food / drinks to pimp up our picnic – for the cultural entertainment we have everything arranged.

we have been organising an event in Darmstadt to celebrate multiculturalism in small-scale cities. it will take place this SUNDAY at 2 pm in the city gardens called HERRNGARTEN. Please have a look at our program. Tell it to your friends.

Diversity creates beauty // N.A.D.
A workshop to write a poem together, to show that the interaction of different cultures can be creative and produce something beautiful… breathing > feeling > writing

Multicultural integration and global citizenship // Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken
Talk about North-South collaboration for multicultural sustainable development. Culture care and sustainability. Travel and global citizenship. Modern cities and multicultural integration.

common border // human beings
2 people 2 sheets 2 brushes 2 colours = our moments

tum tam!! // Zulazula
performance/dance

“Peace through Music”
nice images, nice music from all over the world

Ermínia Maricato is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design in (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de) São Paulo and a militant fighting for social rights – mostly in housing and urban issues.
During the WUF5 – the world urban forum in Rio de Janeiro – and the urban SOCIAL forum – the parallel to the oficial UNhabitat event – I had a talk with her about her depression on participation. She is angry about too much institutionalism slowering or filtering a real participation. “The people have to come back” she states asking for an independent movement by the people. We are suffering a participatory fever.