Keynote Speakers
Invitees list of 9th International Conference on “Sustainable Development and Urban Construction”
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Professor Dr. Dietwald Gruehn
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Chair of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, TU Dortmund Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University (MSU) Member of German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (DASL) |
Dietwald Gruehn is a full professor of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning at the School of Spatial Planning, TUDO, Germany (since 2006), adjunct professor at the School of Planning, Construction and Design, Michigan State University, USA (since 2010), and member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning (since 2011). From 2014 – 2017 he was also adjunct professor at the Graduate School of National Public Policy at Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea. From 2014 to 2015 Dietwald Gruehn was dean of the School of Spatial Planning, from 2008 to 2010 he was executive director of the Institute of Spatial Planning at TUDO. From 2005 to 2006 he headed the Environmental Planning Department of today’s Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna (Austria). In 2004 he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden). Dietwald Gruehn holds a master-equivalent degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in landscape planning (1991) from Berlin University of Technology, where he also obtained his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in 1997 as well as the“venia legendi”(Habilitation) in nature conservation and landscape management in 2004. His research interests comprise a broad range of topics within landscape and environmental planning, especially cultural and visual landscape assessment and adaption to climate change. He has participated in more than 50 international research projects, mostly as project leader, among others in several DAAD-funded projects. He has more than 270 publications and has given more than 300 presentations in over 30 countries around the world. He has supervised more than 150 master theses and about 20 PhD theses. Currently he is supervising an increasing number of PhD students from Iran. |
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Dr.-Ing. Mais Jafari
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Faculty member of TU Dortmud, Spatial Planning, Urban design and Land Use Planning |
Dr. Mais Jafari is an architect and urban planner with international experience and academic research in the MENA region (Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Oman and Iran), Germany (Dortmund) and the USA (San Francisco Bay Area). She is working currently at TU Dortmund University (part time) and at City of Dortmund (part time). Before that she worked as an Urban Planning Consultant with Workforce Housing Inc., San Francisco, USA (one year). Between 2014 and 2016 Dr. Jafari worked as research scientist at different departments at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, TUDO. Her research and teaching experience center on urban design, transformation of public spaces, environmental planning, polycentric cities, and sustainable development of metropolitan cities. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, she served as a lead coordinator for a cooperation project, funded by DAAD, between the TUDO and the German Jordanian University focusing on intercultural dialogue towards reclaiming public spaces in metropolitan regions. She completed her PhD (DAAD scholarship) in 2014 at the department of Urban Design and Land Use Planning, TUDO. Her PhD work focuses on public space as a socio-spatial product, particularly in Germany and Jordan. Dr Jafari has also over 4 years of professional experience in architecture and urban planning. In addition to her professional experience, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Jordan and German Jordanian University (2008-2010). |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Baumgart
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Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Building and Art of the University of Hanover (Prof. Dr. G. Kokkelink) Research Associate at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Department of Urban Planning / Urban Planning (Prof. Dr. C. Farenholtz) 1989 BPW Baumgart Pahl-Weber founded in Hamburg 2002 Appointment as University Professor to the Technical University of Dortmund, from 2002 to 2018 Head of the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the Faculty of Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Dortmund Since 2004 Partner at BPW baumgart + partner, Bremen Since 2013 member of the ARL, since 2017 Vice President and since 2019 President of the ARL |
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Dr.-Ing. Mehdi Vazifedoost |
Faculty member of TU Dortmud, Spatial Planning, Urban design and Land Use Planning ERASMUS representative of the school of spatial planning |
Senior Lecturer, School of Spatial Planning, TUDO. Mehdi Vazifedoost, originally from Iran, completed a MSc-equivalent (Dipl.-Ing,) in Spatial Planning in 1989 and then completed a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) on rural development in the Province of Chorassan (Iran) in 1992 from the School of Spatial Planning, TUDO. Since 2006 he is SOKRATES and ERASMUS representative of the school of spatial planning and initiator of the co-operation between TUDO and DHEI. |
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Dr. rer. pol. Hasan Sinemillioglu
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team member of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning at the School of Spatial Planning, TUDO, Germany (since 2002), Visiting professor at the Faculty of Spatial Planning and Applied Science at the University of Duhok Chairmen of the NGO “Dortmunder helfen in Kooperation e.V.” (DhK) in Dortmund. |
Hasan Sinemillioglu is a team member of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning at the School of Spatial Planning, TUDO, Germany (since 2002), visiting professor at the Faculty of Spatial Planning and Applied Science at the University of Duhok and the Chairmen of the NGO “Dortmunder helfen in Kooperation e.V.” (DhK) in Dortmund. Since 2000 he manages the cooperation program between the Iraqi Universities and TUDO, which led to the creation of the study program “Spatial Planning in Iraq" at the University of Duhok. Between 2002 and 2008 he was the course coordinator and lecturer in the Master program SPRING (Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies) at the School of Planning. 2013 to 2017 he organized the cooperation between University of Dicle in Diyarbakir and TUDO in the frame of DAAD-Dialogue with Islamic World programme. His research interest is the wide field of social change, planning and development, rural and urban disparities, and crisis and development. He is currently teaching at the Faculty of Spatial Planning of Duhok University in Iraq the modules Key Concepts of Planning, Micro- and Macro-Economics, Social Change, and supporting student projects. |
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Dr.-Ing. Mathias Kaiser
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Head of the Department for Supply and Disposal System in Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Faculty of Spatial Planning
founder and CEO of KaiserIngenieure, Dortmund |
Dr. Kaiser is currently the Acting Head of the Department for Supply and Disposal System in Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Faculty of Spatial Planning (since 2015). He is also the founder and CEO of KaiserIngenieure, Dortmund, an interdisciplinary planning firm consisting of civil engineers, landscape architects, water management specialists, urban planners and technical staff, developing concepts and management solutions for customers of all sizes and from all sectors since 1994. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the Department of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, TU Dortmund University working on international research projects in the MENA region including projects with North Iraq and Iran that focus on land and water management systems and adaptation to climate change. |
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Dr. Basheer Saeed
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Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, University of Duhok |
Specialized in transportation, land use, and economic development. A former consultant at World Bank - Transport Sector. Former Director of Department of Land Survey Engineering at the Municipality of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq. Urban Planning Lecturer at the University of Duhok. Research topics: transport and land-use interaction, slum upgrading, transit-oriented development, sustainable urban form, and economic development. Urban and regional planning research experience in Europe, Middle East, Philippines, and the United States. |
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Dr. Sara Habibi
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National Urban Policy Officer/ Project Manager United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
Sara Habibi is urban and regional planner in un-Habitat, based in tehran, Iran. The focus of her work is on urban planning related issues, among which national urban policy and International guidelines of urban and territorial planning are most important. she joined UN-Habitat in June 2015 and has devoted her energy on advocacy and capacity development activities, providing substantive supports on urban planning issues, conducting research, preparing reports, providing technical advice, collaborating with partners and stockholders, supporting workshops and conferences, and assisting in monitoring and evaluation of ongoing activities under UNDAF during the last three years. |
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Dr. Farzin Fardanesh
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Programme Officer at UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) |
A certified architect with experience in design and construction of several residential, cultural, commercial and industrial buildings, he has also been active in applied research since 1989 working with the Housing Foundation and later as the Acting Director of Natural Disasters Research and Studies Centre (2000) in the areas of low-cost housing, post-disaster reconstruction, disaster mitigation and planning. He has also served on several International delegations such as Habitat II (Istanbul, 1996) Istanbul+5 Conference (New York, 2000), and UN-Habitat General Conferences in 1997, 2013, 2015 and 2017. He was the Project Director of the World Bank Urban Upgrading and Housing Reform Project in 2004, managing a budget of US$100 million and has worked on several other World Bank projects since 2000. As a UNESCO senior consultant, he jointly coordinated the elaboration of a Comprehensive Management Plan for Bam and its Cultural Landscape World Heritage Property (2008-2012)—the first of its kind to be adopted by the Higher Council for Architecture and Urban Development in 2006. He has written, edited and translated several other books and papers on cultural heritage, architecture, planning, housing and disaster mitigation, namely The Basic Terms of World Heritage Convention in four languages published by UNESCO. As the Secretary of the Regional Scientific Committee for the Urban Upgrading Working Group (WGII) of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development [APMCHUD], he prepared reports for Meetings in Tehran (July 2012), Amman (2012) and Seoul (2014). In this area, he has co-authored the book From Shelter to Regeneration (2014). More recently, he prepared the first edition of Iranian Road Landscape Design Regulations adopted by the Higher Technical Council for Infrastructure and Transportation in December 2017, as well as 3 volumes of guidelines for these regulations |
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Dr. Alessandra de Cesaris
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Faculty Member of the School of Architecture, Sapienza University, Rome Scientific Director of the Research Center at the Department of Architecture at the University of Spinza, Rome (DiAP) Member of the editorial staff of the magazine "Building Industry" (L'Industria delle costruzioni), Italy Member of the Scientific Committee of the World Congress of Tunnel 2019 (WTC), Naples, Italy Member of the Italian-Iranian Research Center "Ludovico Quaroni" |
Ph.D. in Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome) Italy Main fields of research: - Reconstruction of urban texture - Rehabilitation of the social housing estate and its role in the transformation of contemporary cities - Infrastructure projects in the development of the marginal areas of contemporary cities Author of specialized books: "Urban Landscape Architecture" (Architetture Paesaggi, 2017 Città) "Urban Infrastructure Reconstruction" Rigenerare le periferie urbane. Ricerche strategie progetti, 2016 "Iran, Cities Tours Caravansaries" (Iran. Città percorsi caravanserragli, 2014) "The urban regeneration of the city of Fato, a case study of industrial heritage in Beijing" (The case study of industrial heritage in Beijin, 2011) And the holder of dozens of articles in prestigious scientific journals |
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Eng. Victor Martinez Del Rey |
Director of the Territory and Urban Quality Area at the Sant Cugat Town Hall Vallès Director of the Area of Urban Services and Maintenance from the city to the Town Hall of Sant Cugat del Vallès Municipal Engineer, Head of the Maintenance Service, Works and Services the City Council of Sant Cugat del Vallès |
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Dr. Ricard Frigola
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Universitat de Barcelona / AGBAR / VP Brazil Chamber of Commerce |
1979 1984 Bachelor and MBA. Economy, Universitat de Barcelona |
Workshops
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Workshop |
Institution/University |
Presenter(s) |
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Building The City On The City |
DHEI & Sapienza common project |
Dr. Alessandra de Cesaris |
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Comparative Study of Urban Regeneration in Urban Rules Viewpoint |
UN Habitat |
Dr. Farzin Fardanesh Dr. Sara Habibi |
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Responding Challenges of Climate Change through Intercultural Dialogue |
DHEI & TU Dortmund common project |
Prof. Dr. Dietwald Gruehn Dr.-Ing. Mathias Kaiser Dr. rer. pol. Hasan Sinemillioglu Dr.-Ing. Mais Jafari Dr.-Ing. Mehdi Vazifedoost |
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Smart City Standards |
Sant Cugat Town Hall Vallès |
Eng. Victor Martinez Del Rey |