In the frame of the two weeks festival on sustainable cities ‘Paradise by the city lights: Sustainability in world cities‘ organized by UCOS (Academic Centre for Development Corporation – Brussels) Latitude has presented its activities focusing on the current researches Floating Urbanism and Living with Water.  The master class on “Sustainable world cities? Exchanging ideas on urban environments around the globe” was aiming at exchanging experiences with students on sustainability issues in different contexts.

The panel discussion on how to construct ways of achieving sustainability in world cities (yesterday 17-20 pm) took place together with Dr. Ahmed Zaib Khan Mahsud (Cosmopolis) who presented “Sustainable Urbanism: a global perspective” and Le Xuan Quynh (Human Ecology) who presented “Urbanisation and sustainable development: Challenges from a South East Asian perspective”.

The next Latitude’s lecture at UCOS will be in September.