A research project under the 91社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative's Adapting Urban Environments research theme reached a significant milestone with the public launch of designed to make sustainability data more accessible and encourage greater reflection on urban sustainability challenges.
Research theme co-leads Profs. Andrew Gonzalez, Kevin Manaugh and David Wachsmuth, with the assistance of the project鈥檚 senior designer, Maxime B茅langer de Blois, delivered presentations in English and French outlining how they sought to mobilize the knowledge needed to make cities more socially inclusive and less environmentally impactful, while improving the well-being of residents.
They also led an interactive demonstration of the dashboard for audience members, both in person and virtually through Zoom breakout rooms. This gave participants the opportunity to explore the breadth of information available on the platform, ask specific questions about sustainability issues in the Montreal region, and get a firsthand look at how Sus can help policymakers and communities model urban sustainability solutions that make sense for their local realities.
You can watch a recording of the presentation below.
Fond茅e sur une approche interdisciplinaire en mati猫re de durabilit茅 urbaine, la plateforme 芦 Sus 禄 tient compte d鈥櫭﹍茅ments du milieu naturel, b芒ti et social, et fait de la justice environnementale et distributive une priorit茅 cl茅. Cet outil d鈥檈xploration de la durabilit茅 urbaine a comme but d鈥檃ider les d茅cideurs politiques, les chercheurs, les leaders communautaires et les membres du public 脿 explorer et 脿 comprendre les questions de durabilit茅 urbaine dans la r茅gion de Montr茅al.
脌 l鈥檕ccasion du lancement public de 芦 Sus 禄, les participants ont eu l鈥檕pportunit茅 de se familiariser avec la plateforme, 脿 faire l鈥檈ssai, et d鈥檃voir un aper莽u de ses fonctionnalit茅s futures. Vous pouvez regarder un enregistrement de la pr茅sentation ci-dessous.
