CATCH4D at the DOKORP 2025

The 7th Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research (DOKORP) took place at TU Dortmund University from 10 to 12 February under the theme ‘Reason to plan in times of multiple crises’. The question of how urban and spatial planning can and must respond to multiple, simultaneous crises – including pandemics, climate and energy crises, growing social inequality, wars and migration – was a unifying element of the approximately 380 scientific presentations. CATCH4D was represented at DOKORP with seven presentations on various aspects of our project, including a joint presentation with Sophie Arens from the Coordination Centre for Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation of the City of Dortmund’s Environment Department and a joint session with the ICLEI Action Fund 2.0 sister project Data2Resilience.

Overview of the CATCH4D presentations

  • Contextualizing Energy Poverty: A Building-Level Analysis of Urban Households in Dortmund (Hannaneh Jilanialshafty, Shaojuan Xu, Jonas Siethoff, Bastian Heider)
  • Stadtgrün statt Hitzestress: Schattenplatz gesucht! Ein multimethodischer Studienansatz für ein widerstandsfähiges Dortmund (Kerstin Conrad, Sophie Arens, Anna-Lena van der Vlugt, Bastian Heider, Jonathan Landwehr)
  • Hitzebelastung im Arbeitsumfeld: Temporäre grüne Intervention und Beschäftigtenbefragung im Dortmunder Gewerbegebiet Dorstfeld-West (Lisa Haag, Kerstin Conrad, Anna-Lena van der Vlugt)
  • Urban Planning and Energy Renovation Challenges in Dense and “Economically Disadvantaged” Neighbourhoods: Insights from Nordstadt, Dortmund (Lisa Haag, Stefano Cozzolino, E`Lina Liza)
  • Better understanding Urban Heat: A Multitemporal and Multivariable Approach for LST Hot Spots (Jonas Siethoff, Shaojuan Xu, Bastian Heider)
  • Dynamic Shadow Modeling for Urban Heat Adaption (Jonathan Landwehr, Jacqueline Radzyk)
  • A city-scale 3D thermographic model for building energy efficiency and energy justice (Shaojuan Xu, Bastian Heider, Hannaneh Jilanialshafty, Jonathan Landwehr, Jacqueline Radzyk, Jonas Siethoff)