4th International Creative City – Sustainable Region (KRAFT) Conference

Program:

September 24 Monday

12.00 – 13.00 Registration

13.00 – 13.30 Opening and Welcome

Chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz

Welcome speeches: László Huber, Mayor of the city of Kőszeg, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Director, iASK

13.30 – 14.20 Keynote: Charles Vörösmarty, Graduate Centre of Advanced Research, CUNY, Sustainability in a global Context

14.20 – 14.40 Bernhard Müller, Urban Forum, Austria: The City of the Future

14.40 – 15.00 Coffee and Tea

15.00 – 17.00 Section I: Creativity in Preserving Cultural Heritage

Chair: János Bogárdi

15.00 – 15.20 Graham Bell, Europe Nostra, Magyar Reneszánsz Foundation, What Next? Europa Nostra’s 7 Most Endangered programme and the Buzludzah Monument, Bulgaria

15:20 – 15.40 Tamás Fejérdy, ICOMOS, iASK: When Less is More: sustaining values with continual maintenance

15.40 – 16.00 Mario Neve, University of Bologna, Ravenna: Arcélek, útszélek (Faces Places – Visages villages): On the End Of Society’s Space (As We Know It) And Relational Sustainability Of Places

16.00 – 16.20 Tímea Berki, Transylvania Trust Foundation: Making the Impossible Possible – Challenges of Renovating the Bánffy Castle in Bonchida

16.20 – 16.40 Kálmán Kálóczy and Péter Sándor, Balaton For World Heritage Foundation, Sustainable Solutions for Turning the Balaton Upperlands into a World Heritage Site

16.40 – 17.00 Mytaher Haskuka, Mayor of the Municipality of Prizren, Albania, Cultural Heritage Preservation and Creative Solutions

17.00 – 19.00 Section II: Liveable Places in the Present and Cities for the Future Chair:

Chair: Lajos Szabó

17.00 – 17.20 Mariann, Szabó, Lajos, Szabó, Gyula, Zilahy and Zoltán, Gaál, iASK KRAFT Centre, The KRAFT-Index from the viewpoint of creative cooperation and sustainable development.                                   

17.20 – 17.40 Filipe Teles, Vice rector, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Is Alice lost in Wonderland? Territorial Innovation and Regional Development

17.40 – 18.00 Francisco Comin, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC, Zaragoza Spain:             Planning the development of urban and rural areas: an integrative approach

18.00 – 18.20 Tamás Szabó: Ministry of Interior, Municipal Coordination Office: Local Government Cooperation in the Light of “The Monitoring of Municipal Developments II.” Project – Research Results and Practical Proposals

18.20 – 18.40 Discussion

18.40 – 19.10 Concert by the Bozsodi Quartett

19.15 Reception

September 25 Tuesday

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 10.00 Section III: The Age of Sustainability

Chair: Sándor Kerekes

9.00 – 9.20 Daniel R. Brooks FRSC, FLS, University of Toronto, H. W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum: Global Climate Change; Time to Own It

9.20 – 9.40 Gergely Erdős, Big Data Centre at iASK, Population Health Management in the Data Era

9.40 -10.00 Dagmar Cagáňová, Slovak University of Technology, Best Practices of Modern Cities

10.00 – 10.20 Discussion

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee and Tea

10.40 – 13.00 Section IV: Sustainable Scenarios for Land, Air and Water

Chair: Zoltán Birkner

10.40 – 11.00 Gergely Tóth and Tamás Hermann, University of Pannonia, Georgikon Faculty, Department of Soil Science and Environmental Informatics, The Role of Soil Capital in Regional Development

11.00 – 11.20 Fabio Terribile, University of Naples Federico II., New Frontiers in Sustainable Land Management: the LANDSUPPORT DSS H2020 project

11.20 – 11.40 Hillary Brown, CUNY, Spitzer School of Architecture, Circular Economy in Service of Sustainability: The Case of Kőszeg I.

11.40 – 12.00 Sándor Kerekes, senior researcher, iASK, Circular Economy in Service of Sustainability: The Case of Kőszeg II.

12.00 – 12.20 Zoltán Birkner, Krisztina Keller and Ildikó Ernszt, University of Pannonia, Nagykanizsa Campus, The relation of territorial identity and innovation

12.20 – 12.40 Nóra Berkesné Rodek and Nikoletta Tóth-Kaszás, University of Pannonia, Nagykanizsa Campus, Sustainable and Responsible City

12.40 – 13.00 József Laszlovszky, Dóra Mérai, Hanna Szemző and Andrea Tönkő, CEU and Városkutatás Ltd., Open Heritage – Creating an Inclusive, Holistic and Sustainable Heritage Management Model

Video demonstration: www.environmind.hu

13.00 – 13.20 Final Wrap-up and Closing (Ferenc Miszlivetz)

13.20 Lunch