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Shaping sustainable urban futures: RePIC students engage with Malmö in CityLab

11 Sep 2024
RePIC students participating in a CityLab in Malmö, with Dr Denis Linehan, Senior Lecturer and Head of UCC Department of Geography, and Cathal Mulry, Architect and Lecturer in Urban Design Futures.
  • Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC) postgraduate students recently explored Malmö as part of a week-long CityLab.

  • RePIC aims to develop a new network of urban thinkers with the capacity to contribute to future-oriented thinking on the revitalisation of the post-industrial city

Postgraduate students on a unique interdisciplinary joint-Masters programme Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC) recently explored Malmö as part of a week-long CityLab.

Malmö is the fastest growing city in Sweden, currently undergoing intensive post-industrial regeneration. During the CityLab, RePIC students had the opportunity to collaborate with Malmö city stakeholders across community, public and private sectors, ranging from migrant co-cooperative enterprises to firms in the city’s large gaming industry.

In collaboration with Swedish partners in the UNIC Centre for Urban Futures, Professor Sara Bjärstorp and Joel Veborg, the CityLab focused on themes related to urban regeneration, climate transitions, migration and creative industries. The UCC team was led by Dr Denis Linehan, Senior Lecturer and Head of UCC Department of Geography, and Cathal Mulry, Architect and Lecturer in Urban Design Futures.

The final day of the CityLab was spent at Media Evolution, a community-owned, non-profit platform for futures thinking and social and technological convergence. RePIC students presented some of their research, based on their training in urban ethnography, world building and person applications, and included an installation addressing the lives of migrants in the diverse Malmö neighbourhood Rosengård.

Dr Denis Linehan, UCC Geography, said: “Our students engage novel techniques in Co-Creation and World Building to investigate how cities respond to global challenges and opportunities, designing innovative solutions for policy makers, firms and communities at work in the dynamic spaces of the city.”

A new network of urban thinkers

Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC) is a two-year, English-taught Master's programme jointly designed and delivered by the UNIC alliance – where the ambition is to build a vibrant knowledge and innovation community committed to the rethinking of more sustainable urban futures.

RePIC fosters transformative modes of teaching, research, and learning - responding to the specific challenges and characteristics of post-industrial cities and their increasingly super-diverse populations.

An international MSc with eight European university partners, RePIC is anchored in UCC in the Department of Geography and the Cork Centre for Architectural Education.
Learn more here.

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