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- The project involves the implementation of two seminar cycles for students of humanities, as well as students of spatial planning, in the course of which we will try to adapt the tools developed by the Open Area Foundation to implement the Museum of Housing Estates to the core curriculum of both humanities studies - in cooperation with e-Humanities and thanks to the trust of prof. Dr hab. Jan Pomorski - and the field of spatial management thanks to the shared experience of transferring knowledge and competencies between the Museum and UMCS in the project "Fostering education on participatory processes" with dr hab. Dagmara Kociuba. The third seminar would be an inter-faculty program experiment aimed at developing the basis for urban studies, conducting a process of "research in action", involving the residents of various estates in the Rury district in discussions about the potentials for the participation of various stakeholders in the course of spatial transformations of the district. The joint activities would be crowned with the organization of the Humanities Week in the tactics of city studies by students with the active participation of residents in the Rury district - explains Paulina Paga, President of the Board of the Open Land Foundation.

In the future, cooperation between UMCS and the Foundation is also planned as part of projects implemented at the Centre for Research on Climate and Environmental Change (CeReClimEn):

- We hope that the experience of the Open Area Foundation, gained in the process of public consultations and preceding research on the functioning of biodiversity in housing estates in the awareness of their inhabitants, will be useful, combining pro-ecological trends in discussions with planned development tasks based on foresight situations, implemented with residents by designing potential scenarios and forecasting trends in spatial transformations in the course of specific development directions. We are happy to share conclusions from the discussion on the quality of life in urban spaces, as well as on the potentials for revitalization activities aimed at increasing the energy saving of buildings built in the 1970s or the humanization of housing estates from the early 1990s and increasing the biologically active areas in housing estates with the involvement of private entrepreneurs, public administration and residents - declares Ms Paulina Paga.

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