Tour of plant use and climate adaptation strategies on the Holländischer Platz campus

At the next meeting of the Sustain Group "Sustainability Communication", Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Körner (Head of the Department of Landscaping, Landscape Management and Vegetation Development, ASL) will offer a tour of the use of plants and climate adaptation strategies on the Holländischer Platz campus.
The tour is open to all interested parties. The meeting point is the Green Office, Nora-Platiel-Straße 2.

In the 1980s, the so-called Kassel School approach was pursued on the public areas of the Holländischer Platz campus. This theory of open space planning is essentially based on the idea that vegetation spontaneously establishes and stabilizes in line with use. However, a lot of work was also done with the sowing of local wild plants and ornamental perennials in order to increase the acceptance of the areas. Since the early 2000s, the Department of Landscaping, Landscape Management and Vegetation Development has been investigating the urban ecological value of the areas to determine which species have established themselves in the areas. The tour shows the areas around the university, which resemble typical urban open spaces in terms of their conditions and exemplify the dynamic behavior of spontaneous and artificially established urban vegetation. This provides an indication of how vegetation can be adapted to climate change.

The tour will be used by the members of the Sustain Group to plan a "Sustain Tour". The idea is to create better visibility of the sustainable infrastructure on campus, such as areas with quality of stay / green courtyards, biodiversity hotspots, bicycle parking facilities, power supply via PV systems, drinking water dispensers, etc. as well as to provide an overview of the large number of facilities, projects, research and teaching offers in the field of sustainability on a site-specific basis. The tour will also show facilities and contact persons in the field of sustainability, start-ups, cooperation partners, groups and initiatives.

Please register in advance for the tour at greenoffice[at]uni-kassel[dot]de, but interested parties are also welcome to join spontaneously.