DGEO at LUGA

Under the label “Sustainable and Engaged Futures”, the University organized a series of workshops at this year’s Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA) exhibition. DGEO members participated at the LUGA exhibition by organizing a series of workshops:

After a session on Energy Futures organized by Alex Skinner, Catherine Jones and Tom Becker in July, the workshop held beginning of September in Parc Mansfeld dealt with “The future of sustainable building: prospects of a non-extractive architecture”. Inputs given by Kristina Shatokhina, Marija Marić, Simona Popova, César Reyes Nájera and Christian Schulz moved from the scale of the buildings to soil, body, and air, exploring how non-extractive architecture can help develop new design and research methods in the context of a socio-environmental transition. On 18 September 2025, the 5th workshop in the sustainable and engaged future series “Fruitful Futures: Harnessing Fruit Trees for Self-Reliance, Climate Action, and (Urban) Landscape Design” was successfully conducted by our colleague Nicklas Riekötter. The session explored the vital connection between fruit, human action and climate change through both scientific discussion and practical exercise. Attendees gained actionable insights into integrating fruit for food security, climate mitigation and landscape transformation in Luxembourg’s urban and rural contexts.

Find out more about the LUGA event.