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DGEO members participated at this year’s LUGA – Luxembourg Urban Garden exhibition by organising a number of events. The DGEO events were hosted as part of series of workshops initiated by the University of Luxembourg under the label “Sustainable and Engaged Futures” at this year’s LUGA exhibition.
Summary of DGEO events organised:
After a session on Energy Futures organised by Alexander Skinner, Catherine Jones and Tom Becker in July 2025, 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.
Two recent trainings at LUGA Lab, organised in October by DGEO members Tom Becker, Malte Helfer and Chris Reiter explored how to translate No Net Land Take (NNLT) goals into urban practice.
Both formats highlighted the value of combining field observation, collaborative analysis, and critical discussion to rethink how we use land:
– Public session (10th October 2025) : Citizens engaged in participatory mapping and critical reflection on urban land use.
– Professional session (14th October 2025) : Students from FCAT (Formation continue en Aménagement du territoire) developed hands-on ideas to operationalise NNLT in cities.