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• French Guiana, Where the EU Got Stuck in the Rain Forest

  As member of the IFGR Bernd visited French Guiana. Base camp was in Cayenne, from where an excursion took him to Kourou, Europe's launchpad for t...

• Quilting Global Expertise Network Founded in Paris

  A new global network has been founded and Bernd is member of it. Quilting is a collective of high-profile experts of Europe, North America and...

• Bernd's Chapter Published In French Textbook

  Bernd's latest piece has been published in the book Construire avec l'immatériel on 24 May 2018 in Paris' prestigious Gallimard publishing house. The book is edited by...

• Pop-Up Climate Change Poetry for the IPCC

  The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) convened in Christchurch (New Zealand) on 26-27 March 2018. In Bernd's Christchurch base at Otakaro Ltd. he and his...

• Urbia Group Helps Auckland Council

  Four years after Bernd's presentation on soft engineered coasts mitigating the impact of sea-level rise to Auckland Council, when Councillor Chris Darby called climate change "...

• A New Horizon: West Africa

  Bernd's international network concerned with the future of the earth's great rivers, the IFGR, held its 6th session in Dakar and Saint Louis in Senegal...

• Bernd's New Book

  Bernd introduced his new book: Notes on Rivers and Art - Etude sur les Fleuves et l'Art at Lyon's historical town hall on 9 October 2017 as in...

• Urbia Group in Latin America

  The fourth session of the Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR) met at the Itaipu Binacional dam shared between Paraguay and Brazil in...

• Bernd's Sketches On Show In France

  The Art Cade Gallery in Marseille has invited Bernd to share his architectural sketches for the exhibition "The First Five Minutes". The show focusses on...

• Sea Level Rise In Florida, New Book With Urbia Group's Help

  Urbia Group's unique work on visionary strategies to adapt coastal cities to the impact of sea level rise has been acknowledged worldwide. The collaboration...

• Third Session of the IFGR in Avignon

  The IFGR (Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers) convened for their third session in Avignon, France. Within only one year of successful work the...

• Bernd's Latest Column is Out

  The new e-magazine of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects brings Bernd's new opinion piece that this time focusses on Christchurch's Residential Red Zone....

• Another Talk At Christchurch's Tuesday Club Sparking Debate

  After his first talk at the Smash Palace in Christchurch's Tuesday Club in May, Bernd spoke there again on 16 August. This time he emphasised on...

• Another creative day in Christchurch

  Hosted by the CEO of Regenerate Christchurch, Ivan Iafeta, Bernd kicked off the day with a briefing meeting there, followed by a presentation to c 50...

• Great Feedback From Christchurch's Tuesday Club

  Check out how much  Garry Moore, host of the Tuesday Club and former Mayor of Christchurch, enjoyed Bernd's presentation:"To say that our speaker...

• Indigenous Endorsement

  Adaptive Urbanism strongly refers to deep ecology, enriching the enquiry with the indigenous and the feminine. At Bernd's presentation at Christchurch's Tuesday Club the...

• Bernd's Mayoral Dinner

  When Bernd visited Christchurch he had the particular honour of having dinner with the Mayoress Lianne Dalziel, former three-terms Mayor Garry Moore, who had ...

• Bernd Speaks in Christchurch on Monday, 30 May

  Regenerate Christchurch invited Bernd to visit Christchurch. Hosted by Prof. Eric Pawson, he will hold the Lunchtime Seminar at the  Geography Department Learning Space,&...

• Bernd In Canada

  As a permanent member of the Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR) Bernd travelled to Montreal, Quebec, for the second session...

• Bernd is Co-Author of Column in France's Le Figaro about COP21

  "We have forgotten the rivers!The atmosphere has changed since the failure of the previous COP six years ago at Copenhagen.The sceptics have laid...

• Urbia Group is Co-Signatory of Paris Pact on Water

  Along the COP21 Climate Summit NGOs formulated the Paris Pact on water and adaptation in climate change in the basins of rivers, lakes, and...

• Auckland's Waterfront Wins Award in the United States

  The successful work of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) contributed to Auckland's Wynyard Quarter being endorsed with the Excellence on the Waterfront Award...

• The Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers

  This new action group that unites members from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Bernd from New Zealand sharing their expertise about rivers....

• Landscape Architecture New Zealand brings Bernd's new column

  "Bright lights, big city" is the title of Bernd's latest opinion piece for Landscape Architecture NZ No. 27, which is out now. It tackles the unnoticed...

• Bernd Appointed Member of New French Think Tank

  The role of the Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers is to develop a transversal and multi-disciplinary view on the issues about rivers in...

• L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui Features Bernd

  In 2013, Ban Ki-moon, General Secretary of the UN, defined climate change as “the single greatest long-term threat to our survival”. Natural disasters and soil sealing in u...

• Bernd's Interior Column #15 Out Now

  His column is tackling the scandalous waste of NZ Graduate's youthful creativity by forcing them to engage their prime with the tedium of registration.&...

• 2015 Pritzker Prize for Frei Otto

  How is this terrific news related to Urbia Group? Very simply, as the award's jury said in its citation, Frei Otto "has embraced a...

• Bernd Advises Waterfront Auckland

  Waterfront Auckland has appointed Bernd member of its Technical Advisory Group. Waterfront Auckland takes care of Auckland's 3,200 km of coasts.This is another accolade for...

• Urbia Group's Advice is Appreciated At High Places

  The office of the Commissioner for the Environment of New Zealand's government ensured in a video conference that Urbia Group's expertise will be available...

• L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui Invites Bernd to Debate About Water & Cities

  The theme of the upcoming issue of the major French magazine will be 'water and cities'. The recent paradigm-change regarding water in...

• Bernd's 'Interior' Column #14 Out Now

  This time Bernd addresses New Zealand's prime environmental challenge: the unprecedented loss of its unique biodiversity. He has been regular columnist...

• Urbia Group on TV

  Last year Bernd was starring in the programme Ports d'Attache about Auckland produced by the Canadian TV5. You can see it here until 1 April 2015....

• Download New Booklet: Climate Resilient Christchurch

  Check out Urbia Group's world award winning concept of Adaptive Urbanism applied to Christchurch. The Rockefeller Foundation choose the city as one of the first...

• Urbia Group Invited to Auckland Council Natural Hazards Group Meeting

  Bernd spoke about the crucial importance of bringing the people with us. In times when Climate Change becomes tangible, social resilience enables communities to both...

• Urbia Group featured on NewstalkZB Radio

  Urbia Group on the radio again. Bernd gives a statement on Auckland waterfront's vulnerability to Climate Change and sea-level rise. He aires his creative...

• Urbia Group and the Climate Council of Australia on Air

  Bernd and Prof. Will Steffen, Climate Councillor with the Climate Council of Australia, are featured in a radio broadcast aired 17 September on The Wire, which...

• Floods, Sweat & Tears

  This is the title of an article in the Sunday Star Times issue on 14 September 2014. A full page of somber new scientific data post...

• Waterfront Auckland's Climate Change Adaptation Pathway

  Yesterday's half day workshop attended by the Board, the CEO, and senior staff of Waterfront Auckland and Auckland Council concluded the peer review of...

• Booklets, the New Outreach

  Booklets, these handy packages of compact information Urbia Group has developed for years, have made their way to Europe. Our colleague Philippe Samyn from Brussels...

• Urbia Group At Auckland Council

  This morning Bernd presented Urbia Group's unique way to environmentally sound resilience to Auckland Council's Environment, Climate Change and Natural Heritage Committee. Invited...

• Good Stuff

  New Zealand's mayor online news agency stuff.co.nz interviewed Bernd after his presentation at the EDS Conference. His message: Climate Change won't be threatening,...

• Urbia Group at the EDS National Conference in Auckland

  Bernd Gundermann will speak on the Navigating Our Future National Conference of the Environmental Defence Society (EDS), which will be held at the Viaduct Event Centre 5-7 August 2014. 

• Urbia Group on Australian Radio

  At the press conference after the reception of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in Paris Bernd gave an interview for ABC. He describes more...

• Urbia Group Featured in ArchitectureNow

  Bernd, the founder of Urbia Group, was recently endowed with the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. The post on Auckland's Architecture&Design blog ArchitectureNow...

• Global Award winner for Sustainable Architecture

  Bernd Gundermann has been awarded this year's Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in Paris. The ceremony in the Cité de l'Architecture was part of LOCUS F...

• Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2014

  Bernd has been nominated for the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2014. He is currently in Paris, where he will receive the honour from the Minister...