Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS) na USP (GCSMUS-USP)

Funded by the DAAD program “Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation – exceed” and based at the Technische Universität Berlin, the research and university extension project “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) connects 48 institutional partners from 47 countries and 8 world regions. Focusing on the Sustainable Development Goal #11 of the United Nations Agenda 2030 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, the GCSMUS aims at developing transdisciplinary spatial methods in order to improve both the academic education in the spatial disciplines (e.g. architecture, geography, landscape planning, sociology, traffic planning, urban planning) and planning practice via evidence-based and low-impact urban development (LIUD). To achieve these goals, the GCSMUS is organized as a peer-learning process and has been implementing five strategic actions from 2020 to 2024: annual conferences (Action 1); combined teaching-research-courses (Action 2); the supervision of Ph.D. and post-doctoral research projects (Action 3); practical-empirical implementations of spatial methods for urban sustainability issues (Action 4); annual workshops (Action 5). The five actions are coordinated by the GCSMUS lead partners, among which Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse, who is the speaker particularly of Action 4 and coordinator of the SMUS Conference Brazil within the framework of Action 1. At USP, the GCSMUS project has been accomplished by this professor through an international cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (FFLCH) in September 2020 (FFLCH International Cooperation Agreement # 46.075).