Iza­be­la Malachow­s­­ka-Coqui is taking up a visi­ting lec­ture­ship at the Facul­ty of Design at the Aca­de­my of Fine Arts in War­saw. The semi­nar forms part of the ‘Rese­arch Plat­forms’ within the Master’s pro­gram­me in Design and Rese­arch. Under the the­me of the resi­li­ent city, stu­dents are deve­lo­ping design solu­ti­ons for out­door spaces that sup­port the adapt­a­ti­on of cities to cli­ma­te chan­ge. 

Par­ti­cu­lar focus is pla­ced on the needs of vul­nerable groups such as older peo­p­le, child­ren and peo­p­le with redu­ced mobi­li­ty. The designs aim to impro­ve ther­mal com­fort, safe­ty and acces­si­bi­li­ty in urban spaces – for exam­p­le, through low-tech pro­ducts or tem­po­ra­ry mea­su­res for water reten­ti­on, com­ba­ting heat islands or redu­cing flood risks.

The Sal­va­tor School sports hall is get­ting new plants

In the ‘Tege­ler Fließ’ land­scape con­ser­va­ti­on area, and on the edge of the natu­re reser­ve of the same name – both part of the ‘Tege­ler Fließ­tal’ Natu­ra 2000 site – nati­ve tree spe­ci­es such as field map­le (Acer cam­pest­re) and black alder (Alnus glu­ti­no­sa) may now be plan­ted, as they belong to the pro­tec­ted com­mu­ni­ties found here.

The area is cha­rac­te­ri­zed by its near-natu­ral river mean­ders, low­land moor­land mea­dows and an aqua­tic eco­sys­tem for rare and end­an­ge­red spe­ci­es, such as bea­vers, otters, king­fi­shers, marsh har­riers, corn­cra­kes, com­mon spa­de­foot toads, moor frogs and bog bean.

Insti­tu­te of Phy­sics, Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin

On 5 May 2026, from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm, we are invi­ting you to a gui­ded tour of the Insti­tu­te of Phy­sics at Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin in coope­ra­ti­on with the Ber­lin Rain­wa­ter Agen­cy (Ber­li­ner Regen­was­ser­agen­tur). The occa­si­on is the spec­ta­cu­lar flowe­ring of the wis­te­ria, which covers the faça­de of the buil­ding and is par­ti­cu­lar­ly worth see­ing at this time of year. The tour will be led by Iza­be­la Malachow­s­­ka-Coqui.

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A new seni­or cen­ter

In Gefrees, in the Fich­tel­ge­bir­ge moun­ta­ins of nor­t­hern Bava­ria, con­s­truc­tion of the out­door faci­li­ties for the “Haus am Bühl” care home – which will accom­mo­da­te around 100 care places – is set to begin this spring.

With a focus on heat and drought

At the sym­po­si­um on cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on by the AWO (Workers’ Wel­fa­re Asso­cia­ti­on), Iza­be­la Malachow­s­­ka-Coqui pre­sen­ted our two cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on con­cepts for the AWO in Wittstock/Dosse and Prenz­lau in a key­note speech on cli­­ma­­te-sen­­si­­ti­­ve plan­ning for vul­nerable groups.

In the second part of the sym­po­si­um, which dealt with par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­ces­ses, she also con­duc­ted a work­shop. In this work­shop, par­ti­ci­pan­ts work­ed tog­e­ther on the ques­ti­on of how pro­blems rela­ting to heat and heat pro­tec­tion in faci­li­ties can be iden­ti­fied and named.

Cam­pus Rahn School Leip­zig

We visi­ted our 2018 com­ple­ted pro­ject for the out­door faci­li­ties at the Rahn School cam­pus in Leip­zig.

Accor­ding to our plans, the out­door space is divi­ded into three recrea­ti­on are­as: the ent­rance cour­ty­ard, a run­ning track area and the schoo­ly­ard. In addi­ti­on, the school grounds have been given a plan­ted front gar­den area with hedges and a strip of trees as a bor­der.