Building Belonging in a Globalised and Mobile World

Discover how to reconnect citizens with their living environment

On this three-week course, you will further develop your skills and knowledge of urban planning and development. You will take the approaches, theories, and case studies of belonging to develop strategies for belonging, and discuss how belonging can be practiced and facilitated.

Explore the social feeling of ‘belonging’

Through case studies, you will look into what belonging means as a result of social locations, political and religious identifications, emotional attatchments, and ethical values.

You’ll also gain a better understanding of how belonging emerges through differing attachments, attunements, politics, and places.

Learn from the experts at RMIT University

As the largest urban research hub in the southern hemisphere, RMIT University provides an intellectual home for multidisciplinary urban researchers to successfully execute global and local initiatives with universities, industry, not-for-profits, media and government. This course has been co-designed together with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and has aligned itself to the New European Bauhaus Principles.

This course is designed for Professionals in Europe working in (or interested in) sustainable urban development and planning. It will also be of interest to city decision-makers and city officials.

• Approaches to belonging
• Why belonging matters
• Understanding belonging
• Supporting diversity
• Weekly wrap
• Case studies of belonging
• Beautiful - aesthetics and belonging
• Together - community, inclusion and belonging
• Sustainable - environment and belonging
• Weekly wrap
• Practicing belonging
• Different lenses for belonging
• Applying a new lens to belonging
• Intersectional approaches to belonging
• Weekly wrap