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Interdisciplinary project seminar "I Go:Green - Green city gravel" in the winter semester 2024/25
The high degree of sealing of the Holländischer Platz campus is particularly noticeable on hot summer days. Asphalt, paving slabs and basalt gravel are 10°C hotter than green spaces.
In the seminar, the students plan the conversion of gravel into green spaces, initiate the implementation by the building department of the University of Kassel or the environmental and gardening department of the city of Kassel and accompany the implementation with public relations work and success monitoring. They design a green city gravel construction kit, a practical guide for self-implementation.
Gravel and other sealed surfaces no longer have any near-natural soil functions: storage for carbon, water and nutrients, flood protection, cleaning of seeping precipitation, they have very low biodiversity, they are bad for the microclimate (cooling and evaporation), they have a low quality of stay for people.
In the climate crisis, the importance of near-natural soils is increasing, particularly due to their high carbon and water storage capacity and their cooling effect for people.
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